Professor Nicolás Pasquet was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he studied violin and orchestra 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 in the XXXVII Besançon International Conducting Competition (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 served as Chief Conductor and General Music Director of the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany), conducting its concert cycles, tours in Germany and abroad, and several CD recordings, in addition to his collaboration with Deutschlandfunk Cologne and DeutschlandRadio Berlin. Later, Nicolás Pasquet was Chief 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 Hungarian composer Lászlo Lajtha (7 CDs) for the Marco Polo label. His most recent recording features the complete works for violin and orchestra by Pierre Rode, with violinist Friedmann Eichhorn and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the SWR Orchestra Kaiserslautern.
From 1994 to 2024, he held the Chair of Orchestral Conducting at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music in Weimar (Germany), where he taught an international conducting class and served as Chief Conductor of the symphony orchestra. Additionally, he has conducted masterclasses in Spain, Austria, Brazil, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Czech Republic, and serves as a jury member for national and international competitions.
Over the years, Pasquet has developed a close collaboration with youth and student orchestras such as those of the states of Bavaria, Hesse, and Baden-Württemberg, as well as the Belvedere Chamber Orchestra in Weimar and the Interregional Youth Orchestra Baden-Württemberg/Ochsenhausen. He has conducted the Southeast Asian Youth Chamber Orchestra, based at Mahidol University, Salaya/Bangkok (Thailand), and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Central America and the Caribbean. From 2009 to 2024, he was the Principal Conductor of the State Youth Symphony Orchestra of Hesse, Germany (LJSO Hessen).
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.