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Gordan
Nikolitch studied
with the violinist and conductor Jean-Jacques
Kantorow, at the Basle Music Academy, obtaining
his teaching diploma in 1987 and his diploma
in solo violin studies in 1990. During this
period he cultivated his interest in Baroque
and contemporary music, and worked closely with
the composers Witold Lutoslawski and György
Kurtág.
In
1997 he was also appointed Leader of the Lausanne
Chamber Orchestra, and Leader of the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe, positions he relinquished
the following year to become Leader of the London
Symphony Orchestra.
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Gordan
has been Prince Consort Professor at the Royal
College of Music, London since 2001 and in
September 2004 he accepted a teaching position
at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music, taking
over the class of his former teacher Jean-Jacques
Kantorow. He was also appointed Artistic Director
of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra for the
2004/05 Season, a collaboration that has received
outstanding critical acclaim.
He
is the recipient of many international prizes
and has performed as soloist with the Orchestra
of the Suisse Romande, the Basle Radio Symphony
Orchestra, the Combattimento Consort, Amsterdam
and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. He is also
a distinguished chamber musician, having appeared
with many renowned ensembles. In February
2005 Gordan performed as soloist with the
LSO at the Barbican in the Brahms Violin Concerto.
Gordan
has recorded for the Olympia, Cyrius, Harmonia
Mundi, Pentaton and LSO Live labels, and plays
a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreae.
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