Elena Nemtsova Austria ← Back to list

Elena Nemtsova is an internationally recognised chamber musician,composer and collaborative pianist. She combines a busy performing career with her professorship in solo accompaniment in Music and Art University in Vienna as well as collaborative piano position at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz, Austria.

At the age of five Elena started developing her musical skills both as a pianist and a composer at the Special Music School-Lyceum named after Rimsky-Korsakov followed by completing a joint Bachelor Degrees in Piano Performance and Composition with Distinction at the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire, Russia. Later on she continued her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, United Kingdom) where she obtained a Masters Degree in Performance and a prestigious International Artist Diploma in Chamber Music.

Elena performs all over Europe and Asia, including countries like Singapore, Japan, China, France ,Italy, Sweden, Holland, Austria, United Kingdom, Germany and Dubai. She formed a cello and piano duo with her brother Mikhail Nemtsov in 2007. Nemtsov Duo has achieved international success in major competitions including 1st prize in the Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition (Verona, Italy), 1st prize in Swedish Duo Int. Competition ,3rd Prize in Pinerolo Int. Chamber Music Contest and 3rd Prize in Lyon Int.Chamber Music Contest,all part of the WFIMC. Nemtsov Duo made their Wigmore Hall debut in 2011.They have appeared at various festivals such as Edinburgh Fringe, Buxton Music Festival, Oxford May Music Festival, Prussia Cove and performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Saint Petersburg Philharmonia Hall, Lyon National Opera House.

Nemtsov Duo has released two CDs : Works for cello and piano by Boccherini, Beethoven and Chopin (Azzurra Music Records, Italy) and „60 Degrees North“ (CMF label ,London) as well as performed live on BBC.