Biography Sarah Nemtsov

Sarah Nemtsov (née Reuter) was born in Oldenburg, Germany in 1980. In 1987, she got her first music lessons, around the same time she began writing her first compositions. Between 1989 and 1993 she participated in numerous concerts and recordings of the REIL TRIO as a recorder player. At the age of 14 she started playing the oboe. Since1998 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). Since 2003 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 at a concert 1989 with the Reil trio - Ilse Reil (recorder) and Hermann Dick (harpsichord)
Between 1995–1999 she won five times the national competition for young composers „Jugend komponiert“. She has been a recipient of a scholarship from the German Academic Foundation since 2003. In 2007 she won the „Hanns-Eisler-Preis“ for Composition and received a scholarship by the Aribert-Reimann-Foundation, 2009 she got a sholarship by the Wilfried-Steinbrenner-Foundation, 2011 a residence at Villa Serpentara (Italy) and a scholarship by the Berlin Senate. As a composer she has worked together with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, ensemble Accroche Note, Trio accanto, Neues Ensemble Hanover, ensemble Adapter, Nomos Quartet, Oh-Ton-Ensemble, or the International Ensemble Modern Academy. Her compositions are featured in various international festivals – for example at the Donaueschingen Music Days (2011), ICSM World New Music festival in Stuttgart, festival Musica in Strasbourg, Festival Ultraschall and Klangwerkstatt in Berlin or ADevantgarde in Munich. Sarah Nemtsov is member of the Berlin composer's society Klangnetz. Her chamber opera „Herzland“ (2005) premiered in Hanover in 2006; it was staged at the Bavarian state opera in 2011 (in co-production with Orchester Jakobsplatz Munich). Her opera „L'ABSENCE“ (2006-2008) after „Le Livre des Questions“ by Edmond Jabès will premiere in 2012 at Muenchener Biennale.	composing (2009)
As an oboist Sarah Nemtsov won first prices at several national oboe competitions like „Jugend musiziert - Bundeswettbewerb“ in 1999 (wood wind quintet) and in 2000 (oboe solo). She got a prize of the Hanover artist society and in 2001 a „Price of Niedersachsen“ with the Accopiato Quintet. In 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, amongst others together with her husband, the pianist Jascha Nemtsov. Since 2007 she is concentrating on composition only.