Vanessa-Mae news of 2010

December 31, Vanessa-Mae and Lionel spent new years eve in France with Lionel's parents.

December 25-26, Vanessa-Mae spent her Xmas days with Lionel in their home in Switzerland.

December 17-18, Vanessa-Mae visited the Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania for concerts on December 17 and 18.
Vanessa-Mae was in Latvia and Lithuania to do concerts on December 17 and 18 in their respective capital cities Riga and Vilnius.

Vanessa-Mae gave a sold-out concert at the Siemens Arena of Vilnius on Saturday December 18. The photos shown below were made during this concert. The first close-up is particularly nice since it makes Vanessa-Mae's concentration so visible. Also, do mark the details of Vanessa-Mae's eye make-up.
 

source: 15min Latvian

Vanessa-Mae did several interviews with newspapers during her trip to the Baltic states. A few highlights from her answers are summarized below:

- Vanessa-Mae is currently living in Switzerland, and Zermatt is her permanent residence there.

- Toccata & Fugue and Storm are constant pieces in Vanessa-Mae's concert programs because the audiences expect her to play them. The people would not be satisfied without hearing these classics from her repertoire.

- Vanessa-Mae plans to go on a larger tour next year. For 2011, Vanessa-Mae has ambitions to create a show with three dimensional visual effects.

- Vanessa-Mae want to record a new album in 2011.

- Vanessa-Mae has approval from the Tai Olympic Committee, but now she has to qualify to enter the winter Olympics of 2014.

- Vanessa-Mae is not afraid of risk, she considers life too short. Her career path has been a risk from the start when she could safely continue to play the traditional classics as an alternative. She is not afraid of getting hurt by a skiing injury, and she has her arms fingers, elbows insured.

- Vanessa-Mae did not change her opinion on marriage. She is afraid to do the step since her family suffers a tradition of divorces.

- Vanessa-Mae looks back upon her initial sexy image of 15 years ago as a risk well taken when she started something new with a new concept of music making. She is still around despite what her critics said and predicted.

- Vanessa-Mae is uncertain of having a child of her own, because she experienced herself how deep a child can be emotionally affected by parental behaviour.

- After the two concerts, Vanessa-Mae will stay a few days in Innsbruck, and then she will go home in Zermatt with Xmas. She and Lionel will spend New Year in France. After new year, Vanessa-Mae will fly to London for a couple of meetings.

sources: lrytas and 15min Latvian

December 11-12, Vanessa-Mae is in Russia to do 2 concerts, today December 11 in Moscow, tomorrow December 12 in St Petersburg
Vanessa-Mae was in Russia to do two concerts. This evening, Saturday December 11, she performs a sold-out concert in the  Crocus Centre Concert Hall in Moscow. T

November 21, Vanessa-Mae will come to The Netherlands in 2011 to do a concert on April 8 in Apeldoorn.
Vanessa-Mae will visit The Netherlands in 2011 to do a concert in The America hall of Apeldoorn on April 8. Tickets are priced form Euro 75 to Euro 55, and are available online  via We Rock U and at the venue.

sources: Voorverkoop alert and We Rock U

Comments by VMSPOS: Vanessa-Mae's newly scheduled concert in 2011 marks her first in our country since 1998 when she delivered a sold out and successful concert for the Storm On World Tour on June 9 at the Congress Centre of The Hague. Another  scheduled concert in 1999 was cancelled due to a injury. The news of this concert came to us as big surprise. Of course we welcome Vanessa-Mae to our country and we express the hope that this visit will be the start of renewed interests of Vanessa-Mae that leads to follow up concerts here on a more regular basis.   

October 27, 2010: Vanessa-Mae becomes 32 years of age.
Vanessa-Mae celebrates her 32nd birthday with Lionel, Gaspard, Maximus, family and close friends. She receives a parcel containing the traditional gifts, cards, letter and a list with questions from her best fans of the Vanessa-Mae Fans Forum.

October 25, 2010: Vanessa-Mae participates in a charity auction to raise money for guide dogs.
Vanessa-Mae is among the participating celebrities who pose to be photographed with their dogs to raise money for guide dog. The photos with signature are available for auction with starting bids set at £250. Vanessa-Mae posed together with her dogs Gaspard and Maximus (Max), see the photo below.
 

 For photos of all participating celebrities and their dogs, see celebrities for guide dogs.

