It’s almost time for one of Roger Wiesmeyer’s musical traditions: celebrating Mozart’s birthday with a celebratory concert. 

This year, the program ranges from selections for solo piano to a performance by a “Mozart Birthday Festival Orchestra,” conducted by the Nashville Symphony’s Vinay Parmeswaran. The shows are at noon on Friday, January 15 at St. George’s Episcopal Church and 6:00 pm Sunday January 31 at Edgehill United Methodist Church.

Wiesmeyer is the principal English Horn player for the Nashville Symphony, but he sits at the piano for this Live in Studio C, playing a Hummel reduction of a Mozart piano concerto with a quartet of friends. It’s a reprise of a November performance at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, which will also be included in the birthday concerts.

As in most concertos of Mozart’s era, there is space at the end of one movement for the soloist to insert a short, virtuosic section of his or her choosing, called a cadenza. Wiesmeyer chose to write his own.

Set list:

Album Blatt , by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto No. 24 in c minor, K. 491 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arr. Johann Nepomuk Hummel

• Kate Ladner, flute
• Zach Casebolt, violin
• Keith Nicholas, cello
• Kevin Jablonski, double bass