Nicholas Collon
Conductor Nicholas Collon co-founded and served as artistic director of the Aurora Orchestra, an ensemble known for its innovative presentation and programming. His fresh approach has led to posts with major orchestras in his native Britain and abroad.
Collon was born on February 7, 1983, in London. He trained as a violist, pianist, and organist, playing the viola in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Collon attended the prestigious secondary school Eton College and then went on to Clare College, Cambridge, as an organ scholar, an organist who receives a scholarship in exchange for providing music at religious services. His recording debut came in 2003 as organist on a Choir of Clare College, Cambridge recording of John Rutter's Requiem. In 2004, he and a group of other musicians from the National Youth Orchestra formed the Aurora Orchestra, which has been notable for its all-memorized concerts and its unusual thematic program. Collon remains the group's artistic director. He was mentored in the development of the orchestra by conductor Robin Ticciati, and he also had the benefit of instruction from Colin Davis and Mark Elder. His first recording as a conductor came with the Aurora Orchestra in 2008 (as Nick Collon), backing clarinetist David Campbell on a Clarinet Classics recording of works by Gerald Finze, Graham Fitkin, and Carl Davis.
After completing an Arts Foundation Fellowship, Collon began to find guest conducting engagements. He conducted performances of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, K. 620 (2007), and Puccini's La bohème (2009) in the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem; these were the first staged opera performances ever held in the West Bank. Collon served as assistant conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during the 2011-2012 season and made his English National Opera conducting debut in 2012. He was co-principal conductor of the Residentie Orkest den Haag in the Netherlands from 2015 to 2018 and sole principal conductor from 2018 to 2021. In 2021, Collon became the first non-Finnish conductor of the Finnish National Radio Orchestra.
Collon has conducted the Aurora Orchestra and other groups on several recordings, often focusing on contemporary music. With the Aurora Orchestra, he issued two recordings, Road Trip and Insomnia, on the Warner Classics label. Collon and the Aurora Orchestra moved to Deutsche Grammophon for the album Music of the Spheres, featuring compositions with a cosmological theme. In 2022, he issued his first recording with the Finnish National Radio Orchestra on the Ondine label, featuring Sibelius' Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op, 105. He and the orchestra returned on Ondine later that year with a recording of Thomas Adès' Märchentänze and in 2023 with an album of music by Lotta Wennäkoski.
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18 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano Concerto; Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; Overture; Music for Strings, Trumpets and Percussion
Nicholas Collon, Peter Jablonski, Elisabeth Brauß, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 5 mai 2023
Diapason d'orGramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra, Partita (Version for Violin & Orchestra) & Novelette
Christian Tetzlaff, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 3 nov. 2023
Diapason d'or24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Outi Tarkiainen: Midnight Sun Variations & Other Orchestral Works
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Daniel, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 2 févr. 2024
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Lotta Wennäkoski: Sigla
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sivan Magen, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 3 févr. 2023
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Adès: Orchestral Works
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tomas Nuñez, Pekka Kuusisto, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 7 oct. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105, Suite from "King Christian II", Op. 27 & Suite from "Pelléas et Mélisande", Op. 46
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Ondine le 6 mai 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Michael Gordon: Gotham (Live) - EP
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Cantaloupe Music le 24 févr. 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 15 janv. 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Music of the Spheres
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 12 juin 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 15 janv. 2016
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Haydn & Ligeti: Concertos & Capriccios
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon, Shai Wosner
Musique concertante - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 13 mai 2016
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Kapustin: Works for Cello
Christine Rauh, Peter Lehel, Benyamin Nuss, Ni Fan, Saarbrucken German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Musique de chambre - Paru chez SWR Classic le 4 mars 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Nico Muhly : Seeing Is Believing
Thomas Gould, Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Decca le 1 janv. 2011
4 étoiles Classica16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Allan Gravgaard Madsen: Nachtmusik - Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: For Violin & Orchestra
Christina Åstrand, Per Salo, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon, Ryan Bancroft
Classique - Paru chez Dacapo le 13 déc. 2019
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Holt: A Table of Noises, St. Vitus in the Kettle & Witness to a Snow Miracle
Colin Currie, Chloë Hanslip, Hallé Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez NMC Recordings le 24 mars 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Objects at an Exhibition: Exploring Science Inspiring Music
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez NMC Recordings le 18 sept. 2015
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Reflections
David Campbell, Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Clarinet and Saxophone Classics le 1 janv. 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Music of the Spheres
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 12 juin 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo