Dundee’s local Orchestra and one of the city’s best known piano soloists are to feature on the BBC’s prestigious Radio 3 station.

Dundee Symphony Orchestra will be performing in the city’s St Paul’s Cathedral this Sunday, 1 June, with well known local pianist Christina Lawrie. The members of the Orchestra learned last week that the BBC wants to record the concert for broadcast at a later date on their prime classical music channel, Radio 3, usually reserved for fully professional players. This is as part of the BBC’s series of concert performances by good local amateur orchestras.

Donald Gordon, President of the Orchestra, said “we are delighted and honoured that our music will reach an even wider audience than usual. We are also fortunate that the broadcasting of this summer’s concert in our own series will feature Christina Lawrie, a good friend of the Orchestra, playing one of Mozart’s loveliest piano concertos, number 20. Our regular conductor, Robert Dick, will also be leading the Orchestra from the violin, in an orchestral suite by Bach”.

Hailed as a rising star by the magazine International Piano, Scottish pianist Christina Lawrie (pictured) has a flourishing career as a soloist and chamber musician. She regularly appears on the concert stage in London and elsewhere, and has won many awards. She is very grateful to the sponsors and trusts who have helped her studies, including, locally, a Caird Travelling Scholarship, the Scottish Arts Council and the Tay Charitable Trust.

The Orchestra will also perform Beethoven’s 1st Symphony in the concert, which starts at 7.30pm in St Paul’s Cathedral.