LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Soper Reese Community Theatre will host a concert to benefit the Allegro Scholarship Program on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 3 p.m.

The program will feature young local musicians who have excelled in their music, many of whom have benefited from the Allegro Scholarship program.

Featured young artists from Lake and Mendocino counties will include such noted performers as Hamed Hokamzadeh, who has become a successful film music producer in Hollywood.

One of his scores will be presented in a short film clip featuring his music score. Hamed will be there to introduce his clip.  

Eleanor Cook, Allegro Scholarship recipient, will be performing Felix Mendelssohn’s 3rd Movement (Allegro) Concerto in D Minor for Violin & Orchestra.

Cook majored in music at Holy Names University. After graduating in 2009, she returned to Lake County and continued to participate in many musical activities.

She has played violin with both the Lake County Symphony and the Ukiah Symphony Orchestra, Konocti Fiddle Club, Uncorked! and the Lake Fiddlers. She teaches violin, viola, cello, clarinet, and handbells.

Cook directs Belles with Bells, a handbell team sponsored by United Christian Parish in Lakeport. She is also assistant director to the CLPA Youth Orchestra.

Other featured performers include Edison and Eliot Serena, Erin Call, Cynthia Ganoung, Layton Rudiger, Lars Tisell, Julianne Carter, Sonya and Emilio Diaz, Mikie Howard and Rafael Contreras.

All the performers are music students of a gifted group of music teachers who are committed to providing music education to students in Lake and Mendocino counties, including Tom Ganoung, director of the Allegro Scholarship Program and piano teacher, who teaches at the Ukiah School of Music; Andi Skelton, concert master of the Lake County Symphony Orchestra; Sue Condit, conductor of the CLPA Youth Orchestra; and Clovice Lewis, noted writer composer and cellist.

The Allegro Scholarship Program helps pay for private music lessons for gifted music students in Lake and Mendocino counties. All proceeds will go to support the scholarship program.

Tickets are $10 each, and $7 each for families of three or more.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.soperreesetheatre.com , at the theater box office on Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. or at The Travel Center in the Shoreline Shopping Center in Lakeport.