In 2002, at the age of only twelve, Jennifer Pike won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, following her celebrated performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. At the same age she won fourth prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. At the age of 16 she was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to study with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning the Derek Butler London Prize in 2007. In 2005 and 2007 she won the prestigious MBF Manoug Parikian Award. Public recognition of her unfaltering success continued at the start of 2008 when she was honored with the Times Breakthrough Award at the South Bank Show Awards in recognition of the impact she has made across the arts. She is playing a violin made by Matteo Goffriller in 1708, which is currently made available to her by the Stradivari Trust.