The Swindon Recital Series comes to an end this month with its founder and artistic director Paul Turner taking centre stage.

The theme of this season has been the music of JS Bach, and Paul will be playing his Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue.

Paul is an Honours graduate and elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music  He spent five years at the academy where he honed his craft to a professional level, made many contacts and began playing at some of the top venues in the classical world including the Wigmore Hall in London, the Purcell Rooms and the Festival Hall, but he played only once at the Royal Albert Hall.

His most famous venue to date was the Buenos Aires Teatro de Colon, one of the biggest grand theatres in the world, performing with the American soprano Maria Ewing, the wife of Peter Hall and the mother of actress Rebecca Hall.

“It was terrifying,” said Paul. “There were layers and layers of balconies and when there is just two of you on stage with a spotlight on each of you – I was just a bit nervous! But Argentina was all new and exciting and it was my first long haul flight.”

The musician was also part of the Live Music Now organisation set up by Yehudi Menuhin to take live music to places that were not normally a performance venue such as schools, prisons, old folks homes and hospitals.

Paul set up 25 years ago when the Wyvern Theatre was no longer including classical music concerts.

“The idea was to put on regular evening concerts in the Arts Centre. At the time I was playing with some wonderful artist both here and abroad so it seemed right to bring them to Swindon where there was no classical music,” said Paul, who was awarded the Swindon Does Arts Hero trophy in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the arts in Swindon, in September 2009.

Also on the programme for the Swindon finale will be Paul playing Schuman, Grieg and Haydn. The concert takes place in the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon on Wednesday, April 25 from 1.05 to 2pm.

Tickets are £6, accompanied children 14 and under go free from www.swindonrecitalseries.org