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Artistic director and conductor<\/p>\n
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Canadian conductor Nicolas Ellis is the Music Director of the Orchestre National de Bretagne and the Principal Guest Conductor of Les Violons du Roy. He is also the Artistic Director of the Orchestre de l\u2019Agora, which he founded in Montreal in 2013. <\/p>\n
With the Orchestre National de Bretagne, Nicolas presents a wide range of works to discover, starting with those by Iranian composer Golfam Khayam. He brings the orchestra into the great classical repertoire with pieces such as Beethoven\u2019s Eroica and Stravinsky\u2019s The Firebird, and invites distinguished collaborators such as pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the Babineau-Chartrand duo, with whom he developed a project around traditional Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois music. He also seeks to go beyond the conventional classical concert format by collaborating with the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National de Bretagne, where he will present all of the incidental music from Mendelssohn\u2019s A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, alongside young actors from the TNB in a staging by Arthur Nauzyciel. <\/p>\n
This season, he brings together the Orchestre de l\u2019Agora and Les Violons du Roy on the same stage for the first time, accompanying soprano Sarah Dufresne, who will perform Mozart arias written for the Weber sisters, for whom Mozart had great affection. The Orchestre de l\u2019Agora\u2019s commitment to the Montreal community continues with a monthly concert series at Bordeaux prison, as well as a major concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the FACE School, in collaboration with young musicians from the school\u2019s music program. <\/p>\n
Nicolas is increasingly sought after as a guest conductor by many orchestras across Europe and North America. In the 2025\u20132026 season, he will make his debut with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. He will conduct Shostakovich\u2019s First Symphony with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, as well as works by Johanna M\u00fcller-Hermann and Sofia Gouba\u00efdoulina with the Orchestre de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra national de Nancy-Lorraine. He will also lead Poulenc\u2019s Les Animaux mod\u00e8les with the Polish Radio Orchestra, and Handel\u2019s Messiah with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He will return to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where he will conduct a symphony by Justin Williams, who is also the orchestra\u2019s Assistant Principal Viola. <\/p>\n
In Canada, he will conduct Trois femmes de l\u00e9gendes by M\u00e9lanie Bonis with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky\u2019s Sixth Symphony with the Victoria Symphony.<\/p>\n
In his free time, Nicolas enjoys running and keeps a close eye on the latest results of Stade Rennais in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n
Nicolas Ellis is the recipient of the Fernand Lindsay Career Grant (2017) and was awarded the M\u00e9c\u00e9nat Musica Prix Goyer (2021).<\/p>\n
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