Cellist Nadja Reich
The Berlin cellist demonstrates her multi-award-winning skills around the globe. Whether classical music, contemporary compositions or free improvisation - the former academy member of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen spans the spectrum with magnificent acumen, which she also demonstrates in new concert formats, theatre and dance productions.
About the artist
Cellist with passion for new formats
Career
Born in Berlin, cellist Nadja Reich studied with Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University of the Arts and with Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts.
From 2019 to 2022, she was an academy member of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and has since been a regular guest there as a substitute, including as a section leader and in chamber concerts.
Nadja Reich has been a member of the Nerida String Quartet since 2023. With the quartet, she was awarded the Federal President's Prize (2nd prize) at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in Berlin in 2024.
Colaboration
She received important inspirational impulses through her musical encounters with Kristin von der Goltz, Steven Isserlis, Truls Mørk and Alfred Brendel as well as her intensive exchange with musicians from the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. She has attended masterclasses with Frans Helmerson, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Leonid Gorokhov, among others. As a passionate chamber musician, she has performed with the Doric Quartet and Midori, among others.
On stage
Nadja Reich has been invited to festivals such as Ernen Musikdorf (Switzerland), Gezeitenkonzerte, Krzyzowa Music Festival (Poland), Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Transsiberian Art Festival (Russia), Musikalischer Sommer in Ostfriesland (Germany), Kyoto International Students' Festival (Japan), Valdres Sommersymfoni (Norway), Mendelssohn on Mull (Scotland) and Young Prague Festival (Czech Republic), among others.
In 2018/19 Nadja performed as a cellist in the theatre production "44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776" by Christoph Marthaler at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
Awards
Nadja Reich is the winner of the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Music Prize 2018 and the Migros Culture Percentage Study Prize 2017 and 2018. In 2017 Nadja Reich won first prize at the international Suggia Competition in Porto and in 2011 she won first prize at the international Hindemith Competition in Berlin.
In addition to numerous successes, Nadja Reich received two special prizes at the Tonali Competition in 2015. Since then, she has been involved in the TONALi cultural project, which sees itself as an active contributor to the future of concert and cultural life.
In addition to her conventional performances, she loves trying out new concert formats and discovering free improvisation and contemporary music. She has presented this at the Reeperbahn Festival and the Sendesaal Bremen, among others.
Instrument
Nadja Reich plays on a Filippo Fasser cello, generously loaned by Sol Gabetta.
