Gretna Music has scheduled several concerts. The concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m., with First Listen concerts at 6:45 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. First Listen programs present local youths in free mini-concerts before the mainstage concerts. All concerts will be held at the Mt. Gretna Playhouse, 200 Pennsylvania Ave., Mount Gretna.

Gretna Music and Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz have partnered to present the Gretna Grooves jazz concert series this summer. The Brandee Younger Trio will perform on Saturday, July 27, with a First Listen performance by pianist Nicole Yang. The Charles McPherson Quintet will be featured on Friday, Aug. 9, with a First Listen performance by the Luca Savarino Quartet, a local jazz group.

Younger began playing the harp at age 11 and studied classical music at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. Saxophonist Jackie McLean encouraged her to make her first foray into playing jazz music on the harp. After graduating from college, she was active in the jazz and commercial recording scene in New York City and earned a Master of Music from New York University's Steinhardt School. In 2020, she won the DownBeat Critics Poll in the category of Rising Star. In 2022, she became the first black woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. She has worked with cultural icons including Common, Lauryn Hill, John Legend, and Moses Sumney. Younger seeks to honor the work of trailblazing harpists Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, and her most recent album, "Brand New Life," is about forging new paths.

Born in Joplin, Mo., and raised in Detroit, Mich., saxophonist Charles McPherson has a musical style rooted in the blues and bebop. He worked intermittently with jazz bassist Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1974. He was also commissioned to help record ensemble renditions of pieces from Charlie Parker on the 1988 soundtrack for the film "Bird." In 2020, the JazzTimes magazine readers selected McPherson as Artist of the Year and chose his album "Jazz Dance Suites" as Best New Release.

Recent high school graduate and pianist Yang has played the piano since she was 5 and the violin since she was 10. She currently takes piano lessons with Dickinson College professor Eun Ae Baek-Kim. On the violin, Yang has participated in various PMEA festivals and qualified for the Dorothy Sutton state showcases in 2022 and 2023. She is the winner of the 2024 West Shore Symphony Orchestra (WSSO) Concerto Competition, as well as the 2024 Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra (HSYO) Concerto Competition. Additionally, she has been a part of the HSYO ensembles on the violin since seventh grade. This fall, Yang will attend New York University to study political science on a pre-law track. She hopes that she can continue to play the piano and violin as a hobby.

On Sunday, July 28, Gretna Music will present "Painting a Picture with Clarinet and Piano" featuring Marcus Eley. Christian Wienckoski will present a First Listen performance of piano music.

Eley's program will feature music by black composers, such as Florence Price, Undine Smith Moore, and Oliver Nelson. Eley will also perform some of his arrangements. He will collaborate with pianist Todd Cochran.

A graduate of Indiana University School of Music and a former student at the Hochschule fuer Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, Eley has performed as a soloist with orchestras from Germany, Canada, and China, and has given numerous recitals across the United States. The clarinetist's most recent album, "Imaginary Animals," features chamber music along with compositions by African American composers.

Wienckoski is a classically trained musician who has been playing the piano and performing since the age of 6. He has had eight piano teachers and now studies with his uncle, Brian Farrell, who received training from the Juilliard School.

For tickets and more information, visit http://www.gretnamusic.org or call 717-361-1508.