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Nathalia Milstein was born into a musical family in 1995 in France and received her first piano lessons at the age of 4 from her father Serguei Milstein. She went on to study the piano with Nelson Goerner at the Geneva Haute Ecole de Musique, and with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Saïd Akademie in Berlin. In addition, Nathalia attended masterclasses with renowned professors and pianists such as Daniel Barenboim, Menahem Pressler, Mikhail Voskressensky, Emanuel Krasovsky, Elena Ashkenazy, Jan Wijn, and Enrico Pace and was participant of the “Building Bridges” programme by Sir Andras Schiff.

Nathalia’s international career took off in 2015, when she won 1st Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition. In 2017 she was also awarded the Young Soloist Prize by the Médias Francophones Publics.

Since 2015 she has been invited to work with orchestas such as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Boulez Ensemble, the Strassbourg Philharmonique Orchestra, the WDR Symphony, the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestra de Paris, the Phion Orchestra Netherlands and the Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France, working with leading conductors such as Renaud Capucon, Xu Zhong, Jonathan Nott,Matthias Pintscher, John Storgårds, Christoph Koncz, and Arie van Beek.

At home and abroad she enjoys participating in festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron, the Heidelberger Frühling, Piano aux Jacobins, Grachtenfestival, New Ross Piano Festival, Zaubersee Festival, and Radio France Festival.

In 25/26 Nathalia will be featured twice at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in the Small Hall as part of the “Grote Pianisten” series, and with her debut in the Big Hall together with the Jeugdorkest Nederland with Rachmaninovs 2nd Piano Concerto conducted by Jurjen Hempel. Further engagements will take her also to the Barenboim Said Academy Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.

This season’s solo recitals include major venues such as the Vienna Konzerthaus, the LAC in Lugano, the Conservatorio di Milano, the Neumarkter Konzertfreunde, the Kunstmuseum Solingen, the Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, the Piano District Baden and La Folle Journée de Nantes.

Further chamber music concerts will take Nathalia to the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti (IUC) in Rome, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the Seine Musicale in Paris and TivoliVredenburg. Her chamber music partners this season include the Schumann Quartet, Maria Milstein, Andrei Ioniță and Ivan Karizna.

Nathalia's discography is already impressive: supported by the Fondation Safran (Paris) and the Fondation Tempo (Geneva), her first solo CD featuring works by Prokofiev and Ravel was released in 2018 on the French label Mirare. Her second album, ‘Visions Fugitives’, was awarded the ‘Choc Classica’ as one of the best recordings of 2021. She also recorded Stravinsky's Capriccio with Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for Alpha Classics. In November 2025, another solo recording, Alla Schumann, was released on the Mirare label.

Together with her sister, Maria Milstein, she has recorded two albums: La Sonate de Vinteuil (2017) and Ravel Voyageur (2019), both released by Mirare and praised by international critics. In September 2024, they released their third recording, a double album dedicated to Schubert's complete works for violin and piano

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