Nicola Benedetti set to host show on Classic FM giving a glimpse into concert life
She's a regular feature of the Classic FM airwaves, her talent delighting listeners for decades.
However, Scots violinist Nicola Benedetti is to go one step further after announcing she is due to present her own show on the famous station.
The six-part series - called The Truth About Classical Music - will be broadcast every Friday at 9pm, from June 27, with Ms Benedetti saying it will draw on her experience as a concert violinist.
Announcing her excitement at the new role, she wrote: 'I have some exciting news to share…
'This summer I will be presenting a series on Classic FM. The Truth About Classical Music is inspired by the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival theme, 'The Truth We Seek'.
'In this new series, I will take listeners behind the scenes of the classical music world – drawing on a life dedicated to performing, educating and connecting with audiences.'
She added: 'I'd love you to join me.'
Ms Benedetti, from West Kilbride, in Ayrshire, started violin lessons aged four and at eight became the youngest ever leader of the National Children's Orchestra before winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year at 16.
The star shared the news about her upcoming, six-part show on social media
During an impressive career, she has gone on tour with some of the world's greatest orchestras and conductors and won many awards, including a Grammy.
As well as touring the globe as a performer, she is also director of the Edinburgh International Festival and welcomed her first child - a baby girl - last year.
In March, she revealed she owes her stellar music career to the school run.
The classically trained star said that while none of her family could play a note, her mother Francesca would play classical CDs in the car on the 40-minute daily trip into Ayr.
The effect of this immersion in music, according to Ms Benedetti, is that she was left spellbound by recordings of Brahms' Violin Concerto.
On Speaking Soundly podcast, she said: 'We'd play them on the way to school and on the way back. We had a little bit of a drive.
'It was the long form and the patience and waiting for those moments of big climactic build, that moment of virtuosity, where I was just dumbfounded.'
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