THE President of a music society is set to perform in Andover next week.
Andover Music Club's David Owen Norris will open its 70th anniversary season at The Lights on Thursday 29 September at 7.30pm. 
As a pianist, broadcaster and composer who regularly appears on radio and the BBC, including several appearances in the BBC Proms, Mr Norris will perform piano Portraits of Parry and Francis Poulenc. 
The music will be accompanied by cartoon illustrations and film by Martin Rowson.
A cartoonist of the Guardian newspaper, he has created marvellous characters, drawn on-the-spot as Mr Norris plays. 
The programme will also include Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and works of Mendelssohn. 
A composer of international note, Mr Norris includes oratorios, operas and operettas in his canon.
He is the first winner of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, which led to him performing around the world receiving numerous published accolades on the way. 
Mr Norris is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a professor of music at Southampton University.
For more information, visit andovermusicclub.co.uk