October 18-19: Vanessa-Mae performed two concerts in the Czech Republic on Monday October 18 in Prague, and Tuesday October 19 in Ostrava.
The past week, Vanessa-Mae visited the Czech Republic to do two concerts on Monday October 18 in Prague, and Tuesday October 19 in Ostrava. Both shows were not sold out. For the show in Prague considerable number of seats of the upper ring of the venue were unused, though in Ostrava only limited tickets remained available. Vanessa-Mae played a selection of pieces from her repertoire over the years 1995 to 2004 when her most recent album Choreography was released. At both her concerts, Vanessa-Mae was in an elegant red silk dress, her face was heavily made up to a flawless complexion with covering crème, bright red lipstick and a lot of black mascara, and she was on open shoes with spike heels - see photo on the bottom line at the right of the Cez Arena concert.
 

October 16, Vanessa-Mae will perform in 2 concerts in the Czech Republic this coming week.
Vanessa-Mae will give 2 concerts in the Czech Republic this coming week. On October 18, she will play in Prague at the O2 Arena. One day later on October 18, Vanessa-Mae will perform in Ostrava at the Cez Arena. Currently, there are only a few tickets available for the show in Prague; for the show in Ostrava are enough tickets still available, though mostly in the cheaper categories, see: ticketportal.cz

October 9, Vanessa-Mae's concert in Bucharest on November 20 has been rescheduled to May 2011.
Vanessa-Mae's concert in Bucharest, Rumania, that was planed to take place on November 20 in the Sala Palatului has been rescheduled to May 2011. The exact date will be announced later. Tickets for the concert on November 20 will remain valid for the new date, or can be returned at the present cashier.

sources:  Eventim Rumania and Best Music Rumania (copy-paste the url's in Google translate for an automated translation of Rumanian to English)

September 11, Vanessa-Mae announced an additional concert date for December 17, 2010, in Riga Latvia.
Vanessa-Mae announced an additional concert date on December 17 of 2010 when she will play a thee arena in Riga, capital of Latvia.

sources: Vanessa-Mae official website and Vanessa-Mae at Merlin Music and Live

September 7, Vanessa-Mae attended the Jaeger-leCoultre night at the 67th film festival of Venice
World famous Watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre gave acte de présence at the 67th international film festival of Venice hosting evening for prestigious guests, press and friends of the brand. Vanessa-Mae was on the list of attending the guests and friends that further included famous names like  Clive Owen, Rosamund Pike, Jeremy Renner, Marc Newson and Charlotte Stockdale, Jasmine Le Bon, Amber Le Bon, Simona Ventura, Ksenia Alferova, Luana Piovani, Eduardo Novillo Astrada and Astrid Munoz, Donnie Edwards, Norma Naoum and Micky Green, and many more. The Jaeger-LeCoultre Night was an extraordinary party during which the Métiers d'Art of the Manufacture were honoured and four exceptional timepieces revealed, amidst a backdrop of exquisite Venetian craftsmanship. All celebrities attending had watch from the Jaeger-LeCoultre collection on loan for the evening.

As loan watch, Vanessa-Mae had a Master Tourbillion from the Jaeger-LeCoultre collection, costs for the watch are probable well over US$ 30,000. Furthermore, Vanessa-Mae appeared in a fine knee length pale taupe coloured dress with small gold shoulder straps and multi-colour trimmings, and she was on open silver high-heeled shoes. Vanessa-Mae had her long black hair in free style hanging on her back. Furthermore in addition to the glamorous dress, Vanessa-Mae looked quite made up with a flawless smooth complexion, discretely blushed cheekbones, eye definition with black mascara and liner, and excessively used bright red glossy lipstick, all in line with her status of world-wide fame and stardom and certainly standing the comparison with the other heavily decorated dressed up celebrities present that evening. The series of 12 photos shown below give a nice impression of Vanessa-Mae's presentation that evening.

sources: Jaeger-LeCoultre, Getty Images, Wire Image, ANP, Fotobank, and APA Picturedesk

September 3, Passionate play by Vanessa-Mae at her concert in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on Friday September 3, 2010.
Vanessa-Mae played passionately in front of an enthusiastic audience, accompanied by her band and a string orchestra, at her concert in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on last Friday September 3, 2010. Vanessa-Mae played a selection of songs from her repertoire that encloses a period of about  15 years, presented by her in a tour of concerts named The Magic Violin Period. Unlike her concerts of the past years for the Choreography Tour, pieces form her last album Choreography played a considerable less important role in the present series of shows. The track listing of the concert was shown below. Vanessa-Mae played mostly on her Guadagnini acoustic violin, except those in the electric intermezzo.

