Born in 1995 to a family of musicians, Nathalia Milstein began the piano at the age of 4 with her father Serguei Milstein and continued her studies with Nelson Goerner at the Geneva Haute Ecole de Musique as well as with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Saïd Akademie in Berlin.

Nathalia launched her international career in 2015 by winning 1st Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition and has been since then invited to renowned halls such as the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Zankel Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin and the Radio France Auditorium in Paris, as well as performing with orchestras such as the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Boulez Ensemble, Paris and Geneva Chamber Orchestras, amongst conductors such as Mikko Franck, Matthias Pintscher, John Storgårds and Arie van Beek.

In 2017 she was awarded the Young Soloist Prize by the Médias Francophones Publics and in season 2021/22 Nathalia was selected for the “Building Bridges” series curated by Sir András Schiff. Throughout her studies, Nathalia Milstein has received valuable teaching from renowned professors and pianists such as Daniel Barenboim, Menahem Pressler, Emanuel Krasovsky, Elena Ashkenazy or Enrico Pace.

A keen chamber music player, Nathalia also performs regularly with renowned musicians and is invited to international chamber music events, such as the Intonations Festival in Berlin, the West Cork Festival in Ireland, Lavaux Classic in Switzerland, the Schiermonnikoog Festival in the Netherlands. She also appears on the latest CD recording of the Prazak Quartet dedicated to works of Smetana. For several years she has been playing in duo with her sister violinist Maria Milstein, with whom she recorded two albums together - “La Sonate de Vinteuil” (2017) and “Ravel Voyageur” (2019) - both on the French label Mirare and praised by international critics. Supported by the Safran Foundation (Paris) and the Foundation “Tempo” (Geneva), Nathalia's debut solo CD, featuring works of Prokofiev and Ravel, is released in 2018 on Mirare. Her second album « Visions Fugitives » is released in September 2021 and is awarded a « Choc Classica » as one of the best recordings of 2021.

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Nathalia Milstein's discussion with Charlotte Gardner about her career experiences and recital programme performed at Classeek in March 2022.

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