Described by The Times as "mesmerizing" and "fiercely passionate," British cellist Natalie Clein has built a distinguished career, performing regularly at major venues and with orchestras around the world.

She records regularly for Hyperion, including Camille Saint-Saëns's two cello concertos, as well as Bloch's Schelomo and Bruch's Kol Nidrei with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and three CDs for EMI. Her recordings have won awards including Classical Brit, Gramophone, and BBC Record of the Month, as well as a Diapason d'Or.

Natalie Clein is regularly invited to perform with major orchestras worldwide, including the Philharmonia, Hallé, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, New Zealand Symphony, Opole Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Symphony, and Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires. She has performed with conductors such as Sir Mark Elder, Sir Roger Norrington, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leonard Slatkin, Heinrich Schiff, and José Serebrier.

Her musical collaborators include artists such as Cedric Pescia, Marianna Shirinyan, and Julius Drake. She has also collaborated with Martha Argerich, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, Imogen Cooper, Lars Vogt, Isabelle Faust, Nurit Stark, Ruby Hughes, and Yeol Eum Son.

A strong advocate of new works, she gave the world premieres of Sir John Tavener's Flood of Beauty with the Britten Sinfonia and Charlotte Bray's The Certainty of Tides with the Aurora Orchestra, and has previously commissioned works from Brian Elias and Thomas Larcher. She has also collaborated on interdisciplinary projects with dancer Carlos Acosta, writer Jeanette Winterson, and director Deborah Warner, among others.

She is Artistic Director of the Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival, Dorset, and has curated series for BBC Radio 3 at LSO St Luke's and as part of King's Place's Cello Unwrapped. She was also Artist in Residence and Director of Musical Performance at the University of Oxford from 2015 to 2019 and has been Professor of Cello at the Rostock University of Music in Germany since 2018. She is also Professor of Cello at the Royal College of Music.

Natalie was born in the UK and rose to prominence when she won both the BBC Young Musician of the Year award and the Eurovision Song Contest in Warsaw. She studied at the Royal College of Music in London and with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. In 2021, Natalie was awarded an OBE for services to music.

She plays the Guadagnini cello “Simpson” from 1777.

Photo © Michael Staab

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