Youth orchestral program Santa Barbara Strings will hold its Winter Concert, 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 at the Music Academy of the West, Hahn Hall.

Led by artistic director and violinist Mary Beth Woodruff, the program will feature all three levels of string orchestras trained in weekly rehearsals by Woodruff and SB Strings’ faculty of local string teaching artists.

Highlighting the nonprofit group’s repertoire will be a newly discovered work of Wolfgang Mozart, found in a recent re-cataloguing of the composer’s works in Leipzig, Germany.

The piece is a trio written for two violins and cello, but will be performed with string orchestra.

The work is said to have been written when Mozart was just 10 years old, and the young Santa Barbara Strings players have relished their role as musical archeologists, having to make artistic decisions about how to interpret a work with no recordings available and only the original markings of the young composer himself.

Also on the program will be the gem of the string orchestra repertoire, the “St. Paul Suite” by Gustav Holst; Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto #3;” Aaron Copland’s “Hoe Down;” “Libertango” by South American tango composer Piazzolla; and Vince Guaraldi’s “Charlie Brown Christmas.”

Concert tickets are available at the door at $20 for adults, and all children may attend for free.

For more information, visit santabarbarastrings.org or email sbstrings@gmail.com.