Gordan Nikolitch

Who is Gordan Nikolitch?

Gordan Nikolitch, also spelled Gordan Nikolić, is a Serbian violinist. He is the concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Gordan Nikolitch began playing the violin when he was seven. He studied at with Jean-Jacques Kantorow the music conservatory in Basel, Switzerland, where he studied with Jean-Jacques Kantorow. He also worked with the composers Witold Lutosławski and György Kurtág, cultivating an interest in contemporary music. He became interested in Baroque music.

As a violinist, he participated and was awarded in many competitional occasions, The Tibor Varga competition, Paganini competition at Genoa, Italy, Brescia and Hummel competition in Zagreb. In 1989, he became artistic director of Orchestre d'Auvergne.

Nikolitch has been the leader of the Orchestre d’Auvergne and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, where he became concertmaster in 1996. He is now leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, professor at the Royal College of Music in London and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as well as artistic director of Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and Serbian chamber orchestra St. George Strings from Belgrade. He has made many recordings, especially of violin music which is not well known. He often plays chamber music, in the Razumovsky Ensemble.