Deborah Nemtanu

After obtaining her first prize in 2001 at the Paris Conservatoire, she went on to win numerous international awards: the Maurice Ravel Academy Prize, participation in the Perlman Program (USA), 2nd prize in the Benjamin Britten Competition in London, crowned by a concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
At just 20, she was appointed super-solo concertmaster of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, a position of great responsibility that she still holds today. In this capacity, she appears regularly as soloist at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, establishing relationships of deep trust with conductors such as Lars Vogt, Andris Nelsons, Juraj Valčuha, Maxim Emelyanychev, Daniel Harding and Sir Roger Norrington.

With freshness and musical freedom, Deborah Nemtanu is increasingly distinguishing herself in conducting, renewing concert traditions by encouraging dynamic interaction between musicians and audience.

She has conducted Mozart symphonies at the Hôtel Sully in Paris and the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, and recently at the Konzerthaus in Berlin and the Elbephilarmonie in Hamburg.

As a soloist, she has performed at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest and the Augsburg Festival under Sir Roger Norrington.

An eclectic chamber musician, including the viola and folk music, she performs with artists as delightful as they are open-minded, such as Vilde Frang, Tabea Zimerman, Kristian Tetzlaff, Emmanuel Pahud, François Leleux, Fazil Say, Thomas Enhco, Olli Mustonen...at the Salzburg, Montpellier and Colmar festivals, the Folles journées in Nantes and Tokyo, and the Musée d'Orsay...

Her recordings include the complete Bartók Duos (Decca) in collaboration with her sister Sarah, and “Furiant”, released in 2024 by Mirare (the second in a long-standing collaboration with La Symphonie de poche conducted by Nicolas Simon), a project that draws on the repertoire inspired by Central European folklore and dear to her Romanian roots.

Deborah Nemtanu has been named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

She plays a magnificent violin by Domenico Montagnana (1740), generously loaned by Monceau Investissements Mobiliers, a company in the Monceau Assurances group.

May 2025