LANCASTER'S Ashton Hall stages a musical treat on Sunday week (November 14) when the Haffner Orchestra gives a concert including Britten's Serenade - featuring top tenor Nicholas Hurndall Smith, pictured.

Originally from the North West, he gets an opportunity to return to his roots after reading music at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and then studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Britten's Serenade is based on poems by English and Scottish poets and features a solo French Horn and string orchestra as well as the tenor voice. The Haffner Orchestra will be conducted by Natalia Luis-Bassa with Martin Lawrence on horn. For programme and ticket details, call 01524-770503 or 32878 (credit card sales).