Described by The Times as ‘mesmerising’ and ‘soaringly passionate’, cellist Natalie Clein has built a distinguished career, regularly performing at major venues and with orchestras worldwide. An exclusive Hyperion artist, she has recorded the two cello concertos by Camille Saint-Saëns as well as Bloch’s Schelomo and Bruch’s Kol Nidrei with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Her album of Kodály’s sonatas for cello met with great critical acclaim, and her solo recording of Bloch, Ligeti and Dallapiccola was awarded the Diapason d’Or.

Natalie Clein has performed with orchestras including the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Hallé, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Montréal Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre national d’Île de France, St Petersburg Symphony, New Zealand Symphony and Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires. She has performed with conductors including Sir Mark Elder, Sir Roger Norrington, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leonard Slatkin and Heinrich Schiff. Internationally she has toured Australia, the USA and South America and is heard frequently in Europe. She has also appeared regularly at the BBC Proms.

A keen chamber music and recital performer, Natalie Clein regularly collaborates with artists including Leif Ove Andsnes, Henning Kraggerud, Christian Ihle Hadland, Anthony Marwood and Barnabas Keleman. She has also worked with Martha Argerich, Paul Lewis, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, Imogen Cooper, Lars Vogt and Isabelle Faust. She has had works written for her by composers including Thomas Larcher, Brian Elias and Judith Weir, and has also curated and been involved in cross-disciplinary projects with the dancer Carlos Acosta, writer Jeanette Winterson and director Deborah Warner amongst others. Natalie is the proud artistic director of her own chamber music festival in Purbeck, Dorset.

Natalie came to widespread attention at the age of sixteen when she won both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Warsaw. She completed her studies with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. Natalie plays the ‘Simpson’ Guadagnini cello of 1777.