THE Prince of Wales will attend a concert at this year’s Gloucester Three Choirs Festival.

A concert on the penultimate evening of the festival, this Friday, July 29, will be attended by Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.

The Prince is President of the Three Choirs Festival Association.

Dr Timothy Brain, OBE, QPM, Chairman of Gloucester Three Choirs Festival and of the Three Choirs Festival Association, said: ‘We at the Three Choirs Festival are honoured and delighted to welcome the Prince of Wales. As our President he has long been a supporter of the festival. It was a great privilege for the Festival Chorus to perform before him at Buckingham Palace last year as part of 300th Anniversary celebrations, and now we are equally privileged to be able to welcome him to Gloucester."

He added: "The concert to be attended by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will include the famous ‘Enigma’ Variations by Sir Edward Elgar – musical portraits of several of the composer’s closest friends – and Carmina burana, Carl Orff’s colourful settings of distinctly secular medieval verse, performed by the Three Choirs Festival Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Partington, Artistic Director of Gloucester Three Choirs Festival."

Dr Alexis Paterson, Chief Executive of the Three Choirs Festival Association, said: ‘I’m delighted to be welcoming our President, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, to this year’s Three Choirs Festival. The chorus is on top form.’