Nigel Kennedy (born December 28, 1956 in Brighton, England) is a violinist and violist. Biography A boy prodigy, as a 10-year-old Kennedy would pick out Fats Waller tunes on the piano after hearing his stepfather's trad-jazz records.[LINK: http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2411687.ece] Nigel Kennedy: All jazzed up The Independent - 5 December, 2007 A pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School under Yehudi Menuhin himself, Kennedy later studied at the Juilliard School in New York under Dorothy DeLay. Career Kennedy has played a part in making classical music popular, particularly among young people. He has also performed and recorded most of the major violin concerti. Aged 16, Stéphane Grappelli invited the prodigy to appear alongside him at New York's Carnegie Hall, under the threat from his teachers at the Julliard that it would ruin his classical career

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