Nadezhda Artamonova

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Nadezhda started playing violin at the age of four making her orchestral debut one year later. She continued her studies in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire uner professor Sergey Kravtchenko. 

Nadezhda is a prize winner of several international competitions and leads a busy life as a concert performer and a pedagogue. Her concert travels have taken her to some of the best concert halls in the world including the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatoire, Kyiv Academy of Music, to name but a few.

Nadezhda is a frequent soloist with Kyiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyiv Chamber Orchestra,  Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Conservatoire Оrchestra and many others.

An avid educator, Nadezhda in collaboration with her husband pianist composer Alexey Kurbatov and musicologist Olga Ponomareva devised several cycles of educational lectures and concerts for children and adults. 

Nadezhda is a keen supporter of contemporary composers, having premiered a number of works for violin. 

Nadezhda’s teaching career started when she was still a student and continued until today.

She tought  at the Central Music School in Moscow, the Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical and Pedagogical Institute, the Vishnevskaya College of Musical and Theater Arts. Many of her students are prize winners of international competitions and scholarship holders of various foundations, they perform in the most prestigious halls of the world. 

Nadezda regularly gives master classes worldwide and serves as a jury member of international competitions. 

In March 2022, after the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Nadezhda and her family have left Russia for good and settled in Montenegro. She is teaching at the Andre Navarra music college and continues her concert activities around the world.