Natalia Khoma is an internationally renowned cellist who has won top prizes at international competitions: the Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest, the Marknoikirchen Competition in Germany, the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Belgrade Cello Competition.
A native of Lviv, N. Khoma studied at the Lviv Krushelnytska Music School and Lviv Conservatory with Professor Yevhen Spitzer, and in 1982-1990 at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Natalia Shakhovska. In the United States, N. Khoma was awarded the Artist Diploma at Boston University with Professor Leslie Parnas. At the age of 10, she made her first appearance on TV, and at the age of 13, she played her first concert with an orchestra.
The first and only Ukrainian cellist to win the Tchaikovsky Competition, she has performed recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in the former USSR, the USA, Canada, South America, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, South Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. As a soloist, she has appeared with leading orchestras such as the Berlin Radio Orchestra, Belgrade and Budapest Philharmonic Orchestras, National State Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Moscow Radio Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, New York City Symphony Chamber Ensemble, and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, and has recited at the Tchaikovsky Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow State Philharmonic, and the Moscow State Academic Theatre. Tchaikovsky Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Kyiv's Great Column Hall, Odesa Philharmonic Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York, Jordan Hall and Tsai Performance Centre in Boston, and the Crannert Centre in Illinois, The Wharton Centre in Michigan, Schauspielhaus in Berlin, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Amphitheatre Richelieu de la Sorbonne in Paris, Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg, Baxter Theatre Centre Concert Hall (Cape Town), Great Halls of the Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary and the Great Hall of the National Academy of Music in the Netherlands. Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary and the Oslo Academy of Music in Norway, the Teatro de Santo Isabel in Recife, and many others.
She has performed recitals and as a cameraman at prestigious international festivals in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, France, Brazil, Curacao, Canada, Taiwan, the Czech Republic and numerous festivals in the United States. She is also a regular participant in the Music at the Institute concert series in New York.
Н. Khoma has been a professor at the Lviv Conservatory, Roosevelt University College of Music in Chicago, Michigan State University, and a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut School of Music.
In 1992, she was invited to chair the jury of the First Mykola Lysenko International Competition in Kyiv, and in 2007 she performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine at the Opening Concert of the same competition.
Н. Khoma has recorded on NHK-TV (Japan), CD recordings on TNC/Cambria, Blue Griffin, IMP, Dorian sono luminus, Centaur, Naxos, Ongaku, as well as recordings on radio and television in Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Spain, the former Yugoslavia, Israel, Hungary, on WNYC-FM in New York and WGBH-FM in Boston.
In addition to her concert activities, Khoma is also an Associate Professor of Cello at the College of Charleston, co-founder and co-music director of the Charleston Music Festival, and founder of the Children's Music Foundation, which provides tuition, instruments, and financial assistance to needy Ukrainian gifted music students.
In October 2008, she was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of the Lviv National Music Academy, and in May 2010, she was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of the Odesa State Music Academy. In 2010. N. Khoma was nominated for a GRAMMY CD (Dorian sono luminous label) award for "Radames Gnattali: Solo and Chamber Works for Guitar".
