The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra (WCO)’s 33rd season is just around the corner, and the opening performances will be marked by change. The orchestra is searching for a new music director, and the season will start with four audition concerts as part of that process.

This Friday, September 16, Marissa Kaczynski will conduct the first of two performances at Bard College’s Olin Hall – something of a stomping ground for the 2009 graduate of the school’s Orchestral Conducting program. The concert, which includes the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, will move to the orchestra’s new performance venue on Sunday, September 18 with a matinee performance at the Woodstock Playhouse.

In November, Miriam Burns of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Kenosha Symphony and New York City’s Orchestra of the Redeemer will lead the WCO with performances of Mozart’s Prague Symphony No. 38 in D Major. That concert includes the Concertino for Trombone and String Orchestra by Lars-Erik Larsson, which features trombonist Sean Scott Reed. In spring, the Orchestra will be led in performances by conductor Nathan Madsen in March and conductor Teresa Cheung in April.

Tickets for the 33rd season of the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra are $20 for adults and $5 for students, with subscription sets available. For more information, call (845) 679-6431 or visit www.wco-online.com.