Nicolas Villers

Nicolas Villers graduated from the Conservatoire Royal de Liège with a Master’s degree in bass trombone, a Master’s degree in Euphonium as well as the Agrégation de l’Enseignement de la Musique. After that, he improved his bass and double bass trombone play at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (Codarts), where he studied with Brandt Attema.

Nicolas has played bass trombone with the the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Belgium) since 2015. He is also a member of the LAPS Ensemble and the Ensemble Sturm und Klang.

In addition, he plays with various Belgian and foreign orchestras such as the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Opéra Royal de la Monnaie, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Orchestra Philharmonique du Luxembourg…

With his great passion for teaching, Nicolas Villers is a trombone professor at the Académie de Musique de Welkenraedt and also provides his knowledge as an assistant at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège as a bass and double bass trombone specialist.