MEDIA

Lampenius first came into the public spotlight as a child prodigy on
the violin, performing on Finnish TV numerous times in the 1970s and
1980s and being featured in Finnish newspapers, in addition to concert
tours all around Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan. Since the
mid-1990s, she has been one of the most famous celebrities in Finland
and one of the best known Finnish personalities in Sweden, her current
home country.

Since 1997, Lampenius has been featured in numerous TV programs all
around the world. Channel 4's documentary about her has been aired all
around Europe and Japan, while the documentary by CBS' Inside Edition
was broadcast in the USA. Lampenius has starred in a music special on
Rai Uno, the biggest TV channel in Italy, and the concert was
broadcast in 160 countries worldwide, while her solo orchestral
appearance with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales was televised for
Britain.

In 2007, Lampenius appeared as a violin soloist in Anúna's
Celtic Origins music special on PBS, which aired the show on over 250
TV stations across the USA. Lampenius has also been featured in news
programs on ABC, the BBC, CNBC, CNN and Fox News Channel, including
BBC Breakfast and The O'Reilly Factor, the most-watched cable news
show in the USA. Lampenius has also been featured in light
entertainment shows, including on E! Entertainment. With her classical
album release, Lampenius visited several TV shows in Europe and the
Far East, performing even for 200 million TV viewers at a time.

As for publications, Lampenius has been featured in cover stories of
The Sunday Times, Classic FM Magazine, Playboy and many others.
American Elle and Details chose Lampenius as the Best Newcomer in
Music in 1998, and she has since been featured in numerous other
fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazines, including
Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, GQ, Hello!, Maxim and Vogue. The Times
has stated her to be "the gifted Finnish classical violinist", who is
"brilliant" and "acclaimed by critics", while The Sunday Times stated
"she plays like Nigel Kennedy". Lampenius has also been called "a
striking Finnish blond with impeccable musical credentials" by the Los
Angeles Daily News and "Finnish Phenomenon" by the New York Post.
Additionally, she has been called a "virtuoso violinist" by both The
Guardian and The Independent. Billed as the Bach Babe in tabloids in
the UK, Lampenius has been featured in the front page article of The
Sun, while she has also been featured in such British publications as
Classic CD, the Daily Mail, the Evening Standard, Q, The Daily
Telegraph and The European.

In 2010, Lampenius was one of the judges
of the 1st season of X Factor, a talent show based on Simon Cowell's
The X Factor franchise, in Finland.