Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Photo Credit: Dario Acosta)

Russian-born pianist and conductor Ignat Solzhenitsyn will make his Utah Symphony debut this weekend in both roles. He’ll be conducting the orchestra from the piano in Mozart’s Concerto No. 18 in B flat major, K. 456. Also on the program are Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 7 and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber.

Solzhenitsyn, the son of the late Nobel Prize winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, has had a busy career as a pianist and conductor in the United States and throughout the world. He’s appeared with orchestras in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Sydney, among others. And while this is his first appearance with the Utah Symphony, Solzhenitsyn has played in Salt Lake City before. In 1998 he gave a recital in Abravanel Hall, playing a program of Beethoven and Liszt.

The Utah Symphony concerts take place at 8 p.m. on Oct. 24-25 in Abravanel Hall. Tickets range from $18-$69 and can be obtained online at www.utahsymphony.org or by calling 801-355-2787 or 888-451-2787.

There will also be a Finishing Touches Dress Rehearsal at 10 a.m. on Oct. 24. Tickets for that cost $16 and are also available online or by phone.

Patrons 30 and under can purchase $10 tickets to any of the three performances. Ticket prices increase $5 when purchased on the day of the performance.