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After being awarded a prize with the highest distinction at the Paris Conservatoire in 2001, her talent is soon recognised at an international level: 1st prize from the Académie Internationale de Musique Maurice Ravel, 4th prize and two special prizes at the Concours Jacques Thibaud, 2nd prize in the Benjamin Britten International Violin Competition in London after a final-round performance of Britten’s concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.Since 2005 she is the principal first violin of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. In this capacity, she regularly performs as a soloist at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.Her curiosity and passion push her ever further: by directing the orchestra herself, she can prioritise the collaboration between herself as soloist and the orchestral musicians, bringing to a concerto the sensibility of a true chamber musician.In 2015–16 she conducted symphonies by Mozart at the Hôtel Sully in Paris and at Palazzo Farnese in Rome. As a soloist, she has performed at the Enescu Festival and the Augsburg Festival under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington. She has appeared as a soloist at the Festival de Montpellier, and has given recitals at the Musée d’Orsay and at the Festival des Midis-Minimes in Brussels.In 2016 she teamed up with her sister Sarah for the second time to record the complete duos of Bartók (Decca). Her privileged partners are pianists Romain Descharmes and Natacha Kudritskaya, as well as clarinetist Florent Pujuila.Deborah Nemtanu was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in February 2016.

Nemtanu captures well the intimacy of Saint-Saëns’s

youthfull First Violin Concerto and she’s equally comfortable

in that virtuoso standard, the Introduction and Rondo

Capriccioso, lending an almost vocal intensity to the sinuous lines of the slower music and

making the work her own.

Harriet Smith, Gramophone, May 2013

The guest leader Deborah Nemtanu survived her repeated

violin solos with sinuous charm and good taste in

Scheherazade.

Geoff Brown, Times on line,

September 2008

Deborah Nemtanu

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NEWMartinuDouble Concertowith violonist Sarah Nemtanu Marseille Philarmonic Orchestra directed by Lawrence Foster Pentatone, avril 2018