Nicolas Krusek
Nicolas Krusek is a musician, conductor, speaker, and music educator. After completing a degree in composition at UBC, he studied orchestral and choral conducting at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (Czech Republic), where he also worked as an English teacher and translator.
Holder of a Distinguished Toastmaster designation, Nicolas Krusek has been a master of ceremonies at conferences, weddings, and concerts. He has taught music courses for SFU Adults 55+ Program (formerly, Seniors Program) and UBC Continuing Studies and presents regular lectures on opera at the West Vancouver Memorial Library.
In addition to giving educational talks for Vancouver Opera and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, he is president of the Opera Club, a popular monthly lecture series.
He has been music director of the Ambleside Orchestra since September 2010.
Previously taught:
- Poet Among Composers: The Music of Robert Schumann (55+)
- The Life and Music of Felix Mendelssohn (55+)
- Hector Berlioz: His Life, Music, and Legacy (55+)
- Pacific Opera Victoria and Seattle Opera Previews 2013
- Symphonic Music of the Romantic Era (55+)
- How to Listen to Music (55+)
- Metropolitan Opera Previews 2012
- Franz Schubert: The Last Classicist (55+)
- Metropolitan Opera Previews 2011
- The Musical Thought of Ludwig van Beethoven (55+)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Great Musical Mind (55+)
- Joseph Haydn: Father of the Classical Style (55+)
- Understanding Music (55+)
