Sinfonia performs at CVIC Hall

The Carson Valley Sinfonia, sponsored by Friends of the Carson Valley Youth Orchestra and the Carson Valley Violin School will present its annual winter concert on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 4 p.m. in Minden's CVIC Hall. The performance is open to the public without charge.

The program will feature premier performances of conductor John O'Neill's "Carson Valley Hoe-down" and "American Pioneer Suite" and the first movement of Mozart's "Concerto No. 3 in G Major," for violin in a performance by Brian Jaggard, one of the school's advanced violinists. Also programmed are a movement from Mozart's French horn concerto in a string orchestra arrangement by Gerald Doan and Percy Hall's theme on a Scottish folk melody, "Saline." The concert will conclude with O'Neill's "Carols of Olde," a 1997 Belwin-Mills publication.

The Carson Valley Violin School was founded in 1992 with the help of a grant from the Carol-Franc Buck Foundation, the Douglas County Parks & Recreation Department and the Douglas County School District. The school offers lessons on orchestral string instruments to students of all ages. For information on the concert or school, 267-3495.