IT’S JUST the thing for a summer’s evening. A concert brimming with local talent and a world premiere.

What more could you ask from a valley packed with musical talent and the Holme Valley certainly has that as Wednesday’s concert (June 12) at the Picturedrome in Holmfirth underlines.

The Holme Valley Orchestra will join forces at the concert with two of the valley’s brightest young music professionals, trumpet player Rebecca Robertson and soprano Sarah Ogden

The concert features the world premiere of a work by Holmfirth composer Barry Russell.

And the event notches up another milestone – as the Picturedrome hosts its first ever orchestral concert.

The Holme Valley Orchestra is a community, not-for-profit orchestra based in the Holme Valley.

It meets weekly at Holmfirth High School during term time and currently has around 35 members.

The orchestra has its roots in adult education but re-constituted itself in 2001 as a community organisation in order to offer places to young people.

Its members include young musicians wanting to get orchestral experience outside their usual school or college environment and other players who have returned to playing an instrument they put down in their youth.

The orchestra is conducted by James Morgan who is Community Music Director at Holmfirth High School.

The orchestra normally stages three concerts a year and specialises in light classical music.

Barry Russell, who once taught at Holmfirth High, has written Concerto Pastorale specially for this event and it will be performed featuring four soloists from the orchestra.

The concert will open with favourites such as Barry’s arrangement of Ironbridge Hornpipe and Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King.

The orchestra will then be joined by Sarah and Rebecca in performances of Purcell’s Sound the Trumpet and Bright Seraphim.

Rebecca will also play Charpentier’s Trumpet Voluntary, Massenet’s Meditation and Debussy’s Girl with the Flaxen Hair.

As for Sarah, she will be singing Cole Porter’s So in Love (from Kiss Me Kate); a selection from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story and Puccini’s O Mio Babbino Caro.

She will then join the orchestra for a performance of Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen.

The second half of the concert will feature the world premiere of Barry Russell’s Concerto Pastorale featuring soloists from the orchestra consisting of Kate Buchanan (flute) Adrian Burridge (oboe); Lucy Fowler (clarinet) and Jo Cheesbrough (bassoon)

The concert is on Wednesday, June 12 and starts at 7.30pm.

Tickets are available at the door priced £6 and £4 concessions.