About the artist
Jascha Nemtsov was born in 1963 in Magadan, grew up in St. Petersburg and graduated with honours from the conservatory there. He has lived in Germany since 1992. As a pianist, he performs internationally and has recorded more than 40 CDs, including many first recordings of works by persecuted and forgotten composers. For this, he received the German Record Critics' Award in 2007 and the Opus Klassik in 2018. As a musicologist, he is Professor of the History of Jewish Music at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik Weimar and Academic Director of cantor training at the University of Potsdam. He has been artistic director of the ACHAVA Festspiele Thüringen since 2015. In 2024, his monograph on the New Jewish School in music was published, as well as the textbook "Jüdische Musik: Einführung".
