Nicolás Pasquet (born 1958) is a conductor from Uruguay and professor of conducting.
Biography
Born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay, Pasquet studied violin and conducting at the National Music College. He later studied in Germany, violin at the Stuttgart College of Music and conducting in Nürnberg. Nicolas Pasquet's conducting career started after winning in two occasion the National Competition for Young Conductors (1984 and 1986) and the first prize of the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors in 1987.
Nicolás Pasquet has been invited to conduct orchestras in Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, South America, United States, Australia, South-Korea, including the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Philharmoniker Hamburg, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Queensland Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Pasquet served as Chief Conductor at the Symphony Orchestra of Pécs Hungary (1993–1996), the Philharmonic Orchestra in Neubrandenburg and the orchestra of the Coburg Theatre.
He served as conducting teacher in Nuremberg before being appointed professor of conducting at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" in Weimar, Germany. Pasquet is also chief conductor of the LJSO Hessen (Youth Orchester of Hessen, Germany).
References
- "The Liszt School of Music – Prof. N. Pasquet – conducting". Retrieved 4 August 2009.
- "Nicolás Pasquet". Naxos. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
- "Nicolas Pasquet". Classics Online. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Musicians from Montevideo
- Academics from Montevideo
- Uruguayan conductors (music)
- Male conductors (music)
- Uruguayan male musicians
- Uruguayan expatriates in Germany
- Prize-winners of the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors
- State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart alumni
- Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar
- 21st-century conductors (music)
- 21st-century male musicians