Biography Sarah Nemtsov

Sarah Nemtsov was born in Oldenburg (Germany) in 1980. In 1987 she got her first music lessons. In the same year her first compositions appeared. From 1989 on she participated in numerous concerts and recordings of the REIL TRIO as a recorder player. At the age of 14 she started playing oboe. From 1998 on she studied composition at the Hochschule for Music and Theatre in Hanover with Nigel Osborne as a „young student“. In 2000 she began with her regular studies at the same institution with Johannes Schoellhorn (composition) and Klaus Becker (oboe). From 2003 on her oboe teacher was Burkhard Glaetzner at the Arts University in Berlin. After her graduation in both disciplines in 2005 she began with her post-graduate studies in composition with Walter Zimmermann at the Berlin Arts University (Meisterschueler exam with distinction).	Sarah with her first teacher, Ilse Reil (Oldenburg 2005)
In 1995–1999 she won five times the national competition for young composers „Schueler komponieren“. She was also the winner of the international Delmenhorst competition for composers in 1995. Her studies in composition are being scholarshiped by the German Academic Foundation since 2003. In 2007 she won the „Hanns-Eisler-Preis“ for Composition and got a scholarship by the „Aribert-Reimann-Foundation“, 2009 she got a sholarship by the „Wilfried-Steinbrenner-Foundation“, 2011 a 3-months residence at „Villa Serpentara“. As a composer she worked together with the „Nomos Quartet“, the ensemble „Accroche Note“, „Neues Ensemble Hanover“, ensemble „adapter“, „Oh-Ton-Ensemble“, ensemble „Experimente“, or the International Ensemble Modern Academy. In 2001 and 2002 she worked as a composer on the project „Europeras“ by Cage at the State Opera Hanover. Her compositions are part of international festivals – for example at the ICSM World New Music festival in Stuttgart, the Festival „Musica“ in Strasbourg, the „Klangwerkstatt“ as well as the „Neukoellner Originaltoene“ in Berlin or the Festival „ADevantgarde“ in Munich. Sarah Nemtsov is member of the Berlin composer's society „Klangnetz“. Several of her works are being published at „edition nova vita“. Her opera „L'ABSENCE“ (2006-2008) after „Le Livre des Questions“ by Edmond Jabès will be premiered in 2012 at „Muenchener Biennale“.
As an oboist Sarah Nemtsov got first prices at several national oboe competitions like the All-German competition „Jugend musiziert“ in 1999 (wind quintet „Accopiato“) and in 2000 (oboe solo). In 2000 the Accopiato-quintet got the „Little Price of Niedersachsen“. 2007 she got a special prize for the interpretation of her own composition „Interludien“. Sarah Nemtsov has performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, among others together with her husband, the pianist Jascha Nemtsov. Since 2007 she is concentrating on composition only.	With Jascha Nemtsov (2005)