Nicholas Carter graduated from Melbourne University in 2007, having studied voice and piano. As a member of the inaugural Artist Development Program with Victorian Opera (studying with Richard Gill), he conducted productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, Britten’s Noye’s Fludde and Graeme Dudley’s Snow Queen, and assisted and prepared the chorus for a number of other productions. He also conducted Children’s Opera productions of Brundibar and The Beggar’s Opera for OzOpera.
In 2008 he conducted performances with Orchestra Victoria as well as ChamberMade Opera’s production of The Children’s Bach. He was also co-chorusmaster for The Flying Dutchman and Shostakovich’s Symphony No.13 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Nicholas Carter has participated in the Symphony Australia Conductor Development courses for a number of years, working with the Queensland, Melbourne, Adelaide and West Australian symphony orchestras, and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. He also worked for Opera Australia as Assistant Conductor for the premiere production of Brett Dean’s opera Bliss.
In 2009 he joined the Sydney Symphony as Assistant Conductor, where his responsibilities have included conducting preparatory rehearsals for performances and recordings of Prokofiev symphonies with Vladimir Ashkenazy, presenting Education concerts with the Sydney Sinfonia, and conducting the Sydney Symphony on tour in Tamworth. In March 2010 he also assisted Ashkenazy with preparations for Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.