1967 Natalia Gutman received the first prize in the Munich ARD Competition - a reward which marks the beginning of her international career. Since then she has performed on all continents with orchestras such as the Vienna, Berlin, Munich and St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, and many more. Festival appearances have included the Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals and the Berliner and Wiener Festwochen. Distinguished conductors with whom this artist has worked include Wolfgang Sawallisch, Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Bernhard Haitink, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Yuri Temirkanov, Sergiu Celibidache, Mstislav Rostropovich and Kurt Masur. Natalia Gutman now regularly plays with the most prestigious orchestras all over the world.

Natalia Gutman is also a committed chamber musician; her regular partners have included Martha Argerich and Elisso Virsaladze, Yuri Bashmet, Alexeij Lubimov, Svjatoslav Richter and Oleg Kagan. She has premiered many contemporary works and Alfred Schnittke dedicated a sonata and his first Cello Concerto to her. As a solo chamber performer, she has played the complete Bach solo suites in cities including Moscow, Berlin, Munich, Madrid, and Barcelona.

She has recorded the Shostakovich Concertos No. 1 and 2 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov for RCA/BMG-Ariola. For EMI Natalia Gutman recorded several works, including the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. 1992 saw the release of the Schumann and Schnittke Cello Concertos with the London Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur. Her most recent release on EMI Classics presented the complete Schumann chamber music with partners including Martha Argerich and Misha Maisky. Natalia Gutman currrently records for Life Classics, a small company dedicated principally to the group of musicians connected with Oleg Kagan.

Each year at the beginning of July Natalia Gutman invites her friends & internationally renowned artists - to the International Musikfest am Tegernsee in the Bavarian Alps, a festival which she founded in 1990 with - and after his death dedicated to - Oleg Kagan. Dedicated to the highest standards of musicality, this festival reflects Natalia Gutman's approach to all music-making.

Miss Gutman has been invited to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Music, for her services to music and to the College.

In 2006, the 150th anniversary of Schumann’s death and the centenary of Shostakovich’s birth, Natalia Gutman performs the Schumann cello concerto in Milan, Valencia, Cologne, Taipei, Florence and London, and Shostakovich’s first concerto in Tel Aviv, Monte Carlo, Warsaw, Athens, Vienna, the Netherlands and in France. Further performances include the Lutoslawski concerto in Paris.

UK, USA Management: Aminah Domloge, Pro Artist

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