Making its eleventh appearance at Leamington’s Royal Spa Centre, Music in the Round’s brilliant group in residence, Ensemble 360, will be back on Sunday 2 March.

The successful formula for the day consists of a Family Concert at 11.30am and a chamber music concert at 3pm.

The Family Concert this year features a work specially composed by Paul Rissmann, Giddy Goat, and is ideal for the age group 3 to 7 but will be huge fun for everyone, offering a great opportunity to introduce the young to the joys of concert-going. The music will be played on an interesting and unusual mix of instruments in the ensemble: violin, viola, cello, clarinet, and French horn.

The story of Giddy Goat by Jamie Rix and Lynne Chapman is about a mountain goat that is scared of heights! This tale of facing fears and making friends will be narrated by John Webb and has plenty of audience participation in songs and actions, and projections of images from the story.

The afternoon concert involves members of Ensemble 360 playing a sumptuous programme of folk-inflected chamber music for strings and clarinet, which combines well-known works with some new discoveries.

Benjamin Britten’s early invention and whimsy are at the fore in his charming and characterful Divertimenti. John Holbrooke’s intoxicating depiction of a Scottish Island in Eilean Shona is a magical celtic evocation for clarinet and strings. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s exquisite Clarinet Quintet, arguably the composer’s greatest achievement in chamber music, owes a clear debt to the work of Dvořák, whose profoundly moving and ultimately celebratory String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 ‘American’ reworks a cornucopia of diverse folk traditions and concludes this intimate and expansive programme.

The Leamington Music Winter Season runs until mid-March and has twenty-one events in all, having begun in September with an exhilarating six concerts from the Brodsky Quartet of all fifteen Quartets by Shostakovich. The season goes on with bi-monthly concerts of string quartets, early music, choral music, Indian Carnatic music, and a special Family Concert; the season also features along the way works by black composers, women composers, and living composers for some new discoveries alongside familiar favourites to ensure there is something for everyone

Tickets for Leamington Music concerts are available on leamingtonmusic.org, by calling 01926 334418 or in person at the Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington and the Court House in Warwick. Look out for special concerts for children, students, and the under-35s.