Nicolas Ramirez Celis was born in Colombia. Nicolas holds a Masters in Performance Degree from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and a Masters in Education (Violin and ensemble class) from the Escola de Artes Aplicadas de Castelo Branco. His main teachers were Amparo Botero, Krassimira Vasseva, Susanne Stanzeleit and Dona Lee Croft. Nicolas´s passion for teaching began early in his career and many of his pupils have been accepted at colleges in Portugal, U.K, The Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland.
Nicolas taught for several years at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, St. Johns´College Cardiff, Monmouth School and Christ College Brecon. Since 2010 he teaches violin and orchestra at the Conservatório de música de Castelo Branco.