Nicholas Collon

Nicholas Collon (born 1983)[1] is a British conductor.

A viola player, pianist and organist by training, Collon played viola in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYOGB). He studied at Eton and was an organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. One of his conducting mentors was Sir Colin Davis, and Collon has served as an assistant conductor to Sir Mark Elder.[2]

In 2005, Collon, Robin Ticciati and fellow NYOGB musicians founded the Aurora Orchestra, with Collon as its artistic director. He was awarded the 2008 Arts Foundation Fellowship for conducting, from a list of twenty nominated British conductors. For the 2011-2012 season, Collon was Assistant Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.[3]

In April 2007, Collon conducted Mozart's The Magic Flute, directed by Samuel West, in Ramallah and Bethlehem, the first-ever staged opera production in the West Bank, and returned in 2009 with the same team for performances of La bohème. His English National Opera conducting debut was in September 2012.[4] In June 2013, he conducted the British stage premiere of Jonathan Harvey's opera Wagner Dream for Welsh National Opera.[5]

In June 2015, the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague announced the appointment of Collon as its co-principal conductor, effective 1 August 2016, for a minimum term of 3 years, with an estimate of 6 weeks of appearances per season.[6]

Collon has conducted commercial recordings with the Aurora Orchestra for Warner Classics.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ CD booklet Rutter: Requiem, p. 5, "Nicholas Collon, organist", Naxos Records, 2003
  2. ↑ Nick Shave (2011-07-27). "Nicholas Collon: 'We live in the era of iPod shuffle'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-08-08.
  3. ↑ "Nicholas Collon appointed Assistant Conductor" (Press release). London Philharmonic Orchestra. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 2015-08-08.
  4. ↑ Fiona Maddocks (2012-09-15). "The Magic Flute; The Bartered Bride – review". The Observer. Retrieved 2015-08-08.
  5. ↑ John Allison (2013-06-08). "Wagner Dream, WNO, review". Telegraph. Retrieved 2015-08-08.
  6. ↑ "Britse dirigent Nicholas Collon nieuwe vaste dirigent Residentie Orkest" (Press release). Residentie Orkest. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-08.
  7. ↑ Andrew Clements (2014-11-27). "Adams: Chamber Symphony; Copland: Appalachian Spring etc CD review – immensely suggestive". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-08-08.
  8. ↑ Andrew Clements (2015-08-06). "The Aurora Orchestra: Insomnia CD review – a bit of a ragbag". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-08-08.

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