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Nimrod David Pfeffer is an Israeli-born conductor residing in New York City.
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Mr. Pfeffer serves as Assistant Conductor at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He made his conducting debut with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 2014, sharing the podium with James Levine in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program Orchestra Workshop Concert at the DiMenna Center in New York. At the Met, he served as Cover Conductor to James Levine in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail , as Assistant Chorus Master to Donald Palumbo, as well as Assistant Conductor in productions of Guillaume Tell, L’Italiana in Algeri, Aida, Idomeneo, Eugene Onegin, Der Fliegende Holländer, Otello, Tannhäuser, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Bohème, Le Nozze di Figaro, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and Die Zauberflöte.
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In 2016 Mr. Pfeffer was named Music Director of the Lyric Opera Company of Guatemala, after conducting the company’s inaugural production of Verdi’s Rigoletto . In 2017 he conducted there a new production of L’Elisir d’Amore , and in 2018 a new production of La Bohème.
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In June 2018 Mr. Pfeffer made his conducting debut with the Palau de les Arts Riena Sofía in Valencia, in a semi-staged production of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. February 2018 Mr. Pfeffer made his conducting debut with the Israeli Opera, in a new production of Don Giovanni by Kasper Holten. In 2018/19 Mr. Pfeffer will return to Israel to conduct Simon Boccanegra with the Israeli Opera, and to collaborate as conductor and pianist with the Ra’anana Symphonette Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the The Israel Camerata Jerusalem.

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Pfeffer is the Third Prize winner of the 2017 Maestro Solti International Conducting Competition in Hungary. Following his success in the competition, he was invited to conduct the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Miskolc, the Szeged Symphony Orchestra Hungary, the MAV Symphony Orchestra Budapest, and the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra.
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His other recent engagements as conductor included collaborations with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, The Symphonic Orchestra of the State Capella of St. Petersburg, and the Juilliard Orchestra.

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Mr. Pfeffer also enjoys a career as a pianist, who performs regularly as soloist with orchestra, recitalist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. His piano career highlights included a live solo recital broadcast from the Russian Kremlin in 2007, performances of the music of Chopin on the stage of The Metropolitan Opera in American Ballet Theatre’s production of The Lady of the Camellias in 2010, his debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill recital Hall in 2008, and his solo debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, playing the World Premiere of Aharon Harlap’s Second Piano Concerto, which resulted in a dedication to him of Mr. Harlap’s Symphonic Dances for Piano and Orchestra in 2015.

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He has also performed recently as soloist at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Warsaw’s Philharmonic Hall and Royal Lazienky Park, Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, and Shanghai Concert Hall, as well as in concert halls in Israel, Russia, Poland, Austria, Malta, Jordan, China, Hong Kong, and the United States.

Mr. Pfeffer is dedicated to promoting dialogue between Arabs and Jews in his native Israel. In 2009 he presented a concert in honor of peace at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall with Arab-Israeli pianist Bishara Haroni, benefiting the Jezreel Valley Music Center, a music school where Arabs and Jews study music together, which was in financial difficulties. The performance helped to raise funds and bring media attention to the school. Mr. Pfeffer is honored to have received the Davis Projects for Peace Award for this initiative.
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Mr. Pfeffer has recently completed his Master’s Degree in Orchestral Conducting as a student of Alan Gilbert at The Juilliard School, as a recipient of the Bruno Walter Scholarship. Upon graduation from Juilliard he was awarded the Charles Schiff Conducting Prize and the Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant. He holds a Master’s Degree and Professional Studies Diplomas in Piano Performance and in Orchestral Conducting from Mannes College of Music, and is a graduate of The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

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He is a recipient of grants from the Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts. Among his teachers were Pnina Salzman, Victor Rosenbaum, Carl Schachter, Claude Frank, Byron Janis, Alan Gilbert, James Levine, and Richard Goode.