- Storm -
- Retro -
- Bach Street Prelude -
- Red Hot -
- Roxanne's Veil -
- Emerald Tiger -
-------- electric intermezzo --------
- Laughing Buddha -
- Contradanza -
- Hocus Pocus -
-------- break --------
- Sabre Dance -
- Wilde Screen -
- Bolero for violin and orchestra -
- I Am A Doun -
- Tango De Los Exilados -
- The Havana Slide -
- Tribal Gathering -
- Toccata & Fugue -
  -------- encore --------
- Power Of C (aka Art Of War) -

VMSPOS attended the concert and made a large series of photos. A first selection of 6 fine photos is presented below. More photos will follow shortly, as well as a comprehensive review on the concert. Vanessa-Mae was in a wonderful long bright red dress of light floating material, most likely silk. Vanessa-Mae had her hair styled pulled from her face and tied on her back. She was beautifully made up to a smooth flawless complexion, small line of dark shadow on her upper lids, glossy dark red lipstick, and excess of mascara that made her lashes create shadows underneath her eyes - see the photos below.

For our full review with additional photos, do go to Vanessa-Mae live in Ludwigsburg

August 22, Vanessa-Mae announced new concert dates in The Czech Republic, Rumania and Russia
Vanessa-Mae announced new concert dates on her official website and the website of her management Merlin Music and Live. The concert dates, including the ones that were already announced previously, are as follows:

Tickets can, in general, be ordered online via the website of the venue, or directly via the box office of the venue. These tour dates have been added to the Tour dates of Vanessa-Mae section of VMSPOS.

source: Vanessa-Mae official website and Vanessa-Mae at Merlin Music and Live

August 14, The Telegraph quotes Vanessa-Mae in a headline as follows

Vanessa-Mae: I want to be an Olympic skier

The Telegraph elaborated further on Vanessa-Mae's plans to participate in the Olympic winter games of Sochi for Thailand in a report on a conversation that they had with her Swiss alpine apartment in Zermatt. A highlight are the following lines from the article show that Vanessa-Mae realises very well that that way into the Olympics will long and difficult :

Vanessa is realistic about her skiing ambitions. Yes, she concedes, there is pressure that those accustomed to her success in the music world will expect the same level of accomplishment. “But it has been my dream, and I am hoping people will accept I just want to give it my best. To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys. I am taking a plunge. I am British, but realistically there is no way I could represent my own country, but because my natural father is Thai, they have accepted me.”

Part of the conversation in Zermatt also involved Vanessa-Mae's musical career.

Vanessa-Mae: Don’t underestimate how important my music is to me. It is still my life’s passion. It is still the essence of who I am. It is just that I am more relaxed now.

Vanessa-Mae mentioned that she is working on a new project, though no indication for a release schedule was given by her. The Telegraph quoted Vanessa-Mae as follows:

It involves dance and music – not me dancing, you understand. Taking up ballet at 31 isn’t an option. But I have long been keen to amalgamate my style of music with dance.

source: The Telegraph

July 31, Various media report that Vanessa-Mae plans to start for Thailand at the 2014 winter Olympics of Sochi as down hill skier.
Various media in Thailand, Germany and the UK report that Vanessa-Mae plans to start as down hill skier for Thailand during the coming winter Olympic of Sochi in 2014. According to the media, the Thai Olympic Committee approved Vanessa-Mae's participation, who is now awaiting final approval from the International Ski Federation. Final confirmation from Vanessa-Mae herself on this issue is still lacking. 

Vanessa-Mae was said to ski for Thailand already during the 2002 Winter Olympics of Salt lake City. At that time, Thailand insisted that Vanessa-Mae should give up her UK nationality in order to get a Thai passport, which Vanessa-Mae was not willing to do. However, in 2002, Vanessa-Mae was granted the Thai nationality, because Thailand felt that the country benefits from merits and achievements of people like Vanessa-Mae who have Thai ancestry.    

sources:  Bangkok Post 1, Bangkok Post 2, Moscow News, A-Z News, Pro Sieben, Female First, The Independent and The Sun

July 25, Vanessa-Mae announced that she will give a concert at the Siemens Arena of Vilnius, Lithuania, on December 18.
Makroconcert Agency announced that Vanessa-Mae will give a concert at the Siemens Arena of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Tickets will be priced between 80-200Ltl (about Euro 23-58).

