ALTHOUGH he began his musical career in Wiltshire, and still has plenty of family living close to the Bradford on Avon centre, amazingly this concert will be the first clarinettist Tim Lines has ever played in Wiltshire. The 34-year-old, who began playing when a pupil at Devizes School, is looking forward to seeing family in the audience, particularly as the concert programme is made up of contemporary music which he feels has a broad appeal for audiences. “My mother’s family, the Prossers, come from the Westwood and I have cousins there and in Trowbridge,” he explained. “I lived in Westbury and then Devizes. It was Mr Lamond Clennand at school who got me onto the clarinet. I went to him asking about an instrument and was hoping for a french horn, really.” The former West Wiltshire Youth Orchestra player went on to music college, and has played freelance and with major orchestras since. “Contemporary music lets people get far closer to the music than an orchestral performance, or the radio or a recording,” he said. “You can see the interplay of the parts, the balance. It has a real ability to reach people and engage their emotions. “It’s a real mix of a programme, with some very simple items and some very complex ones.” The concert is part of Music Nation, a BBC scheme to run a weekend to celebrate the best of the country’s live orchestral music as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Tickets, at £18/£17/£16 and £9 for under-18s, from (01225) 860100 or website www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk.