Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, the...

Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, the Norris Theatre’s resident orchestra, will give its season-opening concert today.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the orchestra in the Norris Theatre.

Under music director Frances Steiner, the concert will begin with Mozart’s overture to the “Abduction from the Seraglio.” It will be followed by Beethoven’s Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Cello; Opus 56, and Mozart’s “Jupiter” symphony, K. 551.

The soloists in the Beethoven pieces will be the San Francisco-based Francesco Trio: Nathan Schwartz, piano; Miwako Watanabe, violin, and Bonnie Hampton, cello. As concertmistress for the chamber orchestra, Watanabe has been a frequent soloist.

The Francesco Trio is a Naumburg Award winner, which resulted in a debut performance in New York’s Alice Tully Hall. Other appearances followed, including one at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.

Before the performance, Robert Miller, orchestra president and program annotator, will discuss the reasons the Beethoven Triple Concerto--a major work composed at the same time as the Eroica Symphony--is not often performed.

The concert is at 8 p.m. Tickets are available through the Norris Theatre box office, corner of Crossfield Drive and Indian Peak Road, Rolling Hills Estates. Information: (310) 544-0403.