Nelli Rerikh

Biography

Nelli Rerikh was born in 2004 in the city of Ekibastuz, in northern Kazakhstan. At the age of six, she began studying music at the M.I. Glinka Children’s Music School in Ekibastuz under the guidance of teacher Natalia Zaripova. At the age of fourteen, she continued her studies at the “Music College – Boarding Music School for Gifted Children” complex in Pavlodar. In 2023, she entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she studies in the class of Associate Professor Yuri Didenko. Since 2026, she has continued her studies in the class of Associate Professor Jacob Katsnelson. She is the recipient of the “Ertis Daryny” award in the “Culture” category and was awarded the “Tauelsizdik Ulany” prize for talented youth of Kazakhstan. Since 2021, she has been a scholarship holder of the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.