Season tickets are on sale for the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra’s first season with Sergey Bogza as its new music director and conductor.

Bogza, who was born in Russia to a Russian-Ukrainian family that emigrated to the United States in 1995, was selected in June to replace Randall Craig Fleischer, who died in 2020.

The season opens with “Rhapsody Royale: The Music of Gershwin, Rachmaninoff & Queen” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5.

Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev, winner of the 2005 World Piano Competition, will perform Niccolo Paganini’s “Rhapsody on Theme” and George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Yakushev has performed with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Concert Orchestra and Boston Pops.

On Nov. 2 and 3, the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will perform the score live for screenings of the 1985 time-traveling hit “Back to the Future,” starring Michael J. Fox as a teen who travels back to the mid ’50s and threatens his own future by disrupting the moment when his parents fell in love.

The orchestra’s annual holiday concert will be Dec. 21. “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” will feature such seasonal favorites as “Winter Wonderland,” “O Holy Night,” “The Christmas Song,” “Blue Christmas,” “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” and Silver Bells.”

The first three shows of the season will be at Powers Auditorium, 260 W. Federal St., Youngstown. The season shifts to Stambaugh Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave., Youngstown, for the three 2025 concerts.

“Beethoven & Beyond” is the theme of a Jan. 19 concert that will include Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Eroica” and Symphony No. 3 as well as Bernard Hermann’s “Psycho” suite, Jules Massenet’s Meditation from Thais and Darius Milhaud’s Concerto for Percussion and Small Orchestra.

Soprano Avery Boettcher will join the orchestra for a musical exploration of love and fate with an evening of music by Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Verdi, Puccini and Prokofiev on Feb. 15.

“Symphonic Superheroes” closes the season on March 2 and a program that includes Leonard Bernstein’s “The Magnificent Seven,” Richard Wagner’s “Ride of Valkyries,” Richard Daugherty’s “Red Cape Tango” and music from the video game “The Legend of Zelda.”

Season tickets for all six performances range from $130 to $250 plus fees and also include free parking for the Powers concerts, invitations to pre- and post-concert events and discounted tickets for Ballet Western Reserve’s “The Nutcracker” and Opera Western Reserve’s “La Traviata.”

Individual tickets range from $13 to $63 plus fees. Individual and season tickets are available at experienceyourarts.org, the DeYor Performing Arts Center box office and by calling 330-259-9651.