Community members are invited to an evening of music-making to benefit the Santa Barbara Strings program that trains young musicians, ages of 4-19, from 26 different Santa Barbara County schools via the string orchestra and chamber music repertoire.

The concert will be at 7 p.m. April 16 at Lehmann Hall in the main building of the Music Academy of the West.

Featured musicians will be Mary Beth Woodruff, artistic director and violinist; long-time visiting teaching artist, cellist Andrew Smith; and current faculty violinist Isaac Kay and violist Carson Rick.

They will perform two string quartets of Mozart and Mendelssohn, and will be joined by current Santa Barbara Strings exceptional young talent including Isabelle Kim-Sherman (violin), Henry (viola), and Aidan Woodruff (cello).

Strings faculty members Sara Bashore (violin), Junia Work (violin), Christopher Yick (bass), and Shiqi Xu (harpsichord) will join forces to perform Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto #3,” along with Astor Piazzolla tango arrangements.

The Bach will be performed in its original instrumentation with 10 independent string parts along with harpsichord.

A wine and cheese reception will follow the concert with award-winning wines from Santa Rita Hills local winery. Piedra Sassi of winemaker Sashi Moormann donated for the event.

Tickets are available at santabarbarastrings.org.