Mozart and Beethoven are on the bill as the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra, directed by Adam C. Riccinto, launches its season Sunday, Oct. 4 at Towsley Auditorium on the Washtenaw Community College campus.

“Dynamic Duos” is the concert’s title, and it plays out, quite literally, in the intertwining parts for solo violin and viola in Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major for Violin and Viola.” The orchestra, which has become an accomplished community ensemble with main stage concerts and youth and outreach activities, has a fine pair of soloists for the Mozart: violinist Daniel Foster, a faculty member at Eastern Michigan University who is a frequent soloist and chamber music player around the United States; and violist John Madison, principal violist of the Michigan Opera Theater Orchestra and a co-founder of the Ann Arbor-based Cassini Ensemble, among many other credits.

The program holds wonderful Mozart beyond the Sinfonia: the delightful “Overture to The Marriage of Figaro” is on the bill. And there is prime Beethoven as well: The Symphony No. 3, “Eroica.”

The concert begins at 3:30 p.m. and tickets ($5, students, children under 12 and seniors; $10, adults; $25, families of four or more) are available at the door. Washtenaw Community College students with ID attend for free.

The season includes three more concerts at Towsley Auditorium: a Dec. 6 holiday concert, featuring vocalist Susan Chastain; a Feb. 21 concert featuring violinist Carmen Flesher; and an April 18 concert featuring the Sphinx Competition Senior Laureate Tony Rymer, cello, in the Elgar Cello Concerto.

The season concludes May 29, with “An Afternoon at the Drive-in,” a free outdoor concert in Ypsilanti’s Riverside Park that features film favorites. Rain date is May 30.

A PDF of the YSO season is available on its web site.

For more information, visit the YSO web site or call 734-507-1451.

Susan Isaacs Nisbett is a free-lance writer who covers classical music and dance for AnnArbor.com.