Nicolas Simon

Principal conductor of the Orchestre de Caen, founder, artistic and musical director of La Symphonie de Poche and the Philharmonicœur, musical director of the Yellow Socks Orchestra, associate conductor of the orchestra Les Siècles, conductor of the Démos project, Nicolas Simon is a conductor « passeur », as the critic Alain Cochard aptly describes him. He is constantly striving to renew the close relationship between performers, composers and audiences.

Nicolas Simon has also collaborate with great success with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lorraine, the Orchestre National de Metz, the Orchestre de Picardie, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen, the Orchestre de Chambre de Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse; and abroad with the London Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Sinfonie Orchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Albanian Radio Orchestra and the Palestine Youth Orchestra.

In opera, he has conducted La Dame Blanche in Rennes, Compiègne, Quimper, Tourcoing, Dunkerque, Besançon and Saint-Céré.  Zaïde in Rennes, Nantes, Quimper, Besançon and Pelléas et Mélisande in Caen.

September 2022