Erika Binsley, a Thousand Oaks native, has won the fifth annual Young Artists Competition sponsored by the Claremont Winds.

She will receive a scholarship award and will perform Richard Strauss' Concerto for Horn No. 1 at the group's concert at 3 p.m. Sun., May 17 in Baldwin Park Performing Arts Center, 4640 Maine Ave., Baldwin Park. Admission is free.

The program will also feature James Barnes' Third Symphony, Alfred Reed's Hounds of Spring overture and marches.

Binsley is a graduate of Westlake High School. She is studying French horn performance with professor James Thatcher on a full scholarship at USC's Thornton School of Music.

She has received numerous awards and played in the California All-State Honor Band during all four years of high school and in the National Honor Orchestra in 2007.

She was principal horn in the Idyllwild Summer Arts Academy Festival Orchestra in 2007 and 2008, and has also performed with the American Youth Symphony.

The Young Artists Competition is a scholarship program for student wind and percussion musicians 14 to 21 years old in the greater Los Angeles area.

The Claremont Winds is a semiprofessional, nonprofit community organization conducted since 1993 by Tony Mazzaferro.