The 2025/26 season sees Nicolas’ debut with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Hamburger Symphoniker, the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Lorraine, and the Baltimore and Seattle symphony orchestras; he returns for subscription concerts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Highlights of the previous season included performances with the Tampere and Luxembourg philharmonics, San Diego Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Orchestre Métropolitain, with which he is a regular favorite.

Now in his second season as Music Director of the Orchestre National de Bretagne, he will lead works ranging from Mozart, Brahms, and Schumann to Stravinsky, Bartók, and Shostakovich; a program centered on Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream involving a local youth theater; and an evening of folk music, featuring traditional folk musicians from Québec.

Acclaimed for his approach to the Baroque and Classical repertoire, Nicolas recently led Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 with Les Violons du Roy in a performance described by Le Devoir as “one of the most beautiful Mozart symphonies heard in Montreal in the last 20 years.”

At the Opéra de Montréal, Nicolas has led productions of Le nozze di Figaro, The Turn of the Screw, L’incoronazione di Poppea, and L’enfant et les sortilèges. Elsewhere, he conducted Die Fledermaus at Opéra de Québec, Britten’s War Requiem at Graz Opera, and a new production of Die Zauberflöte at Opéra de Rennes.