Nicolas Krauze, French conductor, is a graduate of the Washington DC Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, from which he graduated with five first prizes. He has studied under such conductors as Gennady Cherkassov, Zsolt Nagy and Christoph Eschenbach.
Over the past 20 years, he has conducted more than 800 concerts worldwide, both symphonic and operatic, and has been invited by leading national and regional orchestras throughout Europe, as well as in Asia and Latin America. Each season, he conducts some fifty concerts on three continents.
In addition to his career as guest conductor, Nicolas Krauze has been musical and artistic director of the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe for the past ten years. Nouvelle Europewith whom he has conducted over 500 concerts.
In September 2018 (and until the start of the war in February 2022) he also took on the role of Principal Guest Conductor of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, becoming the first foreigner to hold this position in the country's history.
In addition to his conducting career, Nicolas Krauze has a passion for economics and international relations, and is a graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (ScPo Paris). He is fluent in French, English, Russian and Polish.
Nicolas Krauze offers corporate presentations on a wide range of topics, including :
- Leadership and management: 20 years' experience as an orchestra conductor all over the world contribute to this conference and its dazzling parallels with business, through the prism of the major roles and duties of a conductor (global vision, trust, dialogue, interaction, delegation, sharing, but also rehearsals, the stage, gestures). All packed with anecdotes and a touch of humor.
- Collective success: Putting the real human laboratory that is an orchestra into perspective to draw striking parallels with the corporate world in terms of internal organization, responsibilities, initiative, cooperation, trust and, ultimately, shared success, through the eyes of the conductor.
- Cohesion and motivation: from chamber orchestras to symphony orchestras and opera houses, an analysis and reflection on the pitfalls and, above all, the optimal solutions for achieving lasting team cohesion and motivation.
- Highlighting diversity and talent: An orchestra conductor's twenty years' experience, particularly in his various roles, shows how important it is to respect each person's diversity and to make the most of their talents in order to achieve shared success.
Other topics can be tailored to suit your company's needs.
In each case, the approach is not only historical, but also geographical and cultural, with numerous explanatory videos, questions and answers, real interactivity, real-life situations, first-hand accounts and humor...
Whether for top management or for employees as a whole, these conferences will bring a powerful, lasting message to teams and play a real team-building role.
