Ochsner

This conductor is scheduled to lead the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra in two upcoming programs, one built around ghostly and magical orchestral works, the other a New Year's program pairing newer American music with Bruckner and Sibelius. Beyond these listings, we do not have verified biographical details for this musician.

The Halloween-adjacent program, "Symphonic Sorcery," strings together short, vivid orchestral showpieces built for storytelling: witches, sorcerers, and hauntings rendered in sound, from Dukas-style enchantment (Liadov's The Enchanted Lake) to screen music by Herrmann and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Expect sharp contrasts of mood piece to piece rather than long symphonic argument, with famous "scary music" staples like Danse macabre and Night on Bald Mountain alongside rarer inclusions like Goldmark's Merlin and Dvořák's The Noon Witch. The New Year's program shifts gears, opening with a short contemporary hymn by Jessie Montgomery before moving through French chamber-orchestra works by Honegger and Milhaud, a rarely heard Bruckner overture, and closing with the full arc of Sibelius's Second Symphony, a piece that builds from fragmented motifs into a broad, brass-heavy finale.