Nadja Reich

Cello

Cellist Nadja Reich, born in Berlin, studied with Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University of the Arts and with Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts. She received important artistic inspiration through musical encounters with Kristin von der Goltz, Truls Mørk, and Alfred Brendel, as well as through intensive collaboration with members of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, where she participated as an academy member for three years in tours, chamber concerts, and award-winning CD recordings.
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Nadja Reich attended masterclasses with Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy and with Steven Isserlis at the International Musicians’ Seminar in Prussia Cove, and she was a scholarship holder of Villa Musica for chamber music. A passionate chamber musician, she has performed with the Doric Quartet, among others at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, while as a soloist she has appeared at the Berlin Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall, the Rudolfinum in Prague, Alti Hall in Kyoto, and many other venues.
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She has been invited to festivals such as Ernen Music Village, the Krzyżowa Music Festival, Open Chamber Music Prussia Cove, Valdres Sommersymfoni, as well as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Gezeitenkonzerte, the Trans-Siberian Art Festival, and others. In addition, she has appeared as a cellist in several theatre productions by Christoph Marthaler on major stages including the Schauspielhaus Zürich and Theater Basel.
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Nadja Reich is a prizewinner of the TONALi Competition (Hamburg), the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Music Prize (Bern), and the Migros Cultural Percentage (Zurich). She won First Prize at the International Suggia Competition in Porto as well as First Prize at the International Hindemith Competition in Berlin. With the Nerida Quartet, she received a prize at the Mendelssohn Competition in 2024. She was also a prizewinner with her former piano trio at the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition, a finalist at the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes, and winner of the Kiwanis Competition Zurich.