Artem Nesterenko

Artem Nesterenko was born in 1989 in Novosibirsk, Russia. He began voice and piano lessons at the age of ten and soon won numerous first prizes at national and international youth competitions in Russia. After moving to Germany with his parents in 2002, he continued his vocal studies in Hanover with Peter Sefcik at the municipal music school and with Gerhard Faulstich at the Institute for the Early Promotion of Highly Gifted Musicians (IFF). Between 2005 and 2008 he was a multiple first-prize winner at the national »Jugend musiziert« competition (voice solo and art song duo), receiving several scholarships in 2008, including from the Walter Kaminsky Foundation, Sparkasse Hannover (RAM scholarship) and NDR.

He began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover with Gudrun Pelker in 2008, continuing from 2010 at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Wolfgang Brendel. In 2009 and 2010 he appeared at the Handel Festivals in Göttingen and Halle, including in Handel’s »Israel in Egypt«, and in 2010 he was a prizewinner in the Berlin National Singing Competition (junior category). From 2011 he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Enrico Facini, completing his Bachelor’s degree in 2014. He is a scholarship holder of Live Music Now Hanover (since 2009) and Berlin (since 2011), the Paul Hindemith Society Berlin (since 2013) and the Lyra Foundation (since 2013).​

Artem Nesterenko began working with the Rundfunkchor Berlin as a freelance singer in 2012. In 2013 he was a prizewinner at the Beaumarchais Concours in Vienna, and in May 2014 he received a scholarship and the audience prize from the Walter and Charlotte Hamel Foundation. He has been a permanent member of the Rundfunkchor Berlin since August 2015.