Natalie Clein studied with Anna Shuttleworth and Alexander Baillie at the Royal College of Music where she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship.
15 Facts About Natalie Clein
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Natalie Clein came to prominence after winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1994 with her performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto.
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Natalie Clein was the first British winner of the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Warsaw, playing the Shostakovich Sonata and Elgar's concerto.
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Natalie Clein made her concerto debut at The Proms in August 1997, performing the Haydn Cello Concerto in C major with Sir Roger Norrington and the National Youth Chamber Orchestra of Great Britain.
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Natalie Clein is a regular chamber musician with such musicians as Julius Drake, Charles Owen and Kathryn Stott, as well as the Belcea Quartet, Jerusalem Quartet, Takacs Quartet, and the Nash Ensemble.
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Natalie Clein has collaborated with author Jeanette Winterson on a performance piece which utilises Bach's Goldberg Variations in conjunction with Winterson's text.
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Natalie Clein has worked with choreographer and dancer Carlos Acosta.
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Natalie Clein has recorded a solo disc with works by Bloch, Ligeti and Dallapiccola and the solo Kodaly sonata.
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Natalie Clein's performances have taken Natalie Clein to orchestras including the Philharmonia, Halle, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Montreal Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, New Zealand Symphony and Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires.
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Natalie Clein has performed with conductors including Sir Mark Elder, Sir Roger Norrington, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leonard Slatkin, Stephane Deneve and Heinrich Schiff.
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Natalie Clein is a keen recital and chamber performer and has curated a series of concerts for BBC Radio 3 at LSO St Luke's.
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In 2015, Natalie Clein was appointed Artist in Residence at Oxford university for 4 years.
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Natalie Clein is Professor of cello at the HMT Rostock and appears regularly on international juries such as the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and the ARD Wettbewerb in Munich.
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Natalie Clein is artistic director of the Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival.
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Natalie Clein was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to music.