Nicolae Moldoveanu was born in Romania and studied both violin and piano as a child. He now lives in Zurich as a Swiss citizen. He studied conducting with Wilfried Boettcher, Horst Stein, Ralf Weikert and Antal Dorati at the Musikhochschule in Zürich, Basel and Bern, also attending master classes with Lothar Zagrosek and Sergiu Celibidache.
At the Royal Academy of Music in London his teachers included Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis. He was awarded the Edwin Samuel Dove Prize and the Ricordi Conducting Prize. In 1997 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Nicolae Moldoveanu has worked with many Swiss orchestras including the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich; in Germany with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the Staatskapelle Dresden. In Great Britain he has worked with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony and the BBC Concert Orchestra. His engagements have taken him to other important orchestras such as the Netherlands Radio Symphony, the Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra Johannesburg and he has returned to his native Romania to work with the Transylvania and George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestras. He has broadcast live for BBC Radio 3, Bavarian Radio and the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
In 1994 Nicolae Moldoveanu was appointed Arts Council Young Conductor to the Bournemouth Orchestras. Following a year’s extension of this appointment, he was offered the post of Resident Conductor, which he took up in 1996. From 1998 until 2005 Nicolae Moldoveanu was Principal Conductor of the English Sinfonia. Nicolae Moldoveanu was Associate Guest Conductor with the London Mozart Players from 2002 until 2008. Mr Moldoveanu was recently appointed Chief Conductor of the Transylvanian State Philharmonic Orchestra.
His recent engagements include conducting the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has also conducted major orchestras throughout Scandinavia and in France, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Australia.
He conducted Don Giovanni for Welsh National Opera and Coppelia for The Royal Ballet. He made his North American debut conducting Idomeneo for Canadian Opera and returned to conduct El amor brujo and La vida breve for Dallas Opera in 2004. He conducted Jenufa for the Norrlands Opera, Un Ballo in Maschera for the Malmö Opera and Onegin for the Teatro San Carlo, Naples as well as making his Japanese debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in 2006. Future engagements include concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the NDR Sinfonieorchester.