Gordan Nikolic is one of those musicians with a biography so jam-packed with his work that it makes anyone wonder when he ever stops to sleep. It seems like he is always playing or conducting -- live or in recording, with orchestras or in chamber ensembles -- or teaching.
Nikolic began violin lessons at age seven. He studied at the conservatory in Basel, Switzerland, with a similarly prolific violinist/conductor, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, earning his teaching and solo violin certificates in 1987 and 1990 respectively, and dividing his interests between Baroque and contemporary m...