Nina Kotova

中文名：妮娜·柯朵娃

职业：演奏家

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.

Nina Kotova has recently appeared at the Verbier, Las Canarias and Tuscan Sun festivals, collaborating with artists such as Nikolaj Znaider, Sir James Galway, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lang Lang, Teodor Currentzis, Stephane Deneve, Nicola Luisotti, Libor Pesek. Thomas Vasary, Hélène Grimaud, Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Bobby McFerrin, Ivry Gitlis, Nobuko Imai, Julian Rachlin, Justus Frantz, Claus Peter Flor, Long Yu, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Antonio Pappano in both chamber music and concerto performances.

Nina Kotova signed a recording contract with Philips Classics in 1996 and released her debut album in 1999. The CD was an instant success, remaining on the Billboard charts for several weeks. Elle magazine (September, 1999) named Nina Kotova one of the 25 persons to watch in the next century, and she has been the subject of features in Time, Newsweek, Vogue, Reader's Digest, the Wall Street Journal, Classic FM and on television on the Charlie Rose Show, Hard Talk with Tim Sebastian, and Breakfast with the Arts. Other recordings include a CD release of her own Cello Concerto recorded with the Philharmonia of Russia conducted by Constantine Orbelian (Delos, 2002), her chart topping, self-titled debut album (Philips Classics, 1999), a recent recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton (Sony Classics, 2006) and inclusion on the compilatio

介绍：娃出生于俄罗斯一个音乐家和科学家的家庭之中，她所得到的赞誉有，“令人难忘的”，“激情并有启发性的”，并且拥有着“强烈的表现的力量与大师级的技术”。作为一个早慧的孩子，她在9岁的时候就举行了她的首场公开的演出并开始学习作曲，而她也是她的家庭中的第三代音乐家的代表。她的父亲，一位传奇性的低音大提琴大师，在长年的文化及政治迫害下辞世。尼娜·科托娃7岁的时候就进入莫斯科音乐学院成人班学习，同时她还在天才儿童学校学习。尼娜在11岁时首次与乐团进行合作演出，并在15岁的时候获得了“布拉格小协奏曲”国际比赛的第一名。19岁的时候，在莫斯科音乐学院毕业之后，莲娜离开了苏联并前往德国与美国继续学习。

尼娜·科托娃作为独奏家、室内乐家与作曲家在全球进行表演。她在伦敦的首场演出是在魏格摩音乐厅举行的，而这也是尼娜·科托娃的作品“天桥上的素描”(Sketches from the Catwalk)的全球首演。在那之后，她在卡内基音乐厅的首场演出是以大提琴独奏的身份与莫斯科室内乐团合作的、她还在伦敦的巴比坎中心、莫斯科音乐学院大厅、北京紫禁城音乐厅、纽约市政厅、东京兰花厅、以及拉维尼亚的“崛起的新星”系列中演出。尼娜·科托娃最近合作的乐团包括：圣路易斯和达拉斯交响乐团、布拉格广播交响乐团、香港管弦乐团、并出席了MTV音乐奖的颁奖典礼；她也在巴西、台湾、香港、马来西亚、新加坡、韩国以及日本进行巡演，既有协奏曲也有独奏会，其中包括为日本皇室举行的一场独奏演出。

尼娜·科托娃与“菲力浦古典”于1996年签定了一份录音的合约，并于1999年出版了她的首张唱片。这张唱片很快登上了BILLBOARD榜。尼娜·科托娃不但身兼天才大提琴家和作曲家双重身份，同时又是国际着名的超级名模, 频频登上Vogue、 ELLE、Cosmopolitan等时装杂志封面。《ELLE》杂志把她列为二十一世纪最有希望的25个人物之一，她同时也成为了《时代》、《新闻周刊》、《时尚》、《读者文摘》、《华尔街日报》、古典音乐电台、以及电视节目如“查理·罗斯秀”、蒂姆·塞巴斯蒂安主持的“有话直说”和“艺术早餐”中的特写人物。