Natalie Clein

In the current season, Natalie Clein gives recitals A keen recital and chamber performer, she has in Italy and the UK, and continues her performed Bach’s Complete Cello Suites across collaboration with Ruby Hughes and . the UK; has curated a series of concerts for BBC Following the success of her latest album of Radio 3 at LSO St Luke’s; and is the proud artistic Haydn’s Cello Concertos on Oehms Classics, director of her own chamber music festival in recorded live on gut strings with the Recreation Purbeck, . Orchester Graz with Michael Hofstetter, she performs Haydn’s Concerto in C with the English She regularly works with contemporary Chamber Orchestra, and she performs Saint- composers such as Thomas Larcher and Brian Saëns 1 with the Padua Chamber Orchestra and Elias and has also curated and been involved in Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Orchestra cross-disciplinary projects with the dancer Carlos Sinfonica Siciliana Palermo. Acosta, writer and director Deborah Warner amongst others. Recent seasons saw Natalie Clein tour Australia with Musica Viva, the USA and Ireland. Concerto She collaborates with artists including Cédric dates include Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 Pescia, Sergio Tiempo, Christian Ihle Hadland, with the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the Sage Håvard Gimse, Anthony Marwood and Leif Ove Gateshead, Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations with Andsnes. She has also worked with Martha the English Chamber Orchestra in Dublin, and a Argerich, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, new Charlotte Bray concerto with the Aurora Imogen Cooper, Lars Vogt, Isabelle Faust, and Orchestra at Kings Place. Recital work includes Yeol Eum Son. appearances at the Festival Cervantino in Mexico, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, and London in Tel In 2015, Natalie Clein was appointed Artist in Aviv Festival, and in the UK, she returned to Residence and Director of Musical Performance Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings, Cambridge Music at Oxford University for 4 years, taking a leading Festival and Kings Place. role in concert programming, in developing new

“she produces an astonishing artistic projects, and in introducing new modes of Further highlights include performances as part range of colours and evokes the teaching. In 2018, she was appointed Professor of of the Cello Unwrapped Series at London’s Kings Cello at the Rostock Academy of Music in widest variety of expressive styles” Place, the world premiere of Sir John Tavener’s Germany. Flood of Beauty at the Barbican Centre with the Gramophone Magazine Britten Sinfonia, Bloch’s Schelomo with the Orkiestra Symfoniczna NFM and Benjamin Born in the United Kingdom, Natalie came to

Shwartz in Wrocław, Haydn’s D Major Cello widespread attention at the age of sixteen when she won both the BBC Young Musician of the Year Concerto with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists in Described by the Times as ‘mesmerising’ and Brazil, Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Collegium and the Eurovision Competition for Young ‘soaringly passionate’, British cellist Natalie Clein Musicum Basel, the Brandenburgische Musicians in Warsaw. As a student she was has built a distinguished career, regularly Staatsorchester Frankfurt and Philharmonia awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship by the . She performing at major venues and with orchestras Orchestra, and recitals at the Stavanger Chamber worldwide. Music Festival, the Utzon Music Series at Sydney completed her studies with in Opera House, and across South America with . Natalie is a Professor at the Royal College She records regularly with Hyperion, and has Sergio Tiempo. of Music London. In 2021 she was awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours List for services to recorded to great critical acclaim the two Cello classical music. She plays the ‘Simpson’ Concertos by Camille Saint-Saëns as well as Other recent performances have taken Natalie Bloch’s Schelomo and Bruch’s Kol Nidrei with the Clein to orchestras including the Philharmonia, Guadagnini cello of 1777. . BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Hallé, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Triple Concerto with the Insula Orchestra and Birmingham Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Laurence Equilbey, and Dobrinka Tabakova’s On Orchestre National de Lyon, New Zealand Valid for use until 1 February 2022 the South Downs with the BBC Concerto Symphony, Opole Philharmonic, St Petersburg For updated versions please contact Orchestra. A solo disc with works by Bloch, Ligeti Symphony, and Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos [email protected] and Dallapiccola was released in 2017. She has Aires. She has performed with conductors previously released 3 discs for EMI. In January including Sir Mark Elder, Sir , 2019, her recital disc of works by Rebecca Clarke, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leonard Slatkin, Frank Bridge and Vaughan Williams with pianist Heinrich Schiff and José Serebrier. Christian Ihle Hadland was released on Hyperion.

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