International Violinst

Hey guys, now, i'll tell you about a fantastic, famous, and off course skillful female violinist.
She is VANESSA MAE

Have you ever heard her name before? I'll tell a little story about her for you!

Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson was born in Singapore on October 27th, 1978, known as Vanessa Mae. After her parents separated, her mother married Graham Nicholson, a British lawyer who adopted Vanessa-Mae, and the family moved to England when Vanessa-Mae was four years old.

She started playing piano when she was 3 years old, and started playing violin when she was 5 years old.When she was 7, she won a competition for Young British Pianist of the Year. 

But, after that, she decided to focus on playing violin, so she gave up her pianist career. When she was 8 , she travelled to Beijing to continue training being taught by the Maestro. The course was originally scheduled for 3 years, but Vanessa had finished it in few months time. After that, she returned to Europe to receive further training. In 1988 she travelled to Schlezwig-Holstein for summer master-courses, where she trained under professor Felix Andreyevsky. When Vanessa was 11, she passed entrance exams for a one-year course at Royal College of Music. A year later, she became the only child in College's history to gain the 'The Professional Diploma Course' diplomma.

Vanessa-Mae started her concert when she was 10. She played with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, being the youngest solist in history to play Bach's, Mozart's and Kabalevsky's concertos with the orchestra.

In 1991 the whole world celebrated 200th anniversary of Mozart's death, Vanessa performed, along with London Mozart Players, her first internaitonal tournee. She played with the best orchestras, including performances in London with London Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, or London Mozart Players.

Vanessa-Mae also releases some records. When she was 9 she started writing her own cadenzas to Mozart's concertos, at 12 she had 3 albums, two of them containing classical repertoire, the third ranging between Bach, Tchaykovsky, Gershwin, The Beatles, or the theme from 'The red panther'. She is also the youngest violin player ever to record Beethoven's and Tchaykovsky's violin concertos at once. She often declares that she's going to play whatever she likes, no matter if this would be Beethoven, The Beatles, Mozart, Michael Jackson, Prince, Paganini or Elvis Presley - she likes them all.

Vanessa became an extremely popular and well-known person. She is often invited to take part in TV and radio programs.

1995 was a very important year to Vanessa-Mae. That's when "The Violin Player" was released. The album features a mix of classics, pop, rock and techno. In 1995 Vanessa played on Sopot Festival in Poland. The performance turned out to be a huge success. Vanessa-Mae got a completely new publicity and 'The Violin Player' selled in almost 300,000 copies at that time. Vanessa made people interested in violin music and the instrument. All important magazines write about Vanessa-Mae. Both those dedicated to classical music and those writing about all the other genres. Her career is spotted by "The Times", "The Guardian", and most other newspapers worldwide. In 1997 "Storm" was released and gained quite some applause from both critics and audience. Vanessa's star doesn't fade away, she releases even better and more surprising albums. Vanessa Mae was managed by her mother, who owns a private recording label and music agency, until 1999, when Vanessa-Mae sacked her as her manager. In April 2006, Vanessa Mae was ranked as the wealthiest young entertainer under 30 in the UK in the Sunday Times Rich list 2006, having £32 million from concerts and record sales of over an estimated 10 million copies worldwide.

Until now, she was still famous as the international female violinist in the world!

Vanessa Mae website : www.vanessa-mae.com

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