FINALIST in last year's BBC Young Musician of the Year contest, pianist Cordelia Williams is giving a recital on Sunday at the Turner Sims concert hall in Southampton.

The talented young pianist, whose home is at West Grimstead, near Salisbury, is currently studying theology at Clare College, Cambridge, where she holds an instrumental award for chamber music. She spent seven years at Chethams specialist music school in Manchester.

Still only 18, Cordelia has already made her Wigmore Hall debut and has made her first foreign tour. As well as Sunday's recital, she will perform Beethoven's third piano concerto at the 2007 Thaxted Festival with the City of London Sinfonia. Sunday's concert includes music by Bach, Debussy, Chopin and Schubert, as well as two Russian composers, Balakirev and Lyapunov.

Cordelia's inclusion of Bach was simple. "I absolutely love Bach," she says. "He was a real genius. My mother is a harpsichord player and I grew up with Bach and Early Music being played in the house."

Last year's pinnacle for Cordelia was obviously the final of the Young Musician of the Year, where she played Saint-Saens second piano concerto with the Northern Sinfonia, and it was televised. "The final is one of my best memories ever, it was so exciting."

The recital on Sunday is at 3pm.