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About Nicola
Nicola Benedetti is one of the most sought-after violinists of her generation. Her ability to captivate audiences and her wide appeal as an advocate for classical music has made her one of the most influential artists of today.
Nicola begins her 24/25 season with a performance of the Marsalis Violin Concerto with the Belgian National Orchestra in a programme that includes Marsalis’ Fourth Symphony ‘The Jungle’ with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. She will return to the London Symphony Orchestra to perform the MacMillan Violin Concerto with Gianandrea Noseda and will close the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s season playing the Brahms Violin Concerto conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.
Winner of the GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo in 2020, as well as Best Female Artist at both 2012 and 2013 Classical BRIT Awards, Nicola records exclusively for Decca (Universal Music). Her latest recordings of Vivaldi Concerti and Elgar’s Violin Concerto entered at number one in the UK’s Official Classical Album Chart. Other recent recordings include her GRAMMY award-winning album written especially for her by jazz musician Wynton Marsalis: Violin Concerto in D and Fiddle Dance Suite for Solo Violin. In 2021, BBC Music Magazine named her “Personality of the Year” for her online support of many young musicians during the pandemic.
Nicola has always been a dedicated, passionate ambassador and leader in music education and her commitment was underlined in 2019 when she established The Benedetti Foundation (benedettifoundation.org). The Foundation delivers transformative experiences through mass music events and unites those who believe music is integral to life’s education. The Foundation believes in the strength of music and the power of mass inspirational moments to connect cultures and communities through combining excellence and inclusivity, tradition and innovation and meaningful collaboration. In its first four years, the Foundation has worked with close to 70,000 participants of all ages and levels, instrumentalists and non-instrumentalists alike, across 105 countries. Its free online educational video resources: ‘With Nicky’ and other Foundation videos have had over 6 million views.
In October 2022, Nicola became the Festival Director of the Edinburgh International Festival. In taking the role she became both the first Scottish and the first female Festival Director since the Festival began in 1947.
Nicola was appointed a CBE in 2019.
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Season Highlights
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Nicola Benedetti and The Foundation Orchestra Play Mascagni
Credit: Decca Music Group
PlayingNicola Benedetti Performs the Solo Cadenza from Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto
Credit: YourClassical MPR
PlayingNicola Benedetti Performs Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1
Credit: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
PlayingNicola Benedetti Plays Vivaldi
Credit: Strings Magazine
PlayingNicola Benedetti and Wynton Marsalis discuss Violin Concerto in D
Credit: Ravinia Festival
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Brahms Violin Concerto
PhilharmoniaOct 2023There’s dark soul as well as showbiz fizz lurking in Brahms’s concerto, and Benedetti mined both of those strains, vibrantly accompanied by the orchestra under Cristian Macelaru. The long first movement was full of gutsy attack, and sometimes startling changes of colour and texture, but there was a melancholy streak under the surface, in the shiveringly dark double-stopped chords and Benedetti’s classy, sighing portamenti. The adagio was songlike, impulsive, and she chomped hungrily into the gypsy-inspired finale.