A BBC Young Musician of the Year' is to play Tchaikovsky at a Church in Chiswick later this month.

Sarah Tindy is building up her stamina for one of the most demanding roles a pianist can tackle: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1. She will be the soloist at the Ealing Youth Orchestra's (EYO) next concert, at St Michael and All Angels Church in Bedford Park, Chiswick, on Saturday March 27. The theme of the concert is Russian Romance, and Borodin's Symphony No 2 completes the evening.

Local girl Sarah Tindy (she and her family live in Ealing) won the Keyboard Class in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 2002.

Sarah has always wanted to play the Tchaikovsky: "It's such a huge, romantic piece, with such sweeping tunes", says Sarah, "and when the conductor, Mark Forkgen, asked me to choose a piece, I thought, the EYO will have fun doing this'. Though when I took it on I didn't quite realise how big it is how many notes there are in it! It's very physical, there are lots of noisy chords, I have to build up to it, practise little chunks at a time, or I get exhausted. But the more I get to know it the better it gets."

"Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 is one of the best known," says Mark Forkgen, "it's got the big tunes that the audience will know. The Borodin is less well-known, but it has a similar flavour to his Palovtsian Dances (the basis for Kismet). The EYO love playing these Russian pieces; and they come over much fresher than when they're played by adult amateur players, because the young people have no inhibitions about embracing the raw emotion of the music."

The Ealing Youth Orchestra started over half a century ago, and many of the players live and go to school in and around Chiswick.

St Michael and All Angels Church is in Bath Road, near Turnham Green Tube station and the concert starts at 7.30.

Tickets are £7 or £3 for concessions on the door.

Contact the Concert Manager, Anna Jackson, for more information on 020 8995 6140, or alternatively, email her at: anna@mediaworks.plus.com