Nimrod Borenstein
Composer & Conductor

The past few years have seen a great number of Nimrod Borenstein’s works being commissioned, recorded and
premiered at the most prestigious venues and festivals across the globe, from the Royal Festival Hall and Royal Opera House in London to the Salle Gaveau in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, and Hong Kong City Hall.
In recent years, he has been commissioned to write the obligatory performance pieces for the Hong Kong International Piano Competition (2019) and the International Jeunesses Musicales Competition for violoncello (2020).
Among his high-profile champions, Vladimir Ashkenazy has conducted several of Borenstein’s compositions, culminating in the recording of an album of his orchestral works for Chandos (BBC Music Magazine ‘Choice’). Other leading artists to have performed Borenstein’s music include: Pascal Rogé, Roberto Prosseda, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, the Quartetto di Cremona, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Oxford Philharmonic, the Israel Camerata, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra.
Nimrod Borenstein is a Laureate of the Cziffra Foundation and an Associate of London’s Royal Academyof Music. His substantial catalogue continues currently numbers more than 100 works, including orchestral and chamber music as well as vocal and solo instrumental pieces. He also composed the score for a ballet, Suspended, which has received more than 250 performances around the world.
Increasingly in demand on the podium, Nimrod Borenstein has various conducting projects
underway, currently encompassing orchestras in the UK, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Finland,
Brazil and Italy.
Last season Nimrod started a collaboration with the English Chamber Orchestra as composer
and conductor. Following a very successful concert in March 2025 he will be recording with the ECO an entire CD Album of his music to be released on Somm Recordings in February 2026.
"Nimrod Borenstein is rapidly establishing himself amongst the most recorded of contemporary composers"
- Gramophone
"an exuberantly inventive composer"
- BBC Music Magazine, Monthly choice
"Contemporary works full of grand gestures and soaring melody"
- The Strad



