PIANIST Clare Hammond gives a recital at Central Hall, Darlington, on Sunday, November 9, at 3pm, for what should be a revelatory experience.

A passionate advocate of 20th and 21st century music, her speciality is works for the left hand only.

Alongside music by J S Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, she will play two works for left hand only by Scriabin and Dinu Lipatti, a rarely heard piano work by Sibelius and a contemporary piece by the British composer, Malcolm Pointon, entitled Five Epigrams and an Epiphonema (1970).

The concert is organised by Darlington Piano Society.

This year Clare Hammond has had three BBC radio broadcasts, made debut performances at seven festivals across Europe and performed the world premieres of works by ten composers.

She recently gave her debut recital at the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw and returned there under the auspices of the British Council's Artists' International Development Fund to give performances of Panufnik's Piano Concerto in Kalisz and Lublin. Reflections, her CD of Andrzej and Roxanna Panufnik's piano music, was nominated as an International Piano Choice, and she is at present curating a chamber festival to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Andrzej Panufnik at Kings Place, London, in November.

Full details of the recital and the remaining four in the season can be found at dpiano.co.uk and in the brochure available at the usual outlets. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Dolphin Centre or at the door.