Lang Lang, the flashy Chinese pianist, local slack-key guitarist Jeff Peterson and acclaimed maestro Leonard Slatkin headline the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra’s 2017-2018 Masterworks season.

Lang Lang will perform Beethoven’s third piano concerto in February, while Peterson will premiere his “Malama ‘Aina,” a concerto for slack-key guitar, in December. Slatkin, a four-time Grammy winner, conducts in April.

Other highlights include a concerto for flute and pipa, the Chinese lute; HSO harpist Constance Uejio in a harp concerto; and the return of pianists Fabio Bidini, Sara Davis Buechner and Olga Kern.

The 12-program, 16-concert season runs from Oct. 1 to June 10, 2018. Current subscribers can renew now, and new subscriptions will be accepted beginning July 1. Tickets to individual concerts go on sale Aug. 1. Visit hawaiisymphonyorchestra.org for information.

2017-2018 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

>> Oct. 1: Michael Stern, conductor; Fabio Bidini, piano. Brahms, Piano Concerto No.2; Dvorak, “New World” symphony

>> Nov. 11-12: Joseph Swensen, conductor; Constance Uejio, harp. Handel, harp concerto; first symphonies of Beethoven and Sibelius

>> Dec. 10: Carl St. Clair, conductor; Jeff Peterson, slack-key guitar. Concerto for Slack Key Guitar and Orchestra (“Malama ‘Aina”); Prokofiev, Symphony No. 5

>> Dec. 28-29: JoAnn Falletta, conductor; soloists TBA: “Ode to Joy”

>> Jan. 7: JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Linda Chatterton, flute; Gao Hong, pipa. Griffes, “The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan”; Chen Yi, Concerto for Flute and Pipa (premiere); Stravinsky, “Song of the Nightingale”; Borodin, “Polovtsian Dances”

>> Jan. 27-28: Keith Lockhart, conductor; Robert McDuffie, violin. Beethoven Symphony No. 8; remaining program TBA.

>> Feb. 18: JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Lang Lang, piano. Mussorgsky arr. Ravel, “Pictures at an Exhibition”; Beethoven, piano concerto No. 3 in C minor

>> March 11: Victor Yampolsky, conductor; Sara Davis Buechner, piano. Gershwin, “Rhapsody in Blue,” “I Got Rhythm Variations”; Mendelssohn, “Scottish” symphony

>> March 17-18: Laura Jackson, conductor; Esther Yoo, violin. Glazunov, violin concerto in A minor; Stravinsky, “Petrushka”

>> April 28-29: Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Elina Vahala violin. Sibelius, violin concerto in D minor, op.47; remaining program TBA.

>> May 13: Naoto Otomo, conductor; Philippe Bianconi, piano. Program TBA

>> June 9-10: Carlos Prieto, conductor; Olga Kern, piano. Tchaikovsky, piano concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23 and Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64