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Nicola Benedetti

May 2023

  • Nicola Benedetti playing violin with an orchestra

    Violin virtuoso joins ‘real battle’ to save classical music from UK funding cuts

    Soloist Nicola Benedetti has added her voice to those speaking up for a genre now facing severe financial constraints

October 2022

  • The gatekeeper … Benedetti in Edinburgh.

    ‘I’m not saying we won’t make mistakes’ – violin sensation Nicola Benedetti on becoming EIF’s first female director

    She was leading an orchestra at the age of eight and won Young Musician of the Year at 16. What is the virtuoso’s vision for Edinburgh international festival? Audiences moved to tears and bagpipes going global

March 2022

  • Nicola Benedetti arriving for last year’s Edinburgh international festival.

    Nicola Benedetti becomes first woman and first Scot to lead Edinburgh international festival

    Grammy and Brit-award-winning violinist will take over from Fergus Linehan after this year’s 75th anniversary event

June 2021

  • Fronting the festival ... Laura Mvula, Damon Albarn and Nicola Benedetti

    Edinburgh international festival returns with music-heavy lineup

    With theatre and dance scaled back, music dominates, including concerts from Simon Rattle, Damon Albarn, Nicola Benedetti and Laura Mvula

September 2020

  • Nicola Benedetti, second right, with Jonathan Cohen, seated at the harpsichord.

    Benedetti/OAE/Cohen review – baroque prom programme brings subdued fun

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment violinists duetted with Nicola Benedetti in lively, playful Vivaldi concertos, which left Handel and Bach sounding a little tame

July 2020

  • Prom12 Suggested caption: The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Mark Wigglesworth perform the London Premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Icarus, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major with Nicola Benedetti and a selection from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Full musician list: Nicola Benedetti violin National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Mark Wigglesworth conductor

    'Stupidly, feverishly excited': Proms performers on heading back to the Royal Albert Hall

    Four of the musicians who’ll be part of the 2020 Proms live concerts series tell us what the festival - and live performance - means to them

May 2020

  • Violinist Nicola Benedetti with the Benedetti Foundation in Glasgow in January. Now the sessions have moved online.

    Lockdown culture
    This week's best culture at home, from Nicola Benedetti to Vitruvian Man

  • Got to hand it to her ... Nicola Benedetti.

    Nicola Benedetti: Elgar Violin Concerto review – full-throttle, sinuous, subtle and electric

November 2019

  • Violinist Nicola Benedetti.

    Nicola Benedetti: 'Music is the art of all the things we can't see or touch. We need it in our lives'

    The violinist and passionate campaigner for music education spoke about the enriching power of classical music in a speech for the Royal Philharmonic Society.

July 2019

  • Nicola Benedetti with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Mark Wigglesworth.

    Prom 12: NYO/ Benedetti/ Wigglesworth review – glowing strings and a touch of Marsalis

    Meticulous preparation was evident in this powerful performance from the National Youth Orchestra with violinist Nicola Benedetti

June 2019

  • Nicola Benedetti Cheltenham Festival 2016

    Nicola Benedetti: ‘Even aged six, I was moved to tears by music’

    The celebrated violinist on working with Wynton Marsalis, music education – and classical music’s supposed image problem

July 2016

  • Violinist Nicola Benedetti, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk at Cheltenham.

    ​Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio/Dark Twin review – rapturous moments, with a bit of rambling

  • High spirits … Nicola Benedetti enjoys Korngold’s Violin Concerto at Cheltenham festival.

    Cheltenham music festival review – Erik Satie celebrations hit the right note

June 2016

  • Nicola Benedetti.

    Shostakovich/Glazunov: Violin Concertos CD review – agile, commanding Benedetti

November 2015

  • James Gaffigan.

    LSO/Gaffigan review – Nicola Benedetti does her best with unrestrained Marsalis

  • Wynton Marsalis, with Dan Nimmer (piano) and Carlos Henriquez (bass) of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

    Music blog
    Wynton Marsalis: trumpeting controversial ideas of classicism

August 2015

  • Nicola Benedetti performs at the 34th BBC Prom with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirill Karabits

    BSO/Karabits/Benedetti review – lyricism and ambiguous humour

    Prokofiev’s Fifth was played with beauty and control by Karabits and the BSO; Nicola Benedetti gave a restrained perfomance of Korngold’s Violin Concerto

May 2015

  • The London Symphony Orchestra, BMW, Open Air Classics @ Trafalgar Square. Featuring Soloist Nicola Benedetti and Conductor Valery Gergiev.

    The London Symphony Orchestra's Trafalgar Square concert 2015: in pictures

    On Sunday 17 May the London Symphony Orchestra performed in Trafalgar Square in the fourth of its annual open air concerts. Valery Gergiev conducted an all-Shostakovich programme, Nicola Benedetti also performed.

December 2014

  • judith weir

    Observer critics' review of 2014
    Fiona Maddocks: classical music’s most significant firsts of 2014

    Fiona Maddocks looks back on a year of firsts from Judith Weir, Tara Erraught, Nicola Beneditti and more

May 2013

  • Nicola Benedetti

    Stick to one instrument, violinist Nicola Benedetti tells pushy parents

    Privileged children need less choice and harder work to learn true meaning of fun, says leading soloist
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