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It’s encouraging, in these days when emerging artists can so easily find themselves pushed and over-hyped into an early burnout, to find violinist Jennifer Pike taking the slow and careful route to stardom. Only now, a week after her 16th birthday, has she felt ready to face the toughest and most discriminating audience of all, that of London’s Wigmore Hall. But it was worth the wait. Pike’s growing maturity as an artist was immediately apparent.

Matthew Rye, Daily Telegraph

Wigmore Hall
19 November 2005

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Perfection from Pike. The high spot of the evening was Jennifer Pike’s performance of the Bruch violin concerto. She played it as if it had been composed yesterday, fiery, powerful playing in the prelude and a sense of deepening intensity in the adagio, followed by a firework finale. Her tone was matchless and her technique magnificent: but the exciting thing was the individual musical mind she brought to it. With Boyd’s help [the conductor], she made a hackneyed piece sound fresh – and for a 14-year-old, that points to an extraordinary future.

Robert Beale, Manchester Evening News

Manchester Camerata
16 February 2004

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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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Jennifer Pike’s approach immediately gave the message that this was to be a lyrical interpretation, one characterised by beauty of sound. But there was more to it than that in a performance that Jennifer has been honing since a child prodigy. There is a cultivation of phrasing incorporating nuances that can be breathtaking in their subtlety….Jennifer’s virtuosity is there to serve nothing other than the music. I have witnessed many performances of the concerto from Menuhin onwards but I do believe this one had a beauty of tone that surpassed them all.

Seen and Heard International

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, London Mozart Players
21 September 2015

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Allied to the youthful freshness of her performance, there was a wise understanding of structural and expressive proportion, a sweet and pliant tone and some light, agile finger-work. Her phrasing was mellifluous, and there was a fine balance between delicacy and ardour.

Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, BBC SO
28 May 2002