Also a virtuoso violinist, Szeps-Znaider maintains his reputation as one of the world’s leading exponents of the instrument with a busy calendar of concerto and recital engagements. During the 2019–20 season, he appeared as soloist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, and the Konzerthausorcheter Berlin, and performed Beethoven’s sonatas for violin and piano with Rudolf Buchbinder at the Musikverein in Vienna.

Szeps-Znaider enjoys a strong relationship with the London Symphony Orchestra, with which he has worked extensively as both conductor and soloist. Together, they recently recorded, to critical acclaim, Mozart’s violin concertos, directed from the violin by Szeps-Znaider.

His extensive discography also includes Nielsen’s Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert, Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor with the Dresden Staatskapelle under Sir Colin Davis, and award-winning recordings of the concertos by Brahms and Korngold with the Vienna Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev in addition to the concertos by Beethoven and Mendelssohn with the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no. 2 and Glazunov’s Violin Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Mariss Jansons, and Mendelssohn’s concerto on DVD with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig under Riccardo Chailly. Szeps-Znaider has also recorded Brahms’s works for violin and piano with Yefim Bronfman.

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent, is president of the Carl Nielsen International Competition, which takes place every three years in Odense, Denmark. He plays the “Kreisler” Guarnerius “del Gesù” 1741 violin, on extended loan to him by the Royal Danish Theatre through the generosity of the VELUX Foundations, the Villum Foundation, and the Knud Højgaard Foundation.