Nicholas Mulroy

Born in Liverpool Nicholas studied at Cambridge University and at the RAM.

Recent appearances include performances at the Glyndebourne Festival under Vladimir Jurowski (Novice/Prokofiev Betrothal in a Monastery), the Concertgebouw and Royal Festival Hall under Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Bach Cantatas 147, 60 and 70), at Paris’s Opera Comique as Patacha in Chabrier’s L’Etoile, as well as Monteverdi Vespers and Campra Requiem at the BBC Proms, Charpentier Actéon with Emanuelle Haïm, Evangelist in Matthäus Passion at Symphony Hall, and for Laurence Cummings at the London Handel Festival, Monteverdi Combattimento (Testo) for BBC Radio (following the title role in the same composer’s L’Orfeo last year), Tamino in Magic Flute at the Helix in Dublin and at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, the world premiere of Joubert’s Wings of Faith with CBSO, Johannes Passion with both the OAE and the Hanover Band, and the UK premiere of Rautavaara Vigilia with Stephen Layton.

Operatic performances include Mozart’s Ferrando, Belfiore (La Finta Giardiniera), Don Ottavio, Monostatos with Sir Colin Davis, as well as Tenor Actor in Judith Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera, and le Chevalier in Les Dialogues des Carmélites in Poland. In recital, highlights include Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge with the Badke Quartet, Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo for the Oxford Lieder Festival, and Schumann Liederkreis Op 24 and Die Schöne Müllerin with regular collaborator John Reid.

Nicholas’s recordings include a 2007 Gramophone Award-winning Messiah for Linn with John Butt and the Dunedin Consort, Monteverdi Vespers with both the King’s Consort and Rodolfus Choir, a series of Monteverdi with I Fagiolini for Chandos and a critically acclaimed Evangelist in Matthäus Passion with John Butt on Linn. Meanwhile future engagements include performances with Les Arts Florissants at the Opera Comique in Paris, Berio Sinfonia with the RLPO, Une Parque in Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie at the Theatre Capitale de Toulouse with Haim, and Evangelist in Weihnachts-Oratorium, also with Gardiner, in London.