ONE of the world's leading groups playing music by living composers will be making a welcome return to Bromsgrove this Friday, February 27. 

The Fidelio Piano Trio makes a return to Bromsgrove Concerts with a performance at the Artrix Centre, in School Drive, from 8pm.

Members of the trio are Darragh Morgan, violin, Robin Michael, cello, and Mary Dullea on piano.

The trio's programme includes pieces by two living Scottish composers, Alasdair Nicolson and Judith Weir, who recently became Master of the Queen’s Music.

Her piano trio was sparked by Zen stories which, she says, although are short, resonate in the memory but do not reveal their secrets easily.

Half Told Tales is a series of six pieces by Alasdair Nicolson based on tunes from old Gaelic lullabies, which lull a child to sleep with tales of magic.

Their programme opens with a piano trio by Faure, full of lyrical grace, and closes with an arrangement for a piano trio of a classic of late romanticism - Transfigured Night by Schoenberg, written originally for a string sextet.

Tickets cost £17 for single tickets, £3 concessions - registered disabled, unemployed and full time students over 25-years-old.

Tickets are available from the Artrix by calling 01527 577330 or visit artrix.co.uk.

Young people, aged 25 and under, are admitted free to all concerts thanks to the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust.