The Community Arts Orchestra, an ensemble of students in West Virginia University’s Community Music Program and area musicians, will perform its annual winter concert Sunday, Dec. 11, at the Creative Arts Center .
The 7:30 p.m. concert in the Antoinette Falbo Theatre is free and open to the public.
Guest soloist will be Jennifer Brown, a cellist and an alumna of the WVU Community Music Program and the Community Arts Orchestra. She will perform Saint-Saen’sCello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33with the orchestra, under the direction of John Ashton.
The Community Arts Orchestra will also perform Bizet’sCarmen Suite No. 1,the first movement of Beethoven’sSymphony No. 5,Bartok’sRumanian Folk Dancesand Handel’sSuite from the Water Music.
Brown is a sophomore at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, majoring in cello performance and studying with Lee Fiser. She also studies voice with Mary Henderson-Stucky. She is a member of the CCM Concert Orchestra, the CCM Chorale and has been cast in the undergraduate opera to be presented in the spring of 2006.
During high school, Brown studied cello with Mary Morrison and voice with Jane Lightfoot in the WVU Community Music Program. She was a member of the Community Arts Orchestra and the WVU Symphony Orchestra. She was also first chair cello in the West Virginia All State Orchestra and the WVU Honors Orchestra.
Brown attends the University of Cincinnati as a Cincinnatus Scholar, which includes a full scholarship from the University. She also receives a National Merit Scholarship, the Elks National Scholarship and the Robert C. Byrd Scholarship.
During her freshman year of college, she maintained a 4.0 grade point average and was inducted into the U.C. chapters of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Alpha Lambda Delta Honorary Fraternity.
She is the daughter of Dave and Phyllis Brown of Bridgeport , W.Va.
The Community Arts Orchestra is made up of intermediate through advanced musicians of all ages who enjoy music-making in a friendly orchestra setting. The orchestra meets Saturdays from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and will be accepting new members in the spring.
For more information, contact the WVU Community Music Program office at (304) 293-4841 ext. 3168 or visit its Web site atwww.wvu.edu/~music.