Nina Kotova

Who is Nina Kotova?

Nina Kotova is a Russian American cellist.

Nina Kotova was accepted by the cello faculty into an adult class of the Moscow Conservatory at the age of seven, while studying at the Central Music School Pre-Conservatory. Nina gave her first performance as a soloist with an orchestra at the age of 11 and at 15 won First Prize at the Prague International Competition. At 19, after graduating in Moscow, Nina left the Soviet Union and continued studying in Germany and the United States.

In 1996 Nina Kotova made her Debut in the West at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London. Since then, Nina Kotova made her Barbican Centre and Carnegie Hall debuts and appeared in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Town Hall in New York, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Orchid Hall and Osaka Symphony Hall in Japan, Wolf Trap and she has performed on the Red Square in Moscow, for the Imperial family of Japan, and at Buckingham Palace. Ms. Kotova has performed as soloist with symphony orchestras across the globe including the St. Louis, Dallas, Prague Radio, Russian State Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Verdi Orchestra of Milan, China Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, Czech Philharmonic, Russian National State Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, BBC, Budapest Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Gulbenkian Symphony and the Royal Opera House orchestras. Nina has toured the United States, South America and Asia, including a solo performance for the Imperial Family of Japan, an appearance on the MTV Music Awards at the MET and a special performance with Sting at the Royal Opera House in London.