Harriet Mackenzie

London-based violinist Harriet Mackenzie has become expert in an unusual variety of repertory, playing contemporary music, chamber music, and world violin styles in addition to traditional concerto and recital works. Her recordings in the 2010s have generated a high level of critical acclaim. Mackenzie told the website Retorica that from the age of three "I was harassing my parents because I was just desperate to play the violin. My sister Kate was playing and I used to hear her practising and there was just something about the timbre of the violin that I found just totally in...