Nina Kotova Explained

Nina Kotova
Birth Date:1969 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Russia
Nationality:Russian
Years Active:1980–present
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Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Instrument:Cello

Nina Kotova is an American cellist of Eastern European descent. As well as being a versatile artist and an established composer she is a recording artist who performs both as a soloist with major orchestras and as a chamber musician.

Education

Kotova studied at the Moscow Conservatory, at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, and in the USA, giving her first performance as a soloist with orchestra at the age 11 and graduating summa cum laude.

Career

As a soloist, Kotova made her Western debut at the Smetana Hall in Prague in 1986 with Elgar Cello Concerto and at the Wigmore Hall in 1996, performed at the Barbican Centre, signed contract and released her chart-topping debut album for Philips Classics, and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1999.[1]

Kotova has performed in recital and as a soloist with major orchestras across the globe touring the capitals of Europe, Asia and the Americas. She has performed at the Concertgebouw and at the Berlin Philharmonic and has collaborated with leading artists and conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Antonio Pappano, John Malkovich, Hélène Grimaud, Jeremy Irons, Joshua Bell, Lang Lang, Maxim Vengerov, Sarah Chang, Bobby McFerrin,[2] Sting[3] and many more. She has had the distinction of performing live in broadcast from Red Square in Moscow, for the Imperial family of Japan,[4] and at Buckingham Palace in a special concert for King Charles III.

In 2011, Kotova received an award for outstanding cultural contribution to Tuscany from the Tuscan-American Association as a co-founder of the Tuscan Sun Festival.[5] [6] She co-founded the Tuscan Sun Festival in 2003 and its sister-festival Festival Del Sole in Napa Valley in 2006[7] [8] and served as the Artistic Director of the Tuscan Sun Festival (also known as the Festival del Sole) in Cortona, Italy.[9] She is an Artistic co-director of the concert series Domus Artium.[10]

As a professor, Nina Kotova has taught as an Artist in Residence at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.Ms. Kotova was recently appointed this year as a permanent professor of Violoncello at the prestigious International Academy of Imola in Italy.

Shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union, Nina has defected to the West. In her early twenties, Nina has briefly pursued her second career as a top high fashion model, working with such designers as Emanuel Ungaro, Missoni, Chanel and others for fashion shows and editorial. After she left the government owned cello in her country, her dream was to own a cello and to begin performing.

In addition to her debut album for Philips Classics,[11] she has recorded the Bloch Schelomo and her own Cello Concerto,[12] the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra for Sony,[13] and the Deutsche Grammophon compilation Masters of the Bow, paying homage to the greatest cellists of the last 50 years. She released a recording of the Bach Cello Suites,[14] a recording of Russian sonatas with pianist Fabio Bidini for Warner Classics,[15] Nina Kotova Plays Tchaikovsky recording for Delos Productions with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev,[16] «Romantic Recital» with pianist Jose Feghali.,[17] Solo Cello album release on Delos Productions[18]

She has been the subject of numerous features in Vogue,[19] Elle,[20] Hello!,[21] Harper's Bazaar,[22] Newsweek,[23] The Sunday Telegraph, 'The Wall Street Journal, 'The New York Post[24] and HuffPost.[25]

She has appeared on the covers of Classic FM Magazine,[26] Classical Music magazine, Gramophone China,[27] Il Venerdi di Repubblica Italia,[28] Record Forum,[29] and Reader's Digest,[30] [31] on the Charlie Rose Show,[32] "Breakfast With The Arts" and on Sky Group.

Nina has worked on music and environmental projects with such actors and artists as Robert Redford, Jeremy Irons, Charles Dance, John Malkovich.[33] As an artist, Nina Kotova has been featured in the books of several leading photographers such as Arrowsmith: Fashion, Beauty &''<ref>Web site: Nina Kotova: Clive Arrowsmith: Fashion, Beauty and Portraits. Slideshare.net. 4 May 2018. 28 February 2022. and Joyce Tenneson Joyce Tenneson: Transformations.[34]

"...Nina is a musician of high seriousness and real talent..." - TIME MAGAZINE [35]

"...She's a talent to reckon with - poised, committed, graceful and spirited." - Los Angeles Times [36]

