Pianist Faye Williams joins York Symphony Orchestra for its first concert of 2003 on March 15th.

The University of York graduate will play Mozart's piano concerto number 27 at the concert in the university's Jack Lyons concert hall.

Completed in 1791, 11 months before he died, the piano concerto was Mozart's last, and the concert promises a delightful performance of this relaxed and sometimes wistful piece of music.

Faye is also a piano teacher at Pocklington School and another former local teacher Alasdair Jamieson will conduct the orchestra tomorrow. Alasdair, who was director of music at Bootham School, York, between 1995 and 2001, is stepping into the shoes of regular conductor Prof David Blake for one concert.

The other two works on the programme are both by Mendelssohn. The first is the well-known overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, written when the composer was 17. The other is his Symphony Number 5, the Reformation Symphony, which was commissioned for a Lutheranism event.

Tickets are £8, or £7 concessions, £4 children under 16 or full-time students, and are available from Ticket World, Patrick Pool, York, telephone 01904 644194 or from members of the orchestra.

Updated: 09:41 Friday, March 14, 2003