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opens its 37th annual summer concert series on Saturday, June 14, with a concert that pairs current and former ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Symphony Orchestra players performing works that span the classics and contemporary.

TSO principal horn player Nelson Yovera tapped his former TSO colleague violinist Lauren Roth for “Yovera, Roth and Brahms,� which also features pianist Dean Zhang, cellist Marguerite Salajko, fellow horn player Victor Valenzuela and violist Michael Davis. José Luis Gomez, the TSO conductor who was pulled in at the last minute to replace Ben Nisbet.

Gomez was classically trained as a violinist in his native Venezuela's El Sistema youth music program.

This will mark Roth’s first ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ performance since the former TSO concertmaster announced she was leaving to become the Atlanta Symphony’s assistant concertmaster.

The chamber ensemble, curated by Yovera, will perform a program that puts the spotlight on the horn’s expressive range and role in chamber music. It opens with Schumann’s 1849 work Adagio and Allegro for Piano and Horn, then hopscotches to the 21st century and Esa Pekka Salonen’s Concerto Étude for Solo Horn written in 2000.

The program also includes Shostakovich’s Five Pieces for 2 Violins and Piano; Beethoven’s Sextet in E-flat Major; French composer Eugene Bozza’s “En Forêt� for Horn and Piano; and Brahms’ Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano.

The concert begins at 2 p.m. at Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2331 E. Adams St. Tickets are $16 ($26 premium seats are sold out) through

Season tickets for the four-concert series also are available for $60. For the lineup and more details, visit .