Founded in 1968 as an artistic outlet for the film and record studios’ most gifted musicians, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is praised as “America’s finest chamber orchestra” and regarded as one of the top ten ensembles of its kind in the world. Led by distinguished conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahane, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra opens its 2005-06 season with a celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday at UCLA’s elegant Royce Hall. The concert features the Overture to Mozart’s final opera, La clemenza di Tito; a Tchaikovsky tribute to Mozart, the Mozartiana; and a solo piano performance by Kahane of the Mozart Gigue and Minuet Tchaikovsky transcribed in his tribute. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein, one of many rising stars who have debuted in Los Angeles with the LA Chamber Orchestra, will perform Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. William Bolcom’s Orphée Serenade rounds out the program. Presented by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.