RIVINGTON music Society's Autumn Celebrity Concert takes place on Friday, November 9, and features two highly talented musicians.

Anthony Thompson on trumpet, together with Gordon Stewart on organ, will entertain at the event at Rivington Parish Church, 7.30pm.

Anthony began his musical training at the Salvation Army in Castleford, progressing first through a music scholarship to Ackworth School and then to Hull University, where he graduated with an honours degree in music.

Following a year of post-graduate trumpet studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and two years working as music director to the Salvation Army in Texas, Anthony is now working as a freelance trumpeter.

He works with Opera North, English Northern Philharmonia, North of England Chamber Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, London Gala Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and the BBC Philharmonic. He is a member of Harlequin Brass and the English Brass Consort among others.

Organist

Gordon studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and the Geneva Conservatoire.

He was organist at Manchester Cathedral for 11 years, and has for the past 12 years been Borough Organist of Kirklees, where he plays the Father Willis organ in Huddersfield Town Hall.

Gordon has travelled throughout the UK, Europe and on to the USA, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. He is one of the regular musical directors for Radio 4's Daily Service and television's Song of Praise.

He conducted the 2,500 singers and orchestra at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall for the Millennium Songs of Praise Special and was back in the same hall conducting the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for the Sixtieth Anniversary broadcast of Sunday Half Hour.

The pair's programme will include Toccata by Martini, Suite in D by Clarke and Concerto in G by Ernst/Bach among others. In addition, the Petite Suite by Andrew Carter will feature. This work was commissioned with funds from the Yorkshire Arts and Performing Right Society and was given its first performance by Gordon and Anthony at Huddersfield Town Hall on October 1 this year.

Tickets with dinner are £27.50, and for concert £7. They are from Isabella Leigh-Bramwell on 01204 694913, and Peter and Sheila Tonge on 01257 262958.