A WORLD premiere will bring the curtain down on Malvern Concert Club’s season next week.

With generous support from the Kay Trust, the club has been able to commission the Song of the Severn by Ian Venables, a Worcester-based composer with a growing international reputation.

Written for baritone, piano and string quartet, it will be performed by Roderick Williams, Tom Poster and the Carducci Quartet at Malvern Theatres on Thursday, May 2.

Venables has described his new work as a “celebration of Worcestershire through its history, people and landscape”, setting poetry that has a strong association with the county and its artistic heritage, including a tribute to the club’s founder, Sir Edward Elgar.

The other works in the programme include Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach, which sets Matthew Arnold’s 1931 poem to music, Haydn’s Emperor Quartet and Elgar’s Piano Quintet, which brings the concert to its conclusion.

The concert begins at 7.30pm in the Forum Theatre.

For more information and tickets, call the Malvern Theatres box office on 01684 892277 or go to malvern-theatres.co.uk.