SETTLE Orchestra will once again showcase talented young musicians in its summer concerts.

The programme will feature movements from three concertos, played by youngsters who are all past or present members of the orchestra.

Percussionist Max Heaton will play two movements from Ney Rosauro's marimba concerto.

Seventeen-year-old Max is the son of Settle Orchestra's leader Anne Heaton and has been an orchestra member himself for six years. These concerts will be his last with the orchestra before he takes up a scholarship to continue his studies in percussion at the Royal College of Music in London in September.

Max currently plays with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, the Halle Youth Orchestra and the International Lutoslawski Youth Orchestra (Poland). He recently took part in a RNCM Masterclass with Ney Rosauro and has really enjoyed studying his Marimba Concerto.

Ellen Buller is a 14-year-old flautist from Clitheroe. Ellen started playing when she was eight years old and has studied with teacher and Settle Orchestra flautist Hilary Ashton for six years. She played flute and piccolo with Settle Orchestra for two years and her father Bob has been principal cellist with the orchestra for many years.

Ellen is now a student at Chetham's School of Music where she studies with Rachel Forgrieve and Belinda Gough. In her spare time Ellen enjoys playing in orchestras, wind bands, chamber ensembles and duets. She also plays the piano and the recorder as well as various other instruments.

In these concerts, Ellen will play a movement from a flute concerto by Johann Joachim Quantz.

Trombonist Patrick Martin first played with Settle Orchestra in 2006 and has been involved with the orchestra ever since. His parents have also been members of the orchestra for 15 years. Patrick's passion for playing the trombone began at age eight with classical training, performing in local brass and wind bands at local music centres.

He is currently studying Jazz at Leeds College of Music under tuition of Kevin Holborough, with further study of bass trombone. Highlights of his musical experience so far have included performing with Peterborough Male Voice Choir, Abstract Orchestra and LCoM Wind Orchestra directed by Mark Heron.

Patrick will perform the moderato movement from the trombone concerto by Danish composer Launy Grøndahl.

The programme will also include the Force of Destiny Overture by Verdi, and Dvorak's 6th Symphony.

Following a successful term under the baton of post-graduate student Ellie Slorach, the orchestra welcomes back principal conductor Ola Ness for the concerts, which will take place at Christ Church, Skipton, next Saturday, June 18, and at the Richard Whiteley Theatre, Giggleswick, on Saturday, June 25.

Both start at 7.30pm and tickets costing £11 are available from Cave and Crag, Bentham Post Office, Skipton Camera Centre, settleorchestra.org.uk and on the door.