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.
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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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