ABOUT ME...
The conductor Nicolas Krüger has been a guest of the most beautiful opera houses for twenty years, in France - Lille, Dijon, Nantes, Rennes, Nice, Toulon, Limoges, Avignon - as well as in Germany - Erfurt, Leipzig, in Canada, and in several Asian countries.
Music director of the Leipzigersymphonieorchester from 2017 to 2021, he has made numerous concerts tours in Germany.
The last season saw him make his debut at the Avignon Opera in Samson et Dalila, as well as at the Erfurt Opera in Germany in Gluck's Telemaco. He also collaborated with Bartabas for Mozart's Requiem with the Toulon Opera Orchestra at the Châteauvallon Festival.
In 2022 he founded Libertalia with violist Loan Cazal, a string ensemble mixing generations and repertoires in new concert forms.
Recognized as a great connoisseur of the works of Mozart, he regularly conducts his operas, and taught his style for ten years at the prestigious Académie du Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.
A pianist highly appreciated by opera artists, he regularly performs in recitals in France and abroad. Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Stéphane Degout, Jodie Devos are among his concert partners. Several recordings have been released recently, including one with soprano Jodie Devos, “And Love said” awarded a “Record of the month” by Gramophone magazine and the Caecilia prize from the Belgian Press Union, or more recently with mezzo-soprano Albane Carrère “There's someone on earth” which gave rise to a tour in winter 2024.
Nicolas Krüger was also associate conductor of the Accentus choir in the 1990s, with whom he created many new scores, as well as associate conductor of the BBC singers London. He now continues his passionate exploration of language and its relationship to music through writing and composition.
Since 2020, he has taught conducting at the Ecole supérieure des Arts de Mons in Belgium. He is also musical director of his orchestra which leads ambitious projects and performs in concerts throughout the year.
Biografie auf Deutsch :
OPERA REPERTOIRE
H. BARRAUD La Farce de Maître Pathelin
B. BARTOK Bluebeard's Castle
L. v. BEETHOVEN
Fidelio
H. BERLIOZ
La Damnation de Faust
C. BIZET
Carmen, Les Pêcheurs de perles
B. BRITTEN
The Turn of the Screw
L. CHERUBINI
Médée
C. DEBUSSY
Pelléas et Mélisande
C.W. GLUCK
Orphée et Eurydice
C. GOUNOD
Faust, Roméo et Juliette
P. MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana
MESSAGER Fortunio
W.A. MOZART
Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Bastien und Bastienne, La Clemenza di Tito
J.OFFENBACH
La Vie Parisienne, La Périchole, Les Brigands, La Créole, La Belle Hélène, La Princesse de Trébizonde, Orphée aux Enfers F
. POULENC Dialogues des Carmélites, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, La Voix Humaine
G. ROSSINI Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Comte Ory
C.SAINT-SAËNS
Samson et Dalila
L. VARNAY
Les Mousquetaires au Couvent
G. VERDI
La Traviata, Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo, Falstaff
C.M von WEBER
Der Freischütz
K. WEILL
Die Dreigroschenope