The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has just announced a last-minute addition to the 2023-24 season. Guest conductor Ramón Tebar will be leading a full program on Oct. 18 in Music Hall. Tebar’s program includes John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the superb pianist Jonathan Biss; and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.

It’s an interesting addition, considering that the CSO is in the middle of a search for its next music director.

Tebar is currently principal conductor with the Orquesta de Valencia and artistic director of Opera Naples. He was previously artistic director of the Florida Grand Opera and principal guest conductor of Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia. He has conducted in the pit of Cincinnati Opera a number of times, most recently for “Carmen” outdoors at Summit Park in 2021 during the pandemic.

Here’s my impression of the concert he led last April in Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” in the Ravel orchestration. Tebar’s style is elegant and confident. He knew how to inspire energy in the dramatic moments, but this was also a performance that breathed, sometimes with lingering pauses between numbers, as if allowing the observer to ponder that picture in the gallery before moving on.

The concert is at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13. Tickets: 513-381-3300, cincinnatisymphony.org