THE final concert of the Grange-over-Sands and District Concert Club season takes place on Friday September 8, rounding out a programme that has seen numerous renowned performers appear.

For the last show of the year at the Victoria Hall, in Grange, violinist Matthew Trusler and pianist Ashley Wass perform on their The Life Begins at Forty tour.

Both musicians have been playing around the country for almost 20 years, and have decided to collaborate in performing the pieces that they have enjoyed the most in that time.

On graduating from Philadelphia's Curtis in 1998, "The Times" declared of Matthew Trusler that "we might just have an authentic, though British, virtuoso. Since then he has developed a reputation as one of Britain's leading violinists, performing with many of the world's leading orchestras, and receiving huge critical acclaim for his diverse recordings.

He has also founded the record label Orchid Classics on which some of the most important artists of today are recording, and the Lenny Trusler Children's Foundation, which raises money for desperately ill babies.

He was instrumental in founding the Malmo International String Festival and in 2012 was appointed a director of Delange Artists Management, based in Amsterdam. He regularly performs in a duo partnership with pianist Ashley Wass.

Wass' watershed moment came in 1997 when he became the only British winner ever of the London International Piano Competition, and is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. In 2002 he appeared in a gala concert at Buckingham Palace to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee, a performance broadcast to millions of people around the world.

The programme for this concert in Grange is Beethoven's Spring Sonata, Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending, Prokofiev's Cinderella, and César Franck's Sonata.

For the first time at the Concert Club, it will be preceded by a free talk from 7pm to 7.30pm, in which the musicians will interview each other, give a humorous account of the evening's programme, and take questions from the audience.

The concert itself starts at 8pm, and admission is payable on the door, with free entrance for children and students.