Discography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nina Kotova: Carnegie Hall Debut Review in the Strad Magazine. Slideshare.net. 6 June 2016.
  2. Web site: Under the Tuscan sun, a summer festival of good living. Elisabetta. Povoledo. 11 August 2004. 28 February 2022. The New York Times.
  3. Web site: Robert and Clara and Sting and Trudie. Allan. Kozinn. 1 July 2010. 28 February 2022. The New York Times.
  4. Web site: Nina Kotova: VOGUE. Slideshare.net. 11 June 2016.
  5. Web site: Il Premio Toscana-USA 2011 al Tuscan Sun Festival. Valdichianaoggi.it. 21 September 2011. 28 February 2022.
  6. Web site: Nina Kotova: Il VENERDI Cover. Cover Story. Slideshare.net. 9 June 2016.
  7. Web site: Nina Kotova: C Magazine Festival del Sole 2007. Slideshare.net. 8 June 2016.
  8. Web site: Nina Kotova: CNN Living "Wine, Wedding and Song", 2007. Slideshare.net. 10 June 2016.
  9. Web site: L' amazzone col violoncello ritratto di Nina Kotova. Ricerca.repubblica.it.
  10. Web site: Home. Domusartium.org. 28 February 2022.
  11. News: The Very Model of a Modern Cellist. The Wall Street Journal. 20 January 2000. Gurewitsch. Matthew.
  12. Web site: Kotova's Concerto a Rich, Complex Score / Women's Philharmonic premieres cellist's work. Sfgate.com. 2 October 2000.
  13. Web site: Classical: New Releases: Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104, Serenade in D minor, Op 44 | The Sunday Times . 10 June 2016 . The Sunday Times. 28 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160610144134/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/article201402.ece . 10 June 2016 . dead.
  14. Web site: Nina Kotova: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Bach Cello Suites CD Re…. Slideshare.net. 14 May 2017.
  15. Web site: Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C major, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, Tchaikovsky: Romance; Meditation. Thestrad.com.
  16. Web site: Music Review: "Nina Kotova - Tchaikovsky" - the Dazzling Talent of Nina Kotova. HuffPost. 23 September 2017.
  17. Web site: OUT NOW | Cellist Nina Kotova's New Album: "Brahms, Reger, Schumann". Theviolinchannel.com. 12 October 2021. 28 February 2022.
  18. https://music.apple.com/us/album/solo-cello/1684973803
  19. Web site: Nina Kotova: VOGUE. ROMANTIC MOVEMENT. Slideshare.net. 10 June 2016.
  20. Web site: Nina Kotova: ELLE. Slideshare.net. 10 June 2016.
  21. Web site: Nina Kotova: HELLO magazine. Slideshare.net. 8 June 2016.
  22. Web site: Nina Kotova: HARPERS BAZAAR. Slideshare.net. 10 June 2016.
  23. Web site: A Model Musician. Newsweek. 2 May 1999.
  24. Web site: Nina Kotova: New York Post "A classical beauty". Slideshare.net. 8 June 2016. 28 February 2022.
  25. Web site: Nina Kotova: Review: The Huffington Post. How Nina Kotova Blew Me Awa…. Slideshare.net. 9 October 2017. 28 February 2022.
  26. Web site: Nina Kotova: Classic FM Magazine Cover. Cover Story. Slideshare.net. 9 June 2016.
  27. Web site: Nina Kotova: GRAMOPHONE COVER. Slideshare.net. 11 June 2016.
  28. Web site: Nina Kotova: Il VENERDI Cover. Cover Story. Slideshare.net. 9 June 2016.
  29. Web site: Nina Kotova: Record Forum Magazine Cover. Cover Story. 2000. Slideshare.net. 9 June 2016.
  30. Web site: Nina Kotova: READer's DIGEST Selezione Cover 2001. Slideshare.net. 8 June 2016.
  31. Web site: Nina Kotova: READer's DIGEST. Slideshare.net. 10 June 2016.
  32. Web site: Nina Kotova. Charlierose.com. 28 February 2022.
  33. News: Malkovich se sumerge en el infierno de Sabato y los desaparecidos en Argentina. Mar. Centenera. Carlos E.. Cué. 22 October 2016. 28 February 2022. El País.
  34. Web site: Nina Kotova: Joyce Tenneson: ILLUMINATIONS. Slideshare.net. 4 May 2018. 28 February 2022.
  35. Web site: Nina Kotova: Time Magazine 1999. Slideshare.net. 10 June 2016.
  36. Web site: Nina Kotova: LA Times Review "Another Delightful Discovery from Russi…. Slideshare.net. 10 June 2016.

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