There are six concerts, monthly from February to July and the performers are drawn from the most highly regarded young professional musicians making their mark on the music scene in the UK and abroad. They perform a very varied repertoire of classical music and Jazz giving the audience a different musical experience at each concert.

Most concerts are performed at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, the Meeting House Arts Centre, Ilminster and the Hatherleigh Community Centre at Hatherleigh, in Devon, on consecutive nights. Sandroyd School and Woodroffe School joined the series in 2008. Bampfylde Hall, Hestercombe Gardens & Lower Pulworthy will be new venues for 2009.

Laurence Cummings and Ana-Maria Rincon gave
two fundraising concerts to support the series
on 26 & 27 February 2009.

You can find reviews of the 2008 concerts on the 2008 series page.

Click here for an email version of the brochure

For information about Hatherleigh please go to www.hatherleigh.net; for Lyme Regis go to www.lymeregis.com; for Sandroyd School www.sandroyd.org; for Woodroffe School www.woodroffe.dorset.sch.uk; for the Marine Theatre www.marinetheatre.com ; www.hestercombe.com for Hestercombe Gardens.

Bookings are made via the individual venues and details of these are shown on the Bookings page.

Contact details for general information about the series

Catherine Hodgson
Horton House
8 Ditton Street
Ilminster
Somerset
TA19 0BQ
Tel & Fax: 01460 53500
Click here to email

Concerts in the West

John Bartholomew Chairman of Lyme Arts Community Trust
Catherine Hodgson Festival Director, London Handel Festival/Director of Concerts in the West
Peter Lansdown Publicity for Ilminster concerts
Anthony Pither programme notes/musical adviser
Judy Simmonds Publicity for Lyme Regis concerts

We would like to thank all those who have helped put on these concerts during the four seasons.

This page was updated on 11 May 2009