Nicolò Umberto Foron is currently the Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. In March 2023, he won first prize in the “Donatella Flick” Conducting Competition, following his victory in the International Conducting Competition “Jeunesse Musicales” in Bucharest in 2021. He was chosen as a Tanglewood Conducting Fellow in 2022 and selected for Peter Eötvös’s Mentoring Programme. He was also part of the Forum Dirigieren Deutsches Musikrat.

At a young age, Nicolò began his education in conducting, composition, and piano, his first instrument. He studied piano with K. H. Kämmerling and A. Ugorski. At the age of 10, he became a pupil of Jorma Panula and was subsequently invited by Bernard Haitink to participate in his masterclasses at the Lucerne Festival. At 16, Nicolò began his formal conducting studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, followed by a master’s degree at the Royal College of Music and an Advanced Diploma in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London, from which he graduated in 2021. He continues to perform as a concert pianist and chamber musician, collaborating frequently with his younger sister, violinist Mira Foron.

In recent seasons, Foron has conducted various orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn Academy/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Staatskapelle Weimar, Opéra National de Montpellier, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. He has also assisted several distinguished conductors, including Sir Antonio Pappano, Andris Nelsons, Matthias Pintscher, Sir Mark Elder, Daniele Gatti, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Martyn Brabbins, and Trevor Pinnock.

This season, Nicolò gives concerts with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Philharmonisches Orchester des Theaters Freiburg, Opéra National de Lorraine, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, as well as a concert at the Elbphilharmonie with Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. Future engagements include conducting the SWR Symphonieorchester, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Bremen Philharmoniker, Göttinger Symphonieorchester, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Arktisk Filharmoni, Euskadiko Orchestra, and Odense Symfonieorkester.