COEUR d'ALENE - Susanne Osborn said she doesn't get nervous when her kids are on stage playing music.

"It's exciting for me to see them up there doing what they love," said Osborn, a Coeur d'Alene resident. "It really encourages me to keep them practicing and involved with music."

On Thursday at 7 p.m., Osborn's daughter Katelyn will perform with the Pandhandle Symphony Orchestra at the Salvation Army Kroc Center.

The concert will crescendo when Katelyn, 19, puts down her string bass and picks up a violin and performs Mozart's "Violin Concerto in A major," her first solo with a full symphony orchestra.

"She came to us when we needed a string bass player and has been serving us well in that capacity," Bob Haakenson, who has played trumpet in the orchestra since it began in 2006, said. "But she is an excellent student of the violin so when she said she wanted to play the solo, we gave her a chance and she's been wonderful."

"She's well versed in what that violin can do and she makes it do it," he added.

The 60-member orchestra puts on two concerts each year, one in the fall and one in the spring. Haakenson said that the performances don't always have themes, but this year the selection of music has everyone "dancing into spring."

"This show is a chance for people to listen to older, more in-depth, music as opposed to the modern music you normally hear on the radio," Haakenson said. "It's got a little bit of something for everybody."

Tim Sandford is the director of the spring performance and Haakenson said longtime Lake City High School music instructor selected a wide variety of music for the show.

The concert is free, which Haakenson hopes will encourage families to attend, and is sponsored by the Jeanne Holmberg Memorial Charitable Trust and Don and Sue Sausser.

"We always perform for free, that way some of the kids can get a chance to see a real orchestra and maybe get some ideas like 'Maybe I should pick up a violin or join my school's music program,'" Haakenson said.

For more information on the Panhandle Symphony Orchestra, or their upcoming concert, visit www.panhandlesymphonyorchestra.org