Nathalia Milstein

NATHALIA MILSTEIN's international career took off in 2015 when she won 1^st Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition. In 2017 she was also awarded the Young Soloist Prize by the Médias Francophones Publics. She has since been invited to renowned concert venues such as the National Concert Hall in Dublin, the Zankel Hall in New York, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and the Radio France Auditorium in Paris among others. She has also joined orchestras such as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Pierre Boulez Ensemble and the Paris and Geneva chamber orchestras, working with conductors such as Matthias Pintscher, John Storgårds, Christoph Koncz, and Arie van Beek. Nathalia Milstein (1995) was born in France into a family of musicians and she received her first piano lessons at the age of 4. She went on to study piano with Nelson Goerner at the Geneva Haute Ecole de Musique, completing her Bachelor's and Master's degrees with distinction, and with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Saïd Akademiein Berlin. She attended masterclasses of renowned pedagogues and pianists such as Daniel Barenboim, Menahem Pressler, Mikhail Voskressensky, Emanuel Krasovsky, Elena Ashkenazy, Jan Wijn and Enrico Pace. In France, she regularly performs at renowned concert series and with major orchestras. Her recent appearances include concerts with the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Renaud Capuçon, Orchestre de Paris under the direction of Xu Zhong, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under the direction of Anna Rakitina. She enjoys participating in festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron, the Heidelberger Frühling, Piano aux Jacobins, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, Grachtenfestival, New Ross Piano Festival, Zaubersee Festival, and Radio France Festival. A keen chamber musician, Nathalia also regularly performs with renowned musicians, joining them at international chamber music events, such as the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, the West Cork Festival in Ireland, Lavaux Classic in Switzerland, or the Schiermonnikoog Festival in the Netherlands. Her most recent international orchestra highlights include collaborations with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne performing Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto under the baton of Miguel Pérez Iñesta as well as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the baton of Jonathan Nott. The first album in her discography was made in partnership with the Safran Foundation (Paris), the Tempo Foundation (Geneva) and the French label Mirare and includes works by Prokofiev and Ravel (2018). Her second album, “Visions Fugitives” was awarded the “Choc Classica” as one of the best recordings of 2021.Her second album, Visions Fugitives, was awarded the Choc Classica for Best Recording (2021). She also recorded Stravinsky's “Capriccio” with Mikko Franck and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra as part of an album released by Alpha Classics (2022). In duo with her sister, violinist Maria Milstein, Nathalia has recorded two albums, La Sonate de Vinteuil (2017) and Ravel Voyageur (2019), released by Mirare and acclaimed by international critics. In September 2024, their double album of complete works of Schubert for violin and piano was released. A performance of these works is scheduled for the French festival La Folle Journée in Nantes (2025). Throughout the 2024/25 season, Nathalia Milstein will thus appear as a soloist and chamber music partner across Europe: with the Bremen Philharmoniker conducted by Ulf Schirmer and the Saint Etienne Opera Orchestra conducted by Sasha Yankevych with Schostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.2, a participation in a show around Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in the Netherlands, as well as Brahms’s 2nd Concerto.