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Nicholas Kok

Conductor

  • Stravinsky's score, conducted by Nicholas Kok, shimmered with beauty
    Debra Craine, The Times
  • Under Nicholas Kok, the music flows cleanly and effortlessly
    Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman
  • Nicholas Kok conducts a stirring performance from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
    The Independent

  • Nicholas Kok studied at New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music In both the concert hall and the opera house he has conducted numerous world and British premieres. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the leading contemporary music ensemble Psappha.

    Opera productions include Orfeo, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse, The Fairy Queen, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, King Priam, The Country of the Blind and Twice through the Heart for English National Opera, The Nightingale’s to Blame, Dido and Aeneas and Gluck Orfeo for Opera North, Don Giovanni for English Touring Opera, King Arthur, Gluck Orphée,  L’incoronazione di Poppea, Hänsel und Gretel and L’italania in Algieri for Staatstheater Stuttgart, Le nozze di Figaro and Semele for Oper Koeln, L’elisir d’Amore in Porto, Agrippina for Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon and Teseo and Cavalli’s Il Giasone in Klagenfurt. He played a large part in setting up Almeida Opera where he premiered several new works.

    Orchestras and ensembles he has worked with include the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Scottish National, Radio Sinfonie Berlin, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Halle, Strasbourg Philharmoniqe, Gelders Orkest, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Orchestra of St John’s Smith Square and Orquestra Nacional do Porto.

    Nicholas Kok is represented by Rayfield Allied worldwide.
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    • New Year Gala
      Scottish Chamber Orchestra

      Nicholas Kok was an inspired choice for the SCO’s concert on Saturday...alert to every nicety of the music, amusingly responsive to the audience and witty in the way he featured intrusions by unrelated composers upon what was otherwise almost entirely an evening of Johann Strauss the Younger.
      Conrad Wilson, Glasgow Herald

    • Orfeo ed Euridice
      Opera North at Edinburgh International Festival

      The musical direction by Nicholas Kok was lightsome and joyous.
      Roymond Monelle, Independent
      Nicholas Kok conducts a fleet, urgent reading of the score, the chorus and orchestra are on top form.
      David Blewitt, The Stage
      Nicholas Kok works wonders with an orchestra using modern instruments to play in more or less authentic style…The playing is consistently crisp and agile.
      Martin Dreyer, Yorkshire Evening Press
      Under Nicholas Kok, the music flows cleanly and effortlessly
      Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman

    • Stravinsky
      Birmingham Royal Ballet

      Nicholas Kok conducted with great distinction.
      Robert Beale, Manchester Evening News
      Nicholas Kok finding the magic of the Fairy’s Kiss
      Richard Edmonds, The Stage

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