Gordan Nikolitch

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Gordan Nikolitch (Serbian: Гордан Николић; born 1968) is a Serbian violinist. He is the leader of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Gordan Nikolitch began playing the violin when he was seven. He studied at the Musikhochschule (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 also became interested in Baroque music.

Gordan has been the leader of the Orchestre d’Auvergne and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne before becoming the leader of the London Symphony Orchestra. He has made many recordings, especially of violin music which is not well known. He often plays chamber music, in the Razumovsky Ensemble.

Since 2001 he has been Prince Consort Professor at the Royal College of Music, and also teaches at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music. In 2004 he was named artistic director of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra.

He plays a violin made by Giuseppe Guarneri.