RECENT VANESSA-MAE NEWS OF 2008
December 12, 2008: Vanessa-Mae announces that she will give a concert on March 18 of 2009 in the Kremlin Palace, Moscow Russia.
source: Pollstar
December 5, 2008, Vanessa-Mae
performs in a sold out concert in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Vanessa-Mae delivers her concert in the October Hall in St.
Petersburg, Russia, in front of a delighted enthusiastic audience.
source: Pollstar
comments by VMSPOS: we do not have further details and photos of the concert, yet. We keep searching the internet and hope to provide more details soon. Anyone who has been at the concert is more than welcome to contact us with information by email.
November 27, 2008: Vanessa-Mae
stars as musical guest at the gala ceremony of the Energy Global Awards
in Brno, Czech Republic.
Vanessa-Mae performs as special guest at the gala ceremonial evening
of the Energy Global Awards held in Brno, Czech Republic. Czech
television channel 2 broadcasts the gala on November 28. At the event,
Vanessa-Mae performs Sabre Dance from her album
Choreography. Other musical guests at the
evening are the group Kitts and singer Aneta Langerová.
source: Energy Globe News and Brnesky Denik
November 24, 2008, Vanessa-Mae will
perform in an open air live concert on Saturday July 18, 2009 in the
Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucester, UK.
Vanessa-Mae announces that she will play in a live open air concert
at the Westonbirt Arboretum, Westonbirt in Gloucester, UK, on Saturday
July 18, 2009. Ticket sales starts on Friday November 28 and can be
ordered online via Ticket
Master.
sources: Ticket Master, Gazette & Herald, This Is Gloucester, This Is Bristol and So Glos.
November 24, 2008, Vanessa-Mae's
scheduled concert in Bucharest on November 30, 2008, has been cancelled.
Ticket point in Romania announces that Vanessa-Mae's scheduled
concert in Bucharest on November 30, has been cancelled for reasons that
are described as beyond control of Vanessa-Mae and the concert
organiser.
Comment by VMSPOS: The Ticket point website is of course in Romanian language, but automatic translation by Google-translate service reveals the following statement:
For reasons related to the objective impossibility insurance technique, which have no connection with artists or company organization, with Vanessa Mae show is cancelled. For the tickets can recover from the locations where they were purchased "
November 21, 2008, Pollstar
announces that Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in St Petersburg, Russia,
on December 5
Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in St Petersburg in Russia on Friday
December 5, 2008. Vanessa-Mae's concert will take place in the October
Hall, and she will probable bring a program around music of her latest
album Choreography that was released in
2004.
source: Pollstar
Comments by VMSPOS: We have currently no more details on this concert. A link to where tickets for the concert can be ordered online will be given as soon as we have it: stay tune for this.
November 10, 2008, Vanessa-Mae performs in
a enchanted concert for charity at The L'Oreal Legends Gala. The gala raised
Over $4.3 Million to Benefit The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF).
Vanessa-Mae performs in an enchanted concert after the dinner at The L'Oreal
Legends Gala held in New York, USA, on November 10, 2008. The gala raised over
$4.3 million for the benefit of The Ovarian Cancer Fund. For the concert,
Vanessa-Mae used her transparent acrylic Ted Brewer violin. She was dressed in a
fabulous light red coloured flowing silk long evening gown that translucently
visualised the shape of her legs. Vanessa-Mae's immaculate full face covering
make-up had lipstick in the shade red matching the colour of her dress and a lot
of mascara to accentuate her eyes - see the 3 nice photos below.
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October 27, 2008, Vanessa-Mae celebrates her 30th
birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vanessa-Mae crosses the line of 30!!!!!!!!! The
VMSPOS website congratulates Vanessa-Mae and wishes for her many more
years in good health, with a lot of personal happiness, love, musical
creativity and many professional achievements.
Comments by VMSPOS
Time flies by!! Astounding, Vanessa-Mae is 30 now. All grown up to one
beautiful lady, the one we, all her fans, love and admire so much! It is
really amazing how fast time goes bye: we all do remember the days that
Vanessa-Mae conquered the world by storm and our hearts at the time of
the release of her revolutionary debut pop album
The Violin Player. Therefore,
HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY TO YOU, DEAREST VANESSA-MAE!!
October 27, 2008, Vanessa-Mae
receives the traditional greeting from her best fans of the
Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum.
