The Symphony Orchestra plans a mid-May concert featuring music by Gershwin and Mozart (with the University Chorus), plus the world premiere of Double-Franken-Trouble-Stein, a double viola concerto by Kurt Rohde, an associate professor in the Department of Music.

The Jazz Bands and three music department ensembles are set to perform later in the month. The department wraps up the season with the Concert Band on June 1 and the Symphony Orchestra's Family Concert on June 2.

• Symphony Orchestra — 7 p.m. Sunday, May 15, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The program:

• Gershwin — Catfish Row (Suite from Porgy and Bess)
• Rohde — Double-Franken-Trouble-Stein for Two Amplified Violas and Orchestra, with Rohde and Ellen Ruth Rose, viola
• Mozart — Mass in C Minor ("Great Mass"), with the University Chorus, featuring Nadine Sierra, soprano; Julie Ann Miller, mezzo-soprano; Daniel Montenegro, tenor; and Ryan Kuster, bass-baritone.

Other upcoming concerts

• Early Music Ensemble — 7 p.m. Saturday, May 21, Davis Community Church, 412 C St.

• Baroque Ensemble, with the Davis High School Baroque Enemble — Works by Geminiani, Mozart and Vivaldi. 3 p.m. Sunday, May 22, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center.

• Empyrean Ensemble: New Music from Davis — New works by graduate composers Hendel Almetus, Gabriel Bolaños, Ben Irwin, Scott Perry, Garrett Shatzer, Liam Wade and Ching-Yi Wang. 7 p.m. Monday, May 23, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre.

• Jazz Bands: Guest Artists — Featuring saxophonist Gregory Yasinitsky, who has performed with such singers as Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre.

• Concert Band: Earth Songs — Celebrating the biological, ecological and agricultural sciences. Also: a tribute to the bicycle, featuring well-known bicycle tunes. 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, Jackson Hall.

• Symphony Orchestra — Family Concert, featuring the winners of the orchestra's 2011 Concerto Competition and the Composition Award.7 p.m. Thursday, June 2, Jackson Hall. The program:

• Beethoven — Leonore Overture No. 3
• Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 4, with Han-ah Sumner, piano
• Strauss — Emperor Waltz

Tickets for all concerts except the Early Music Ensemble are available online, or by visiting or calling the Mondavi Center box office, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787. Box office hours: noon-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Admission to the Early Music Ensemble concert is by suggested donations at the door.