A CONCERT featuring songs including Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols will be held in Bewdley on Saturday.

Bewdley Choral Society will be entertaining an audience at St Anne's Church at 7.30pm with their Christmas concert.

The choir, which has around 50 members, holds two concerts a year and will be singing a number of works, including Solemn Vespers by Mozart, as well as Organ Mass by Haydn and Hubert Parry's setting of John Milton's ode, Blest Pair of Sirens.

It will be musical director, David Whitehead's, first Christmas concert with the choir. He is currently director of music at the prestigious Alice Ottley School in Worcester.

At 16, he became an Associate of the Royal College of Organists and held the post of organ scholar and acting assistant at Bath Abbey before becoming an exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music in London.

He began his career in London as organist and director of music at St James's, Muswell Hill, working with children's choirs and the North London Chorus and has also been the director of the Cirencester Choral Society.

Spokeswoman, Sue Laffey, said: "It has been very nice working with David. We are really looking forward to our first Christmas concert with him."

In the new year, members will be rehearsing for their May concert, which will include John Rutter's Magnificat as well as works by Britten, Janacek and Brahms.

Tickets for Saturday's concert are available from Bewdley Books, St Anne's Church and choir members. For further information, contact 01299 822748.