This concert gives solo recital performance opportunities to talented young musicians aged 8 to 18. The chosen performers deliver varied repertoire to a local supportive audience who have the privilege of hearing them. Several former artists have entered the music profession. Alison OGorman, the producer, is an experienced music teacher with over three decades of tuition and coaching, including to professional young music students. She has been producing the concert for several years and is delighted to present some of Surreys best young artists. Highly experienced and talented Siobhan OHiggins will accompany the performers. The event is part of Banstead Arts Festival 3rd - 24th May.

The Arts Society Chipstead presents a lecture by Nicola Moorby. J.M.W. Turner is often thought of as the great art traveller of his age, wandering around Britain and Europe in search of inspiring landscape scenery. Yet one of his most enduring subjects was found on his doorstep in his native city of London. This lecture, given in the 250th anniversary year of his birth, examines Turners engagement with the River Thames. Living by or near its banks throughout his life, the artist was endlessly fascinated by the river. From Oxford to the Estuary, he explored its views and moods, its cultural and national symbolism and its historic and contemporary associations. The event is part of Banstead Arts Festival.