Elea Nick

Elea Nick was born on 9 August 1999 in Zurich into a family of musicians. From 2007, she attended Jörg Hofmann’s talent class in Freiburg im Breisgau. As the youngest student at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Elea Nick was accepted into Prof. Zakhar Bron’s masterclass in 2012. She went on to study with Pierre Amoyal, Julia Fischer, Vadim Repin, Natalya Prischepenko and Pavel Vernikov.

She won first prizes at international competitions in Novosibirsk (Russia), Lublin (Poland) and Sofia (Bulgaria), and has performed with leading orchestras such as the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Camerata Zürich, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shaanxi Symphony Orchestra. For over a year, a Swiss TV crew accompanied Elea Nick as part of the documentary ‘Meisterschülerinnen – der Traum einer Solokarriere’ (Master Students – The Dream of a Solo Career), which was broadcast in March 2016 on the programme ‘Sternstunde für Musik’.

In 2021, Elea Nick completed both a Bachelor’s degree in Music under Professor Zakhar Bron and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the University of Zurich. A year later, she went on to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Law at the University of Zurich, followed in 2024 by a Master of Performance under Professor Zakhar Bron at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. At the same time, she completed her Master’s degree in Law at the University of Zurich. In 2025, she also completed a Master’s degree in Political Science at the Fernuniversität Hagen.

She has been a permanent member of the first violins at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden since 2025.