ROSS-on-Wye Choral Society’s winter concert on Saturday, features John Rutter’s Requiem, which was first performed in Dallas, Texas i30 years ago.

The main soloist is soprano Rosanna Harris, who recently completed five years of study at The Royal Northern College of Music, with a place in the chorus at Holland Park Opera this summer. Rosanna, whose grandmother used to sing as a member of Ross Choral Society, last sang in Herefordshire at St Catherine’s Hoarwithy in 2014 in the Herefordshire Festival of Churches. There is a six-piece orchestra plus organ for the Requiem including flute, oboe, cello, harp, timpani and glockenspiel.

The other two choral works on the programme are Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the all-English programme is completed with Britten’s lyrical song-cycle On this Island sung by Rosanna Harris with John Merrick accompanying her on the piano.

The concert is at St Mary’s Parish Church Ross-on-Wye at 7.30pm on Saturday. Tickets available from Rossiter’s Books, Mervyn James and on the door.