Sarah Nemtsov

Sarah Nemstov (née Reuter, born 28 May 1980) is a German composer.

Nemtsov was born in Oldenburg and started her music lessons and composing aged eight. She started playing the oboe aged 14.

She studied composition under Nigel Osborne and Johannes Schöllhorn, and oboe under Klaus Becker, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. At the Universität der Künste Berlin, she continued her oboe studies under Burkhard Glaetzner, and her composition at post-graduate level with Walter Zimmermann.

Her second opera, L'Absence, to her own libretto after Edmond Jabès was premiered at the 2012 Munich Biennale.

She became a full-time composer in 2007. She is married to the pianist and musicologist Jascha Nemtsov.

Selected works

Stage works

Premiere	Title	Description	Libretto and source
20 Jan 2006, Alte Zeche, Barsinghausen, (original version); 24 Nov 2009, Hubert-Burda-Saal, Munich (revised version)	Herzland	Chamber opera in five acts, 30'	after the correspondence between Paul Celan and Gisèle Celan-Lestrange
3 May 2012, Munich Biennale	L'Absence	Opera in five acts with prologue and epilogue	the composer, after Livre des Questions by Edmond Jabès

External links

• Sarah Nemtsov official website