SKIPTON Camerata, the district's premier orchestra is to embark on a new musical adventure at St Margaret's Church, Ilkley, on Saturday.

The evening will kick start a three year-long partnership with The Clothmakers Consort, a chamber choir made up of musicians from Leeds University's faculty of music.

And the partnership's first musical venture will be an exploration of the two contrasting Viennese musical schools.

"The first school of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven captures the optimism of the Enlightenment perfectly and the second was created by Arnold Schoenberg at the end of the 19th century," said Camerata artistic director Ben Crick.

"This school looks beyond the obvious and was composed in an age when Darwin, Freud, Marx and Einstein were all seeking to dig deeper into our understanding."

The concert will open with Mozart’s ever popular Eine Kleine Nachtmusik followed by Schoenberg’s Verklate Nacht which will be accompanied by a multimedia presentation based on the Richard Dehmels’ poem.

The second half of the concert will see a performance of Haydn’s Theresienmesse. It is named after Maria Theresa, the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II's consort, who performed the soprano solo at the work's premiere and also the soprano solos in Haydn's larger choral works The Creation and The Seasons.

The Clothmakers consort has performed throughout the Uk in venues including St Paul's Cathedral, York Minster, Durham and Lincoln Cathedrals and has toured Prague, Poland, Germany, Mantua, Krakow and Budapest.

This will be Skipton Building Society Camerata’s fifth visit to Ilkley and tickets, ranging from £4 to £20, are available from 0333 666 3366, skiptoncamerata.com or the Grove Bookshop, Ilkley.

And, on Friday, July 15, Skipton Camerata will give an interactive early-evening concert at Skipton Town Hall, aimed particularly, but not exclusively, at primary school aged children.

It will include a specially commissioned a new piece from composer Evan Jolly, which tells the story of The Snow Queen, Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony and the Toy Symphony by Leopold Mozart.