Lower Dauphin High School, 201 S. Hanover St., Hummelstown, will host the annual Dauphin County Orchestra Festival sponsored by the Dauphin County Music Educators Association on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 19 and 20.

The festival will bring strings players from across the county together and will culminate with a concert on Jan. 20 at 1:30 p.m. The guest conductors will include Andrian Harabaru, senior high orchestra; Frank Carvella, junior high orchestra; and Michael Gamon, elementary orchestra. The festival host will be Melody Cliff, Lower Dauphin's director of orchestras.

A total of close to 50 Lower Dauphin musicians will participate in the festival.

From Lower Dauphin High School, the participants will be Lauren Gula, Nora King, Camryn Long, Emma Johnson, Lila Markowitz, Aditi Singh, and Nathan Wolf, violin; Anthony Bruno, Virginia Huntzinger, Harper Lennox, Katie Mauger, and Marina Weidman, viola; Jordan Fink, cello; and Brynn Woodall, bass.

The Lower Dauphin Middle School participants will include sixth-graders Ava Bailey, Melissa Bartlett, Amelie Brink, Katie Gutshall, Kendyl Rivera, Taryn Shaffer, Elliana Stunja, and Julia Teach, violin; Grace Lanza, Annabelle Mattson, Brenna McGrady, and Elizabeth Otto, viola; Kaylee Shewmon, cello; and Chloe Kline, bass. They will be joined by seventh- and eighth-graders Ellie Cartwright, Ruth Dunkleberger, Kadie Heck, and Sammi Imundo, violin; Maggie Fuddy, viola; Chelsea Gula and Jazlyn Weidman, cello; and Levi Dickinson, bass.

Lily Fuddy and Katherine Hatfield, cellists from Conewago Elementary, will participate alongside Grace Haldeman, violin; Rhett Spitler, viola; and Garrett Sipe, cello, from East Hanover Elementary. The Londonderry Elementary participants will be Mayzee Dibble, Hadley Lewis, and Faith Hoover, violin; Jesse Slough, cello; and Jordyn Bartlett and David Halcovich, bass. South Hanover Elementary will be represented by violinists Vanessa Gula and Gianna Imundo.