Nicola Benedetti
 

Nicola Benedetti (* 19 July 1987) is a Scottish classical violinist.

Benedetti was born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire to an Italian father and a Scottish mother. She started learning to play the violin at the age of four. At age eight, she became the leader of the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain. By the age of nine, she had already passed the eight grades of musical examinations while attending the independent Wellington School, Ayr, and in September 1997 began to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School for young musicians under Lord Menuhin and Natasha Boyarskaya in rural Surrey, England.

At the end of her first year ( 1998 ), she played solo in the school's annual concert at Wigmore Hall, and performed in London and Paris as a soloist in Bach's Double Violin Concerto (together with Alina Ibragimova). She played in a memorial concert at Westminster Abbey celebrating the life and work of Yehudi Menuhin.

Discography:

2005: Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Deutsche Grammophon)
2006: Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon)
2007: Vaughan Williams and Tavener (Universal Classics and Jazz)
2009: Fantasie (Decca Records)
2010: Tchaikovsky and Bruch: Violin Concertos (Deutsche Grammophon)
2011: "Italia"
2012: The Silver Violin UK #32

Nicola Benedetti - Photocall BBC 2010, London - 22.04.2010 - 20x
 

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