BELFAST

Waterfront Hall 028 9033 4400

January 14th 7.45pm Marc-André Hamelin takes the obbligato part in Bernstein's Second Symphony (The Age of Anxiety) with the Ulster Orchestra under Dmitry Sitkovetsky

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BIRMINGHAM

CBSO Centre 0121 236 5622

January 20th 1.10pm Stephen Hough appears with the CBSO Players

Symphony Hall 0121 212 3333 http://www.symphonyhall.co.uk/symphony

January 9th 7.30pm Finghin Collins plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland under En Shao

January 18th, 20th 7.30pm Stephen Hough plays Saint-Saëns's Fourth Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo [two performances]

January 25th 8pm Louis Lortie brings his London QEH Chopin recital to Symphony Hall, including the Allegro de concert and Andante spianato and Grand Polonaise Brillante

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CARDIFF

St David's Hall 029 2087 8444

January 26th 7.30pm Wayne Marshall joins soprano Kim Criswell for a programme including songs by Gershwin, Porter, Weill and Bernstein

January 28th 7.30pm Rolf Hind plays Bartók's Third Piano Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Mark Wigglesworth

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EDINBURGH

Queen's Hall 0131 668 2019

January 27th 7.45pm Barry Douglas plays Strauss's Burleske with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Raymond Leppard

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GLASGOW

City Hall 0141 287 5511

January 28th 7.30pm Barry Douglas plays Strauss's Burleske with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Raymond Leppard

Royal Concert Hall 0141 287 5511 http://www.grch.com

January 27th 7.30pm Jean-Philippe Collard plays Saint-Saëns's Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Alexander Lazarev

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama 0141 332 5057

January 14th 10pm Rolf Hind plays Judith Weir's Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins

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LANCASTER

Great Hall, Lancaster University 0800 028 3042

January 13th 7.30pm Martin Roscoe plays Brahms's Second Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under Yan Pascal Tortelier

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LEICESTER

De Monfort Hall 0116 233 311

January 10th 7.30pm Vladimir Ashkenazy plays and directs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 20 with the Philharmonia Orchestra

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LIVERPOOL

Philharmonic Hall 0151 709 3789 http://www.rlps.co.uk

January 29th 7.30pm Havard Gimse plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 27 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Iona Brown

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LONDON

Barbican Hall 020 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk

January 2nd 7pm Philip Smith plays Grieg's Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Robert Ziegler

Boulez 2000: Discovery Week

January 30th 6.30pm Jason Ridgway plays Schoenberg's Piano Concerto in the Nordell Conducting Masterclass taken by Pierre Boulez

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British Music Information Centre 020 7499 8567 http://www.bmic.co.uk

January 6th 7.30pm Solon Pierce

January 13th 7.30pm Ian Pace

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St John's, Smith Square 020 7222 1061 http://www.sjss.org.uk

January 12th 7.30pm Alfred Brendel and Melvyn Tan take part in a concert celebrating the late cellist William Pleeth

January 21st 7.30pm Alexander Ardakov plays Chopin (including the Polonaise-Fantasy) and Liszt (including the Second Ballade and Dante Sonata)

January 30th 7.30pm Mark Latimer and the Mark Latimer Contemporary Jazz Ensemble in a programme including Alkan's Concerto for Solo Piano and Latimer's own Exhibitionist at the Pictures

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SBC Purcell Room 020 7960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk

January 3rd 7.30pm Javier Lanis plays Haydn, Schumann's Carnaval, Chopin's F sharp minor Polonaise, Fernandez's Suite Brasileira No 3 and Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata

January 9th 7.30pm Davitt Moroney, harpsichord, plays Bach's six French Suites complete

Park Lane Group Young Artists New Year Series

January 14th 6pm Petros Moschos and Dimitris Karydis play works by Zimmerman, Bedford and Antoniou

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SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 020 7960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk

Millennium Mozart

January 2nd 7pm Sam Haywood plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21 with the Festive Orchestra of London under Peter Gilbert-Dyson

January 13th 7.45pm Paul Crossley plays Prokofiev, Debussy's Préludes Book II, and his own English Music

January 30th 3.15pm Leon McCawley and Ian Brown join the Belcea Quartet and friends for a Mozart programme including the E flat Piano Quartet, Sonata for Two Pianos and Quintet for Piano and Winds

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SBC Royal Festival Hall 020 7960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk

January 23rd 3.30pm Nikolai Demidenko brings his Chopin as Improviser recital to London. Nocturnal 'ecstasies of quiet contemplation' imaginatively framed by a quartet of late masterworks, the programme was devised to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Chopin's death last October and includes the F minor Fantasy; Fourth Ballade, F sharp minor Polonaise and Polonaise-Fantasy

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Wigmore Hall 020 7935 2141

January 5th 7.30pm Steven Osborne plays Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus

January 9th 4pm Melvyn Tan plays Beethoven's G minor Fantasy and Sonata Op 101 and Debussy's Préludes Book II

January 11th 7.30pm Yung Wook Woo plays Schubert, Debussy, the Courier Sonata, Beethoven-Liszt (An die ferne Geliebte) and Mozart-Liszt (Don Giovanni Réminiscences)

January 15th 7.30pm Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord, directs The English Concert in a Bach programme including the Double Harpsichord Concerto in C BWV 1061

January 16th 4pm Freddy Kempf plays Beethoven's A flat Sonata Op 110, a selection from the second book of Rachmaninov's Études tableaux Op 39, and Chopin's Third Sonata

January 17th 1pm Alfredo Perl in a BBC lunchtime broadcast of three Beethoven sonatas - Opp 22, 78 and 81a (Les adieux)

January 23rd 4pm Till Fellner plays fugal Bach and late Beethoven (Opp 106, 109 Sonatas)

January 27th 7.30pm Angela Hewitt plays Bach on the piano, including the Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, and Goldberg Variations

January 30th 4pm Jonathan Gilad plays sonatas by Mozart (K 576), Beethoven (Tempest, Op 31 No 2), and Schubert (C minor)

January 31st 1pm Pascal Rogé joins violinist Chantal Juillet for a BBC lunchtime broadcast of the Ravel and Franck sonatas

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MANCHESTER

Royal Northern College of Music 0161 907 5278

January 18th 7.30pm Peter Donohoe plays Beethoven's three Sonatas Op 31 and the Waldstein

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SOUTHAMPTON

Turner Sims Concert Hall 023 8059 5151

January 12th 8pm Ian Brown plays and directs Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto with trumpeter Paul Archibald and the London Mozart Players

January 22nd 8pm Mitsuko Uchida joins violinist Mark Steinberg for four Mozart sonatas

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WORTHING

Assembly Hall 01903 820500

January 29th 7.30pm Jack Gibbons plays Gershwin's Piano Concerto with the Worthing Symphony Orchestra under John Gibbons

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YORK

Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall 01904 432439

January 19th 8pm Benjamin Frith and Peter Hill play Debussy's En blanc et noir and Stravinsky's own arrangements of his ballets The Rite of Spring and Agon