A most enthusiastic audience at the second concert of the Oswestry School Recital Series was treated to a concert of rare quality in Holy Trinity Church, given by the young and much-acclaimed Pavel Haas String Quartet. This Prague-based quartet is greatly in demand all round the world, and it was easy to see and hear why.

The opening concert in the Oswestry School Recital Series proved to be a suitably memorable musical occasion to mark the opening of the Twentieth Season. The capacity audience was treated to singing of the very highest order by the ten singers who comprise the Tallis Scholars, under their superstar director, Peter Phillips.

To end the year, one of the best-known and respected small vocal ensembles in the world. What began tentatively with a few choral scholars from King's College, Cambridge (where their initial attempt at a name - Schola Cantorum pro Musica Profana in Cantabridgiense - seemed not to catch on!) they gave their debut concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1968 - as the King's Singers.

Founded in Warsaw at the Academy in 1998, the Royal Quartet has already received numerous prestigious awards and honours, and is one of the most talked-about young string quartets in music circles today. Chosen as the Wigmore Hall Quartet in Residence for 2006 (as was the Škampa before them) they were one of the BBC Young Generation Artists (2004), and in the same year they were chosen to play for our Queen and royal family during the state visit of Poland's President.

Once again we are thrilled that, thanks to the Shropshire Music Trust and the Orchestras Live scheme, we can present the City of London Sinfonia, another of our great national orchestras, conducted by Nicholas Ward. Founded in 1971 by Richard Hickox, the orchestra performs regularly at the Barbican, has a concert series at the Cadogan Hall, is the resident orchestra for Opera Holland Park and performed in the 2008 BBC Proms. It performs more than 100 concerts each year in the UK and abroad, and has over 100 recordings to its name.

This will be Tasmin's third visit to Oswestry, and such an international star needs little introduction. Her wonderful performance of the Beethoven concerto in April held a capacity audience spellbound, such was the intensity of her playing and rapport with the orchestra.