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The most rewarding part of the whole five-hour venture came in the first five minutes, when 15-year-old Jennifer Pike played a pair of movements from Bach’s solo Partita No 3 with great subtlety and composure.

Daily Telegraph

1 August 2005

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…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

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The most simply spectacular of the players … equipped at 16 with phenomenal tuning, pace, control of timbre and range of dynamics,she brought the house down with Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.

Robert Maycock, The Independent

BBC SO, Barbican Hall
10 March 2006

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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

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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