Born in Tashkent, Felix Nemirovsky began cello at six at the Uspensky Special Music School. He entered the Tashkent State Conservatory in 1981 and two years later moved to Moscow, completing his artist diploma at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. In 1986 he was appointed principal cellist of the Moldavian State Opera and of the Moldavian Radio Chamber Orchestra in Kishinev. He immigrated to Israel in 1990, playing first with the Israeli Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion and then as co-principal cellist of the Israel Camerata Jerusalem; since 1992 he has been a member of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Uzbekistan, Moldova and Israel, including the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, and at festivals in Israel (Kfar Blum), France, Switzerland (Verbier), Germany (Schloss Elmau) and Italy (Spoleto). In the early 1990s he was a member of the Group for New Music, recording for Koch International much of the chamber repertoire written in the Theresienstadt ghetto. As a member of the IPO’s Richter String Quartet, now the Toscanini String Quartet, he has toured North and South America, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, China and India. He is a member of the Millennium Ensemble at the Eden-Tamir Music Center in Jerusalem, and formerly of the Tel Aviv Chamber Music Ensemble. In the IPO’s chamber series he has collaborated with Julian Rachlin, Maxim Vengerov, Gil Shaham, Yefim Bronfman, Yuja Wang, Rudolf Buchbinder and Martin Fröst.

He teaches cello and chamber music at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, and takes an active part in the educational programs of the Jerusalem Music Centre.