Variety and interchange gave her life meaning as she has said. She enjoyed the opera, but she also loved Elvis Presley. A child prodigy, she was born in Singapore on February 27th 1978 and moved to London at the age of four. She started taking piano lessons when she was three years old and violin lessons at the age of five immediately impressing her teachers, while in 1991 she recorded concerts of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.

She combined her choices of pop music with her classical studies and presented a new suggestion when in 1995 she released her own album “The Violin Player”.

“The music which I play on this album would hardly categorize me as a traditionalist practicing an old art form. Playing good music on the violin has a very high “feel good” factor. I first felt this when I was 8 and I am lucky never to have lost this feeling. So what I like, I want to play. I have no wish to compartmentalize music. To me music with its beauty, strength and mystique is for enjoying and for playing. This is the way of the violin player” 

“Toccata and Fugue in D minor”, “Classical Gas”, “Red Hot”, special moments from an album which the general public loved very quickly. Other albums followed, such as “Storm” and “Subject to Change” which were successful and in which, besides her violin performance, Vanessa Mae tried out her voice. She has sold over eight million albums around the world, has won awards (40 International Platinum Awards) and has cooperated with famous artists like Prince.

She has been involved in movies, either with her movie “The Original Four Seasons”, or as an actress in the TV series “Arabian Nights”. Known for her charity work, she has participated at times in various Red Cross campaigns. Her face has decorated some of the most famous fashion magazines, while the People magazine has included her in the “50 most beautiful people in the world”.

On Thursday, September 14^th she appears in Herodeion with a band of six musicians and an orchestra. She is supported by a large group of technicians that will help her implement her performance. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Vivaldi as well as tango, Indian music, pop songs, melodies by Vangelis, for one night that is expensive due to the high price of the tickets. We hope, however, that Vanessa Mae will repay us with the power of her performance and the peculiarity of her music.