GRANTHAM, Pa. (Nov. 19, 2007) — With special guests Mechanicsburg Middle School guitar ensemble, Messiah College’s guitar ensemble will give a concert of primarily holiday music at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 9 in Hostetter Chapel on the college’s Grantham campus. Admission is free and open to the public. For further information on the concert, contact the Messiah College department of music at (717) 766-2511.

Directed by Randall Zwally, director of guitar studies and senior lecturer in music at Messiah College, the college’s guitar ensemble is comprised of six advanced student guitarists, playing on both steel string acoustic and nylon string classical guitars. The two ensembles will perform several pieces alone before performing a final piece together.

The department of music at Messiah College is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. The department offers majors in music and music education with concentrations in church music, performance, composition, commercial music and arts management. Through a variety of junior and senior recitals and choral and instrumental ensembles, students gain performing experience both on- and off-campus.

Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls 2,800 undergraduate students in 55 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.