
Nicolas Krauze
- Internationally Acclaimed Conductor – Has led over 800 concerts worldwide, earning acclaim for vibrant symphonic and operatic performances.
- Visionary Musical Director – As Artistic Director of Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe, has conducted 500+ concerts, shaping its global reputation.
- Thought Leader in Leadership and Team Dynamics – Since 2018, has delivered impactful talks to corporate audiences, sharing insights on leadership, motivation, and teamwork.
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"A captivating conference! You can feel Nicolas Krauze’s passion for music and his role as a conductor. The analogy between the orchestra’s many talents and our firm, where teamwork is essential to serving our clients, took on real meaning thanks to Nicolas’ intervention."
"Nicolas Krauze’s conference is a must-see. Sixty fascinating minutes that our global top management in New York devoured without moderation."
"Nicolas uses the orchestra as a powerful metaphor to illustrate management concepts. He makes us reflect on our approach without ever directly addressing management, letting us discover the parallels between conducting music and team leadership. This approach is inspiring, encouraging deeper thought, and highlighting the importance of human leadership and collaboration within teams: absolutely brilliant!"
"Nicolas Krauze spoke at the Univermair convention and won everyone over with his performance. Dynamic and captivating, he took the teams into the world of music, drawing striking parallels to the workplace."
"Very engaging, thoughtful, astonishing, inspiring …. Leading his audience on a powerful journey of self-reflection"
"Without ever using our usual terms like ‘management,’ ‘team,’ or ‘collective,’ Nicolas Krauze created vivid and applicable parallels to our missions throughout his imagery-filled presentation. It was a wonderful moment of sharing, appreciated by every participant, and we only have one wish: to see and hear him again!"
"A remarkable conference that captivated and challenged us on the essence of leadership. Managing and respecting individual talents and personalities while aligning them to a common interpretation. Sharing emotion and anticipating movement instead of merely marking time. A lesson to reflect on and apply liberally to build high-performing teams."
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Nicolas Krauze's 2025 biography
Nicolas Krauze: Orchestra Conductor and Speaker
Nicolas Krauze, a French conductor, is a graduate of the Washington DC Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he earned five first prizes. He studied under renowned conductors such as Gennady Cherkassov, Zsolt Nagy and Christoph Eschenbach.
Over the past 20 years, Nicolas has conducted more than 800 concerts worldwide, both in symphonic and operatic repertoire. He has been invited by leading national and regional orchestras across Europe, as well as in Asia and Latin America. Each season, he conducts around 50 concerts across three continents.
In addition to his career as a guest conductor, Nicolas has been the Musical and Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Europe for over a decade, leading more than 500 concerts with this ensemble. From September 2018 until the start of the war in February 2022, he also served as Principal Guest Conductor of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, becoming the first foreigner in history to hold this position.
Beyond his musical career, Nicolas Krauze is deeply passionate about economics and international relations. He holds a degree from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris) and is fluent in French, English, Russian and Polish.
Since 2018, Nicolas has enjoyed remarkable success as a speaker, delivering conferences in both French and English for medium to large companies. He shares his insights and reflections on leadership and management, team cohesion and motivation and collective success.
Nicolas Krauze's 2025 talks & topics
Leadership and Management
20 years of experience as a conductor worldwide form the foundation of this conference, showcasing striking parallels with the corporate world through the lens of the key roles and responsibilities of a conductor (global vision, trust, dialogue, interaction, delegation, sharing, as well as rehearsals, performance and gesture). All of this is enriched with anecdotes and a generous touch of humor.
Collective Success
An orchestra, as a true human laboratory, serves as a compelling analogy to the corporate world, highlighting striking parallels in terms of internal organization, responsibilities, initiative, cooperation, trust and ultimately shared success—all seen through the perspective of a conductor.
Cohesion and Motivation
From chamber orchestras to symphony orchestras and opera, this conference offers an analysis and reflection on the challenges and, above all, the optimal solutions for achieving lasting cohesion and motivation within teams.