Tickets are now on sale for the Honolulu Symphony's inaugural Beethoven Festival, scheduled to kick off in March.

The two-week event is a series of four concerts, each of which will be performed only once over the course of the two weeks.

Principal conductor Andreas Delfs will conduct the performances, while a roster of notable guest musicians rounds out the series.

Three of the guest performers — pianist John O'Conor, violinist Robert McDuffie and cellist Yehuda Hanani —will be making their Honolulu Symphony debuts, and violinist Ignace Chang will return to lend his string skills to the festival concerts.

Together, the symphony and guests will perform a number of Beethoven masterpieces, including the Eroica and Pastoral Symphonies, the Violin Concerto, the Triple Concerto and the Fifth Symphony.

The Beethoven Festival opens Saturday, March 28 with the Eroica Symphony and closes Sunday, April 5 with Pastoral Symphony. Tickets are $20-$82 and are available at the Symphony office (792-2000), Macy's stores and all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 1-877-750-4400.