The winner of the Robert E. Fleming Concerto Competition will play at Sunday’s W.D. Packard Concert Band performance.

This year’s recipient is Preston Thigpen, a senior at Howland High School and the son of Brooke and Steven Schubert. Thigpen started taking piano lessons at age 5 on his great-grandfather’s baby grand piano.

He studied alto saxophone before switching to bassoon under the guidance of Shawn Reynolds.

Thigpen is a member of the Youngstown State University Youth Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, the Ohio Music Educators Association District 5 Honors Jazz Band and toured Germany and the Czech Republic with the Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra.

He will perform Wolfgang Mozart’s Concerto in B flat Major for Bassoon. The concerto competition was established to honor the band’s conductor emeritus, who died in 2011, and to present outstanding high school musicians as soloists with the Packard band.

Also performing Sunday will be vocalist Tania Grubbs, a YSU graduate who frequently si ngs with the Big Band Sound of Packard, and her husband, bassist Jeff Grubbs.

Tania Grubbs will sing “Love Present, Love Lost, Love Returning” by Jerry Ascione and standards “If My Friends Could See Me Now” and “Put on a Happy Face” with the full band as well as “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” with her husband and a spring time medley backed by Jim Garber, piano; Tom Ruggieri, drums; and Jeff Grubbs, bass.

Other selections on the program, conducted by Galen S. Karriker, include Alfred Reed’s “A Springtime Celebration,” Robert Schuman’s “Traumere,” Johann Strauss’s “Voices of Spring,” Percy Aldridge Grainger’s “Green Bushes” theme, John Clifford Heed’s “In Storm and Sunshine” march, a tribute to Stephen Foster and John Philip Sousa’s “Sesquicentennial Exposition.”

The concert starts at 3 p.m. Sunday at Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren. Admission is free, and funding is provided by the W.D. Packard trust.