A PAIR of up-and-coming European classical musicians will be appearing in South Cumbria in August.

Cellist Michael Petrov and pianist Alexander Ullman come together for the next performance in the Grange-over-Sands and District Concert Club calendar, taking place at the Victoria Hall on Friday 4.

They will team up for a programme that includes Prokofiev's Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119, Schumann's Drei Fantasiestucke, and Chopin's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65.

Over the past two years, Petrov has appeared as a soloist with most leading British orchestras and at 18 major concert halls throughout Europe, and recently made his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall. He was nominated by the Barbican as the ECHO Rising Star.

Born in Bulgaria, he studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning the Gold Medal award in 2014.

He plays on a JB Vuillaume cello from 1846, which has been loaned from a private individual.

Alexander Ullman frequently collaborates with him, and joins him once more on stage in Grange.

The London-born musician studied at the Purcell School, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and the Royal College of Music where he is now the Benjamin Britten Piano Fellow.

In 2011, he won first prize at the prestigious Liszt Competition in Budapest.

As a soloist he has appeared with the Philadelphia, the New Jersey, Fort Worth and Montréal Symphony Orchestras, the Oxford Philharmonic, Budapest Radio Orchestra and Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana.

The concert at Victoria Hall, in Grange, starts at 8pm, and tickets are available on the door. Students are admitted free.