PIANIST Ian Pace will premiere Michael Finnissy's Beethoven’s Robin Adair, his York Late Music commission to mark Finnissy's 70th birthday, at the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York, tomorrow night.

Presented in association with the York Spring Festival, this 7.30pm concert also will feature world premieres of new works by Andrew Toovey and Luke Stoneham, plus Beethoven's Rondo in A, Peter Grainger's folk-inspired My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone, Laurence Crane's Slow Folk Tune: Sheringham and Late Music administrator Steve Crowther's Piano Sonata No. 3.

Crowther, incidentally, studied under Finnissy at the University of Sussex and Stoneham and Toovey have studied with him too. "Tomorrow night is a real opportunity to hear a world-class pianist, Ian Pace, performing a world premiere by a world-class composer, Michael Finnissy," said Crowther.

Tickets will be available on the door at £10, concessions £8, students £3, as well as at latemusic.org.