The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of maestro Tigran Arakelyan, will present its February concert and open dress rehearsal this weekend featuring Northwest composer Daniel Gall and Anabel Moore, winner of the 2024 Young Artist Competition.

Graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles, and California State University, Northridge, Gall worked with the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra in Encino, California (along with other groups), writing film scores, chamber music and starting the concert series “Synchromy.”

The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra concert features the world premiere of “Oatmeal Counterpoint,” which Gall describes as the “soundtrack to a morning routine.”

Moore is a Port Townsend native who’s played the violin since she was 6 years old, and her last couple of years combined high school, including a stint as co-concertmaster for the Port Townsend High School orchestra, with the Running Start program at Peninsula College.

Moore is currently studying music education and violin performance at the University of Puget Sound, and will be performing the first movement of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3.

Other music scheduled to be performed by the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra will include “El Salon Mexico” by Aaron Copeland, who visited Mexico and went to a dance hall and night club of the same name.

While in Mexico, Copeland picked up sheet music for Mexican melodies that he wove into this suite and tone poem.

“Each piece of music makes the transition from formal upper class to working class to peasant styles, as if walking through doors in the dance hall,” said Jay Bakst, of the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra.

Rounding out the symphony orchestra’s program is “Schwedische Tänze” by Max Bruch.

With a lifelong interest in folk music, Bruch wrote a set of 15 dances for violin and piano based on Swedish folk songs.

“He quickly wrote transcriptions for piano, piano duet and orchestra,” Bakst said.