Two local musicians will have their music performed when two choirs come together for a special concert.

The New Elizabethan Singers (NES) will join the Broadoak Choir and present a programme of music composed within the last five years or so by Matt Kingston and Chris Reynolds, who both live in Broadoak.

Matt Kingston - pen name Matthew Coleridge - has been the NES musical director since 2011. His first composition, the Corpus Christi Carol appeared on BBC Music Magazine's Christmas CD in 2015. His Requiem, inspired he says by the joy of the arrival of his first child and the influence of living in the beauty of the Dorset countryside, was premiered in 2015 and has since received numerous performances in the UK, US and Europe.

Chris Reynolds sings bass in the NES. His roots are in folk and jazz music but he has also written several liturgical pieces for the small 'a cappella' style Broadoak Choir, which he has directed for 17 years. His choral cantata Three Trees, which he completed last year, is a mystical meditation on the subject of crucifixion and redemption, but also works on other levels.

On April 9 at 7pm at St Mary's Church in Bridport, the New Elizabethan Singers and the Broadoak Choir will combine to perform these pieces. Tickets cost £12 and are available from Goadsby estate agent in Bridport. It is free for under 18s. There will be a small orchestra and professional soloists.

They go 'on tour' the next day, April 10 to repeat the performance in St Bartholomew's Church, Crewkerne, at 3.30pm. The concert is free with a retiring collection.

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