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The coronavirus lockdown has forced Nicola to finally slow down, if not stop entirely,
spending more time in her London home than at any point since she left Ayrshire in 1997 to
pursue her music education at the Yehudi Menuhin School. It has, she says, been a strange
experience.

“I’ve never had a period where I didn’t know what I was doing for this long since I was 14 or
15,” she said.

“That’s what’s been unusual for me, considering how long I’ve been on the treadmill with so
many things I can do and lots of options in front of me. Because of that, it gave me a bit of a

breathing moment that I would not have had otherwise.

“I’m always saying to myself if I could leave more space between the things I’m doing, that

would be better for me. But I don’t know if this experience has made me think I should do
that more or less, to be honest.”

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Nicola gives the first Benedetti Foundation workshop in Glasgow in January

Nicola was scheduled to play shows in San Francisco, Australia, mainland Europe and the
UK over the next few months. However, these are no longer happening.

“I’m accepting of the fact it will be many more months until I’m back on stage. There’s
nothing I can do about it,” said Nicola, who won a Grammy at the start of the year.

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