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Extractions: kontakt May Farah catches Vanessa-Mae's passion, energy and professionalism You name it, the violin can play it, Vanessa-Mae told her 4,000-strong crowd. "It's a versatile instrument, "she said. Like her instrument, the petite 19-year-old was equally versatile. Whatever she played, she was absolutely brilliant. From the moment she charged on stage at 9pm on Saturday night to open the 22nd Baalbek Festival, the audience was enthralled. With her second CD, "The Violin Player", Vanessa-Mae set out four years ago to redefine what the violin was all about. As she told her audience, it is an instrument with no bounds, boundaries or limits. Accompanied by her band and back-up singers, including 11 Lebanese musicians, Vanessa-Mae gave us funk, rock, jazz and the classics, even throwing in rap and an Arabic song, Omar Diab's "Habibi ya nour al ain", which she confessed they had learned only that afternoon. What makes Vanessa-Mae special is not just her apparently limitless energy level, nor her mastery of the violin, both electric and acoustic, nor even that she straddles classical and rock music with equal authority. Rather, it is her relationship with the audience. She communicated with them throughout the evening, explaining the history of the pieces and what had inspired her to record them. In turn, the audience responded with appreciation and pleasure at every opportunity. The evening was not without its problems. There were a few broken strings, the faint sound of Arabic music drifted in from a nearby restaurant, and problems with the sound forced her to change her program and rely on her acoustic violin for most of the first set.
Extractions: kontakt Vanessa Mae - How I broke free of the gilded cage my mother kept me in The sensational pictures of the Oriental beauty rising provocatively out of the sea, a skimpy, diaphanous dress clinging to her wet body and waves lapping around her bare legs, shocked the staid world of classical music. A little-known violinist called Vanessa Mae had arrived in style. The impact of those controversial pictures, taken in 1994 for the cover of her "techno-acoustic-fusion" album The Violin Player, was such that Playboy snapped them up. Even more remarkably, the shoot had been engineered by her mother and former manager, Pamela Nicholson. And Vanessa was still only 15. Seven years on, Vanessa is worth around pounds 25million, has racked up sales of six million and is about to release her ninth album, Subject To Change, which propels her further into a pop market. At 22 she enjoys a lavish lifestyle, but she has paid a heavy price for her success. Eighteen months ago she sacked her mother as her manager, marching up to
Extractions: Web posted at: 2:38 p.m. EDT (1838 GMT) BEIJING (CNN) The reigning queen of classical pop, 19-year-old violinist Vanessa-Mae, has kicked off her first tour of China with a concert in Shanghai. Her first Shanghai concert last week was attended by 10,000 fans; it was the first of two concerts she gave in Shanghai, before heading to the capital, Beijing, where she once trained. Since she hit the big time seven years ago, at the age of 12, the British violinist (her full name is Vanessa-Mae Nicholson) restored the violin to the forefront of popular music, and changed the face of classical music in Asia. Not for her the classical black look of the concert-hall musician, content to sit in her seat and play along with the rest of the orchestra. Vanessa-Mae, known for her raunchy style, makes playing the violin sexy, with a blend of classical and contemporary music that has wowed audiences around the world. The young artist, known in China as "Chen Mei," was born in Singapore to Thai and Chinese parents. She moved to London at the age of four, where she took her British stepfather's name and nationality.
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Extractions: Do you like violin music? How about classical, or pop, or both? If you do like these kinds of music, then youll like Vanessa-Maes music. She plays techno-acoustic violin music-in other words, a mixture of classical and pop music-on both the acoustic and electric violins. Vanessa-Maes full name is Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson. She was born on Oct. 27, 1978, the same day as Paganini, but 196 years later. Paganini was a famous Italian violinist, and is the man she most admires. She was born in Singapore to a Thai father and a Chinese mother. After 3 years of living there, she moved to London with her mom, which is where she lives now. Half-Thai, Half-Chinese, 4-year-old Vanessa-Mae adopted Britain, British nationality, and her English father. Vanessa-Maes first music lesson was on the piano when she was 3 years old. Her first violin lesson was when she was 5 years old. Her first performance was when she was 9 years old. She played in a concert with the Philharmonia when she was 10. The Philharmonia is an orchestra, also known as the Philharmonie Orchestra. When she was 12, she went on her first International Tour with the London Mozart Players. She is the youngest person in the world to have recorded both the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven Violin Concertos. She made 3 recordings, and did this by the age of 13.
