SAMUEL NEMTANU violin

Samuel Nemtanu, French violinist, born in Bordeaux is leader of the second violins of Brussels Philharmonic since 2016.

He is co-artistic director of the CAROUSEL chamber music ensemble gathering 11 musicians from the best European scenes.

Samuel Nemtanu is regularly invited as concertmaster of the Orchestre d’ Auvergne and Malta Philharmonic Orchestra. He performs on a regular basis with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, l’Orchestre National de France, l’Orchestre de chambre de Paris et l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.

Samuel is a member of the French orchestra ‘les Dissonances’, playing as a co-leader. It is the orchestras ambition to performing symphonic repertoire without a conductor.

Samuel Nemtanu won a first prize at the International Violin Competition Henry Koch in Liege in 2006. He has appeared as a soloist with the Keshet Eilon String Orchestra at the Musée du Louvre in Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonic Royal de Liège.

Samuel is principal coach of the Youth Orchestra of Flanders (Belgium) for the string section. He is also invited for masterclasses in the International Festival of Huilo Huilo in Chili.

He studied at the National Conservatory of Bordeaux under his uncle Vladimir Nemtanu, at the renowned Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Boris Garlitsky and the Roosevelt University of Chicago with Shmuel Ashkenasi.

Samuel took part in masterclasses with Jean Jaques Kantorow, Ivry Gitlis, Haim Taub, Latica Honda Rosenberg and Hagai Shaham and Augustin Dumay.