Nina Kotova

中文名：妮娜·柯朵娃

職業(yè)：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

介紹：娃出生于俄羅斯一個(gè)音樂家和科學(xué)家的家庭之中，她所得到的贊譽(yù)有，“令人難忘的”，“激情并有啟發(fā)性的”，并且擁有著“強(qiáng)烈的表現(xiàn)的力量與大師級(jí)的技術(shù)”。作為一個(gè)早慧的孩子，她在9歲的時(shí)候就舉行了她的首場(chǎng)公開的演出并開始學(xué)習(xí)作曲，而她也是她的家庭中的第三代音樂家的代表。她的父親，一位傳奇性的低音大提琴大師，在長年的文化及政治迫害下辭世。尼娜·科托娃7歲的時(shí)候就進(jìn)入莫斯科音樂學(xué)院成人班學(xué)習(xí)，同時(shí)她還在天才兒童學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)。尼娜在11歲時(shí)首次與樂團(tuán)進(jìn)行合作演出，并在15歲的時(shí)候獲得了“布拉格小協(xié)奏曲”國際比賽的第一名。19歲的時(shí)候，在莫斯科音樂學(xué)院畢業(yè)之后，蓮娜離開了蘇聯(lián)并前往德國與美國繼續(xù)學(xué)習(xí)。

尼娜·科托娃作為獨(dú)奏家、室內(nèi)樂家與作曲家在全球進(jìn)行表演。她在倫敦的首場(chǎng)演出是在魏格摩音樂廳舉行的，而這也是尼娜·科托娃的作品“天橋上的素描”(Sketches from the Catwalk)的全球首演。在那之后，她在卡內(nèi)基音樂廳的首場(chǎng)演出是以大提琴獨(dú)奏的身份與莫斯科室內(nèi)樂團(tuán)合作的、她還在倫敦的巴比坎中心、莫斯科音樂學(xué)院大廳、北京紫禁城音樂廳、紐約市政廳、東京蘭花廳、以及拉維尼亞的“崛起的新星”系列中演出。尼娜·科托娃最近合作的樂團(tuán)包括：圣路易斯和達(dá)拉斯交響樂團(tuán)、布拉格廣播交響樂團(tuán)、香港管弦樂團(tuán)、并出席了MTV音樂獎(jiǎng)的頒獎(jiǎng)典禮；她也在巴西、臺(tái)灣、香港、馬來西亞、新加坡、韓國以及日本進(jìn)行巡演，既有協(xié)奏曲也有獨(dú)奏會(huì)，其中包括為日本皇室舉行的一場(chǎng)獨(dú)奏演出。

尼娜·科托娃與“菲力浦古典”于1996年簽定了一份錄音的合約，并于1999年出版了她的首張唱片。這張唱片很快登上了BILLBOARD榜。尼娜·科托娃不但身兼天才大提琴家和作曲家雙重身份，同時(shí)又是國際著名的超級(jí)名模, 頻頻登上Vogue、 ELLE、Cosmopolitan等時(shí)裝雜志封面?！禘LLE》雜志把她列為二十一世紀(jì)最有希望的25個(gè)人物之一，她同時(shí)也成為了《時(shí)代》、《新聞周刊》、《時(shí)尚》、《讀者文摘》、《華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)》、古典音樂電臺(tái)、以及電視節(jié)目如“查理·羅斯秀”、蒂姆·塞巴斯蒂安主持的“有話直說”和“藝術(shù)早餐”中的特寫人物。