Pacific’s 1992-93 Season : Classical music: The O.C. symphony will perform a new work by composer Frank Ticheli next Feb. 3 and 4.

The Pacific Symphony will premiere a new work by its composer-in-residence Frank Ticheli and play Joan Tower’s “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman,” her response to Copland’s famous “Fanfare for the Common Man,” during the orchestra’s 1992-93 classical season.

At a press conference Tuesday morning, music director Carl St. Clair said he is enthusiastic about preparing Ticheli’s piece because working with a composer “gets me as close to the creative process as a conductor can be.”

Ticheli said he will begin writing the piece just after he gets married in June.

“I don’t know if I will call it a symphony,” Ticheli said. “The word is intimidating. . . . It took Brahms 20 years to write his first symphony.”

The work will be tailored to the Pacific musicians. “Without being too specific,” Ticheli said, “I can say that I have been inspired by certain performers in the orchestra.” Which ones will become “apparent in the solo” passages of the new work, he said.

Ticheli’s composition, his first work to be played by the Pacific, will be conducted by St. Clair next Feb. 3 and 4. Appointed for a two-year term in 1991, Ticheli also teaches at USC.

Tower’s “Fanfare” will be heard May 12 and 13, 1993, on a program that includes Copland’s Symphony No. 3 (which incorporates “Fanfare for the Common Man” into the final movement). Tower is professor of music at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York.

The program also will include John Corigliano’s “Voyage for Strings.” The Pacific Symphony gave Corigliano’s First Symphony its Southern California premiere in December when Catherine Comet led the orchestra.

Soloists for the new season will include pianists James Tocco and Janina Fialkowska, violinists Robert McDuffie and Anne Akiko Meyers and cellist Carter Brey. Vocal soloists include soprano Ealynn Voss, tenor Meir Finkelstein and mezzo-soprano Mimi Lerner.

Guest conductors will include Jerzy Semkow, principal conductor of the St. Louis Symphony from 1975 to 1979, and Kenneth Schermerhorn, music director of the Nashville Symphony.

Works from the classical repertory that the orchestra will be playing for the first time include Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Symphony No. 4, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 88.

Details of the orchestra’s pops and family concerts seasons, as well as its annual “Messiah,” will be announced by March 1, officials said.

Series concert tickets, ranging from $48 to $297, will go on sale in April. All concert will be at 8 p.m. at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Music director Carl St. Clair will conduct, except where guest conductors are indicated.

The 1992-93 season:

* Oct. 14, 15: Meir Finkelstein, tenor; John O’Conor, piano: Leonard Bernstein’s “Benediction”; Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”).

* Nov. 11, 12: Mimi Lerner, mezzo-soprano; Robin Buck, baritone; Pacific Chorale: Brahms’ “Alto Rhapsody”; Debussy’s “La Mer”; Maurice Durufle’s Requiem.

* Dec. 10, 11: James Tocco, piano: Michael Torke’s “Bright Blue Music”; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4; excerpts from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.”

* Feb. 3, 4: Robert McDuffie, violin: Haydn’s Symphony No. 88; a new work by Frank Ticheli; Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.

* March 12, 13: Jerzy Semkow, conductor: Overture to Rossini’s “Italiana in Algeri”; Schumann’s Symphony No. 4; Prelude to Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina”; Tchaikovsky’s “Francesca da Rimini.”

* March 31, April 1: Carter Brey, cello: Overture to Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino”; Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1; Brahms’ Symphony No. 2.

* April 21, 22: Janina Fialkowska, piano; Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor: Berlioz’ “Le Corsaire” Overture; Liszt’s Piano Concertos No. 2 and No. 3; Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4 (“Inextinguishable”).

* May 12, 13: Anne Akiko Meyers, violin: Joan Tower’s “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman”; John Corigliano’s “Voyage for Strings”; Barber’s Violin Concerto; Copland’s Symphony No. 3.

* June 2, 3: Ealynn Voss, soprano: Mozart’s Serenade No. 6 (“Serenata Notturna”); Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4; Strauss’ Serenade in E-flat and excerpts from “Salome.”