Nicola Benedetti
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Nicola Benedetti MBE |
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Nicola Benedetti at Royal Albert Hall
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| Background information | |
| Born |
20 July 1987 West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels |
Deutsche Grammophon Universal Classics and Jazz Decca Records |
| Website | www |
Nicola Benedetti MBE (born 20 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.
In 1999, Benedetti performed for the anniversary celebrations at Holyrood Palace with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland in the presence of HRH The Prince Edward.
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