Fans of the Vanessa-Mae Fans
Forum have sent Vanessa-Mae their traditional bday greetings with a
nice letter, a list of questions and a special gift for her 30th
birthday. The gift consists of an album with some 30 photos of
Vanessa-Mae selected by fans from their favourite shots. No doubt,
Vanessa-Mae will provide her feedback and send her comments to the
questions the contributors to the gift had for her. VMSPOS website will
report on her comments in due time. For more details about the gifts,
see the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum.
source: Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum
October 23, 2008, Vanessa-Mae
performed a concert in Kosice, Slovakia.
Vanessa-Mae gave a sold out concert in the Steel Arena of Kosice in
Slovakia in the framework of her ongoing Choreography Tour. During her
concert, Vanessa-Mae was dressed in blue jeans and a blue in
multi-colour design spotted sleeveless top, in low cut showing a nice
crucifix pendant hanging with a tiny necklace on her chest. Because her
long black hair was pulled backwards and tied in ponytail,
Vanessa-Mae 's face was fully exposed showing an impeccable smooth
complexion of covering foundation crème with salmon pink lipstick, and
eye definition with a line of dark shadow and lots of black mascara -
see the series of 8 photos below.
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October 21, 2008, Vanessa-Mae
presents the first episode of 'Vanessa-Mae's Classical Top 10' by given
a personal introduction to the Mozart Celebration from Berlin
2006.
Vanessa-Mae presents the first episode in a series of 10 shows of
Vanessa-Mae's Classical Top 10 by given a personal introduction to
Mozart Celebration from Berlin 2006. The shows are broadcasted by the
new Sky Arts 2, a new channel of
Sky Television that started on October 20, 2008. Vanessa-Mae will
present her top 10 on 10 consecutive Tuesdays with finalisation on
December 23. Subscribers to Sky Arts were able to vote their favourite
classics to complete a top 10 from a short list.
sources: Vanessa-Mae Classical Top 10 on Sky Arts, The Guardian, Stage News, and C21Media.
October 13, 2008,
Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in the
Sala Palatului of
Bucharest, Rumania, on November 30, concert agency
Evenimentul announces.
Vanessa-Mae will perform in a Choreography Tour concert on November
30, 2008, in Bucharest, capital of Rumania, in the
Sala Palatului.
Tickets can be ordered online via
Evenimentul.
sources: Evenimentul, Stilfeminin, Apropo, Art Line and Editie
September 26, 2008, Vanessa-Mae and
Lionel caught sightseeing in Prague the day after her concert.
Vanessa-Mae and Lionel were caught walking in the streets of Prague
sightseeing the ancient city the day after she did her concert in the O2
Arena. Vanessa-Mae was is Prague to deliver a charity concert organised
by the Central
Group
to support fund raising for the
Institute for the Care of Mother and Child - VMSPOS reported
previously on the concert, see
Vanessa-Mae Actual News.
The photos below show Vanessa-Mae and Lionel during their walk in the
Prague inner city. Seeing the photos of Vanessa-Mae and Lionel walking
in Prague, they seem to enjoy themselves very much, but as a couple they
appear not to be too clinging with each other. Vanessa-Mae is definitely
nice looking, being just casually dressed and with out styled hair and the usual covering
and decorating make-up for her face wear. Vanessa-Mae was dressed in
pink beige mini skirts over a pair of black tights, a white jacket over
a grey sweater and she was on beautiful brown boots with flat heels.
Obviously, the weather was nice because Vanessa-Mae had sun glasses.
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source: Life is Photo and Vanessa-Mae en Espanol
September 25, 2008, Vanessa-Mae
performs a full concert in the O2 Arena of Prague, Czech Republic,
organised by the
Central Group
to support fund raising for charity to support the
Institute for the Care of Mother and Child.
Vanessa-Mae performs in the O2 Arena of Prague accompanied by her
band and a string section and a spectacular light effects. The program
of the concert consisted of music from her latest album
Choreography combined with a selection of
well-known classics form her previous repertoire like Storm and
Toccata & Fugue. The photos below were found at the internet and
show Vanessa-Mae during her concert, playing and accepting applause from
an enthusiastic crowd. Several videos of the concert can be found at
YouTube, see: Vanessa-Mae in Prague,
part 1,
part 2,
part 3 and
part 4.
