There’s little sign of what was to come in this video of the crossover star performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in 1982
Nigel Kennedy playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto at the Music for Youth Schools Prom in 1982
Read Nigel Kennedy: ‘Critics were pretending I was playing out of tune because I’d sold a few records’
Watch A 1992 TV profile of Nigel Kennedy
Read ‘I’m thinking of giving up classical music – except Bach,’ says violinist Nigel Kennedy
In this interview, first published in The Strad’s March 1999 edition, the crossover violinist hits back at snobbery in the classical music world
In this 1992 Chicago TV documentary ’wild Nige’, violinist Nigel Kennedy, discusses his roots and explains why you don’t have to wear tails to be a serious musician.
British violinist Nigel Kennedy performs Gershwin’s Oh, Lady Be Good with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at The Biggest Weekend, a music festival organised by the BBC. Watch Kennedy’s full house-long set here
The three free ticketed concerts will take place in Portman Square Garden, London, on Sunday 30 May
Following a number of wrongful confiscations at Russian airports, the new system aims to make life easier for traveling musicians
José Alberto, Ana Karen and Luis Ángel González Moreno were kidnapped and killed by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
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