3 Quick Questions

bloviate · Post by **bloviate** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:41 am

Can anyone tell me: A. How tall is Vanessa Mae? (Preferably in feet- no I don't mean barefoot) B. Does her mother still perform? C. Are mother and daughter still estranged?

MSam · Post by **MSam** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:34 am

Im not sure about A, But

B: No, I dont beleive Pamema performs anymore - for Vanessa Mae or anyone else.

C: Yes, Vanessa Mae and her mother are still estraged. Quoted from an interview, they only see each other if they run in to each other at their favourite chinese resturant.

vmfan · Post by **vmfan** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:41 pm

Hi Vanessa-Mae is 5ft3 lol I would tower over her as I am 5ft10.5 cool hey!
How tall is everyone here?

bloviate · Post by **bloviate** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:40 am

Thanks vmfan and msam. I am also a towerer at 1 full foot over Vanessa. Sorry to hear Pamela and she have yet to work out their differences.

eva03 · Post by **eva03** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:53 am

So Vanessa-Mae and I will be a perfect couple since we have the same height...in my dreams. LOL.

Xanthippe · Post by **Xanthippe** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:44 pm

Vanessa-Mae's mother Pamela sometimes plays with Vasko Vassilev. Both have released one cd in 1996 with Brahms sonates for violin and piano. Last year, I read a report on an English langauge wensite dealing with Bulgaria that Vasko would perform in Sofia accompanied by Pamela. It was explicitely mentioned that Pamela was Vanessa-Mae's mother and that Vasko had been one of Vanessa-Mae's teachers.

bloviate · Post by **bloviate** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:24 am

Hmm, interesting, Rijko. So Mother is benefitting from daughter's fame, in a way. Maybe she should make the first move in a reconciliation.

DavidM · Post by **DavidM** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:23 pm

I was going to guess about 5'3" because when she signed my "Choreography" CD she was just a little bit shorter than me -- though I couldn't see how high her heels were

Xanthippe · Post by **Xanthippe** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:28 pm

David, I was there too in the Royal Festival Hall. She had quite high heels but I've seen her on photos with even higher heels often. I noticed it when I saw Vanessa-Mae walking down the stairs after the session was over.

Arioch · Post by **Arioch** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:07 pm

Rijko have you got the Brahms sonates for violin and piano Cd,
is it any good?

Xanthippe · Post by **Xanthippe** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:46 am

Yes, I have this cd. It is good music and well played but the sonates are all quite sad in nature.

The cd has 3 sonates for violin and piano and one Scherzo for violin and piano. This is the same Scherzo as is on Vanessa-Mae's Classical Album 1.

Interesting, Pamela's biography is in the booklet. Here are some basic facts:

- Born in Singapore where she started to play the piano at a young age.
- At 16, she won the National Open Piano Competition
- In the next year she performed in several public recitals
- She then appeared as solist with the Notional Orchestra and witht Chamber Essambles in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Phillipines and Australia
- In these years, Pamela also graduated from law school in Singapore and practiced as a lawer
- She setteld in London in 1983 where she practiced as a lawer for several years
- She did not give up music, but appeared in various televised programmes of classical music
- In 1985, Pamela decided to devote herself to music entirely
- She performed with the Royal Philharmonic and took part in several music festivals - Leeds, Vienna, Schleswig-Holstein and several more
- She made several recordings of chamber music, for which she had a particualr predilection - Tritico Classic and ASV Crown labels
- She played with violinists like Vanessa-Mae and Xue-Wei and vasko Vassilev

Remarkable, it is not mentioned that Vanessa-Mae is her daughther. Nor is it mentioend in the biography that she had a daughter form her first marriage and that she settled in the UK after her second marriage with Graham Nicholson.

I can make the cd available as mp3's if anyone is interested?

Arioch, let me know!

eva03 · Post by **eva03** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:57 am

I'm interested Rijko!

MSam · Post by **MSam** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:36 am

I'd definitely like to hear the Scherzo (unless it is the exact same one with Vanessa playing). It would be interesting to hear her skill to!

bloviate · Post by **bloviate** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:17 pm

Does anyone know of a Pamela Nicholson-related website

Xanthippe · Post by **Xanthippe** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:44 pm

Here are links to the files of cd of Vasko Vassilev and Pamela Nicholson.

Scherzo

Sonate # 1

Sonate # 2

Sonate # 3

The files stay available for only 7 days.

I have never seen a site for Pamela Nicholson nor for Vasko Vassilev but I haven't checked for a long time.