Piano soloist is the outlier in strings program

Pianist Elizabeth Dorman grew up in San Francisco and began her career as a teenage soloist with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Now back in the Bay Area after various life travels, she’s poised to make a guest appearance with the California Symphony as a soloist in “Eclogue for Strings,” by the British composer Gerald Finzi.

The timing is slightly tight, though — Dorman is expecting her first child in December. She says that pregnancy has shifted her center of gravity, which in turn has had an effect on physical aspects of her keyboard technique.

Dorman will be the lone musical outlier in a concert program otherwise devoted to works for strings, with Music Director Donato Cabrera conducting.

California Symphony: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6. $49-$79. Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek. 925-943-7469. www.californiasymphony.org

Gert Mothes