Nick Pritchard

Tenor Nick Pritchard is fast gaining recognition for his performances of the music of Bach and, in particular, his interpretation of the Evangelist in the Passions. Described as a ‘Masterly Evangelist’ in The Guardian, he has sung the role in Bach’s St John Passion and St Matthew Passion around the world, and his recording of the St John Passion for Deutsche Grammophon with Sir John Eliot Gardiner was nominated for a Grammy® Award for Best Choral Performance (2023). Also highly regarded as a recitalist, Nick has been Artist in Residence with the Temple Music Foundation, performing concerts including Die schöne Müllerin with Julius Drake, a lute song recital with Elizabeth Kenny, and Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Early Opera Company. He has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford International Song Festival, and at the Ryedale, Aldeburgh, Tetbury, Lammermuir and Edinburgh International Festivals, working with pianists including James Baillieu, Joseph Middleton, Malcolm Martineau, and Sholto Kynoch. His debut recital album Little Wanderer was released on the Signum label with his long-term collaborative partner Ian Tindale, commissioned for him by Leeds International Song. He has performed with ensembles including Ensemble Pygmalion, Concerto Köln, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Violons du Roy, L’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the English Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Gabrieli Consort, Britten Sinfonia (BBC Proms debut, Mozart Requiem), Les Arts Florissants, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Arcangelo, and the Academy of Ancient Music, as well as at the Thomaskirche Leipzig. He has worked under conductors including Raphaël Pichon, Emmanuelle Haïm, Christophe Rousset, Harry Bicket, Ryan Wigglesworth, David Bates, Paul Agnew, Stefan Gottfried, Peter Whelan, Jonathan Cohen, Laurence Cummings, Andreas Reize, and Václav Luks. Equally at home on the operatic stage, he has performed for the Royal Ballet and Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne on Tour, Irish National Opera and Opera Holland Park, and created the role of Matthew in Mark Simpson’s Pleasure.