NORTH Pembrokeshire's premier music venue is making St David's weekend a very special one with two major musical events on its programme.

First up is – possibly – Wales's finest choir who open the 2018 season at Rhosygilwen on Saturday at 7.30pm.

Speak to any discerning fan of the Welsh choral tradition and they will ooze with admiration and go quite dizzy at the mention of Côr Godre’r Aran.

Most of the members of the north Wales choir are fine soloists in their own right and will be performing a selection of their favourites on the night.

Erian Owen, is the choir’s distinguished conductor and is also a native of Bala. Her exceptional gift as a pianist naturally led to her being very much in demand nation- wide as accompanist for soloists in eisteddfod competitions and at major music festivals. She has served many years on the panel of official accompanists at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. She has accompanied most of the current generation of prominent Welsh soloists featuring in the world of international opera.

A preconcert supper can also be arranged by calling the above.

On Sunday Rhosygilwen Mansion itself will resound to the sound of the other Bach.

Tamsin Whaley-Cohen has been described as one of the most talented and gifted violinists to emerge in Britain in the last decade. Her mission is to bring a new intimacy in chamber music by connecting with audiences in smaller venues rather than in large traditional concert halls.

Tamsin will have her opportunity to connect with an audience in the intimacy of Rhosygilwen Mansion’s front room which has been used as a recital space since 1995. The venue has hosted many rising stars, thanks to a wonderful grand piano.

Tamsin will be showcasing the works of the ‘other’ Bach, Carl Phillipe Emmanuele Bach , son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's baroque style and the classical and romantic styles that followed it. His personal approach, an expressive and often turbulent one, applied the principles of rhetoric and drama to musical structures. Bach's dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered gallant style also then in vogue.

Her programme also includes Schubert’s violin sonata in A Major and Leoš Janáček: Sonata for Violin & Piano.

The concert starts at 7.30pm in Rhosygilwen Mansion. Tickets for both events are available on rhosygilwen.co.uk or by calling 01239 841387.