Nigel Kennedy

中文名：奈吉爾·甘乃迪

生日：1956年12月28日

籍貫：英國布萊頓

別名：奈吉爾·肯尼迪

職業(yè)：演奏家

奈吉爾·甘乃迪（Nigel Kennedy，1956年12月28日－），英國布萊頓人，是個打扮像龐克族的小提琴怪杰。

驚世駭俗的造型和作風(fēng)引起不少議論，但是超絕的小提琴技巧卻又令人無言以對。以一首艾爾加小提琴協(xié)奏曲被英國人捧為杜普蕾之後，最偉大的器樂天才。最重要的，他是金氏世界紀(jì)錄見證史上專輯最暢銷的古典音樂家。 早年在Yehudi Menuhin School學(xué)琴，後入美國朱利亞音樂學(xué)院學(xué)習(xí)，成為小提琴教母狄蕾的入室弟子。1985年首次錄制艾爾加的小提琴協(xié)奏曲，就獲得留聲機(jī)唱片大獎的「年度最佳唱片」，而「四季」專輯更讓他事業(yè)攀登巔峰，甘乃迪卻因身心俱疲選擇告別樂壇。1997年四月，甘乃迪於倫敦宣布復(fù)出，頓時成為樂壇大事，他不僅著力於古典音樂的完美展現(xiàn)，更將觸角伸及至各個音樂領(lǐng)域。才華洋溢，也是著名的爵士樂手。

1997年EMI公司發(fā)行了由坎尼迪擔(dān)任獨(dú)奏，英國室內(nèi)樂團(tuán)擔(dān)任協(xié)奏的《維瓦爾蒂 四季》。要知道在當(dāng)時《四季》的優(yōu)秀版本已經(jīng)相當(dāng)之多，要將如此普及的作品演奏出特色來絕非易事，但是坎尼迪非但讓自己的《四季》變得個性十足，而且還創(chuàng)出了100萬張的銷售奇跡，這個紀(jì)錄甚至被載入了吉尼斯世界紀(jì)錄大全，可見這張唱片的非同凡響之處。坎尼迪賦予了維瓦爾蒂這部傳統(tǒng)巴洛克作品以全新的內(nèi)涵，夸張的造型、犀利而強(qiáng)烈的音色、高超而華麗的技巧，甚至在演奏中加入了“朋克”風(fēng)格，都讓這個版本的《四季》顯得特別與眾不同。

傳：As one of the most successful classical performers of his time, violinist Nigel Kennedy's genre-defying music helped him achieve a level of fame typically reserved for pop stars. A native of Brighton, England, he studied music at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at Juilliard; his debut recording, Elgar Violin Concerto, appeared in 1984, shortly followed by Nigel Kennedy Plays Jazz. In the years to follow, Kennedy collaborated not only with the more traditional likes of Riccardo Muti and the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and Andre Previn, but also with pop figures including Paul McCartney and Kate Bush; his fame reached new heights with the 1989 release of his recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, which went as high as number three on the U.K. pop charts and went on to sell well over a million copies. In 1992, neck surgery forced Kennedy to retire for several years; when he resurfaced with 1996's Kafka, he performed his own compositions for the first time, broadening his scope to include not only classical music but also elements of Celtic, rock, and jazz. The Jimi Hendrix tribute The Kennedy Experience followed in 1999. ~ Jason Ankeny