After a mini-event last year because of Covid-19 restrictions, the West Meon Music Festival will return in full voice in September with concerts and masterclasses.

Festival founders, the internationally renowned Primrose Piano Quartet, whose cellist Andrew Fuller is the festival director, is one of the country’s leading ensembles and regularly perform in London at King’s Place and has recently toured Denmark, Germany and Bulgaria.

They will be joined during the four-day festival by high-profile musical guests who would have performed at the tenth anniversary festival last year.

Highlights of the festival, which runs from September 9 to September 12, will include a performance of Brahms’ stunning Horn Trio Op.40 with leading horn soloist Stephen Stirling and Mozart’s joyous Piano Quartet in E flat.

And the grand finale will be Schubert’s final chamber work, the ever-popular String Quintet in C major, when the quartet will be joined by violinist Jonathan Stone and Kirsten Jenson, at present guest cellist in the Allegri Quartet.

Jonathan was until recently a member of the acclaimed Doric Quartet.

In addition there will be a recital by the exciting young guitarist Laura Snowden described as a ‘string sensation’ by BBC Music Magazine.

There will also be a performance by Roman Kosyakov, winner of the Hastings International Piano Concerto to include Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

And there are master-classes planned for young musicians, various pre-concert talks, a folk music concert at a pub, and a late night concert of works by Bartok and Schoenberg.

In all there will be eight concerts over the four days and full details of all concerts and tickets can be found on the festival website at www.westmeon music.co.uk