Port Ludlow Performing Arts is set to host a professional-amateur benefit concert to raise funds for music education in East Jefferson County at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, at the Bay Club on 120 Spinnaker Lane in Port Ludlow.

This performance will feature music professors Matthew Daline and Jennifer Chung, accompanied by local musicians. The band includes violinist Kristin Smith and several students.

“We started out mostly in Port Townsend, but have been able to reach into most of Jefferson County, to provide much-needed support to students and school programs wherever we can,” said music director Daniel Ferland.

YEA Music sponsors summer music camps, awards scholarships for music lessons, loans out instruments to families, and offers after-school music clinics during the school year, all based on the El Sistema music program philosophy of providing services to students at little-to-no cost.

“We run our programs almost entirely on donations from local community members and local organizations,” Ferland said. “We want as many children as possible to have opportunities in music-making, regardless of their financial status.”

This is the second year that Port Ludlow Performing Arts has hosted a benefit concert for YEA Music, and this year’s funds will be used to help support summer music camps in Port Townsend and Chimacum for students in grades 4-12.

Local teachers work with students in fiddle groups, jazz and pep bands, as well as with beginners, getting them help in getting started on their musical careers.

“I really appreciate the steadfast support that Port Ludlow Performing Arts has always offered for music education in our community,” said camp coordinator Mike McLeron.

The pro/am performance will include Bach’s “Concerto for Violin and Oboe” featuring Daline, Chung and Smith, as well as two piano works, Satie’s “Gnossiennes” and Debussy’s “Reverie,” performed by Chung.

Daline, a violin and viola soloist, serves as the chair of strings and a professor of viola at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, while Chung, a soloist and collaborative pianist, teaches her studio piano class in Port Townsend.

Smith grew up in western Montana, where she heard Salish-Kootenai singing and drumming, Norwegian folk dance music, country fiddling, and many symphony and chamber music concerts and recordings.

Daline made his New York solo recital debut in Carnegie Hall, as the winner of the Artists International Competition, while Chung has played throughout North America, Europe and her native Taiwan.

After coming to Port Townsend in 1978, Smith has made Centrum’s Fiddle Tunes Festival her  continuing education mainstay, and she serves as concertmaster for the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra.

Admission is free, but donations are suggested, with all donations going to YEA Music, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that’s supported music education in Jefferson County for the past five years. For more information or to make reservations for the concert, visit YEAmusic.org