Biography
Nicola Benedetti is an Italian-Scottish classical solo violinist and festival director. Her ability was recognised when she was a child, including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16. She works with orchestras in Europe and America as well as with Alexei Grynyuk, her regular pianist. Since 2012, she has played the Gariel Stradivarius violin. In 2019, she founded the music education charity The Benedetti Foundation and became the first woman to lead the Edinburgh International Festival when she was made Festival Director on 1 October 2022.
Filmography
all 8
self 7
Movies 6
TV Shows 2
Self – Director, Edinburgh International Festival
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (2022)
TV
Self - Presenter
Virtuoso Violinists at the BBC (2016)
Movie
Actress
Noseland (2014)
Movie
Self - soloist
Howard Goodall's Story of Music (2013)
TV
Gallery
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1987-07-20 (37 years old)
Birth PlaceWest Kilbride, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsBBC 100 Women, Member of the Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, The Queen's Medal for Music, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, BBC Young Musician, Classic Brit Awards
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