The baton of the young German-Italian conductor … is a pleasant revelation at the start of the year. The young maestro has a gesture of rare elegance and shows that he masters timbres and rhythms with personal taste and precision in a highly demanding score. Foron’s hand acquires a particular… Read more “Faith, yearning, and lost homeland”

With Foron stood a young conductor on the podium who has already worked with renowned ensembles and has now answered the call to Dresden. Very exact and precise, meticulous about detail, with dynamic finesse, and yet intent on allowing the music to unfold and take effect from within itself. Above… Read more “Staatskapelle Dresden”

Foron was a revelation! I was on the edge of my seat during the Gran Partita, which bubbles out in a stream of joy anyway, but I’ve never heard it played so spontaneously, so excitingly – as though Mozart himself were conducting. He’s an extraordinary talent, his baton a wand.… Read more “Foron was a revelation!”

Nicolò as a conductor is very well prepared and very attentive to the needs of the musicians and he has great communication skill, too. During the concert he is very concentrated but calm and composed. Nicolò has an excellent hearing and a great, natural musical taste.

One senses that a great career lies ahead for the winner of the renowned Donatella Flick Conducting Competition 2023, thanks in part to clear interpretative ideas. With Foron and the fabulously positioned Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven’s Eroica becomes a symphonic outcry. Brisk tempos, but not over-pushed, dross-free and yet highly… Read more “Foron conducted with clear vision”

The musical direction, highly focused and palpable, by Nicolò Umberto Foron fostered a listening experience that was at times ‘transfiguring’. Thanks to the meditative and profound gesture of the Italian-German conductor, the ‘sorrowful neumes’ gradually stood out, filling the stalls as if it were a church nave. The listening journey… Read more “On Tour with Messiaen, Mahler and Rachmaninoff”

However, the sympathetic, red headed conductor Nicolò Foron managed everything with sovereign confidence and brought Carolin Widmann to the forefront in a generous way. Bára Gísladóttir’s Ós allowed the audience a breath of fresh air.

Under rising-star conductor Nicolò Umberto Foron, its moments of freefall reverberation were a delicious release from the ultra-precise rhythmic flurries of three pianos, thunderous in their lower register.

Throughout the evening Foron’s angular gestures complemented the music perfectly. Something of a dance in itself.

The orchestra and the highly talented conductor were bonded in a magnetic performance where every accent and timbral exploration was nothing less than perfect. The interpretative challenge was among the most arduous, but the young Nicolò Umberto Foron demonstrated staggering maturity. His gesture emanates from a lucid and calibrated intention—an… Read more “On tour with RAI Torino”

Fully convincing was the conducting of the young conductor Nicolò Umberto Foron. His reading appeared consistently attentive, refined, and measured, capable of rendering the different souls of the two scores, highlighting both Stravinsky’s rhythmic brilliance and Casella’s elegant classicism. His gestures appeared confident, the conducting balanced and never invasive, allowing… Read more “Opera review”