If you saw any of the BBC Television series The Tchaikovsky Experience earlier in the year, you will have seen Alexander Sikovetsky showing off his skills with the violin.

On Thursday lunchtime, this 24-year-old, Moscow-born fiddle player showed off his impressive talents in one of Brighton Festival's lunchtime recitals.

He is a flawless and seamless player who obviously enjoys playing as fast as he can but has bags of technique and colour, making him one of the most impressive violinists of his generation.

This graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School is already a veteran of chamber orchestras throughout France and has played at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Barbican in London.

He performed unaccompanied on Bach's Chaccona and was later joined by his mother Olga, another graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School, who accompanied him in a violin sonata by Franck and a rousing gipsy piece by Sarasate.