Nicolò Umberto Foron is currently Principal Assistant Conductor of Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris. In 2022 he was selected conductor of Peter Eötvös Mentoring Program and as Conducting Fellow of Tanglewood Festival.
Nicolò has won multiple prizes, including 1st prize winner of the International Conducting Competition Jeunesse Musicales Bucharest 2021 and winner of the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition. He was also awarded with the Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk at Musikfest Bremen 2023.
Nicolò Foron assisted Riccardo Muti for Le nozze di Figaro culminating in conducting the final concert at Ravenna. He conducted at the Opera Forward Festival, the Grachtenfestival, the National Opera and the Academy of Theater and Dance in Amsterdam.
In 2021 he made his debut with the North-Netherlands-Orchestra conducting the world premiere of Jan Peter de Graaff's cello concerto at Tivoli Vredenburg-Utrecht. The CD of this concert is nominated for the German “Schallplattenpreis”.
In summer 2021 followed his debut at Highclere Castle Festival, Newbury Spring Festival and the Christmas concert at St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, London.
Nicolò Foron often performs as a concert pianist with his younger sister, violinist Mira Foron. He has won multiple awards like the Het Kersjes Fonds for the National Master of Orchestral Conducting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Miele Foundation, the Talent Unlimited Foundation, the Reintamm Award, the Kathleen Trust Award, the Elie Dangoor Award, the Jonathan Freeman-Attwood Bicentenary scholarship and the DAAD.
Nicolò Foron is sponsored by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Neustart Kultur. He is selected by the Deutsche Dirigentenforum and the “ZEIT - Foundation” Gerd and Ebelin Bucerius from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.