Concert features the captivating music of Vivaldi and Piazzolla.
PLANO, TX: The Plano Symphony Orchestra (PSO) continues its 2025/2026 Season, Music That Matters, with Strings in Motion: Vivaldi and Piazzolla. This impressive concert features Cuarteto Latinoamericano as they bring the soul of Latin American to life blending tradition and innovation on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. at the Robinson Fine Arts Center in Plano. The program includes Astor Piazzolla’s Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas, a stunning portrayal of the four seasons in Buenos Aires as well as Vivaldi’s classical masterpiece Concerto for String Quartet. The concert will also include the PSO performing Tchaikovsky’s brilliant Symphony No. 4, and Plano Overture, a piece by PSO Composer in Residence Marcos Lifshitz, sponsored by Tammy and Charles Miller.
“Strings in Motion is a thrilling journey through time and emotion—pairing Vivaldi’s beloved Four Seasons with Piazzolla’s passionate Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. This concert showcases the expressive power of strings and the timeless energy of music that transcends borders, say PSO President & CEO Gregory Patterson.”
Tickets for the concert range in price from $33-$95 with $10 student tickets available in most sections and can be purchased through the Plano Symphony Orchestra Box Office (972-473-7262/planosymphony.org). The Robinson Fine Arts Center is located at 1800 Alma Drive in Plano, Texas.
Cuarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world’s most renowned classical music ensembles, for more than 30 years the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet. Founded in Mexico in 1982, the Cuarteto has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel, China, Japan and New Zealand. They have premiered more than a hundred works written for them and they continue to introduce new and neglected composers to the genre. Winners of the 2012 and 2016 Latin Grammys for Best Classical Recordings, they have been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award and three times received Chamber Music America/ASCAP’s “Most Adventurous Programming” Award.
The PSO is honored to launch a new Composer in Residence Program, made possible through a generous grant from Tammy and Charles Miller. Celebrated Mexican composer Marcos Lifshitz has been selected as the inaugural artist to hold this distinguished role, marking an exciting new chapter in the PSO’s season.
Mr. Lifshitz studied music at Mexico’s National Conservatory and became a guitar concertmaster at the age of 19. In 1973 he was honored with a full scholarship for the “Taller de Composition Carlos Chavez”, at the National Institute of fine Arts, where he studies Composition until 1976. After writing and producing the music for 12 movies, 2 documentaries, over 600 advertising jingles, several T.V. shows and T.V. network ID´s, in 1987 he became one of the co-founders and Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Concert Society in Mexico City. Since then, he has devoted his professional life to write, produce and promote symphonic and chamber music in Mexico. To help Mexican children through UNICEF, he wrote and produced a CD with 10 songs, performed by famous Mexican pop and rock stars.
He has been honored with movie, T.V. and radio awards, as well as with acknowledgements as lecturer and jury for his participation in several conferences, music and dance events.
For more information about the 2025/2026 season, please visit planosymphony.org.
About the Plano Symphony Orchestra:
Founded in 1983, the Plano Symphony is a non-profit symphony organization dedicated to providing the citizens of North Texas with rich and varied programming of orchestral music and to educating the youth and adults of the community about the joy of classical and popular music through live performance.
The Plano Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is widely acknowledged as one of the leading professional symphony orchestras in the region. Under the artistic and musical direction of Maestro Héctor Guzmán and leadership of President & CEO Gregory Patterson, the PSO produces eight subscription concerts annually as well as myriads of music education and community outreach programs that serve nearly 150,000 people annually.
Of the 18,000 students who participate in its School Concert Program, over 40% attend various Title I schools in Dallas or Collin counties.
The Plano Symphony Orchestra is supported, in part, by the City of Plano, Tammy and Charles Miller, The Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, Communities Foundation of Texas, Rea Charitable Trust, Atmos Energy, AWARE Fund of The Dallas Foundation, The PSO Guild, The PSO Virtuoso Society, The PSO Corporate Council, City of McKinney Arts Commission, Frisco Arts Foundation, H-E-B | Central Market, Retirement Planners of America, The Dallas Morning News, Signs By Tomorrow, SoloShoe Communications, PISD, Bartlett & West, the Plano Rotary Club, Plano Mayor Summer Internship Program, Fireside Capital, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, Veritex Community Bank, Frost Bank, Baylor Scott & White, Sandy Nachman, Wanda and Cliff Parker, Dianne and Marion Brockette, Nancy Freeman, Carol and William Tempest, and hundreds of individual donors, foundations, and corporations who make transformative gifts to the PSO.
