Concert Hall, Brighton Dome, Sunday May 16

Brighton Youth Orchestra celebrates its Diamond Jubilee with a major festival concert alongside international percussionist Evelyn Glennie.

For this special occasion, past members of the orchestra will be flying in from all over the world and will give a short performance before the main concert in memory of the man who was musical director from 1961 to 1992, David Gray, who died earlier this year.

Evelyn Glennie is, of course, famously profoundly deaf. But this has never been seen by her as a disability.

Basically, she feels the music she hears through the vibrations they make upon her body. Mainly, she appears to feel them on her legs and feet so she generally plays barefoot.

Now 38 and having been awarded an OBE for services to music, Glennie gives more than 100 performances a year, on television and at live shows.

She is a multi-award winner, a tireless charity worker and a major enthusiast of youth orchestras across the world. She is an eager commissioner of new work and must rank as the person who has done more for percussion than anyone else.

She composes and performs music for films, has written a best-selling autobiography and is the first person to have made a career and a good living out of being a classical solo percussionist.

Her visit to Brighton is to perform Dave Heath's African Sunrise - Manhattan Rave.

Heath's music is inspired by jazz, pop and world music as well as the classics and features Ms Glennie in some virtuosic marimba playing as well as a virtual mountain of other percussion instruments, all accompanied by the full force of the Youth Orchestra.

And be prepared for some surprises. At a concert in Chichester, she came on playing the bagpipes.

Also on the programme will be performances of Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture from Romeo And Juliet, and Gustav Holst's The Planets.

Sunday May 16, 3pm, tickets £5 to £15.