Nicola Benedetti

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Nicola Benedetti at the Royal Albert Hall, September 2013
Nicola Benedetti at the Royal Albert Hall , September 2013
Chart positions
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Albums
Szymanowski / Chausson / Saint-Saens
  UK 81 05/21/2005 (1 week)
Mendelssohn / Concerto For Violin
  UK 84 05/27/2006 (1 week)
The silver violin
  UK 32 09/08/2012 (5 weeks)
My first decade
  UK 82 05/10/2013 (1 week)
Homecoming
  UK 19th 07/19/2014 (7 weeks)

Nicola Benedetti , CBE (born July 19, 1987 in West Kilbride , Scotland ) is a British violinist .

life and career

Nicola Benedetti was born in 1987 in West Kilbride in the west Scottish county of North Ayrshire as the daughter of an Italian and a Scottish woman. At the age of four she began to learn to play the violin . At the age of eight she became concertmaster in the National Childrens Orchestra of Great Britain. She attended the Wellington School in Ayr and in 1997 moved to the Yehudi Menuhin School for young musicians in Surrey . At the end of her first year, she performed as a soloist at the school's 1998 annual concert at Wigmore Hall . She performed at Westminster Abbey at a memorial concert honoring the life and work of Yehudi Menuhin .

In 1999 Nicola Benedetti performed with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland at Holyrood Palace . In 2000 the teenager played with the Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Opera. In 2002 she won the United Kingdom's Brilliant Prodigy Competition . Shortly afterwards, the fifteen-year-old left the Yehudi Menuhin School and began private studies with Maciej Rakowski, the former concertmaster of the English Chamber Orchestra .

In 2004, Benedetti won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in the finals at Usher Hall in Edinburgh with her presentation of Karol Szymanowski's 1st Violin Concerto , accompanied by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra . Last but not least, this success earned her a £ 1 million deal with Deutsche Grammophon / Universal Music Group Classics and Jazz for six albums.

At the age of 20 Nicola Benedetti was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Glasgow Caledonian University . She became one of the youngest recipients of this award. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh . In 2012 she appeared as a soloist at the popular Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London and reached an audience of millions through TV broadcasts around the world.

Nicola Benedetti occasionally appears as a trio with her boyfriend, the German cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and the Russian pianist Alexei Grynyuk. Another high point in her career was a guest appearance on "Rod Stewart's Christmas," a Christmas concert that aired in late November 2012.

On New Years Day 2013, Nicola Benedetti was awarded the British Order of Merit Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services in music and charity. In 2019, he was appointed to the rank of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

From the 2015/16 season to 2017/18, Nicola Benedetti was an artist in the “Junge Wilde” series at the Dortmund Konzerthaus .

Discography

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personal data
SURNAME Benedetti, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British violinist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH West Kilbride , Scotland