THE new season of Weymouth Music Club, a series of regular Sunday afternoon concerts at Weymouth Bay Methodist Church, starts on October 12.

It opens with a concert by the Jubilee String Quartet.

The quartet is so named because its members all lived on the Jubilee line when they came together.

The ensemble gave a concert for Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts just after winning the prestigious St Martin’s Chamber Music Competition.

Their recital will include Schubert, Webern, Beethoven and Szymanowski.

The early November concert, will feature Total Brass, a quintet with a local connection, and Matthew Blunt, a tuba player who grew up in Weymouth.

Total Brass, who were all at the Royal Academy of Music, lead a busy life, both as an ensemble and individually.

In August, they entertained 140 couples at the Royal Festival Hall at the Big Wedding Weekend as part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love.

Recent appointments include Elise Campbell, the horn player as third horn with Scottish Opera and Jason Evans as the Principal Trumpet of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Their diverse programme includes Fnugg, by Baadsvik, a Norwegian tuba player/ composer, where the tuba player can sing along and play at the same time. Joseph Shiner, the club’s clarinettist in late November, has recently appeared at Windsor Castle with the Orpheus Sinfonia and Felicity Lott. His recital with pianist Frederic Brown will include Ravel and Gershwin.

In January, an unusual duo from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Daly, principal double bass, and Ben Birtle, cellist, present a programme which will include a piece by one of the first ever virtuoso cellists Jean Barriere (dated around 1740) and the gem for this combination, a dazzlingly inventive Duetto by Giacomo Rossini.

Commissioned by David Salomons it was premiered at one of his London soirees in about 1824 with the great double bass virtuoso Domenico Dragonetti playing the bass part.

In February, there will be a concert by Flercussion, Calum Huggan and Jo Ashcroft, whose instruments include flute and marimba.

In complete contrast, in March, Concert Royal presents Jane Austen’s Musical England.

The ensemble consists of a harpsichord, soprano, cello and flute.

The concerts start at 3pm.

Programme and ticket details can be found at weymouthmusic.org.uk or by calling 01305 770820.