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Nicholas Pritchard (Tenor)

Born: September 21, 1989 - Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England

The English tenor, Nicholas (Nick) Pritchard, studied music at Oxford University, where he sung with the world-renowned Choir of New College for three years under Professor Edward Higginbottom. Since September 2012, he is currently studying singing with Russell Smythe and John Fraser at The Royal College of Music, where he is a Mason Scholar and is supported by an Ian Evans Lombe Award and the Maidment Scholarship (administered by The Musicians Benevolent Fund).

Concert appearances include George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Acis and Galatea and Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day (for Neil Jenkins), L.v. Beethoven’s Mass in C, W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (for Robert Dean), Finzi’s Dies Natalis, Oh Fair to See and ‘Til Earth Outwears, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, Ralph Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge and Four Hymns, J.S. Bach's St. John Passion (BWV 245) (arias), Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) (Evangelist and arias), St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) (Evangelist and arias), and Benjamin Britten‘s War Requiem, Canticle 1 and Winter Words (with Simon Lepper).

Recent opera roles include Count Almaviva in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Co-Opera Co.), Mr. Ford in Salieri’s Falstaff (both for New Chamber Opera), Prologue/Quint in B. Britten's The Turn of the Screw (Oxford Opera), Alfred in Strauss' Die Fledermaus (St. Peter’s College Opera), Tamino in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Mr. Peachum in Weill’s The Threepenny Opera (both for Christ’s Hospital Theatre), Batille (cover) in Rameau’s Anacreon for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte, and Prince Hilarion in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida, for which he won the award for Best Supporting Actor at the Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival 2010.

Nick Pritchard appears as a soloist on recordings of Monteverdi’s Vespro Della Beata Vergine (Fiori Musicali and Novum), Haydn’s Nelson Mass, B. Britten's choral works, François Couperin's Motets Choisis (all for Novum label) and Charles Gounod’s Ave Maria (Decca label).

Since graduating, Nick Pritchard has also sung with many of Britain’s leading consorts and choirs, including The Sixteen (Director: Harry Christophers), Gabrieli Consort (Director: Paul McCreesh), The Choir of Enlightenment, Enchanted Voices, Ex Cathedra (Director: Jeffrey Skidmore), Magnificat, The Cardinall’s Musick, Alamire, Polyphony (Director: Stephen Layton) and Monteverdi Choir (Director: John Eliot Gardiner).

Current season/future plans: Lucano in L’incoronazione di Poppea at the RCM, G.F. Handel's Messiah in the Royal Albert Hall for Brian Kay, Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with the London Symphony Orchestra, J.S. Bach's B minor Mass (BWV 232) for Sir John Eliot Gardiner and J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) for The English Concert conducted by Laurence Cummings.


Sources:
Nick Pritchard Website
Musicmakers Website (November 2012)
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (January 2013)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Harry Bicket

Tenor

[V-2] (2018, Audio): BWV 232 [2nd recording]

Jonathan Cohen

Tenor

[V-3] (2018, Video): BWV 245

Laurence Cummings

Tenor

BWV 243
[PV-1] (2022, Video): G.F. Handel: Opera Alcina, HWV 34 [Oronte]

John Eliot Gardiner

Tenor

V-13 (2013): BWV 232 [2nd recording]
V-10 (2015):
BWV 232 [3nd recording]
V-11 (2015, Video)
BWV 232 [4th recording]
[V-16] (2023, Radio recording): BWV 232 [5th recording]
[V-15] (2021, 2-CD+Blu-ray disc): BWV 245 [4th recording, Evangelist]
[V-17] (2022, 2-CD+ Blu-ray Disc): BWV 248/1-6 [3rd recording, Evangelist]

John Eliot Gardiner

Tenor

Member of Monteverdi Choir:
BCP Vol. 28 (2012):
BWV 43 [2nd], BWV 37 [2nd], BWV 128 [2nd], BWV 11 [2nd]
F-1 (2013):
BWV 249 [1st]
V-13 (2013):
BWV 232 [2nd recording]
V-10 (2015):
BWV 232 [3nd recording]
V-11 (2015, Video)
BWV 232 [4th recording]

Stephen Layton

Tenor

Member of Polyphony:
V-1 (2012):
BWV 245

Raphaël Pichon

Tenor

[C-3] (2014): BWV 19, BWV 130, BWV 149
[CP-2] (2017, Video): BWV 146, BWV 27, BWV 8, BWV 48

Links to other Sites

Nick Pritchard (Official Website)
Nick Pritchard (Musicmakers)


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