GUILDERLAND — Flutist Kathleen O’Mara will perform Claude Bolling’s “Sentimentale” accompanied by the Guilderland Town Band, July 13, at 7:30 at the Guilderland Performing Arts Center in Tawasentha Park. This is the second concert of the band’s 48th season.

O’Mara, a Guilderland High School graduate, is the winner of the 2017 Donald E. Webster Scholarship, which honors the band’s founder. Webster founded the Guilderland Town Band, in which local professional and amateur musicians come together each summer to provide quality, free, symphonic band music, in 1969 and retired in 2001.

Kathleen Richards-Ehlinger, the band’s music director since 2002, said in a release from the band, “I am thrilled that Kathleen was chosen as this year’s scholarship recipient. She was one of my students at Guilderland High School, and I was one of Don’s students, also at Guilderland High School,” she said of Webster. “It really brings it all together as she performs as a soloist with the band.”

O’Mara, who lives in Altamont, will be completing her studies at the State University of New York College at Fredonia in December. She is pursuing bachelor’s degrees in both music education and music performance, as well as a minor in mathematics.

As a flute student at Fredonia, O’Mara has performed with top ensembles including the Fredonia College Symphony Orchestra, Fredonia Chamber Orchestra, Fredonia Wind Ensemble, and Fredonia Flute Ensemble. As a singer, she has performed with the Fredonia Women's Choir, Fredonia College Choir, and Fredonia Masterworks Choir.

Her private flute teachers have included Dr. Susan Royal, Marlene Witnauer, and Alexis Ziomek. O’Mara graduated from Guilderland High School in 2013.  This is her first summer playing in the band.

Tonight’s concert, “Pops Through the Ages,” will include highlights from “The Sound of Music,” “Eighties Flashback,” “Pixar Movie Magic,” and “Ellington: A Tribute to The Duke.”

The $400 scholarship is awarded annually to a resident of the Guilderland School District, a resident of the town of Guilderland, or a person who has played in the Guilderland Town Band for at least one year. Applicants, who submit an essay and examples of their playing, must be enrolled in college or graduate-level courses.

Directions to Tawasentha Park and more information about the Guilderland Town Band may be found at www.guilderlandtownband.com.  The Guilderland Town Band concerts are part of the Guilderland Performing Arts Center’s Summer Concert Series.