Since several years Nicolas André collaborates with Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Sprituel, and also with the Vlaams Radio Koor and the Brussels Philharmonic. From January 2017 Nicolas André becomes Le Concert Spirituel's associate conductor.
With Le Concert Spirituel, he recently conducted the comedy Molière and Lully's Les Amants magnifiques staged by Vincent Tavernier and choreographed by Marie Geneviève Massé, on tour in different opera houses. In sacred music, last Spring he also conducted Vivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat at the Festival of Epau, and this season he will conduct the progam "Impressions d'Italie".
Nicolas André makes his own way of career with enthusiasm and determination. Right after graduating from the Conservation national supérieur de musique et de danse (CNSMD) de Lyon, he founded both the Baroque ensemble "Les Enchantemens" as well as the vocal ensemble "Diakhrôma", a true musical laboratory. In 2009, he founded the Festival d’Arromanches which he himself administrates as artistic and musical director. Within his festival-program he tries out new concert formats for instance when inviting the folk-music ensemble „Accordzéâm“ to perform an original and delightful version of Dvorak’s Symphony „From the New World“.
While Hervé Niquet invited him to become associate conductor at the Concert Spirituel, Kent Nagano asked him to join the Hamburg State Opera as his musical assistant. Two great, highly sensible musicians recognize Nicolas André as a strong, outstandingly compelling personality.
Nicolas André also appeared as guest-conductor of the Orchestre national de Montpellier, the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, the Orchestre lyrique de Région Avignon Provence, the Brussels Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Except for his regular activities with the Concert Spirituel and the Vlaams Radio Koor, his plans for season 2017/18 also include his debut with the Opéra de Bordeaux within a ballet-production dedicated to the great dancer and choreographer Carolyn Carlson.
