Nicolaus Richter de Vroe (born 1 February 1955) is a German composer and violinist.
Born in Halle (Saale), Richter de Vroe studied composition and violin at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden from 1972 to 1973, and from 1973 to 1978, he studied violin with Vladimir Malinin at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
From 1978 to 1980 he worked as a chamber musician and in 1982 he co-founded the Ensemble für Neue Musik Berlin.
In 1996 he was a co-initiator of the Munich Society for New Music and a guest of the Goethe Institutes of Buenos Aires, Kyoto and Prague.
He is a curator for the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for the concert series Musica Viva.