The New Hampshire Philharmonic recently announced programming details of its 103rd season, which includes concerts from October 2007 through May 2008, including a family concert on the Seacoast to be performed at The Music Hall in Portsmouth in February. The remaining programs will be performed at the Palace Theatre in Manchester and the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord.

Music Director Anthony Princiotti, a graduate of Juilliard, Tanglewood and Yale who studied conducting with both Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa, will serve in his eighth year with the Philharmonic, a nonprofessional orchestra which brings together accomplished students, amateurs and professionals from around the state in concerts of the core repertoire. Pieces to be performed during the season include substantial works by audience favorites Brahms and Schumann, according to a press release from the organization.

“The season offers an interesting overlay of innovative Russian music of the romantic and modern eras, with defining works by Mussorgsky and Shostakovich,” the press release states.

The season kicks off on Oct. 27 in Manchester. The Fall Concert will feature Boston Symphony Orchestra cellist Owen Young, and the program will feature Grieg’s “Peer Gynt,” Suite 1, Schumann’s Cello Concerto and Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 9, which was the composer’s musical response to the political repression rampant during the reign of the Soviet dictator Stalin.

Scott Spradling of WMUR-TV will host the Holiday Pops program in Manchester on Nov. 24, and Laura Knoy of New Hampshire Public Radio will host the Family Concerts in February at The Music Hall and Capitol Center for the Arts.  The holiday program includes such classics as “White Christmas” and “Sleigh Ride” and a Christmas carol sing-along, and the evening features a solo by the state’s finest high-school instrumentalist (as determined by the Philharmonic’s fifth annual youth concerto competition) and a performance by the Pinkerton Academy Chorus. For the Family Concert, the Philharmonic will offer an mix of music around the theme of “Once Upon a Time.”

For the Spring concert on May 3 in Manchester, the Philharmonic, with renowned New Hampshire violinist Elliott Markow, will perform Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Elliott Markow will perform the Violin Concerto using a violin crafted by Giovanni Battista Rogeri of Brescia, Italy dating to 1707.

The Philharmonic still has one more program to perform this season, “From Beethoven to Bernstein” on May 5 in Manchester, featuring Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture,” MacDowell’s Piano Concerto no. 2, Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kizheh (suite), and Bernstein’s “West Side Story” (suite), with Virginia Eskin on piano.

After renewals by returning subscribers, 2007-2008 season tickets will be available to the general public beginning in early June at 603-647-6476. Complete information about the New Hampshire Philharmonic can be found at www.nhphil.org.