Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, previously known as Nikolaj Znaider, is a former student of Boris Kuschnir. He won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1997. His career has since combined solo performances, chamber music and conducting.

He has been Music Director of the Orchestre national de Lyon since September 2020. As a guest conductor he works with orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Dresden. At Dresden’s Semperoper he has conducted Die Zauberflöte and Der Rosenkavalier.

His recordings include the complete Mozart violin concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, which he directed from the violin, and Brahms’s works for violin and piano with Yefim Bronfman.