Laureate of international awards, Nitzan Bartana performs worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. Her career began with her solo debut concert at the age of 10. Since then she has performed with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom she performed at the Carnegie Hall, the Israel Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
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A passionate chamber musician, Nitzan Bartana has performed as part of chamber ensembles in Israel, Europe, the USA and Japan. She has also been invited to festivals including the Max-Reger-Days, the Kloster-Kamp Chamber Music Festival, the Schubertiade Tamba Festival Japan, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, the Orpheus Festival Vienna, the Musica Mundi Festival, the Kfar Blum Festival, the St. Gallen Festival and the Eggenberg Castle Concerts in Austria.
Nitzan Bartana has received numerous awards and prizes in Israel and abroad. These include second prize at the 2014 Freiburg International Violin Competition and the special prize for the best interpretation of a Mozart concerto. In 2015 she won 3rd prize and Best Mozart Interpretation at the International R. Lipizer Violin Competition in Italy. She received further prizes and awards at the International Marteau Competition (2005), at the International Wieniawski Competition in Lublin (2006), the Lions Prize and the Bärenreiter Urtext Prize 2014 at the International Bach Violin Competition in Leipzig.
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Since 2018, Nitzan Bartana has served as a second concertmaster of the Basel Symphony Orchestra and a member of the renowned West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Born in Jerusalem in 1989, she began taking violin lessons from her grandfather at the age of five. She later studied with Prof. Yair Kless at the Buchman-Mehta School of Music (Tel-Aviv University) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts with distinction. She obtained her Master of Arts with Prof. Rainer Kussmaul at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, followed by a postgraduate diploma with Prof. Rainer Schmidt at the Mozarteum Salzburg.
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Nitzan Bartana's instrument, a valuable violin, is on loan from the private collection of Dr. Peter Hauber. She was a fellow of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.