A FORMER winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year award is to join Lancaster's Haffner Orchestra in concert next week.

Anna Markland (pictured) will play Ravel's Piano Concerto with the ensemble under the baton of charismatic conductot Natalia Luis-Bassa on Saturday, February 19 at the Ashton Hall.

Many still remember Anna's thrilling performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 when she won the coveted BBC competition in 1982.

And she has never looked back since, completing a hectic schedule of engage-ments throughout the British Isles.

The concert programme also includes Faure's Pavane, Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and Schubert's Tragic' Symphony No 4.

For more details and tickets, call 01524-770503 or 01524-32878.