THE 22nd Music Makers’ evening will take place on Saturday, May 11 at Crediton Congregational Church, with a programme of three items performed by three different sets of musicians.

The music will start at 7pm, with doors open from 6.30pm.

A “Sonata for Flute and Piano” by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev opens the concert, played by Robert Stephenson (flute) with Roger Stephenson (piano).

Prokofiev wrote this arresting work in 1943, a few years after his widely-known music for “Peter and the Wolf”.

Peter Clarke will perform a work for solo piano, “Sixteen Variations on an Original Theme”, by the English composer Thomas Dunhill.

Probably not heard in public in living memory, this work was published in 1900 while the composer was still a student at the Royal College of Music (where he studied alongside the better-known Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst).

New to the Music Makers’ events is the woodwind octet, Woodbury Wind, who will play arrangements from Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”, with the addition of a spoken narration.

Wine and refreshments will be available during the interval, and a bowl of hot vegetarian food provided by Eran’s Kitchen.

Admission is, as previously, on a “pay-what-you-decide” basis with a guide of £7 per person. By this system, envelopes are provided with the printed programme to enable audience members to pay an amount according to their own wishes – or not at all!