A pillar of the music scene in Worthing will be remembered at a special concert.

Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra and Worthing Philharmonic Choir are staging the concert in honour of Celia Martin at the town's Assembly Hall in Stoke Abbott Road on Sunday at 3pm.

They will be joined by Teen Scene, a musical group greatly encouraged by Celia.

Proceeds from the concert, conducted by Robin Page, will go to St Barnabas Hospice in Columbia Drive, West Durrington, Worthing.

Celia served for many years in the orchestra as timpanist and as committee member, contributing hugely to its well-being as well as musical life in and around Worthing.

She had a passionate love of music and an equal determination to share that love with her pupils and others.

The works to be performed range from the tragic, such as Tchaikovsky's Romeo And Juliet, to the comic, including Gordon Jacob's The Barber Of Seville Goes To The Devil.

There are also pieces which are long-standing favourites with audiences everywhere: The Adagio by Samuel Barber, Handel's Zadok The Priest, Brahms' How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings from his Deutsches Requiem and Verdi choruses from Nabucco and Aida.

The orchestra will be joined by two soloists, Rita French, who will perform the Romanze in F for violin by Beethoven and Glenn Martin, who will play his own arrangement of music from Bizet's Carmen, the Carmen Fantasie For Saxophone And Orchestra.

To conclude the concert, Celia's commitment to musical education will be exemplified by the finale of Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra.

Tickets, costing £7, £10 and £12, are available from the Worthing Theatres' box office on 01903 206206.