Tenor
Born in Liverpool, Nicholas Mulroy read Modern Languages at Clare College Cambridge and then studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He has since sung at many of the world’s great concert halls and festivals, including the Sydney Opera House, Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, the BBC Proms, and the Salzburg Festival. In November 2020, he was also appointed Associate Director of the Dunedin Consort, the first in the group’s history.
Described as “an outstandingly sensitive narrator” (The Star Tribune), he has sung J.S. Bach’s Evangelist with many of today’s leading conductors, including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Marc Minkowski, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, and Laurence Cummings.
On the concert platform he has also performed with ensembles including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Brussels, Copenhagen, BBC, Wroclaw and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestras, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Hallé, Royal Northern Sinfonia, the OAE, Les Concert des Nations, Staatskapelle Dresden, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Handel and Haydn Society, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonic, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has sung under conductors including Sir Colin Davis, Nicholas McGegan, John Butt, Paul McCreesh, Harry Christophers, Jordi Savall, and Sir Mark Elder.
On stage he has worked with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and on Tour, Royal Danish Opera, Opéra Comique Paris, Théâtre Capitole de Toulouse, Opéra de Dijon, and at the Opéra de Lille.
Recordings include a Gramophone Award-winning Messiah, Evangelist in St Matthew Passion, Evangelist and arias in St John Passion, and Acis in Acis and Galatea for John Butt and Dunedin Consort (Linn), St John Passion for Stephen Layton and Polyphony (Hyperion), Monteverdi Vespers 1610 for Robert King and The King’s Consort on Hyperion, Monteverdi Vespers 1610 with Edward Higginbottom, a series of Monteverdi with I Fagiolini (Chandos), and projects with Theatre of the Ayre, English Baroque Soloists, and Mr McFall’s Chamber (Delphian).
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