The Russian Jewish pianist and musicologist Jascha Nemtsov was born in Magadan in 1963. He attended the college of music (Special Music School) at the Leningrad Conservatory and was awarded a gold medal in the final exams. He then continued his musical education at the piano department of the Leningrad Conservatory and graduated with distinction in 1986. In 1992 Jascha Nemtsov moved to Germany. Apart from performing the classical and romantic piano repertoire as well as 20th century music he dedicated several concert programmes to works by Jewish composers persecuted and murdered by the Nazis: Viktor Ullmann, Erwin Schulhoff, Gideon Klein and Pavel Haas.