LATEST NEWS
Jennifer will be interviewed on BBC2 during the Proms broadcast of Nigel Kennedy's concerts on Saturday 26 July
Jennifer has been invited to join the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme, for two years beginning in 2008. She will be the youngest member, and the only current British Classical solo instrumentalist.
Jennifer wins South Bank Show Breakthough Artist Award 2008! Jennifer has become the first Classical musician ever to win this award, which was presented by Kevin Spacey. The award was decided by a public vote, giving Classical Music a huge boost! See HERE for more information about Jennifer's nomination in The Times, in which music critic Richard Morrison describes Jennifer as "mesmerisingly good".
More pictures form the ceremony here.
THE CEREMONY WAS HELD ON 29 JAN AND BROADCAST ON ITV ON SUNDAY 3 FEBRUARY AT 10.40pm
Jennifer was nominated recently for the Australian Classical Music Awards in the category "Best Performance of an Australian Composition". This was in recognition of her performance, and recent radio broadcast in Australia, of Sonatina for solo violin by Andrew Schultz. She gave the premiere of this work in the Wigmore Hall in March 2007.
Jennifer was featured on front cover of a recent issue of Classical Music Magazine.......
JENNIFER'S 18TH BIRTHDAY WAS CELEBRATED IN A SENSATIONAL SPECIAL CONCERT AT THE WIGMORE HALL ON 8 NOVEMBER 2007....
She recorded the Sibelius Violin Concerto in September with the BBC Symphony Orchestra - look out for future broadcast on Radio 3.
JENNIFER PERFORMED MOZART'S VIOLIN CONCERTO NO 3 IN G IN THE BARBICAN HALL WITH THE ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ON 3 AUGUST AS PART OF THE 2007 MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL.
SKYARTS TV BROADCAST A PREVIEW OF THE FESTIVAL FEATURING JENNIFER PERFORMING AND TALKING ABOUT MOZART.
Listen to a podcast on ClassicFM in which Jennifer talks about the festival (13 July)
"Her performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto N° 3 in G major was a model of limpidity allied to the highest technical elegance and competence"
READ REVIEW IN CULTURE KIOSQUE
SHE FOLLOWED THIS WITH A "WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE" OF MOZART'S VIOLIN CONCERTO NO 5 IN A IN THE BBC INVITATION CONCERTS WITH THE ULSTER ORCHESTRA IN LONDONDERRY ON 9 AUGUST, BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 3 IN DECEMBER 2007
JENNIFER PERFORMED LIVE ON BBC RADIO 3 FROM CITY HALL GLASGOW FOR THE "IN-TUNE" PROGRAMME ON 8 JUNE, PLAYING CHAUSSON'S POEME AND TWO MOVEMENTS FROM PROKOFIEV'S 2ND SONATA.
READ ABOUT JENNIFER IN THE TIMES, 14 JULY 2007
OTHER NEWS:
Jennifer wins the Derek Butler London Prize
This new prize was unanimously awarded to Jennifer in a concert at the Wigmore Hall on 9 April 2007. She was taking part as one of the four Derek Butler postgraduate scholars nominated by the each of the London Music Colleges.
Jennifer appeared in the Wigmore Hall four times in 2007:
on 3 March giving the premiere of a new work (Sonatina) by Australian composer Andrew Schulz,
on 9 April in a concert given in front of a distinguished panel of judges by the holders of top postgraduate scholarships at the four London Music Colleges, one of whom wins the Derek Butler London Prize,
on 4 June in the Wigmore Hall's Monday Platform series playing Prokofiev's exuberant 2nd Sonata and Chausson's heartrending Poeme,
and in November she presented a full evening recital just before her 18th birthday!
BBC Broadcasts: In September she recorded the Sibelius Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Other forthcoming Radio 3 recordings will include the Bruch with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in October, Mozart's Violin Concerto no 5 in A with the Ulster Orchestra, and recitals in 2008.
Jennifer was featured on Songs of Praise, BBC1 18 February 2007, performing part of Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending from Wreay, Cumbria. This was selected for the special Songs of Praise highlights programme on BBC1, Sunday 15 July 2007. Jennifer also performed live on Radio 3's In-Tune on 6 April.
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