In the history of music, Vanessa-Mae is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Vanessa-Mae as British violinist.
Vanessa-Mae was born at Singapore in 1978. Her recorded nationality is Thailand. She was educated at Royal College of Music and Central Conservatory of Music.
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She worked as violinist, alpine skier and composer.
Her name is attached above all to fusing classical and popular genres, which she calls "violin techno-acoustic fusion". Music outlives its context more reliably than any other art, and usually for reasons its makers did not predict.
That the work was done from Thailand matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Vanessa-Mae is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Educated at Royal College of Music and Central Conservatory of Music
- Worked as violinist, alpine skier and composer
