Nikolai Song recently served as Acting Principal Flute with the Berner Symphonieorchester in Switzerland. Prior to that, he held the position of Assistant Principal Flute with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, where he was appointed at the age of eighteen. He has also appeared as Guest Principal Flute with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Zürcher Kammerorchester, the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, and is a member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra. 

A recipient of the ICMA Discovery Award, Nikolai has performed as a soloist with the Basque National Orchestra, the Barcelona Baroque Orchestra at the Festival Pablo Casals, the Orchestre National de Cannes with his wind quintet Quintette Pentagone, and the Odense Symphony Orchestra at the Carl Nielsen International Competition. 

Admitted at the age of thirteen to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, he studied with Philippe Bernold and Florence Souchard-Delépine, and later earned a Soloist Diploma from the Haute École de Musique de Genève under the guidance of Jacques Zoon.