CLASSICAL violinist Nicola Benedetti has spoken with the First Minister as she fights for greater support for music education across the UK.
CLASSICAL violinist Nicola Benedetti has spoken with the First Minister as she fights for greater support for music education across the UK.
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The 25-year-old from Ayrshire, who recently won best female artist at the Classic Brit Awards, said that multimillion-pound cuts to funding for arts bodies are depriving youngsters the chance of learning a musical instrument.
She said: "I appreciate cuts have to be made, but without creativity and substantive teaching of the arts, children may be less creative, less confident, less communicative, productive, able and generous."
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