There are five concerts, monthly from January to July and the performers are drawn from the most highly regarded young professional musicians beginning to make their mark on the music scene in the UK and abroad. They perform a very varied repertoire of classical music 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.

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

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

Bookings are made via the individual venues and details of these are shown on the Bookings page, which will be updated in October 2008.

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/Organiser of Concerts in the West
Peter Lansdown Publicity for Ilminster concerts
Anthony Pither programme notes
Judy Simmonds Trustee of The Town Mill, Lyme Regis, Publicity for Lyme Regis concerts