The West Valley Symphony will be opening its 57th season Saturday, Nov. 15 in Surprise by welcoming new Music Director Daniel Wiley for a Nordic-inspired program.

“Fire and Fjord” is the first of six shows on the season schedule at The Vista Center for the Arts, 15660 N. Parkview Place.

The opening show begins with Carl Nielsen’s “Symphonic Rhapsody,” the embodiment of sweeping Nordic color.

Pianist Cathal Breslin, professor of music at ASU, joins the orchestra with Grieg’s Piano Concerto, a romantic masterpiece. The musical journey concludes with Sibelius No. 2, hailed as his most uplifting work.

Doors open at 2 p.m., with the show starting at 3 p.m.

Other shows on the schedule are as follows:

• Monday, Dec. 15 — “Home for the Holidays” celebrates the joy of the season with Associate Conductor Nicholas Ross, and features a side-by-side with the West Valley Youth Symphony with Claire Gordon as conductor.

• Sunday, Jan. 11 — The new year is welcomed with “Legacy of a Titan,” a program tracing Beethoven’s enduring influence. Featuring Orpheus: Symphonic Variations, Weber’s clarinet Concerto No. 1 with ASU Professor Emeritus Robert Spring and Brahm’s revolutionary Symphony No. 4 – each worked by Beethoven’s revolutionary legacy.

• Sunday, Feb. 15 — “Witches, Wizards and the Music of Harry Potter,” features John Williams’ iconic themes for the three Harry Potter films and highlights from across the saga, plus “The Wizard of Oz” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” a spell-binding afternoon for all ages.

• Sunday, March 1 — “Seascapes” is a nautical program exploring the connection between water and orchestra color as composers evoke crashing waves, shifting tides and misty shores through sound. Concertmaster Luke Hill soloist takes center stage in Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy,” a folk-inspired work of lyricism. The journey continues after intermission with Bloch’s “Poems of the Sea,” Mendelssohn’s “The Hebrides” and Frank Bridges “The Sea.”

• Sunday, March 22 — “Fate and Defiance” opens with Beethoven’s most famous musical statements of all time, “Symphony No. 5,” a defiant gesture in the face of fate. Paired with Bizet’s “Carmen Symphony,” this program explores resistance in many forms: Beethoven’s heroic struggle through adversity and Bizet’s bold portrayal of passion, class and freedom in a world that expected conventional season.

Tickets for all shows are available for between $17 and $52 at westvalleysymphony.org/tickets, or call the box office at 480-463-8324 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays.

Discount tickets are available for groups of 15 or more.