Vanessa Mae, violinist

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Vanessa Mae

Profession: Musician
Place/Date of Birth: Singapore, 27 October 2020

Vanessa’s stalker - August 04
Vanessa Mae’s stalker is to be sentenced. A restraining order was imposed on unemployed engineer David Martin last Christmas but the obsessive stalker was spotted near her Kensington home again recently. Martin previously bombarded Vanessa with love letters and kept a bizarre logbook of her movements which, when discovered, led to the restraining order. It now seems likely that Martin will be imprisoned for his violation.

Mae’s South African concert - 06/06/03
Kensington based pop violinist Vanessa Mae will be perform at the opening of Cape Town’s convention centre.

Vanessa Mae would take the stage at the event on June 28. A specially created 7.000 seat theatre has been created for the concert.

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Vanessa Mae is a musician who has received critical acclaim as a violinst. She has been compared with Menuhin, Heifetz and Kreisler. The Director of the Royal College of Music pronounced her a "true child prodigy - like Mozart and Mendelssohn" when she was 11. She is the youngest violinist in the world to have recorded both the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven Violin Concertos and by 13 Vanessa-Mae had made three highly praised recordings. She performed with the Philharmonia aged 10, toured internationally with the London Mozart Players and made her UK debut tour with the Tchaikovsky by the age of 12.

Half-Thai, half-Chinese, Singapore-born Vanessa-Mae moved to London at four, adopting Britain, British nationality and her English father. At five, she took up the violin. At eight she reached the first crossroads of her life, choosing to concentrate on the violin, after collecting her prize in the British Young Pianist of the Year Competition. Vanessa-Mae shares the same birthday as the legendary Paganini and was born on 27 October 1978. Aside from performing classical concerts all over the world, Vanessa-Mae has appeared on many massive rating network TV and radio shows where she has performed classical repertoire as well as many of her own arrangements. She started writing her own cadenzas for Mozart concertos at 9, went on to play her own arrangements of ’Over the Rainbow’ on the Children’s Royal Variety Performance, and recorded arrangements of contemporary pop tunes by Paganini and Heifetz as well as her own versions of ’Yellow Submarine’ and other ’pop’ songs.

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