Settle Orchestra’s spring concerts have something for everyone.

The programme includes Edvard Grieg’s ever popular Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2, Robert Schumann’s Symphony No 3 Rhenish, Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture Der Freischutz and Ernest Tomlinson’s English Folk Song Suite.

Ernest’s daughter Hilary will be playing flute and piccolo at the concerts, which will be staged at the Richard Whiteley Theatre, Giggleswick School, next Saturday, March 22, and at Christ Church, Skipton, on Saturday, March 29.

Mr Tomlinson, who received an MBE in 2012 for services to music, is now in his 90th year. His music has been in great demand by the BBC since the early 1950s and he has received numerous commissions.

The best known of his works, often to be heard on Classic FM, is the miniature Little Serenade, from his Suite of English Folk-Dances, which is to be performed by Settle Orchestra.

Mr Tomlinson, who has twice won Ivor Novello awards and a Composers’ Guild Award, also founded the Library of Light-Orchestral Music – a unique collection with more than 40,000 orchestral sets dating from the mid-1850s.

Both concerts start at 7.30pm and tickets are available from Cave and Crag and Settle Music in Settle, High Bentham Post Office, by emailing sarah.glossop@btinternet.com or by phoning 01729 825806. In a bid to raise more money, music lovers are also being invited to sponsor one of the chairs of the orchestra (not a person, but an instrument) for £25 a year. In return the sponsor’s name will be acknowledged in all the season’s programmes against their chosen chair.

For further information, email glossopjulia@hotmail.com or call 01729 850313.