Nimrod David Pfeffer has conducted at leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Polish National Opera, and the Juilliard Opera. He has appeared with orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony, Nuremberg Symphony, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, and the Stuttgart Philharmonic.

Music Director of the Lyric Opera Company of Guatemala, his recent and upcoming highlights include a return to the Metropolitan Opera to conduct Così fan tutte; debuts with the Zagreb Philharmonic, and Munich Radio Orchestras; a debut at Teatro Calderón in Valladolid and the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra; a return to the Polish National Opera; and symphonic concerts with the New Mexico Philharmonic, the Nuremberg Symphony and Zielona Góra Philharmonic.

A sought-after conductor of Mozart, Pfeffer made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2021–22 season with Le Nozze di Figaro and returned in 2024–25 to conduct The Magic Flute. He has conducted Die Zauberflöte at the Komische Oper Berlin, Israel Opera, and Polish National Opera, and led productions of Don Giovanni, La Clemenza di Tito, and Così fan tutte at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, Israel Opera, the Juilliard Opera.

Also an acclaimed pianist, Pfeffer has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, and the Franz Liszt Academy. He often performs concertos while conducting from the keyboard. His solo album, Nimrod David Pfeffer – Piano Works by Bach, Schumann, and Chopin, was released in 2022.

Dedicated to fostering dialogue between Arabs and Jews in Israel, Pfeffer was honored with the Davis Projects for Peace Award for organizing a peace-focused fundraiser at Carnegie Hall.

A graduate of The Juilliard School and Mannes College The New School for Music, he is a former fellow of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. He has received grants from the Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. His teachers include Pnina Salzman, Vadim Monastyrski, Gideon Hatzor, Michael Wolpe, André Hajdu, Victor Rosenbaum, Carl Schachter, Claude Frank, Byron Janis, Alan Gilbert, James Levine, and Richard Goode.

This is his first appearance as a conductor with the IPO.