DeKalb residents will have a chance to check out the county’s newest orchestra next week.

The Dunwoody Elementary School Orchestra is set to perform its first holiday concert Monday, just months after the new school opened its doors to fourth- and fifth-grade students in the Dunwoody area.

“The kids are very excited and the community is very excited,” said orchestra director Vladimir Yampolsky, who is the orchestra teacher at Dunwoody and Kingsley elementary schools. “Everyone has been very supportive.”

The concert includes two performances, one each by the fourth- and fifth-grade students, and consists of Christmas and Hanukah songs as well as classical pieces on cello, bass and violin.

William Pu, an associate concertmaster for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will perform with the fifth-grade group.

With 220 members, Yampolsky said the orchestra is arguably the largest elementary school orchestra in the Southeast.

The school has a total enrollment of about 700 students.

“We had to start from scratch,” said Yampolsky, who is an accomplished musician and product of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. “But I played for the students and they were sold.”

The orchestra program is offered as an elective at the school. Students have to supply their own instruments — though the school has an inventory of cellos and basses thanks to private donations from parents so students do not have to lug the hefty instruments to school.

Students, like fifth-grade cellist Robert Lewallyn, son of Carla and Bob Lewallyn and fourth-grade violinist Isabella Velarde, daughter of Bibiana and Orlando Velarde, jumped at the opportunity to play with an orchestra.

“I love playing the violin,” said Isabella, who said she would like to be a music teacher one day. “I thought it would be a great experience to play in an orchestra.”

The Dunwoody Elementary School Orchestra’s inaugural Holiday Concert is set for 6 p.m. in the gymnasium of Dunwoody Elementary School. Admission is free and open to the public.

Dunwoody Elementary School is at 1923 Womack Road in Dunwoody.

Information: (678) 676-1304.