The program will feature winners of an EMU student concerto competition:the senior Nathan N. (Nate) Bontrager on the Saint-Saens “Cello Concerto,” junior Kara S. Glick on the Mendelssohn “Violin Concerto” and senior Jonathan D. Keener on the Beethoven “Piano Concerto #5.” Music from the film, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” will close the concert.

The 50-member orchestral ensemble is conducted by Joan Griffing, chair of EMU’s music department.

Dr. Joan Griffing, conductor

Dr. Griffing teaches violin and viola and coaches chamber music in addition to conducting the EMU orchestra. She is also concertmaster of the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra and the Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra, and is a violinist with the Virginia Symphony and the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, N.C.

Orchestra members are primarily from the Harrisonburg-Rockingham County area and several from Augusta County and Orange, Va.

Admission to the program is free. Donations are welcomed for the EMU student scholarship fund.

Nathan N. (Nate) Bontrager, a senior music performance major at 草莓社区, will present a recital of cello music 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, in Martin Chapel of the seminary building at EMU.

Assisted by pianist Monica Carlson, Bontrager’s program will include Camille Saint-Saens “Concerto in A minor” and Samuel Barber’s “Sonata for cello and piano” and shorter works by meditative and jovial.

Bontrager, from Akron, Pa., is also a member of the EMU .

Admission is free; donations will be accepted for the EMU music scholarship fund.

草莓社区 sophomore students Jonathan D. Keener and Nathan N. Bontrager will present a duo recital 4 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 23, in EMU’s Lehman Auditorium.

Keener, a pianist, and Bontrager, a cellist, will perform Johannes Brahms’ "E Minor Sonata for Cello and Piano" and the "Waldenstein" Piano Sonata by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Keener will also play solo works by Chopin and Liszt.

Keener, from Mt. Joy, Pa., and Bontrager, from Akron, Pa., have played a variety of solo pieces while at EMU and have collaborated on chamber music works since the beginning of their college career. Both are dual music performance and music education majors.

Admission to the program is free.