Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra performs tonight in Vancouver

Asja Krzelj plays violin with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Kissinger, during a performance at the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, Monday morning. (The Columbian/ Steven Lane)

Ildous Galioulline, right, plays French horn with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Kissinger, during a performance at the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, Monday, September 29, 2008. (The Columbian/ Steven Lane) (The Columbian)

Michael Kissinger conducts the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra during a performance at the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, Monday morning. (The Columbian/ Steven Lane)

The Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra will perform on September 30, 2008 at St. Joseph Church in Vancouver.

Croatia’s Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Bravo! Vancouver’s chorale, visited Vancouver School of Arts and Academics on Monday as part of the Croatian group’s first tour of the Pacific Northwest.

The visit to the school came a day before the group will give a public performance at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Vancouver. Tonight’s concert begins at 7:30.

A highlight of the tour will be a headline performance at the 2008 CroatiaFest at Seattle Center.

The group will perform, among other things, Aaron Copland’s arrangements of “Long Time Ago” and “Ching-a-Ring Chaw,” Peter Wilhousky’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 104.

If you go

• What: Bravo! Vancouver presents a collaboration of its chorale and Croatia's Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra.
• When: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30.
• Where: St. Joseph Catholic Church, 400 S. Andresen Road, Vancouver.
• Cost: $20.
• Information: 360-906-0441 or 800-992-8499.


Other public concerts on Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra's debut Northwest tour:
• 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington St. S.E., Olympia, $35.
• Noon Oct. 5 at CroatiaFest in the main pavilion of the Seattle Center in downtown Seattle, 305 Harrison St., free.
• 7 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Edmonds Center for the Performing Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds, $15.