Where Kerry Turner lives in central Europe, Mozart is in the blood. And Turner, a Texan turned European, is about to bring that passion to Port Angeles and Sequim.

He’s a horn soloist, an unusual featured artist for the Port Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and he’ll be here to start the ensemble’s new season of concerts on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 and 14.

Turner, traveling to the Pacific Northwest from his home in Luxembourg, will offer Mozart’s Second Horn Concerto in E-flat major, while the program also includes Haydn’s Sixth Symphony, known as “Le Matin,” or “The Morning,” and a little-known Handel piece, “the Overture to Rodrigo.”

Tickets are $12 for general seating at both Port Angeles Chamber Orchestra concerts: 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 Lopez Ave., Port Angeles, and 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, at the Sequim Worship Center, 640 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.

Outlets include The Joyful Noise Music Center in Sequim and Port Book and News in Port Angeles. Ticket buyers can also phone the Port Angeles Symphony office at 360-457-5579. Remaining tickets are sold at the door.

Turner revels in the chance to bring Mozart alive in Sequim and Port Angeles, two places he’s not yet been.

“I like to approach this concerto with the idea that the correct interpretation is already there, in the ether,” he said. “It’s up to me to pluck it out of the air and serve it to the audience.”

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Turner took up the horn at 11, encouraged by his band-director father. He went on to study at the Manhattan School of Music and then at the Academy of Music in Stuttgart, Germany, where he won a Fulbright scholarship. Since then, he’s raised his family in Luxembourg, working as a performer, teacher and composer.

Jonathan Pasternack, conductor of the Port Angeles Symphony, chose the program for the October concerts. “The Handel is a lovely nugget,” he said, while the Mozart and Haydn are a harmonious pair.

“Teacher and student, as well as good friends, their music complements each other’s,” the maestro said, adding that each man’s style is all his own.

These Port Angeles Chamber Orchestra concerts are the start of the nonprofit symphony’s 85th season; packages of season tickets are still available for concerts running this month through spring 2018.

For a brochure and details, call the symphony office at 360-457-5579 or email PASymphony@olypen.com. More information also awaits at www.PortAngelesSymphony.org.