Classical music fans will get a special treat this Tuesday — along with the fall concert by the Gainesville Symphony Orchestra, ticket holders can also enjoy a performance by The American Boychoir earlier in the evening.

The Boychoir performance begins at 6:30 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church. Symphony ticket holders receive free admission to the show, and in return, audience members at the Boychoir performance receive $10 off symphony tickets.

Individual tickets for symphony concerts are $27 for adults, $24 for seniors and $12 for students. Tickets for the American Boychoir are $10.

Gregory Pritchard, music director for the symphony, said their concert is made up of masterworks that will be well known to the audience. Mendelssohn’s overture, "Fingal’s Cave," is a romantic piece that Pritchard considers a "hidden" gem which isn’t performed very often. Also on the program is Tchaikovsky’s "Symphony No. 5 in E Minor," which Pritchard said he considers a "landmark classical masterpiece."

"The work itself is a very powerful and very emotional work," Pritchard said, adding that he last conducted the piece in St. Petersburg, Russia — Tchaikovsky’s hometown. "Tchaikovsky is my favorite classical composer."

Principal clarinetist Miranda Dohrman will solo for the first time with the Gainesville Symphony, during Mozart’s "Clarinet concerto in A Major."

"I’m thrilled; I’m so excited," Dohrman said about her upcoming performance. She said the piece, which was one of the last pieces Mozart wrote, is usually used for competitions and auditions. This will be the first time Dohrman will perform the piece for a paying crowd.

"I’ve never performed it actually," she said. "I’ve been working on it since high school; it’s usually the piece you’re judged on."

In general, Dohrman said, Mozart’s pieces are very intense. This particular piece, Pritchard added, is one of his finest.

"It’s really the pinnacle of really dozens of concertos he wrote," Pritchard said.

While all three pieces in the program are from different eras — Mozart is considered Classical, Mendelssohn Romantic and Tchaikovsky Late Romantic — it is this depth of feeling that pulls them all together, Pritchard said.

"Mozart is from the end of the classical era (18th century), yet his clarinet concerto shows romanticism before, like a preview of what was to come in music history," Pritchard said. "Mendelssohn was in the romantic era but very early on, and you hear in Mendelssohn’s piece a classical-sized orchestra ... and this was the foundation of the early Romantic era (the 19th century).

"Tchaikovsky was the late romantic era, and his lush melodies are really the pinnacle of the Romantic tradition."

Because the pieces are so well known, Dohrman said performing the works can be a bit tricky. But since no two recordings of the music are alike, there is a certain amount open to interpretation as an artist, she said.

"There are a couple standard recordings, but there are some things I like but I have my own way of doing it," she said. "That’s one of the great things about this piece — the articulations are open to interpretation. There’s always an element of making it your own because you can. That’s what Mozart intended."

Earlier in the evening, music fans can enjoy the angelic voices of the American Boychoir at Grace Episcopal Church.

David Brown, director of music at the church, said it’s been 12 years since the choir last performed here. Their stopover in Gainesville is a special treat, he added, because the choir usually performs in much larger venues.

The choir will also perform a selection with Grace Episcopal’s own children’s choir, Brown said.

"We’re going to be singing a piece by Bach, "Bist du bei Mir?", he said, adding that the title translates to "If Thou Art Near." The children’s choir is "very excited."