Andris Nelsons has been played on NTS shows including Smerz, with I Part: Let Me Tell You How It Was first played on 9 October 2020.

Andris Nelsons (born 18 November 1978) is a Latvian conductor.

Nelsons was born in Riga. His mother founded the first early music ensemble in Latvia, and his father was a choral conductor, cellist, and teacher. At age five, his mother and stepfather (a choir conductor) took him to a performance of Wagner's Tannhäuser, which Nelsons refers to as a profoundly formative experience: "…it had a hypnotic effect on me. I was overwhelmed by the music. I cried when Tannhäuser…