Nina Scheidmantel

Piano
Building: am Residenzplatz | Room: R 307
Office hours: by arrangement

Nina Scheidmantel discovered her great love of music at an early age. The young pianist with German-Chinese roots gave her debut solo recital at the age of ten. Following countless invitations, she gave concerts in Germany, Belgium, Ukraine and China. In 2016, Nina presented herself for the first time with a piano recital at Carnegie Hall in New York. In the same year, she completed a highly acclaimed concert tour of China with the final concert at Zhongshang Concert Hall in Beijing. She has performed as a soloist with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Latvia, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Coburg, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Regensburg under the direction of conductors Arn Goerke, Roland Kluttig and Christian Simonis.

In addition to solo work, the pianist also devotes herself to chamber music. She has performed in numerous series of events and festivals, including the festival "Klanggrenzen" or with the "Blauer Eumel e. V.". By invitation, she participated in the Pablo Casals International Chamber Music Festival in Prades, where she worked with the Artis Quartet and the Shanghai Quartet. In January 2015, she and her duo partner Samira Spiegel were accepted into the "Live Music Now" Franken e.V. support program of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. In 2019, the duo won the promotional prize of the competition for the Wolfgang Fischer and Maria Fischer-Flach Prize.

Nina Scheidmantel was several times a prize winner at the national competition "Jugend musiziert" both as a soloist and in chamber music. She was sponsored by the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation due to exceptional talent, she is also a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Coburg e.V. 2012 in the year and the German Johann Strauss Society e.V. . In 2021 she received a scholarship from the German Music Council as part of "Neutstart Kultur", as well as a grant from the Carl-Bechstein Foundation.

Since October 2019, Nina Scheidmantel, who had already come to the University of Music Würzburg as a young student, has been studying in the Meisterklasse of Prof. Ana Mirabela Dina at the University of Music Würzburg.

In November 2021, she accepted a teaching position for major piano at the University of Music Würzburg.