Welsh pianist Llyr Williams is a man who is going places - some of which he has already visited.

He has already been a guest at the Edinburgh International Festival and, later this year, will be heard at the BBC Proms in London.

In Brighton, he treated the audience to his interpretations of works by Liszt, Debussy and Chopin.

Williams is a sober, if not sombre, musician and he rarely smiles, neither when he is at the piano, nor when he walks away from it.

He is a serious performer with fierce concentration and a formidable focus. He plays precisely and carefully, as though great misfortune would occur should he strike a wrong note.

In Liszt's La Notte, his playing was firmly disciplined and with not a shadow of flashiness.

He lightened up a little in three Impromptus by Chopin and indeed seemed almost relaxed and much more at ease with this composer's work. He gave a beautiful reading of Chopin's Third Scherzo and even gave us some fireworks with the Prelude that he played as an encore.

This is a pianist who relies on the music to give us the emotions and one who so lives in the music that at times, from his facial expressions, it looks as though he is suffering great pain when he delivers it.