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At her concert, Vanessa-Mae was dressed in dark blue jeans and a fine midnight blue sleeveless top with wide ruffed collar. Vanessa-Mae's long black hair was tied on her back, strongly pulled out of her face that was done with very heavy make-up - see the close-up photos to view her perfectly smooth complexioned visage, the heavy eye make-up of blue to purple shadow and lots of mascara, strongly accentuated brows, and the deep red to purple lipstick.
sources: Denik, Blesk, Volny Kultura and YouTube
Comments by VMSPOS:
Vanessa-Mae started her Choreography tour with a kick off concert in the
London Royal Festival Hall, October 2004. She continued this tour
through 2005 till 2008 in legs of 3-5 concerts in a rather short periods
of days to 1 or 2 weeks. In total, she performed in 46 concerts in the
Choreography tour of which some where organised in the framework of
charity. Vanessa-Mae presented herself during these concerts often in
wonderful silk designer dresses, or sometimes in just jeans combined
with a fine top, but she always performed with very heavy make-up on her
face. Vanessa-Mae always looked spectacular, very nice and beautiful.
For photos and reports see
Vanessa-Mae news archives overview and Tour
dates of Vanessa-Mae, as well as our
concert reviews.
September 24, 2008, Vanessa-Mae
arrives in Prague for a charity concert in the O2 Arena organised by the
Central Group.
Vanessa-Mae arrives in Prague at the airport on Wednesday,
September 24, for a concert on Thursday, September 25, in the O2 Arena. p.
The profits of the concert will go to the Institute for the Care of
Mother and Child. After arriving at the airport (see 2 photos left upper
line), Vanessa-Mae transported to her hotel. After changing outfits from
comfortable casual jeans and sleeveless white shirt into a purple silk
shirt with dark blue jeans and white shoes, Vanessa-Mae appeared, being only moderately made up with perfectly smooth complexion and
lips painted in light red, at a press conference where she answered questions and posed
for the photographers (see the other photos on line 1 and 2).
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sources: Ct24 Cultura, Tn Nova and Revue Idnes
September 20, 2008, as VMSPOS
website recently discovered a small main belt asteroid body orbiting the
sun was named after Vanessa-Mae.
The small main belt asteroid 1990 QW17 was discovered by L. V.
Zhuravleva on August 26, 19990 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.
The asteroid has been renamed Vanessa-Mae. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
of the CIT writes on its website to following statement:
10313 Vanessa-Mae: Discovered 1990
Aug. 26 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.
Brilliant violinist Vanessa-Mae (b. 1978) created a "bridge between
classical and popular music". Her debut album in 1995 sold two million
copies. She has won world recognition for her performances in the most
prestigious halls.
source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Wikipedia and Freebase
August 19, 2008:
Vanessa-Mae to host
'Vanessa-Mae's Classical Top 10' at the new Sky Arts Channel 2 to be
launched in October 2008
Sky Arts
announces on
their website that Vanessa-Mae will host
'Vanessa-Mae's Classical Top 10' for the new second arts channel
Sky Arts 2, scheduled to be launched on October 20, 2008. Visitors to
the website
'Vanessa-Mae's Classical Top 10' can vote for their favourite
classics online.
sources: The Guardian, Stage News, C21Media and Sky Arts
Comments by VMSPOS: it is unclear whether Vanessa-Mae will present a series of Classical Top 10 shows, or whether she will only present the first show to highlight the launch of Sky Arts Channel 2. We will look into ways to record to show and we will report on it then. Keep an eye on this space for follow-up news and information on this.
August 7, 2008: Vanessa-Mae stars
in the BBC series 'The Making Of Me, aired on last Thursday, August 7, 2008.
The documentary 'Vanessa-Mae: The Making Of Mae' was broadcasted by
the BBC on channel 1 on Thursday August 7. According
The Guardian,
the show attracted some 2.9 million viewers. The screen captures
presented below stem from the documentary.
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See Vanessa-Mae: The Making Of Me for our full report illustrated with 140 screen captures. VMSPOS recorded the show on a hard disc recorder. For a request of a copy and any other questions regarding the show, please contact us via email
sources: The BBC, The Telegraph, The Mirror , The Daily Mail Online and The Guardian
July 31, 2008: Vanessa-Mae visits
the horse race festival of Glorious Goodwood, Goodwood West Sussex, UK.
