The West Virginia University Community Arts Orchestra will perform its annual winter concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10, in the Antoinette Falbo Theatre at the Creative Arts Center.

The orchestra, conducted by John Ashton, is an ensemble made up of students in WVU s Community Music Program and area musicians. The concert is free and open to the public. Everyone attending will be invited to stay for a post-concert reception.

The program will includePeer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907);Concerto No. 3 for Horn and Orchestra,KV 447by Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791);Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, Nos. 1-4by Antonin Dvork (1843-1904);Soirées Musicale (Suite from Rossini)by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) andA Trumpeters Lullabyby Leroy Anderson (1908-1975).

The guest soloist will be hornist Elisabeth Weigand, a Morgantown native who is currently a WVU junior music education major. She is a student of University horn professor Virginia Thompson and is also studying with Robert Lauver, a hornist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Weigand has studied violin with Mary Wilson in the WVU Community Music Program and also served as concertmaster of the Universitys Community Arts Orchestra.

She performed in the horn section of the orchestra during her senior year at Morgantown High School, where she also served as field commander of the Morgantown High School Marching Band and participated in the West Virginia All-State Band for three years.

Additionally, Weigand is a member of the Symphony Orchestra at WVU , Wind Symphony, Chamber Winds and Brass Quintet. She is the daughter of WVU music professor John Weigand of Morgantown and Marsha Juday of Bradenton, Fla. She will graduate in 2008 and plans to pursue a career teaching music in a public school.

For more information, contact the WVU Community Music Program office at 304-293-4841, ext. 3168.