WILTON – Katie Kennedy, a cellist from Carthage currently studying at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, along with some of her friends, will perform popular works by Mozart, Ives and Dvorak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25, at the First Congregational Church on Main Street.

The performers will include three principals of the Portland Symphony Orchestra: Charles Dimmick, concertmaster; Rachel Braude, flute; and Laurie Kennedy, viola. Also performing will be Anna Washburn, viola, and Christina Wheeler, violin.

The theme of the evening is popular music in the classics. The program features Dvorak’s Quintet for strings in E flat major, Mozart’s flute quartet in A major and Ive’s First string quartet, and Charles Ives’ tuneful First String Quartet.

Violinist Christina Wheeler, Chicago native and currently a graduate student at the Juilliard School of Music met Kennedy while they were undergraduate students at Oberlin together. Also joining is Kennedy’s mother, Laurie, principal violist of the Portland Symphony and Maine Mountain Chamber Music co-director; Charles Dimmick, concertmaster of the Portland Symphony; Rachel Braude, flue and piccolo player in the PSO; and Anna Washburn, New Sharon native currently finishing studies at Boston University studies at Boston University.

At the beginning of the concert, to set the stage for more popular tunes, there will be a special performance by young fiddlers who participated in a workshop with Wheeler and her husband, Rhys Jones, who are both accomplished old-time fiddlers.

Admission of $6 for adults and $5 for senior citizens will be charged at the door. Admission is free for anyone 16 or younger. The concert is being sponsored by the Arts Institute of Western Maine. For more information, phone 645-2157.