Background
Nemtsov was born in Oldenburg and started her music lessons and composing aged eight.
Nemtsov was born in Oldenburg and started her music lessons and composing aged eight.
She studied composition under Nigel Osborne and Johannes Schöllhorn, and oboe under Klaus Becker, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.
She started playing the oboe aged 14. 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.