On June 5 at 5:30 PM, the famous baritone violinist Jennifer Pike will hold a master class for scholarship holders of the "Music for the Future" Foundation program in the Red Hall of the Yerevan P. Tchaikovsky Secondary Music Vocational School. The master class is intended only for scholarship holders of the Foundation.
Pike will perform at the opening ceremony and concert of the Khachaturian International Competition with the State Symphony Orchestra of Armenia (conductor: Sergey Smbatyan), which, according to tradition, will take place on June 6, the great composer's birthday.
Jennifer Pike first came to international recognition in 2002 when, at the age of 12, she became the youngest winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award and the youngest Grand Prize winner of the Menuhin International Violin Competition. She made her acclaimed debuts at the BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall at the age of 15. She was invited to become a BBC New Generation Artist (2008–10), won the London Masters of Music Award and became the only classical artist ever to win the South Bank Show/Times Breakthrough Prize.
She has been appointed an ambassador for the Prince's Trust and Foundation for Children and the Arts and is a patron of the Lord Mayor's City Music Foundation. In October 2020, she was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to classical music. Jennifer Pike performs on a 1708 Matteo Goffrilleri violin.
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