MARSHALL – It’s a change of pace for the Southwest Minnesota Orchestra, said Dr. Daniel Rieppel. Instead of performing a long piece of music like a symphony, next week the SMO will be presenting a variety of different pieces.

“We have three opera overtures the whole orchestra will play,” as well as chamber music and pieces featuring community members and guest musicians, Rieppel said. “It usually is a variety of styles.”

The SMO will be presenting “Concerto da Camera” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, at First Lutheran Church in Marshall.

Rieppel, music director of the SMO, said the orchestra has done Concerto da Camera performances on and off every couple of years. “Concerto da camera simply means a concert in a smaller setting,” he said. This kind of smaller concert setting is where we get the term “chamber music,” he said.

For Tuesday’s concert, the orchestra has been working on a few different pieces of music, including a trio of opera overtures, Rieppel said. Some of the overtures will be tunes that are familiar to audiences from many different places.

“The overtures really help to tie everything together,” he said — they act like the front cover, spine and back cover of a book.

For Concerto da Camera, the SMO also likes to showcase different parts of the orchestra, Rieppel said. Some of the musicians performing at the concert will include SMSU music major Alec Ashby and SMO cellist Samson Obel. Erich Rieppel, principal timpanist of the Minnesota Orchestra and Daniel Rieppel’s son, will also be performing as a guest soloist.

Rieppel said Erich will be playing timpani in the Midwest premiere of a new concerto by Ricardo Risco, a composer from Panama. Erich and Daniel will also be teaming up for an unusual duet — a sonata for timpani and piano.

“It’s all been very interesting,” Daniel Rieppel said of bringing the concert together. The orchestra members and guest musicians are all excited to perform on Tuesday. It’s been a good season for the orchestra, Rieppel said.

“We had a hugely successful Christmas concert, and then we had a great success with my 25th anniversary concerts,” in Marshall and Minneapolis, he said. Orchestra members are “eager” to look ahead to the organization’s future, he said.