Mikhail Nemtsov

Mikhail Nemtsov grew up in St. Petersburg and received his training at the renowned Rimsky-Korsakov Music School. He then continued his studies at Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he studied with distinguished professors such as Nicolas Jones, Hannah Roberts, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Gary Hoffman. He earned the RNCM’s International Artist Diploma and was later named an Associate Honorary Artist of the Royal Northern College of Music.

As a soloist, Nemtsov has performed with leading orchestras such as the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, the London Philharmonia, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Porto Symphony Orchestra, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, and the London Festival Orchestra.

He has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Vassily Petrenko, Nicholas Collon, Thomas Guggeis, John Storgårds, and Gianandrea Noseda, as well as with ensembles such as The Nash Ensemble and the Razumovsky Ensemble.

As a chamber musician, he has performed with partners such as Alexandre Gordon, Marko Ylönen, Maxym Rysanov, Anna Kandinskaya, Leon McCawley, and Me Kyong Lee.

For his artistic achievements, Nemtsov has received numerous awards, including the Pierre Fournier Award, the silver medal at the Rostropovich Memorial International Competition, the Muriel Taylor Scholarship, the silver medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, the gold medal from the Royal Northern College of Music, and the MBF Guilhermina Suggia Gift in London on two occasions.

Together with his sister Elena, he forms the Nemtsov Duo, which is among the prize winners of the Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition, the Swedish Duo International Competition, the Pinerolo International Chamber Music Contest, and the Lyon International Duo Contest (a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions). The duo has performed in renowned venues such as Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, and Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. They have appeared at international festivals in Chichester, Edinburgh, Buxton, Chester, Orlando, and Salzburg, and have been featured multiple times on BBC Radio 3. Their recordings have been released by Azurro Records and CMF Records and include works by Maxwell-Davies, Shostakovich, Shchedrin, Grieg, and Nemtsova.

Mikhail Nemtsov served as principal cellist with the Bergen Symphony Orchestra and as associate principal cellist with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (Manchester) and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. He regularly performs as a guest principal cellist with leading European orchestras, including the hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Stuttgart State Orchestra, the National Theater Mannheim, and the Cologne Radio Orchestra. Numerous orchestral recordings featuring Mikhail have been released on labels such as Chandos, Naxos, and Oehms Classics.

He has taught at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Birmingham Conservatoire, as well as serving as a visiting lecturer at Stony Brook University (New York), the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and the Vienna Conservatory (now MuK—Private University of Music and the Arts of the City of Vienna). He has led master classes throughout Europe and Russia. Since 2019, Mikhail Nemtsov has been principal cellist of the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra and professor of cello at the Anton Bruckner Private University of Music and the Arts in Linz, Austria.