Violinist vanessa mae biography channel

Born Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn on October 27, 1978, in Singapore; daughter of Pamela Soei Luang (Tan) Nicholson; adopted daughter of Graham Nicholson. Education: studied with Lin Yao Ji of Beijing, in the Yankelevich violin method.

Prodigious violinist Vanessa-Mae Nicholson performed with the London Philharmonic at age ten before attending the Royal College of Music in London.

By age 14, she had released three CDs and signed a contract with a major recording company. Even as an adolescent she was uniquely adept in her ability to alternate between performing classical selections on an eighteenth-century acoustical violin and playing modern music on a high-tech electric jazz model violin.

Vanessa-Mae has called her musical style "techno-acoustic fusion."

Vanessa-Mae was born Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn in Singapore on October 27, 1978, and growing up took inspiration from the fact that she shared the same birth date as Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini, though born 196 years after the famed