Nadja Reich was born in Berlin in 1993 and received her first violin lessons at the age of three with Anke Perschnik. At six she switched to playing the cello with Susanne Meves-Rößler. In 2002 she became a pupil of Prof. Matias de Oliveira Pinto who as of 2003 instructed her as a junior student at the Julius-Stern- Institute of the University of Arts Berlin where she also belongs to the 12 Cellists ensemble and the chamber orchestra. In 2007/08 Nadja received piano and composition instruction from Katia Tchemberdji and in fall 2008 changed to the cello class of Prof. Jens Peter Maintz. From 2008 to 2010 she studied piano with Jorge Ferreira whilst focussing on music theory with Lilia Ushakova from 2009 to 2011. Nadja elaborated her musical capacities in cello master classes with Matias de Oliveira Pinto, Jens Peter Maintz, Peter Bruns, Hillel Zori, Catalin Ilea, Francis Gouton, Ernst Simon Glaser, Bjørg Værnes Lewis, Wolfgang Boettcher and Wen-Sinn Yang and attended chamber music master classes with Gerhard Scherer, Doris Wagner-Dix, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Zvi Carmeli sowie Sergei Bressler.

From an early age on, Nadja Reich successfully partook in music competitions scoring a remarkable number of First and Special Prizes: First Prizes at the regional competition ,,Jugend musiziert“ in 2001 and 2002 (categories cello solo and cello duo); First Prize at the state-wide competition ,,Jugend musiziert“ in 2004 (category cello solo); First Prizes at the national competition,,Jugend musiziert“ in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2010 (categories contemporary music and cello solo); Special Prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in 2007 and 2010, Classics Prize of the city of Münster in 2007; Special Prize 2008 for the best rendition of a work specially commissioned for,,Jugend musiziert“; First Prize at the International Hindemith Competition in 2011.

Concert projects have seen Nadja Reich as a soloist and with members of the Julius-Stern- Institute in Barcelona, Madrid, Zurich, Basel, Oslo, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Her prize-winner concert in 2007 in Münster was broadcast on WDR, in 2009 she performed in Milan with the „Trio Zeitgenuss“ and recorded trio music for RBB. From 2008 to 2010 Nadja participated in the German-Israeli chamber music project ,,Musical Encounters“ in Israel and Deutschland , in 2010 she also performed at the Israeli Festival Keshet Eilhon. In February 2011 she made her debut in the chamber music hall of the Philharmonie Berlin with the BerlinClassicPlayers, in June she guested at the Norwegian Fetsival Valdres Sommersymfoni. In 2012 Nadja Reich can be heard as a soloist with the Young Symphony Orchestra Berlin.