Professor Nicolás Pasquet was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he studied violin and orchestral conducting. He later completed his studies at the Stuttgart and Nuremberg Academies of Music (Germany).
In 1986 and 1987, Pasquet was selected for the National Program for Young Conductors by the German Music Council, and in 1987, he won first prize at the XXXVII International Conducting Competition in Besançon, France.
Nicolás Pasquet has conducted international concert tours with several national and international orchestras, traveling through Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Latin America (Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico), the United States, Australia, South Korea, Namibia, and several countries in Southeast Asia.
From 1993 to 1996, he was Principal Conductor of the Pécs Symphony Orchestra (Hungary), with which he traveled both nationally and internationally, in addition to conducting concert cycles in Pécs and Budapest. In 1998, he was awarded the Béla Bartók/Ditta Pásztory Prize and the Lászlo-Lajtha Prize in Budapest for his support, promotion, and interpretation of Hungarian music.
Between 1996 and 2001, Nicolás Pasquet was Principal Conductor and General Music Director of the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany), conducting its concert cycles, concert tours in Germany and abroad, and several record recordings, in addition to his collaboration with Deutschlandfunk Cologne and DeutschlandRadio Berlin. Later, Nicolás Pasquet was Principal Conductor of the Coburg State Theater Orchestra, where he was responsible for its concert cycle.
To date, Pasquet has recorded an extensive discography for Marco Polo, Naxos, and Beyer. With the Pécs Symphony, he recorded the complete collection of symphonic works by the Hungarian composer Lászlo Lajtha (7 CDs) for the Marco Polo label. His most recent recording has been the complete works for violin and orchestra by Pierre Rode, with violinist Friedmann Eichhorn and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, in addition to the SWR Orchestra Kaiserlautern.
In 1994, he was appointed Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music in Weimar (Germany), where he teaches an international Orchestral Conducting class and is Principal Conductor of the symphony orchestra. Additionally, he has given master classes in Spain, Austria, Brazil, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Czech Republic and is a member of juries for national and international competitions.
Over the years, Pasquet has developed a close collaboration with youth and student orchestras such as those of the state of Bavaria, the state of Hessen, the state of Baden-Württemberg, as well as the Belvedere Chamber Orchestra in Weimar and the Interregional Youth Orchestra Baden-Württemberg/Ochsenhausen. He has conducted the Young Chamber Orchestra of Southeast Asia, established at Mahidol University, Salaya/Bangkok (Thailand), the Young Symphony Orchestra of Central America and the Caribbean. Since 2009, he has been Principal Conductor of the Young Symphony Orchestra of the state of Hesse, Germany (LJSO Hessen), a position he will hold until 2024.
Since the 2024-2025 academic year, he has been a professor of the “Zubin Mehta” Orchestral Conducting Chair, with the support of Aline Foriel-Destezet, at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.