Sun. April 8

 Is this like the Police at the Rat? Or U2 at the Paradise? We haven't heard her yet, so we can't say, but on Sunday April 8 Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, named the BBC's Young Musician of the Year (2004), makes her Boston debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Sunday Concert Series. Benedetti's debut album with the London Symphony Orchcestra entered the BBC Music charts at No. 1 and the London Sunday Times called her "a prodigious, incandescent talent." Want more? She won "Britain's Brilliant Prodigy Competition," which is sort of a high-end "American Idol." She signed a million pound contract with Deutsche Grammophon at 17. And is she plugged into today's teen set? Like, yes. She's got myspace page and has released a series of downloadable ringtones of Massenet, Brahms and Saint-Saens. She played the Glastonbury festival, best known for presenting rock acts. At the Gardner, she vocals on the more traditional end of the violin from the early, classical and modern eras, playing Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Ravel. French chamber pianist Julien Quentin will accompany her. Tickets: $23. Starts at 1:30 p.m.

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