In its 25th season, the Littleton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jurgen de Lemos, is playing a series featuring Russian Masterworks. On March 27, the orchestra’s conductor, who is also principal cellist with the Colorado Symphony, will be featured soloist and his CSO colleague, associate conductor Scott O’Neill will be guest conductor.

On the program: Edward Elgar’s “Cello Concerto in e-minor, Opus 85;” Rimsky Korsakov’s “Russian Easter Overture” and Tchiakovsky’s “Swan Lake Suite.”

Jurgen de Lemos is a native of Leipzig, Germany, who followed musical studies in Germany and France and at Julliard in New York with four years as the youngest member of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein. In 1968, he was invited to join the Denver Symphony Orchestra as principal cellist, a position he has held for four decades as the orchestra became the Colorado Symphony. He will retire from the Colorado Symphony in June, but will continue as artistic director/conductor of the Littleton Symphony, which he joined in 1990, building it to its present size and skill level.

The Littleton Symphony began as a 12-member string ensemble in 1984, adding wind, brass and more strings the next year to become the Littleton Chamber Orchestra. When de Lemos joined the group in 1990, it grew to a full orchestra, with a concert season, performed at Littleton United Methodist Church and school and community outreach.

If you go:

The Littleton Symphony will perform ‘Russian Masterworks Series: Swan Lake” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 27 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Tickets cost $12, $10, free for anyone under 21. At the door or www.littletonsymphony.org.