16-Year-Old Violinist Is BBC’s Young Musician of the Year

Sixteen-year-old violinist Nicola Benedetti has won the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year award. “She triumphed over four other finalists at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and became the first Scot to win the competition. Nicola began playing the violin at the age of four and left school aged 10 to attend the Yehudi Menuhin School for gifted musicians in Surrey.”