Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra’s opening concerts will introduce new music director and conductor Mario Alejandro Torres, and showcase a program that is set to comfort, welcome and delight.

The concert opens with the soothing and warmhearted Gayane’s Adagio by Aram Khachaturian, from his ballet “Gayane.”

Nathan Chan then joins the stage to perform Elgar’s mesmerizing” Cello Concerto in E minor,” one of the most important pieces in the cello literature.

The BSO will conclude the concert with Brahms’ most endearing symphony, “Symphony No. 2 in D Major.”

Torres is a conductor, teacher and performer native to San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Currently based in Seattle, Torres made his Benaroya Hall conducting debut in collaboration with Maestros Ludovic Morlot and David Alexander Rahbee in an exciting concert with the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra. For the past two years, he has served in a conducting fellowship with the Seattle Symphony, assisting Maestro Morlot in collaboration with artists such as Hilary Hahn and John Luther Adams. As the music director of Poulsbo Community Orchestra, he has brought a new and exciting sound to the ensemble. Outside of the United States, he has conducted performances with the Eddy Snijders Orchestra in Paramaribo, Suriname, and in his hometown with the professional Chamber Orchestra of San Pedro Sula, and Victoriano Lopez School of Music Choir.

Cellist Chan discovered his talent for music at an early age through conducting. Before he was 2 years old he could emulate the styles of conductors he saw on music videos such as Seiji Ozawa, Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, using a chopstick as a baton. As a toddler, his imitations were so intuitively musical that he caught the attention of the San Francisco Opera’s assistant conductor Sara Jobin. Under her eye, he made his debut as a conductor at age 3, leading the San Jose Chamber Orchestra in a set of Mozart variations, despite not yet being able to read music.

BSO’s 2018-19 season debut is 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11. A pre-concert chat is offered at 2:15 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets, $21 for adults, and $18 for seniors, students, military and teachers, may be purchased online at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org, by phone at 206-842-8569 or in person at BPA (200 Madison Ave. North). Each youth receives free admission when accompanied by a paying adult.