While the Salt Lake Symphony’s music director, Robert Baldwin, is busy leading his other ensemble, the Utah Philharmonia in Jules Massenet’s opera Cendrillon, Barbara Scowcroft, will step in and replace him on the podium Saturday.

Shenae Anderson

Scowcroft, who besides being a member of the first violin section of the Utah Symphony and the music director of the Utah Youth Symphony, is no stranger to the Salt Lake Symphony; she’s led the group in several concerts over the years.

Saturday’s program will open with University of Utah composer John Costa’s Vignette, which Scowcroft and the Utah Youth Symphony commissioned to celebrate the Salt Lake Winter Olympics in 2002.

The orchestra will also play Mendelssohn’s exuberant Symphony No. 4, Italian, which the composer wrote after a trip to Italy.

Soloist for the concert will be 16-year-old Shenae Anderson, playing Beethoven’s imposing Violin Concerto. Anderson is the Utah Division winner of Salt Lake City’s Stradivarius Competition. A student of Eugene Watanabe, Anderson has kept herself very busy. She’s soloed twice with the Utah Symphony at its Salute to Youth concerts, and she’s won numerous competitions.

The concert takes place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Libby Gardner Concert Hall. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for seniors and students. They’re available at the door or by calling 801-531-7501.

Scowcroft will also lead a free pre-concert discussion at 6:15 p.m. in Room 270, directly behind the concert hall. She’ll focus on the cultural, historical and musical perspectives of the music on the program.