- Won the Young British Classical Performer Award at The Classical BRITs 2008.
- Her violin is the Earl Spencer Stradivarius.
- Won the BBC Young Musician of the Year award in May 2004.
- Attended the Yehudi Menuhin School for Young Musicians from 1977-2002.
- Classical violinist.
- She was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Music and to charity. She is a violinist.
- She received honorary degrees from Glasgow Caledonian University in November 2007, from Heriot-Watt University in 2010, and from the University of Edinburgh in November 2011.
- Her parents are both Italian. Her father is from Barga, Province of Lucca, Tuscany.
- She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2019 Queen's New Years Honours list for his services to Music. She is a musician in London, England.
- Nicola was in a relationship with German cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, whom she met at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music. Although that relationship has ended, they continue to perform together and are good friends.
- Nicola Benedetti was chosen as the subject for the winner of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2021, Calum Stevenson, and this portrait now hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
- In 2022, she was appointed honorary president of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS).
- In 2020, she won the Grammy for best classical instrumental solo for Marsalis: Violin Concerto; Fiddle Dance Suite.
- She was awarded the 2021 ISM Distinguished Musician Award.
- In 2019 she was also given the annual Royal Medal award by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for improving the lives of deprived Scottish children through Sistema Scotland and the Big Noise Orchestras.
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