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BlogsPizzicato technique is often neglected, says violinist Jennifer Pike
There are many ways to vary sound and colour, but beware the perils of playing forte for sustained periods. From 2014
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BlogsJennifer Pike on performing during the pandemic
Ahead of today’s launch of a new streamed concert series, ‘The Polyphonic Concert Club’, the violinist describes the experience of performing during lockdown
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VideoViolinist Jennifer Pike and broadcaster Andrew Green discuss The Lark Ascending
Ahead of her performance of The Lark Ascending at Shirehampton Public Hall on Tuesday 15 December 2020, marking the centenary of the work’s premiere, violinist Jennifer Pike speaks to writer and broadcaster Andrew Green about the background to the work’s composition. Green also talks to guests about the real-life skylark. ...
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NewsFree-to-watch online concert will celebrate 100 years of The Lark Ascending
Jennifer Pike will play Vaughan Williams’s masterpiece at Shirehampton Public Hall, where its world premiere took place 100 years ago
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NewsJennifer Pike awarded MBE
The British-Polish violinist has been awarded an MBE for services to classical music
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ReviewJennifer Pike: Elgar, Vaughan Williams
Rare and well-known repertoire with a twist combine in an irresistible release
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ReviewJennifer Pike: Like to the Lark
Fascinating and convincing choral approach to a violin concerto favourite
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ReviewJennifer Pike: The Polish Violin
A deeply felt and personal exploration of music by Szymanowski, Moszkowski, Karłowicz and Wieniawski
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NewsNewark's collaborative making competition reveals winners
The School of Violin Making’s ‘Hope’ competition will see four violins and two guitars sold in aid of a charity providing refugees with tools to restart their trades
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BlogsJennifer Pike on getting to the heart of The Lark Ascending
An encounter with the manuscript leads the British violinist to a new appreciation of how meticulously the composer worked to achieve its natural flow
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VideoBacewicz Duets on Folk Themes – Jennifer Pike & Thomas Gould
This video was made at ‘Polish Music Day at the Wigmore Hall with Jennifer Pike and Friends’ on 14 October 2017. Featuring violinists Jennifer Pike, a former BBC Young Musician, and Thomas Gould, these four short duets written in 1945 by Grażyna Bacewicz are named: Praeludium Kujawiak Nokturn Marsz ...
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VideoJennifer Pike: Penderecki Capriccio
Filmed on 14 October 2017 during an all-day Polish music festival at the Wigmore Hall curated by violinist Jennifer Pike, this video features Pike herself performing the UK premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Capriccio for solo violin
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ArticleVaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending; The Solent; Fantasia for piano and orchestra; Six Short Pieces for piano
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: April 2017 Description: Pike's soaring Lark is a masterclass in expressive free flightMusicians: Jennifer Pike (violin), Sina Kloke (piano), Chamber Orchestra of New York/Salvatore di VittorioComposer: Vaughan WilliamsCatalogue number: NAXOS 8.573530 Jennifer Pike opens The Lark Ascending with delicacy and grace, ...
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BlogsBach to Moog: recording Bach for violin solo, string ensemble and Moog synthesiser
Composer, arranger and producer Craig Leon describes working on Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 with violinist Jennifer Pike and Moog Modular synthesiser. Listen to the recording below:
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ReviewJanácek: Violin Sonata, Dumka, Romance, Allegro. Suk: Four Pieces op.17. Dvorák: Romantic Pieces op.75, Nocturne op.40
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2015Description: A rewarding recital of highways and byways of Czech violin musicMusicians: Jennifer Pike (violin) Tom Poster (piano)Composer: Janácek, Suk, DvorákLaunching this coherent Czech collection, Jennifer Pike skilfully and imaginatively balances the Romantic and modernist elements in Janácek’s Violin Sonata, as ...