INTERNATIONAL cellist Pal Banda will be appearing at Great Malvern Priory to play a series of Bach solo suites.

Bucharest-born Banda studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music before embarking on a career that has included membership of the Camerata Academica, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Fitzwilliam Quartet, the Katin Piano Trio and the Allegri String Quartet.

Pal teaches at the Purcell School and has given master classes in the USA, Greece, Singapore, France, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Hungary and England.

The concert is on Sunday, November 26, at 3pm. Admission is free, but there will be a retiring collection for Priory funds.