Nicolette Ella Fraillon, is an Australian conductor, since 2003, has been Chief Conductor of the Australian Ballet, the largest classical ballet company in Australia, founded in which year?
Nicolette Fraillon Nicolette Ella Fraillon {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 29 July 1960) is an Australian conductor, who has been Chief Conductor of The Australian Ballet since 2003. She is the world's only woman music director of a ballet company.
New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the School of American Ballet, 1934; the American Ballet, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan, 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society, 1946.