Natalie Clein

About Natalie Clein

Our 54th Season opens with the distinguished cellist Natalie Clein, accompanied by Ekaterina Apekisheva, in a recital to be held in St Peter’s Church. Natalie’s exceptional musicianship has earned her prestigious prizes and universal respect. She won the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1994 when she was just 16, and she performed for the Berkhamsted Music Society in the 1995/6 season. 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. Her concerto debut was at the Proms in 1997. Since that time she has performed with most UK orchestras. Equally at home in chamber music, she has regularly performed with the Belcea, Jerusalem and Takacs quartets and the Nash Ensemble. She plays on the ‘Simpson’ Guadagnini cello of 1777. Her accompanist, Ekaterina Apekisheva, is equally distinguished in her home country, Russia, where she was born into a family of musicians and started to play the piano at the age of five. At six she entered the famous Gnessin School of Music, continuing her studies at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. She moved to London in 1994 to study at the Royal College of Music. She has performed widely on the Continent, the US and Far East.