Nadja Reich

Nadja Reich has been a member of the Nerida String Quartet since 2023. With the quartet, she was awarded the Prize of the Bundespräsident (2nd prize) at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in Berlin in 2024.

Born in Berlin, Nadja studied with Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University of the Arts and with Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts. 

From 2019 to 2022, she was an academist at the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and has been a regular guest there since then, including as a chamber music partner and solo cellist.

Her musical encounters with Kristin von der Goltz, Steven Isserlis, Truls Mørk and Alfred Brendel have also provided her with important inspiration. As a passionate chamber musician, she has performed with the Doric Quartet and Midori, among others. 

Nadja Reich has been invited to Prussia Cove’s Open Chamber Music weeks as well as to festivals such as Ernen Musikdorf (Switzerland), Gezeitenkonzerte, Krzyzowa Music Festival (Poland), Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern and others. 

In 2018/19 Nadja performed as a cellist in the theatre production ‘44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776’ by Christoph Marthaler at Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 2024, she accepted an invitation to perform in Marthaler's new production ‘Dr Watzenreuthers Vermächtnis - ein Wunschdenkfehler’ at Theater Basel.

Nadja Reich is the winner of the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Music Prize 2018 and the Migros Culture Percentage Study Prize 2017 and 2018. In 2017 Nadja Reich won first prize at the international Suggia Competition in Porto; in 2011 she won first prize at the international Hindemith Competition in Berlin. She also received two special prizes at the Tonali Competition in 2015.

Nadja Reich plays on a Filippo Fasser cello, generously loaned to her by Sol Gabetta.

Nadja Reich loves the intensity that can arise in chamber music on stage. In music, she strives to be open and vulnerable to allow resonances between her fellow musicians and herself as well as the audience.

When she is not playing the cello, Nadja can be found outside somewhere where there are trees nearby. On her bike or on foot, with or without a book, writing, painting or taking photographs. She recharges with friends and family, enjoys spontaneously jumping into the lake and can't imagine life without cooking and sleeping.