A pupil of the Yehudi Menuhin School, Nicola Benedetti has become the best-known
British violinist of her generation. Born to an Italian father and an
Italian-Scottish mother in Irvine (Scotland) on July 20, 1987, Nicola Benedetti
took her first violin lessons at the age of four, and by eight was conducting
the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain. A musical prodigy, in 1997
she joined the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, England, at the age of ten,
where she studied under the master and founder and Natasha Boyarskaya. At the
end of her first year, she gave a recital at...