Jennifer Pike

     Country: United Kingdom
     Instrument: Violin

Jennifer Pike is sixteen years old and comes from Manchester, UK. In 2002, at the age of twelve, she became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. The same year she was awarded fourth prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. Jennifer became a pupil at Chetham’s School of Music at the age of eight, and now studies with David Takeno in London. She was recently awarded a scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, beginning at the age of sixteen. 

She has performed in major venues and arts festivals around the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. In July 2005 she made her début in the BBC Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London, and in November made her evening recital début at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. She has also performed at London’s Barbican and Royal Festival Halls, at the 2004 International Genius of the Violin Festival and in the Classic Response Tsunami Appeal concert at the Albert Hall.

She has appeared as a soloist with many of the UK’s major orchestras. In 2001 she performed Saint-Saëns’ Havanaise with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester. The following year she performed with the BBC Philharmonic in the BBC Proms in the Park, London, and in 2004 she played with the Hallé Orchestra in the Last Night of the Proms in Manchester, both broadcast on BBC television. She has also performed concertos with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the London Mozart Players, City of London Sinfonia, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Bournemouth Symphony, Liverpool Philharmonic, London Festival and Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestras and the European Union Chamber Orchestra.

She plays on a Venetian violin made by Matteo Gofriller in 1708, generously loaned to her by the Saba Young Musicians Trust with the cooperation and assistance of J & A Beare & Co. She also gratefully acknowledges the support of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, the Hattori Foundation and the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund.

Repertoire - Semi Finals

• W. A. Mozart: Sonata in G major KV301, 1st mvt. 
• C. Debussy: Sonata in G minor, 1st mvt.
• F. Kreisler: Tambourin Chinois 
• F. Chopin: Etude Op. 25, No. 12