Nicolò Umberto Foron

Nicolò Umberto Foron, a young German-Italian conductor, is currently Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor of Ensemble Intercontemporain. In March 2023, he won first prize in the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, and also won 1st prize in the International Conducting Competition "Jeunesse Musicales" Bucharest 2021. He was chosen as a Tanglewood Conducting Fellow in 2022 and selected for Peter Eotvos's Mentoring Programme. He is part of the German Forum Dirigieren. In the last two seasons, Foron has conducted various orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn-Academy/Gewandhausorchestra Leipzig, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Staatskapelle Weimar, Opera National de Montpellier, Symfonieorkest, Vlaanderen, and the Tanglewood F