About this Event
Danzón No. 2 – Arturo Márquez
Scott Cullen, Conductor
Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat Major – Alexander Arutiunian
Travis Peterson, Trumpet Soloist
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra – Benjamin Britten
Brent Celek, Narrator
Selections from Man of La Mancha – Mitch Leigh
Estancia (suite selections) – Alberto Ginastera
Main Line Symphony Orchestra
Now in its 81st season, the Main Line Symphony Orchestra (MLSO) is a community ensemble that draws dedicated musicians of all ages who seek the challenge of performing both standard orchestral literature and new compositions. Each year, members have the pleasure of accompanying professional soloists under the guidance of Music Director Don Liuzzi.
See mlso.org for more details.
Travis Peterson, Trumpet Soloist
Jack Grimm is the Associate Principal Trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Travis Peterson officially joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as Associate Principal Trumpet in 2026 after having served as Principal Trumpet with the Utah Symphony since 2013. He is a proud native of rural Minnesota, having grown up on a dairy farm, far from the concert hall. He attributes his smooth tone quality and warm timbre on the trumpet to all the butter and cheese he consumed throughout his childhood.
While in high school and during his first years in college, he was also a member of the drum and bugle corps, The Madison Scouts (he still is obsessed with the drum corps activity from afar). After high school, he went on to study music education at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he studied with Edmund Cord. After finishing his degree at IU, he went on to receive his Graduate Diploma in trumpet performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. He studied with Ben Wright and Tom Rolfs, from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, both of which he considers his mentors to this day. He is honored to be an alumnus of the illustrious New World Symphony, where he was a fellow in Miami Beach for 3 years under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas from 2010-2012. He credits his time there as a seminal moment in his growth into the musician he is today.
During the 2025/26 season, he served as the acting associate principal trumpet with the Philadelphia Orchestra. During the summer of 2025 and 2026, he could be seen as guest principal trumpet with the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson, Wyoming. He has also performed with the String’s Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO and the Lakes Area Music Festival in Brainerd, MN. Travis has performed several times with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, including their 2015 European Tour. He has also performed as guest principal trumpet with the San Francisco Symphony and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and ROCO in Houston, TX. In past years, he has performed with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, Spoleto USA Festival Orchestra, Artosphere Festival Orchestra, Opera North, the Grant Park Festival Orchestra, and the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego. Previously he was on adjunct faculty at the University of Utah, and this year will assume that role at Temple University and enjoys working with students. As an active educator, he has led masterclasses at many fine institutions including Manhattan School of Music, Utah Valley University, University of Central Florida, and New World Symphony. He has enjoyed curating chamber performances in the past in SLC and in his hometown for his childhood community and looks forward to doing the same in Philadelphia.
Travis resides in Philadelphia with his wife and their Minnie Aussie Doodle, Millie.
Don Liuzzi, Music Director
Don Liuzzi, starting his 12th season as MLSO Music Director, was born and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and completed high school in Philadelphia at the Franklin Learning Center. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan and his Master of Music degree from Temple University. His primary teachers were Alan Abel, Charles Owen, and John Soroka.
Before joining The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1989, Mr. Liuzzi was a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony percussion section from 1982 to 1989. While in Pittsburgh he taught percussion and conducted the percussion ensemble at Duquesne University, was assistant conductor of the Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra, and appeared on PBS' nationally syndicated Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, performing marimba and percussion solos.
Beyond his over 90 commercial recordings as principal timpani of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Mr. Liuzzi can be heard on several Decca releases with Seiji Ozawa's Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra, with which he has been a guest timpanist for twelve seasons. As a former percussionist with the Network for New Music, and also for area composers, he has recorded contemporary chamber works for the CRI, Crystal, and Albany labels. His percussion solo and chamber CD release from 2012, Movement in Time (Equilibrium), is volume I of the Philadelphia Percussion Project. This first volume features music by Maurice Wright, Maurice Rissman, and William Kraft. Volume II, Zones, was released in May 2015 and is a Philadelphia Orchestra percussion group (POPG) recording featuring Jennifer Higdon's Zones, as well as six other world premiere recordings including his own composition, Seoul Spirit. A participating musician in the documentary film Music from the Inside Out (2005), Mr. Liuzzi also served as the film's coordinating producer and was integral in helping develop the accompanying middle school teaching curriculum published by Alfred Books. The feature length film by Anker Productions, which features The Philadelphia Orchestra, was re-released digitally on iTunes in June 2013 and is also available on Netflix. Mr. Liuzzi's other electronic media activity (under his company name of Beat the Drum Entertainment, Inc.) has included two other CD projects with the DePue Brothers Band: performing drums and singing, and executive producing Weapons of Grass Construction and their latest album, When It's Christmas Time, released in December 2013.
Mr. Liuzzi has given master classes at most major music schools throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Korea, Japan, and China. He has been a percussion and timpani coach at the National Orchestral Institute, the New World Symphony, the Pacific Music Festival, the Canton International Summer Music Academy, the Lindenbaum Music Festival (in Korea), the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and the National Youth Orchestra USA run by Carnegie Hall. He joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in January 1994. He has also held faculty positions at Rowan University and guest faculty status at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Liuzzi just completed 10 years as music director of the Philadelphia All City High School Orchestra, and is founding conductor of the Curtis Institute's 20-21 New Music Ensemble.
Mr. Liuzzi's early orchestral experience included the Flint Symphony, the Michigan Opera Theater Orchestra, and the Colorado Philharmonic. He has also played in the Spoleto Festival Orchestra for three seasons and was a Tanglewood Fellow in 1980. In July 1996 he made his solo debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, and his subscription solo debut in January 1998. Having consulted with Yamaha for over 20 years on the development of professional timpani and percussion, he is a Yamaha performing artist, with a highly-regarded Yahama Global YouTube interview and performance. He is married with two adult daughters.
MLSO Photos by Chris Swisher
Event venue & nearby stays
Valley Forge Middle School, 105 West Walker Road, Wayne, United States
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