Some people quit when faced with lockdown. Others don’t. When the pandemic abruptly smothered live music, the violinist Nicola Benedetti threw her considerable energy into finding new ways to connect ...

The time was when Nicola Benedetti was treated as classical music’s favourite babe, her glowing good looks seized on by promoters as the image most likely to bring punters flocking. And in truth, her ...

On September 10, two weeks ahead of her move to Moscow, we sat down with Matelda Benedetti Starace, spouse of Italian Ambassador to Japan H.E. Giorgio Starace, stationed in Tokyo since 2017. Even with ...

“A lot of the public that I speak to after concerts have been asking about the big Romantic concertos,” she says. “When was I going to make a recording of them? You look at other CDs and a lot of the ...

WHEN Nicola Benedetti voices concern over the spiralling educational dilemma facing young instrumentalists in Scotland today, she knows it will make headlines. She knows she will be listened to by the ...

Our programme is guest edited by Moyra, Anne, Alan and Andrew, four members of the Dunbartonshire Concert Band. For their programme they wanted to look at the contribution community music makes to ...

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Why have words at all when you could use the space for derogatory comments and suggestive pictures? By Alan Williamson Yesterday I stumbled across this “interview” with violinist Nicola Benedetti in ...

Why have words at all when you could use the space for derogatory comments and suggestive pictures? By Alan Williamson Yesterday I stumbled across this “interview” with violinist Nicola Benedetti in ...

Nicola Benedetti. In 2003 Teddy Jamieson met a teenage Nicola Benedetti at the very start of her career. In the wake of her appointment as the next director of the Edinburgh International Festival we ...