Irina Nuzova is a native of Moscow, Russia, where she studied at the Gnessin School and the Gnessin Academy of Music with the renowned Alexander Satz. She moved to the U.S. to continue her education at the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard, studying with Lev Natochenny, Jerome Lowenthal, and Oxana Yablonskaya. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT. As a soloist and chamber musician she has performed across the U.S. and Europe including the Phillips Collection and National Gallery in Washington DC, Barge Music, Kosciusko Foundation, Weill and Merkin recital Halls in New York, at the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Rhode Island Chamber Concert Series, Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston, as well as in Italy, Brazil, Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany. In collaboration with cellist Wendy Warner, the duo released their debut recording, Russian Music for Cello & Piano. It has been featured on more than 100 radio stations and was nominated for best chamber music recording by ICMS.

Irina Nuzova has performed and given Master Classes at the University of North Dakota, the Music Institute of Chicago, Ball State University in Indiana, Amory University, UGA, and the Schwob School of Music in Georgia; the Colburn School of Music and Pomona State University in CA; and the Purcell School of Music in London.

Her collaborations include the Aviv and Attacca string quartets, the Calefax reed quintet (Netherlands), violinists Sirus Forough and Dmitri Berlinsky, violists Yuri Gandelsman and Marc Sabah, and cellists Ani Aznavoorian, Suren Bagratuni, Julie Albers, and Wendy Warner.

She served as an adjunct professor at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, the Bard Conservatory pre-college division, and is currently on the faculty of the Special Music School at the Kaufman Center in New York.

Together with violinist Dmitri Berlinsky, Ms. Nuzova is a founder of Juventus Pro Musica. This chamber music organization focuses on performances by professional musicians alongside aspiring young musicians in ensembles.

During the summer, Irina Nuzova has been teaching and performing at the Olympus Musicus Festival in Prague, the Rondo Summer Academy in Switzerland, the Clazz and Perugia Music Festivals in Italy, Palmetto in SC, the Summit Festival in Purchase, NY, and the Euroarts Music Festival in Poland.