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Extractions: TIME Magazine December 11, 1995 Volume 146, No. 24 SEDUCTIVE STRINGS, CONCERTO FOR CLEAVAGE AND ORCHESTRA A new crop of alluring young women is giving the stodgy male world of classical music a dose of sex appeal. BY MICHAEL WALSH Ah, the concert hall: the orchestra, smartly attired in white tie and tails; the elegant conductor, raising his slender baton as he prepares to give the downbeat; the dramatically beautiful young violinist resplendent in ... a wet T shirt? It hasn't come to thatnot yet, anyway. But to judge from a fresh crop of young female performers, the dowdy, male-dominated world of classical music is in for a long-needed injection of glamour and, yes, sex appeal. String players all, the women present images ranging from the frank sensuality of electric violinist Vanessa-Mae, 17, to the girl-next-door allure of Leila Josefowicz, 18, to the more mature charms of Canadian cellist Ofra Harnoy, 30, and sultry new-music violinist Maria Bachmann, 35. And then there's the all-female violoncello quartet known collectively as Cello. The group is making records, performing widelyand if physical allure helps, so be it. Indeed, there is a dawning recognition among classical performers that in a world in which marketing is queen, it behooves even serious musicians to put all their assets front and center. "The more we can try to appeal to broader audiences the better," says the highly accomplished Bachmann, whose latest album, Kiss on Wood, offers music by Aaron Copland and Alfred Schnittkeas well as a come-hither album back cover featuring (by classical music's standards) some generous cleavage. "Let's face it, people go into record stores and a lot of times buy recordings on the basis of what they see on the cover," says Bachmann.
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Extractions: cher though she already had three recording to her credit, it was the release of the violin player, billboard the violin player red hot. red hot performance, that same week, were filmed and aired on british television, as well as being released commercially on video. the tonight show, time and newsweek, and international newspaper coverage of her times square performance, which wreaked havoc upon manhattan traffic. since the release of the violin player, the original four seasons and storm the velvet rope album, in the same year. the release of storm, china girl.
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Extractions: Having toured Europe and Asia, the young violinist known as, Vanessa-Mae, was performing in 8 US cities. I caught her at the Birchmere, a club in my former residential city of Alexandria, known for presenting bludgrass, country-folk, and other similar types of music. I'd picked up her rock-classical fusion album, the Violin Player, a year ago and found it a throwback to similar fusion efforts 2 decades ago. It had a few moments that were interesting, but for the most part it was fairly forgettable. (You know, there's probably something dubious about it when it goes double platinum in Poland! Granted, the Poles know their Chopin backwards and forwards, but when it comes to popular music... I think it also went double platinum in Malaysia or Thailand. I didn't find this out until after I'd bought the CD, otherwise I may not have done so.) Vanessa-Mae is the offspring of a Taiwanese man and a Thai woman. They divorced, and the woman remarried to a fellow named Nicholson. So Vanessa Mae also carrries the last name of Nicholson. She's been living in London since the age of 4, and speaks with an English accent. She's only about 18 or 19 yet another of these young, attractive Asian female violinists. She's released a couple classical albums, including one for children, on the Angel label. I haven't heard them, so I don't know the extent of her classical talent. It's obvious though, that her fusion playing is constrained by her classical training. Not enough rubato or syncopation or swing. (Rythmically, she might be well suited to Hindemith, although I must confess I've not heard his violin and viola pieces.)
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Extractions: VANESSA-MAE REVIEWS "Mozart in Doc Martens" PEOPLE Magazine "Feverish fiddling...somewhere between Paganini and Prince" LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH "What she has, like Mozart and Mendelssohn, is maturity beyond her years." Michael Gough Matthews, Director of the Royal College of Music, IN YOU Magazine "Phenominally Talented" GRAMAPHONE Magazine "While her friends rebel against early curfews and school dress codes, the Singapore-born violin whiz is busy breaking barriers of her own with a funky, plugged-in sound that owes as much to Van Halenas Vivaldi." SEVENTEEN Magazine "Vanessa-Mae Nicholson, the 100-percent violin prodigy who's proving that her favorite instrument can rock." REACT Magazine "Impossible to define musically or culturally, this child-woman, whose physical beauty alone makes one think in superlatives, is as enigmatic as she is precocious" BRITISH VOGUE Magazine "...weds a dizzying array of synthesized and generated sounds with violin playing of great warmth and dazzling virtousity." THE MET (Dallas) "She looks as though she was born with a violin. I was jealous to see how easily she plays the most difficult things so easy (to her) she probably doesn't know how difficult they are."
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Extractions: VANESSA-MAE BIOGRAPHY Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson was born in Singapore on October 27 (the same birthdate as one of her idols, the violinist Paganini), and moved to London at the age of 4 where she began her early music education on the piano and violin. After training as the youngest student with Professor Lin Yao Ji of the Royal College of Music in London, Vanessa-Mae made her concerto debut in London with orchestra at the age of 10. By the time she was 12, she had toured internationally as concerto soloist and recitalist, released two independently-produced classical recordings, and embarked on her third album, which was to set a world record establishing her as the youngest ever to record the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven Violin Concertos. In February 1995, Vanessa-Mae made her debut as a pop artist with the UK release of The Violin Player , her first album of "techno-acoustic" violin music. "There's classical music on my album, there's jazz, there's pop, there's techno." Vanessa-Mae explained to Music Alive in reference to the "techno-acoustic fushion" description she coined. "It's all the different aspects of me brought together on one album." That one album proved to be a worldwide success which has gone gold and multi-platinum in over 20 countries. At the time that she released her first pop album, she was criticized by a minority specialty press for turning her back on traditional classical repertoire and embarking on comercial music.
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