Photo: Tom Bangbala
Jennifer Pike
“…Britain’s foremost young fiddler: the 15 year old Jennifer Pike stepped on to the platform and delivered the prelude (and gavotte en rondeau) from Bach’s Third Partita with perfect poise and assurance, her instrument sounding clear and strong…”
(The Independent)
(The Independent)
In 2002, at the age of twelve, Jennifer Pike became the youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, following her performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Earlier the same year she won fourth prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. Public recognition of Jennifer’s unfaltering success continues in 2008, as she is honoured with this year’s South Bank Show / The Times Breakthrough Award, in acknowledgement of the impact that she has made during 2007 both in her own field and throughout the arts as a whole.
She has appeared as soloist with many major orchestras and given recitals around the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. At the age of fifteen she made her BBC Proms début in the Royal Albert Hall, and since then she has made her evening recital débuts in London’s Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room to great critical acclaim. Past engagements include performances with London Mozart Players, City of London Sinfonia, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Gramophone Awards Ceremony. Last year she performed as soloist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as part of the Vienna Festival, televised throughout Europe.
Jennifer’s current engagements include performances with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart Festival and with the BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tampere Philharmonic. This season’s repertoire includes the Sibelius and Mendelssohn concerti, Bruch 1, Vivaldi Quattro Stagioni and several of the Mozart concerti. In November she gave a Wigmore Hall recital to celebrate her eighteenth birthday.
At the age of 16 she was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to study with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning the Derek Butler London Prize in 2007. In 2005 she won the prestigious Manoug Parikian Award administered by the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund. She is also grateful for the support of the Philharmonia/Martin Scholarship Fund.
She is playing a violin made by Matteo Goffriller in 1708. It is currently made available to her by the Jennifer Pike Violin Trust, which is being established by Nigel Brown to raise the funds needed to secure the instrument. Please visit www.jenniferpike.com for information about how to contribute to the Trust.
“…Pike’s growing maturity as an artist was immediately apparent…”
(The Daily Telegraph)
“…‘Equipped at 16 with phenomenal tuning, pace, control of timbre and range of dynamics, she bought the house down..."
(The Independant)
She has appeared as soloist with many major orchestras and given recitals around the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. At the age of fifteen she made her BBC Proms début in the Royal Albert Hall, and since then she has made her evening recital débuts in London’s Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room to great critical acclaim. Past engagements include performances with London Mozart Players, City of London Sinfonia, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Gramophone Awards Ceremony. Last year she performed as soloist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as part of the Vienna Festival, televised throughout Europe.
Jennifer’s current engagements include performances with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at the Barbican’s Mostly Mozart Festival and with the BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tampere Philharmonic. This season’s repertoire includes the Sibelius and Mendelssohn concerti, Bruch 1, Vivaldi Quattro Stagioni and several of the Mozart concerti. In November she gave a Wigmore Hall recital to celebrate her eighteenth birthday.
At the age of 16 she was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to study with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning the Derek Butler London Prize in 2007. In 2005 she won the prestigious Manoug Parikian Award administered by the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund. She is also grateful for the support of the Philharmonia/Martin Scholarship Fund.
She is playing a violin made by Matteo Goffriller in 1708. It is currently made available to her by the Jennifer Pike Violin Trust, which is being established by Nigel Brown to raise the funds needed to secure the instrument. Please visit www.jenniferpike.com for information about how to contribute to the Trust.
“…Pike’s growing maturity as an artist was immediately apparent…”
(The Daily Telegraph)
“…‘Equipped at 16 with phenomenal tuning, pace, control of timbre and range of dynamics, she bought the house down..."
(The Independant)
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Email: Sarah Trelawny
Email: Sarah Trelawny
