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Nina Vanhoenacker is a cellist and performer based in Belgium. She is a founding member of both Extended Music Collective, a chamber music ensemble focused on new, classical music and Inland Ocean, a global, creative cooperative of dancers, musicians and composers who transcend geographic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries to pioneer contemporary art.
As a solo performer and chamber musician she performs mostly contemporary classical music and experimental music, both acoustic and electro-acoustic. This has led to several collaborations with international composers and premieres of works by Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Anqi Liu, Missy Mazzoli, Alireza Farhang, Anuj Bhutani, Ollie Hawker, Adriana Hölszky and more. She performed at several festivals and venues in Europe such as Ruiskamer Festival (BE), Klangspuren Festival (AT) , the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt (DE) , the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Canada and at the online Next Fest of Emerging Artists (USA).
Nina is strongly interested in boundary-stretching and interdisciplinary, collaborative projects. She created the accompanying music for visual artist Mike Nixon’s animation film River (2020) and often performs with dancers. After a monthlong residency at the Akureyri Art Museum in Iceland, Nina premiered her first solo project, Urban Refuge, at the Reiefestival Bruges (BE) in 2023, alongside 13 other selected artists.
Nina studied classical music performance at the Royal Conservatories of Antwerp and Ghent (Belgium). She also holds a postgraduate degree 'classical music soloist' and a teacher training degree (Conservatory Ghent).

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