She made her concerto début at the BBC Proms in 1997 and has since performed as a soloist with all of the UK’s top orchestras with conductors such as Sir Charles Mackerras, Gennardi Rozhdestvensky, Sir Andrew Davis, Heinrich Schiff (with whom she studied in Vienna), Sir Neville Marriner, Mark Wigglesworth and Paul Daniel. Her international career continues to gain momentum with concerts in the United States, Canada, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria and Spain. Her début concerts with the Montreal Symphony and Mark Wigglesworth received critical acclaim as did her Argentinean debut at the Teatro Colon with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires where she will return in 2010.

Future appearances include the Hallé, Ulster, Royal Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National orchestras, the Scottish Ensemble, Sinfonia Viva, London Contemporary Orchestra and will tour South America with the European Union Chamber Orchestra. Natalie is in great demand as a recitalist and in addition to the major UK venues, she has given recitals in Tokyo, Seoul, New York (Lincoln Center), Copenhagen, Vienna and Salzburg. Her recital partners have included Kathryn Stott, Steven Kovacevich, Julius Drake, Katya Apekisheva, Wayne Marshall, Itamar Golan, Charles Owen, Polina Leschenko and the Chinese guitarist, Xuefei Yang (with whom she will tour Ireland in April 2010)

She is an avid chamber musician and regularly invited to perform with the Jerusalem, Takacs and Belcea quartets as well as the Nash Ensemble. Each she summer takes part in many of the world’s great international chamber festivals where she has collaborated with Martha Argerich, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, Melvyn Tan, Imogen Cooper, Lars Vogt, Steven Isserlis, clarinetists Michael Collins, Sharon Kam, Chen Halevi and Emma Johnson, oboist Nick Daniel and violinists Antony Marwood, Pekka Kuusisto, Isabelle Faust and Priya Mitchell. She formed a piano quartet with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Krzysztof Chorzelski and Polina Leshenko in 2008 and in July 2009 performed solo Bach with Carlos Acosta at the Manchester International Festival in a Suite of Dances by Jerome Robbins. Summer 2010 will take her to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Brodsky Quartet.

Natalie has released three discs on EMI Classics; her latest recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vernon Handley, CBE conducting was released in September 2007 to great critical acclaim including editor’s choice in the Gramophone. Previous discs, with Charles Owen, have included a recital disc with both Brahms Cello Sonatas and Schubert’s Arpeggione and The Romantic Cello with Rachmaninov’s Sonata and Chopin’s Sonata and Polonaise. In Autumn 2009 she recorded an all-Kodaly CD with Julius Drake for release on Hyperion in June 2010 and will tour the UK with solo performances of the Kodaly Op. 8 sonata.

In 2009, Natalie commissioned and premiered works by Fyfe Dangerfield: Eggshell Walker for Solo Cello at the Bridgewater Hall Manchester; Thomas Larcher Sonata for Natalie Clein at Wigmore Hall; Dobrinka Tabakova On the South Downs for Solo Cello, Two Choirs and Chamber Orchestra at the Chichester Festival and Shiva Feshareki Critical Distortions for Cello and Turntables. She has also premièred works by Peter Maxwell-Davies and ventured into the world of improvisation with pianist Paul Beard playing live for the silent movie The Temptress at the British Film Institute in London.

Natalie is an extremely committed mentor of young talent and has worked extensively around the world with young musicians including giving frequent master-classes and leading educational workshops

Natalie Clein plays on the “Simpson” Guadagnini cello (1777).*

She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship by the Royal College of Music before completing her studies with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna.