Nina Kotova is a Russian American cellist. As well as being a versatile artist she performs both as a soloist with major orchestras and as a chamber musician around the world.
Nina Kotova studied at the Moscow Conservatory and the Musikhochschule in Cologne, giving her first performance as a soloist with orchestra at the age 11 and graduating summa cum laude. She made her Western debut at the Wigmore Hall, performed at the Barbican Centre in London in 1996, released her chart-topping debut album for Philips Classics and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1999.
Ms. Kotova has performed in recital and as a soloist with major orchestras across the globe touring the capitals of Europe, Asia and the Americas. Ms. Kotova has performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at the Berlin Philharmonic and has collaborated with leading artists and conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Antonio Pappano, John Malkovich, Helene Grimaud, Jeremy Irons, Joshua Bell, Lang Lang, Sarah Chang, Sting and many more. She has had the distinction of performing live in broadcast from Red Square in Moscow, for the Imperial family of Japan and at Buckingham Palace in a special concert for Prince Charles.
In 2011 Ms. Kotova was presented an award for her outstanding cultural contribution to Tuscany from the Tuscan-American Association as a co-founder of the Tuscan Sun Festival. Nina Kotova co-founded the Tuscan Sun Festival in 2003 and its sister-festival Festival Del Sole in Napa Valley in 2006and served as the Artistic Director of the Tuscan Sun Festival (also known as the Festival del Sole) in Cortona, Italy.Nina Kotova has also taught as an Artist in Residence at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
In addition to her debut album for Philips Classics,Nina Kotova has recorded the Bloch "Shelomo" and her own Cello Concerto, the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra for Sony Classics,and the Deutsche Grammophon compilation "Masters of the Bow" paying homage to the greatest cellists of the last 50 years. She has most recently released her recording of the Bach Six Cello Suites for Warner Classics.
She has been the subject of numerous features in Vogue,Elle,Hello,Harper's Bazaar,Newsweek,The Sunday Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal. Nina Kotova has appeared on the covers of Classic FM,Classical Music Magazine, Gramophone China,Il Venerdi Italia,Record Forum and Reader's Digest.
Nina Kotova is a Russian American cellist. As well as being a versatile artist she performs both as a soloist with major orchestras and as a chamber musician around the world.
Nina Kotova studied at the Moscow Conservatory and the Musikhochschule in Cologne, giving her first performance as a soloist with orchestra at the age 11 and graduating summa cum laude. She made her Western debut at the Wigmore Hall, performed at the Barbican Centre in London in 1996, released her chart-topping debut album for Philips Classics and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1999.
Ms. Kotova has performed in recital and as a soloist with major orchestras across the globe touring the capitals of Europe, Asia and the Americas. Ms. Kotova has performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at the Berlin Philharmonic and has collaborated with leading artists and conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Antonio Pappano, John Malkovich, Helene Grimaud, Jeremy Irons, Joshua Bell, Lang Lang, Sarah Chang, Sting and many more. She has had the distinction of performing live in broadcast from Red Square in Moscow, for the Imperial family of Japan and at Buckingham Palace in a special concert for Prince Charles.
In 2011 Ms. Kotova was presented an award for her outstanding cultural contribution to Tuscany from the Tuscan-American Association as a co-founder of the Tuscan Sun Festival. Nina Kotova co-founded the Tuscan Sun Festival in 2003 and its sister-festival Festival Del Sole in Napa Valley in 2006and served as the Artistic Director of the Tuscan Sun Festival (also known as the Festival del Sole) in Cortona, Italy.Nina Kotova has also taught as an Artist in Residence at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
In addition to her debut album for Philips Classics,Nina Kotova has recorded the Bloch "Shelomo" and her own Cello Concerto, the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra for Sony Classics,and the Deutsche Grammophon compilation "Masters of the Bow" paying homage to the greatest cellists of the last 50 years. She has most recently released her recording of the Bach Six Cello Suites for Warner Classics.
She has been the subject of numerous features in Vogue,Elle,Hello,Harper's Bazaar,Newsweek,The Sunday Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal. Nina Kotova has appeared on the covers of Classic FM,Classical Music Magazine, Gramophone China,Il Venerdi Italia,Record Forum and Reader's Digest.
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