A CHOIR starring 12 of the UK’s best young professional singers is heading to Dorset in December for two unique Christmas concerts.

The Wessex Consort is conducted by the celebrated early music tenor Andrew King, ex Kings College Cambridge, the BBC singers and The Sixteen.

The first concert will be at 3pm on on Saturday December 3 in the Methodist chapel of Lytchett Matravers, the village home of Dorset composer Graham Stansfield who founded the Consort.

Whe he was a boy Graham was a chorister at Westminster Abbey, singing at the coronation, and later found fame as the composer of Sympathy a world wide hit in the early '70s.

The second concert takes place at 7.30pm at the historic St Mary’s church at Cerne Abbas.

And uniquely for these concerts, eight members of the choir who have strong local connections, will sing a musical portrait of a place or a person that is quintessential Dorset.

To finish the performance, the Wessex Consort will sing an upbeat celebration of the food we all eat too much of at Christmas. Tickets for both concerts are £10 on the door.