The City of York Guildhall Orchestra goes Russian tomorrow at York Barbican Centre.

Simon Wright conducts a 7.30pm programme of Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, for which the soloist is Marat Bisengaliev, left.

Bisengaliev was born in Kazakhstan in 1962 and made his debut at the age of nine. He studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow and has performed with many orchestras, in Hong Kong, Poland, Germany, New Zealand and France, as well as England, where he settled in 1991.

The Guildhall Orchestra's next concert at the Barbican will be on May 17, when soloist Martin Roscoe will perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No 1.

Tickets for tomorrow cost £8, £12 or £14, with £2 off for concessions, on 01904 656688.

Updated: 12:26 Friday, February 07, 2003