LEWISTON – Janna Hymes-Bianchi will be guest conductor of the Midcoast Symphony in the orchestra’s third concert series of the season. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 25, at the Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary’s Church.

Hymes-Bianchi of Camden is music director of the Maine Grand Opera and the Williamsburg Symphonia in Virginia. She also serves as assistant conductor of the Canton Symphony Orchestra and the Tetra Massimo Opera House in Palermo, Italy.

Hymes-Bianchi is a former associate conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony and has been resident conductor of the Charlotte Symphony and music director of the I Soloisti Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. She has also conducted a number of European orchestras, including France’s Orchestre National de Lyon.

Her program with the Midcoast Symphony will include Rossini’s Overture to Semiramide, one of Rossini’s serious operas; Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in which Portland Symphony Concertmaster Charles Dimmick will be the soloist; and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor.

Admission is $12, and is free for those 18 and under. Tickets will be available at the door, in advance at Macbean’s in Brunswick and at Magnolia in Bath. People may also get tickets online at www.midcoast-symphony.org. For information, call 371-2028.