The Chapel Hill Philharmonia will present a concert in Hill Hall May 4 featuring the talent and creativity of two extraordinarily gifted young musicians.

Melissa Chan, 14-year old winner of the 2008 Young Artists' Competition, will play the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. She is a freshman at Enloe High School in Raleigh and a student of UNC's Mayron Tsong. She has played recitals in Sopron, Hungary and Vienna, Austria and has been accepted to the 2008 Schlern International Music Festival in Italy.

The orchestra also will provide the first public performance of Symphony No. 5 by Jay Greenberg, written when he was 13. Originally from Chapel Hill, he has been a student since he was 12 years old at the famed Juilliard School, where he was the only student so young ever allowed, with a specially created framework, to take an extensive program of study in composition at the college level on a full scholarship.

Profiled two years ago on the television show "60 Minutes," Greenberg, 16, has been described as "a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history, when it comes to composition." His Fifth Symphony, though recorded by the London Symphony, has never been performed live. Greenberg will be present to hear the performance.

Leading off the concert will be Mendelssohn's "Overture to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream," composed when the composer was but 17 years old.

The Chapel Hill Philharmonia is a community orchestra of serious amateur players who play for the love of classical music. Originally called The Village Orchestra -- a recreational orchestra begun 25 years ago by Joel Carter and Ed Jackson -- the group has grown in size and expertise and performs four concerts per year under the direction of conductor Don Oehler.

The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. in the newly remodeled Hill Hall Auditorium at UNC. Admission is free. A reception will follow.