IT is easy to forget that Sir Arthur Sullivan had a busy life as a composer even without his collaboration with WS Gilbert.

A concert on June 5 by the Leominster Choral Society includes Sullivan's Festival Te Deum, which he wrote in 1872 to celebrate the recovery from illness of the Prince of Wales. The following year, Gilbert and Sullivan worked together on Trial by Jury and the rest is musical history.

Sullivan also had a local connection. When he was a youthful treble chorister at the Chapel Royal, he was invited to sing at the consecration of St Michael's College just outside Tenbury.

The Society's concert in the splendid acoustics of the Priory is one of the highlights of the Leominster Festival and also includes Sullivan's hymn Lux in Tenebrae, better known as "Lead, kindly light."

The main work is the first performance in Herefordshire of the Armed Man Mass by Karl Jenkins. Regular listeners to Classic FM will have heard innumerable excerpts but this is a chance to hear the hour-long work in its entirety.

Vernon Thurgood conducts the Chorus with professional soloists and an instrumental group that includes brass and percussion.

The Festival runs from June 3 to 9. Among its attractions, it takes in a Saturday lunchtime concert by the Simon Deeley Jazz Trio, an audience with Martin Bell, Buddhist chants from Tibet, an evening with Henry Blofeld and a concert by the Birminghan Philharmonic Orchestra.

Tickets are available from the Festival Box Office at 12 Buttercross Arcade or on 01568 611190.