The group’s music director and conductor, Michael Palumbo, said that the annual event — which will be the second performance of the orchestra’s 2024-25 concert season — serves as a prelude to American Heart Month in February.

“It’s a time for people to dress up in red, to go and donate blood, to support the Red Cross and to do all the things that need to be done to help keep people healthy,” Palumbo told the Standard-Examiner.

Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the Red Dress concert will feature works like Mozart’s “Overture to ‘Don Giovanni,'” “Caught by the Wind” by American composer Jessie Montgomery, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34. Moreover, the event will once again include performances by featured soloists.

“We’re featuring our new concertmaster, Gabriel Gordon. He’s going to play a movement of the Beethoven Violin Concerto,” Palumbo said. “Then, we’re featuring a horn player, Matt Croft. Matt is going to play a piece by Paul Dukas, a French composer. It is called ‘Villanelle.'”

Tickets are available for $10 at https://www.ogdenpet.com/. Palumbo says that free admission will be offered to veterans, active military, their families and children ages 8 through 18.

Palumbo said that the Red Dress concert is an ideal opportunity for music lovers and newbies alike to foster their appreciation of classical music and Ogden’s musicians.

“I just hope that people will come in and listen to our solos and listen to the concert, and get to know the orchestra,” he said. “We wouldn’t exist if we didn’t have an audience.”

Officially launched in 2011, Chamber Orchestra Ogden features the talents of professional, semipro and amateur musicians from all walks of life who are based throughout the region. Depending on the concert, 62 to 68 musicians may participate in a given performance.

After several years at Ogden’s Union Station, the group now calls Peery’s Egyptian Theater its performance home. Palumbo noted that the historic venue has enhanced the orchestra’s performances, and he credited its staff for supporting the music.

“They seem to bend over backwards to try and make things work for us and to schedule our dates,” Palumbo said. “Kassi Bybee, who runs the conference center, is just really … we just get along very well, and we work together very well. … The staff, backstage, lights, everybody — I can’t say enough about them. They’re great. Everybody from the box office back to the backstage.”

For more information, go to https://www.chamberorchestraogden.org/.