Viv McLean, an internationally renowned pianist, is more used to filling huge venues like the Royal Festival Hall.

But this week he returns to Barnes to play an exclusive concert curated by his fans at the OSO Arts Centre.

His unofficial fan-club, the so-called Golden Girls, who are said to attend every one of Mr McLean’s concerts, have chosen their favourite pieces for the star to play.

He will be playing the Tod Boyd 1908 Steinway, a historic piano that has been in the same Barnes family for more than 90 years, before it was donated to the arts centre.

The piano has previously been played by a strong of noteworthy musicians, including Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who composed his second string quartet on the instrument.

Minette Rice Edwards has been called Mr Mclean’s chief Golden Girl. She says: "He’s a fantastic pianist. He has extraordinary sensitivity, fluency in playing and an ability to interpret the music. He is effortless, completely effortless, and the most unassuming nice man."

Mr McLean is expected to move his audience with an unusual programme with pieces ranging from Bach and Beethoven to De Falla and Gershwin.

The Moonlight Sonata and Chopin’s Nocturnes and Ėtudes are a couple of the highlights of this week’s line-up.

The pianist will also return later this year to play a fund-raiser concert at Ham House Stables, run by Ms Edwards.

Concert starts at 7pm tonight. Visit osoarts.org.uk.