The San Antonio Philharmonic welcomes guest conductor Anthony Parnther and international guitarist JIJI for its “Classics VIII” program this Friday and Saturday at the Scottish Rite Hall.

Having conducted scores in films such as Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Creed III, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and in the series “The Mandalorian,” film conductor Anthony Parnther will bring his talent and passion for music to the stage for a two-night San Antonio Philharmonic performance of three works: Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture to Euryanthe, Harp of Nerves by contemporary composer Hilary Purrington and Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90. 

The program opens with Overture to Euryanthe, a piece that Parnther said “requires a high level of technical wizardry from every single person in the orchestra” and that “audiences tend to really love.”