HIS film scores include the Oscar winning theme to Bridge over the River Kwai as well as The Inn of the Sixth Happiness which took an Ivor Novello Award.

British composer Sir Malcolm Arnold was a major figure in 20th century music. Although he started his professional life as a trumpet player, by the end of the 1940s, he had moved his focus entirely to composing.

You can hear some of the great man's music played by the amazing Éolienne Quintet, no strangers themselves to awards.

This young woodwind ensemble is formed of current students and graduates of Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The talented line-up features Rosie Bowker (flute), Chris Hatton (clarinet), Grace Warren (oboe), Sian Collins (French horn), Chihiro Kashiwakura (bassoon).

The group recently won first prize in the Ivan Sutton Chamber Music competition and have a busy concert diary, including a tour of the south west which will take in Ilminster Arts Centre.

The quartet will feature Arnold's catchy and humorous arrangement of Sea Shanties as their light-hearted finale. The composer was known for his combination of effervescent skill and ebullience and nowhere are these qualities better demonstrated than in his Three Shanties. Written in 1943, these provide as much fun for the listener as for the player, with one of the shanties featuring the picaresque escapades of a drunken sailor.

The programme will also include the Wind Quintet No 1 in B-flat major (Giuseppe Maria Cambini), Wind Quintet Op 43 (Carl Nielsen), and Summer Music for woodwind quintet (Samuel Barber).

Saturday, February 27.