Natalie Clein
Cello

Natalie Clein's exceptional musicality has earned her a number of prestigious prizes including the Classical Brit Award for Young British Performer of 2005 and the Ingrid zu Solms Cultur Preis at the 2003 Kronberg Academie. She won the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1994 and in the same year was the first ever British winner of the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Warsaw. She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship by the Royal College of Music before completing her studies with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna.

Natalie made her concerto debut at the BBC Proms in August 1997, performing the Haydn Cello Concerto in C major with Sir Roger Norrington and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and has since appeared in venues throughout the UK such as the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican, Bridgewater Hall and Birmingham's Symphony Hall. She has performed as a soloist with most of the UK's major orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, The Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National, Hallé and BBC orchestras with conductors such as Sir Charles Mackerras, Gennardi Rozhdestvensky, Sir Andrew Davis, Heinrich Schiff, Sir Neville Marriner, and Paul Daniel. She has also given concerts in the United States, Canada, South America, Germany, Austria and Spain. Her debut concerts with the Montreal Symphony and Mark Wigglesworth received critical acclaim as did her Argentinean debut at the Teatro Colon with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires.

Natalie is in great demand as a recitalist and appears every year at London's Wigmore Hall. She has also given recitals in Tokyo, Seoul, New York (Lincoln Center) and Vienna. She is an avid chamber musician and has taken part in the Cheltenham, Mostly Mozart - London, City of London, Bath, Oxford Festivals as well as numerous festivals abroad. She has collaborated with Ian Bostridge, Melvyn Tan, Imogen Cooper, Stephen Kovacevich, Lars Vogt, Itamar Golan, Steven Isserlis among others. She has also regularly performed with the Belcea, Jerusalem and Takacs quartets as well as the Nash Ensemble.

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