• Mighty, impassioned climaxes in the first two movements as well as some wonderfully supple, nuanced playing in the second, and a finale mixing fire and reverie with a powerful sense of musical purpose.

    The Strad

    Elgar Sonata
    31 October 2009

  • Jennifer Pike has one principal advantage over many brilliant child musicians…she is extremely musical. No peacock display, no redundant pyrotechnics or acrobatics; good clean playing, well articulated, intelligently phrased, and warmed by a strong, confident sound marked her lucid playing of the concerto.

    Michael Tumelty, The Herald

    Mozart Violin Concerto No 4, London Mozart Players
    3 June 2003

  • Her playing has led to her being hailed as one of Britain’s brightest musical prodigies for a generation…a remarkable understanding of music far beyond her years. It was really quite astonishing…it was like listening to a 12-year-old Menuhin.

    James Tozer, Daily Mail

    Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, BBC SO
    28 May 2002

  • …this was the gem as young violinist Jennifer Pike, just coming into her late teens, gave a warm performance of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto that was richly spacious and unashamedly expressive with some lovely, mature playing in the slow movement….here is yet another young violinist superbly equipped for a golden future.

    Michael Tumelty, The Herald

    BBC Scottish SO
    29 October 2007

  • This was music-making the like of which one rarely comes across….Above all, time after time, she displays turns of phrase and expression that simply cannot be taught. . we had been privileged witnesses to a remarkable performance.

    John Sidgwick, Culture Kiosque

    Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, BBC SO
    30 November 2006