Nicola Benedetti

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Nicola Benedetti MBE (born 20 July 1987) is a Scottish classical violinist.

Early life and education

Benedetti was born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, to an Italian father and a Scottish mother. She started learning to play the violin at the age of four. At age eight, she became the leader of the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain. By the age of nine, she had already passed the eight grades of musical examinations while attending the independent Wellington School, Ayr, and in September 1997 began to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School for young musicians under Lord Menuhin and Natasha Boyarskaya in rural Surrey, England.

At the end of her first year (1998), she played solo in the school's annual concert at Wigmore Hall, and performed in London and Paris as a soloist in Bach's Double Violin Concerto (together with Alina Ibragimova). She played in a memorial concert at Westminster Abbey celebrating the life and work of Yehudi Menuhin.

Nicola Benedetti (pentathlete)

Nicola Benedetti (born 26 December 1985) is an Italian modern pentathlete. He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. At the London 2012 Olympics, Benedetti set a world record time of 9:23.63 in the running element.

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