With the new year, the classical season moves into high gear, as two more chamber music series launch their concerts for 2013, a local orchestra celebrates an anniversary, and one of the world’s leading pianists comes to the Kravis Center.

Palm Beach Symphony: As I noted in an earlier column, the orchestra will mark its 40th anniversary next season with a world premiere of a fanfare by the rising young American composer Nico Muhly. But to honor its 39th anniversary, conductor Ramon Tebar – newly named the group’s artistic director – will lead a concert at the Flagler Museum on Sunday afternoon of works somehow associated with that number.

On the program, therefore, is the Symphony No. 39 (in G minor, Hob. I: 39), of Haydn, and the Symphony No. 39 (in E-flat, K. 543) of Mozart. The Haydn is a dramatic, pre-Romantic work from his Sturm und Drang period, and the Mozart is one of the three last symphonies by the composer, all of them supreme masterpieces.

Antonin Dvorak’s lovely Czech Suite, his Op. 39, also is scheduled, as is the most popular of all guitar concertos, the Concierto de Aranjuez of Joaquin Rodrigo, which the Spanish composer wrote in 1939. The soloist in the Rodrigo is Sebastian Acosta-Fox, who won the Music Teachers National Association Competition in 2005. The concert is set for 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $50. Call 655-7226 or visit www.palmbeachsymphony.org.

Society of the Four Arts: That same afternoon, the Palm Beach society welcomes back the members of the American Chamber Players for their annual appearance. Violist Miles Hoffman, the group’s founder, will be heard in the Adagio and Allegro (Op. 70) of Schumann on a program that includes the Suite for Clarinet, Violin and Piano of Darius Milhaud, as well as the Piano Quintet (in C minor, Op. 1) of the Hungarian composer Erno von Dohnanyi.

The best-known work of the afternoon will be the great Clarinet Quintet (in A, K. 622) of Mozart, with soloist Loren Kitt. Curtain is 3 p.m. in the Society’s Gubelmann Auditorium. Tickets are $15. Call 655-226 or visit www.fourarts.org.

Flagler Museum: Two days after hosting the Palm Beach Symphony, Whitehall opens another of its yearly five-concert seasons of chamber music, which take place on Tuesday nights. First up this year is the Rome-based foursome Quartetto Bernini, founded in 1992.

Two rarely heard Italian works are planned, both by composers better-known for vocal music. The first of six quartets (No. 1 in G) by Rossini, written when the future composer of The Barber of Seville was only 12 years old will be heard along with the second of eight concerti for quartet (No. 2 in G minor) by the Baroque composer Francesco Durante, famed for his large output of music for the church.

The concert closes with the Quartet No. 14 (in G, K. 387) of Mozart. 7:30 pm, Flagler Museum. Tickets: $60 per concert or $280 for the series; call (561) 655-2833 or visit www.flaglermuseum.us.

Classical Café: Duncan Theatre director Mark Alexander opens the Classical Café series of Wednesday afternoon concerts at the theater’s Stage West black-box venue with the Amernet String Quartet of Miami. Based at Florida International University, this foursome of violinists Misha Vitenson and Marcia Littley, violist Michael Klotz and cellist Jason Calloway can be seen frequently in area concerts throughout the year.

For Wednesday’s concert, the Amernet will be joined by pianist Milana Strezeva. The program begins at 3 p.m. at the venue of the campus of Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth. Ticket are $25. Call 561-868-3309 or visit www.duncantheatre.org.

Kravis Center: New York Chamber Soloists Orchestra, a 20- to 25-piece chamber orchestra offshoot of the smaller New York Chamber Soloists, is presenting larger-ensemble works in the company of eminent soloists. On Tuesday night, it’s the excellent Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti who joins the conductorless group for two concerti: the No. 9 (in E-flat, K. 271, Jenamy) of Mozart, and the No. 2 (in B-flat, Op. 19), by Beethoven.

I caught Kuerti in recital this past October in Coral Gables, and he did thoughtful, beautiful things with Beethoven’s last bagatelles, as well as some of the early and middle-period sonatas. Also on the program is a very early Haydn symphony, No. 6 (in D, known as Le Matin). Haydn’s early symphonies feature many solo passages for members of the orchestra, which is no doubt why the group chose this work. 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the Kravis Center. Tickets: $25. Call 832-7469 or visit www.kravis.org.

Also noted: For those who can’t face the new year without a hearty cry of Prosit neujahr! and a playing of The Blue Danube, the Strauss Symphony of America plays its annual Salute to Vienna concert on Monday night at the Kravis. Music of the Strauss family will be featured, along with dancers from the Vienna Imperial Ballet, soprano Marcela Cerno and tenor Daniel Vadasz. Andras Deak conducts. 8 p.m. Monday, Kravis Center. Tickets start at $27.

And organist Gail Archer, who teaches at Barnard and Vassar, continues the Calvary United Methodist Church classical series on Saturday afternoon with music by J.S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Cesar Franck, and Olivier Messaien. 3 p.m., Calvary United Methodist, Lake Worth. Tickets: $10. Call 561-585-1786 for more information.