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Cultural life, the radio four podcast, she reveals her formative influences and experiences, and how her passion for playing was there from the start. I knew very young there was no question i wanted to play the violin. There was no question that that was what i must do and had to do and wanted to do. Have you played here much, nicky . They chuckle nicola benedetti, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you so much for having me. Its an absolute pleasure. You were born and brought up in north ayrshire. What are your earliest musical memories at home . What memories do you have of music being pl...

But its the truth both of your parents were born in italy, werent they . Yes. Was it an italian household culturally growing up . Its a good question. I would say both parents assimilated very concretely and quite deliberately with scottishness and scottish culture, but they also came over very young. My mum was three years old. An italian speaking three year old with an italian mother and scottish father. Um. Came over to scotland and, er. Was sort of banned from speaking italian quite quickly. It was considered to be detrimental to her education and all sorts of things. We know better now. S...

Classical violinist Nicola Benedetti has been selected to receive the 2023 Edinburgh Award.The award celebrates individuals who have made a unique contribution to the city and brought it to national and international attention.Benedetti was chosen to...

Violinist Rachel Podger will deliver two online masterclasses as part of this year's Baroque Virtual Sessions from the Benedetti Foundation

You�*ve started your own foundation and your own teaching projects, haven�*t you? yes. so, the benedetti foundation was begun in 2019, which seems very recently, but we�*ve done a lot of work since then. so, we put on these sort of mass workshops which has every single level from real beginners to teachers who have been teaching for 20 years and tried to kind of bring that sense of collective celebration of music, participation and appreciation. nice and gently, and slowly... for us, it�*sjust a continuous sort of readdressing of how can we revolutionise what music education actually l...