This lunchtime programme will include no fewer than eight new settings of regional and local poets, by regional and local composers. It will also include selections from Richard Rodney Bennett’s Songs Before Sleep (texts: nursery rhymes) and Colin Matthews’ Pig Songs (texts: Wendy Cope).

The concert includes settings of local poets including Clint Wastling, Alan Gillott, Rose Drew.

Further details will be added shortly.

Stuart O’Hara — bass

Ionna Koullepou — piano