The 24-year-old is starting work next month on a solo album which she hopes will be released in March.

It comes two months after the group - formed during the first series of ITV1 talent show Popstars - split up after just a year.

She said: "I want to try to connect people with classical music. People forget that I am classically trained, but it will just be me and a piano."

Klass, whose family is from Gorleston, Norfolk, spoke to the local Eastern Daily Press paper.

Hear'Say - with original member Kym Marsh, left - broke chart records

"I won't be playing straight Bach, I want to give it my own twist," she said.

"It's not that people don't like classical music but they don't realise they like it.

"It's everywhere, on adverts, in the clubs, but people can't associate with stuffy old conductors in suits. Classical is the father of all music.

"I really admired what Nigel Kennedy did. He was crazy and just did his won thing."

Hear'Say split in October, saying abuse from the public had worn the group down.

Klass, Noel Sullivan, Danny Foster, Myleene Shaw and Johnny Shentall said they wanted to spend more time with their families.

She said: "There were bad things that happened over the past year, but for every bad thing that happened there were hundreds of good ones, and the good times were amazing.

"I was watching a TV programme about the charts, and we will always be remembered for setting those records."

Hear'Say's first single, Pure & Simple, was the fastest-selling single since records began, and topped the UK charts, while they became the first British act to top the single and album charts simultaneously with debut releases.

The groups formed by the second series of Popstars, Girls Aloud and One True Voice, entered the singles chart at number one and two respectively on Sunday, but with disappointing sales figures.