source: Makroconcert, Tiketa, Goole news translate (automatic translation of Google news by Google translate)

July 22, Dutch television broadcasted The Making Of Me with Vanessa-Mae.
Dutch television channel 3 broadcasted the BBC documentary The Making Of Me with Vanessa-Mae last Thursday evening, July 22, at 9:00pm CET. The show with Vanessa-Mae attracted some 242,000 viewers in the Netherlands. The first episode with John Barrowman, broadcasted the previous week, attracted about 219,000. These numbers are quite good for a documentary after prime time, especially considering the fact that the programs dealt with non-domestic celebrities that are not too familiar in the Netherlands. How many people have been viewing the shows in the surrounding countries that might be able to see Dutch television, is unknown.

source: Dutch television and radio rating agency

June 20, 2010, Vanessa-Mae visited Belarus for the first time in her career to do a concert on Sunday.
Vanessa-Mae visited Minsk, capital city of Belarus, for the first time in her career for a concert. Vanessa-Mae did a sold out concert in the Sports Palace of Minsk on Sunday, June 20 of 2010. Earlier that day, she met with journalists and officials in a press conference. At her press conference, Vanessa-Mae was dress in a light white dotted lavender purple top bordered with black along the short sleeves and neckline, a tiny necklace dangling in the wide cut on her breast. Vanessa-Mae had her hair styled to her back, and her face was nicely made up to an immaculate complexion and beautiful pink lipstick. At the concert, Vanessa-Mae was in  blue jeans and matching blue V-necked T-shirt with an interesting animal print - see the video embedded below to get an impression.

source: Vanessa-Mae in Minsk, Belarus on Belarus official Press Center. and Vanessa-Mae in Minsk, Belarus on Belarusvision YouTube channel

May 23, 2010: Vanessa-Mae will give  a concert in Minsk, Belarus on June 20 of 2010
Vanessa-Mae will perform a live concert at the Palace of Sports venue in Minsk, capital of Belarus on June 20 of 2010. This concert marks Vanessa-Mae first visit to Belarus. The venue can hold an audience of about 5,500 people. Tickets cost Tickets cost are 75,000-350,000 rub (about Euro 20.50-93.00), and are on sale at the venue and via Allstars.by online.

sources: Vanessa-Mae at Merlin Music and Live, European radio for Belarus (translated via Google Translate) and Allstars.by

May 19, 2010: Vanessa-Mae will perform in  a live concert on November 20, 2010, in Bucharest, Rumania.
Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in Bucharest, capital of Rumania, on November 20 of 2010. Venue for the concert is the Sala Palatului. This concert marks Vanessa-Mae's first visit to and performance in Rumania. A previous concert that was scheduled for November 30 in 2008, was cancelled for unknown reasons, see our Vanessa-Mae news archives of 2008. Ticket sales for the newly scheduled concert have not started yet, but tickets will be available at the Sala Palatului office and website, and online via Eventim Rumania and Ticket point in due time. Cost for tickets will be within the range of 100-250 Lei (24-60 euro). We have added the new concert date to the Tour dates of Vanessa-Mae section of VMSPOS.

source: Cotidianul, Evenimentul, Ticket point and best music

May 2, 2010: Vanessa-Mae will give a concert in  Ludwigsburg, Germany, on September 3, 2010
Vanessa-Mae will perform in a single concert in Ludwigsburg, Germany, on September 3, 2010. The concert will take place in the Residenzschloss. Vanessa-Mae will be accompanied by her band and a string orchestra. This will probable be the only concert of Vanessa-Mae in Germany this year. Tickets can be ordered online via Eventim and are available in the price range from Euro 49.40 till Euro 95.40. There are still tickets available in all price categories, but a sold out can be expected on rather short notice.

source: Eventim Germany

Comments by VMSPOS: We managed to get a ticket. VMSPOS will report on the concert with an extensive review and photos. This concert has been added to the Tour dates of Vanessa-Mae section.

April 24, 2010: Vanessa-Mae attended a Cinderella ballet in The Royal Opera House, London, that was sponsored by Audi.
Vanessa-Mae attended a Cinderella ballet in the Royal Opera House on April 24 of 2010. The performance was sponsored by Audi. Vanessa-Mae attended the show as VIP user of Audi. The photo below shows Vanessa-Mae posing with an Audi car at her arrival. She looked rather casual in a shabby pair of light blue denim jeans and a nice green short jacket with ruffle collar. Do mark the excessively used red lipstick as only decorative highlight in her make-up.

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