Vanessa-Mae visited the horse race festival of Goodwood, West
Sussex, the so-called Glorious Goodwood on July 31, 2008. The 2 photos
below were made there. Vanessa-Mae looked quite casual in a wide white
pair of trousers and and a long sleeved red-white dotted sweater.
Although not shown together on the photos, Vanessa-Mae was most likely
accompanied by her friend Lionel.
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source: Desmond O'Neill Features
July 27, 2008 Vanessa-Mae and
Lionel attend the Cartier International Polo day at the Guards Club,
Windsor UK
Vanessa-Mae and her friend Lionel attended the Cartier International
Polo day, annually held at the Guards polo club in Windsor, UK. The
series of photos below show Vanessa-Mae posing alone, as well as walking
around the premises closely followed by Lionel. Vanessa-Mae presented
herself in a stylish summer outfit being dressed in a long white skirts
and a beige shirt with long sleeves in which she looked quite casual,
also because her make-up was very light with pink coloured lipstick.
source: Desmond O'Neill Features, Jamd photography, Digital railroad net
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Comments by VMSPOS: Last year, Vanessa-Mae visited both the events mentioned above too. Apparently, these annual events during the summer are on Vanessa-Mae's agenda, as she shows up almost every year. This year, Vanessa-Mae presented herself in a more casual outfits, whereas last year, she showed up in stylish silk dresses with flower prints, also wearing much more make-up - see the four photos below. For the the horse race festival of Goodwood, Vanessa-Mae attended the official ladies day which prescribes a special dressing code in which a hat is obligatory. The two photos below on the right show Vanessa-Mae at the Glorious Goodwood ladies day of 2007 where she showed up in a red floral print silk dress with a hair fascinator, and she had a lot of make-up too on her face with bright lipstick in the colour red of her silk dress as striking mark in a with crème smoothly complexioned visage.
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July 26, 2008 Vanessa-Mae 'The
Making Of Me' to be broadcasted on Thursday August 7, 2008, BBC 1
television.
Vanessa-Mae will be in the final episode of the BBC program 'The
Making of Me' to be aired on Thursday August 7, 2008. In this episode,
Vanessa-Mae will seek to find answer to the question whether her
musicality and talents a a result of genetics, social upbringing or hard
work.
sources:
The BBC,
The Telegraph and
The Mirror
July 14, 2008, Vanessa-Mae's life and career is one
of the subjects in a new BBC's series 'The Making Of Me'
to be broadcasted in July and August 2008!
Vanessa-Mae will be one of the subjects of
the new BBC series 'The Making Of Me.' The BBC will broadcast the
program in 3 episodes starting on Thursday July 24 with a weekly
frequency each Thursday. The program has a scientific approach and tries
to answer the question what factors determine success: Genetics?
Natural talent? Hard work? Luck? Social background and upbringing? Or
Was it Me! The program will explore the life and fate of some famous
talented people like Vanessa-Mae, Olympic silver medallist and 110m
hurdles world record holder Colin Jackson, and actor and television star
John Barrowman.
sources: The BBC and The Mirror
Comments by VMSPOS: We will record the shows on a hard disc recorder and will report on Vanessa-Mae's part in each episodes. Of course, we yet have no idea how much of the program will deal with Vanessa-Mae's career.
June 4, 2008: Vanessa-Mae and
Lionel attend the annual preview for VIP's of the summer exhibition of
The Royal Academy of Arts
Vanessa-Mae and Lionel attend the annual preview for VIP's of the
summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, held in London on June
4, 2008. The photos below show her walking the red carpet, posing solo
and with her long-time life companion Lionel Catalan, with whom she has been
living together now for some 8 years, see the photo series below!
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For this occasion, Vanessa-Mae was in a simple and easy, yet elegant, outfit of a fine V-necked sleeveless shirt in grey with a slight undertone of green that consisted of a satin shoulder part and silk to cover her upper body, over a fine black pair of trousers, completed with open shoes that revealed red painted toe nails. Vanessa-Mae had her long black shinning hair tied on her back so that her face that was beautifully made up with a nice full covering foundation crème - mark the make-up border against her hair line - a light red lipstick and some minor definition of her eyes and brows with black liner, mascara and little dark shadow, to bring her visage fully exposed to an utmost perfection in the overall presentation.
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