She will team up with the professional WSO and conductor John Gibbons to play the Bruch No 1 in G minor, and the famous award-winning young violinist's presence constitutes one of the most momentous events in Gibbons' tenure at Worthing.

No matter how much contempt familiarity with the Bruch No 1 may breed, it never fails to stir and move with its staggeringly open and blown romanticism of high integrity.

In terms of melody, it matches the Mendelssohn for inspiration and the Beethoven and Elgar for beauty, although being highly economical it is much shorter than either.

Slow movements in the great violin concertos are usually gentle or wistful, thoughtful or relaxing, but the exceptional added power and tension of this one gives it a special identity.

So fans will be eager to hear the interpretation from this 2002 winner of the UK's Brilliant Prodigy competition on Carlton TV. Two years later, still only 16, she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and it was none of the well-known great concertos that she played, but the No 1 by Karol Szymanowski, of Poland.

Since then, her career has been inevitably launched worldwide in major venues, so WSO fans can hardly believe she will be on the Assembly Hall platform to play for them. But she appeared in recital only recently in the Brighton College Signature series.

Mendelssohn, on his 200th anniversary year, has his Scottish Symphony on the programme — probably his most substantial Symphony — and there are also two works by popular English 20th century composers.

From Edmund Rubbra comes a short homage piece to Vaughan Williams, called Tribute. And William Alwyn's Scottish Dances Suite completes a programme that will remind classical music lovers that the German Bruch's other top chartbuster is his exciting Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra.

Benedetti's presence here has caught the attention of people beyond the Worthing boundary. Some in Brighton who will be coming direct from the popular Coffee Concert of morning chamber music at Hove's Old Market, in which the Eroica Quartet will have played the string quartets in A minor by Mendelssohn and (late) Beethoven.

The concert starts at 2.45pm. Tickets are £23 balcony, £20 premium stalls and £15 stalls but students and under 16s are charged £6.

Box office: 01903 206206. Or at the door — if you wish to take on the gamble of a sell-out.

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