Nicolas Kierdorf

28, Luxembourg

Nicolas Kierdorf was semi-finalist at the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition 2021 and the German Conductors Award in 2019. He studied in Cologne and Hamburg. He worked regularly with the Hamburger Symphoniker and has also worked with the WDR-Sinfonieorchester, the Gürzenich-Orchester and the Südwestfälische Philharmonie Konstanz.

He has attended masterclasses with Kent Nagano, Nicolás Pasquet and Johannes Schlaefli, among others.

Alongside symphonic music, Nicolas is particularly interested in opera, and has conducted performances of Hänsel und Gretel, Alcina, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni at the opera schools of Cologne and Hamburg.

He has collaborated with the special ensemble Concert Royal Köln, and was musical director for its 2018 production of Il matrimonio segreto and for the production of Caio Fabriccio in 2022 at the Händel-Festspiele Halle.

In 2021 he made his debut with the Camerata Hamburg at the city's Elbphilharmonie and will be Michael Ellis Ingram‘s assistant for the production of Aida in 2023.