Born in Liverpool, Nicholas Mulroy was a chorister at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral,read Modern Languages at Clare College, Cambridge, and studied at the RAM. Since completing his studies, he has been in constant demand in the UK and further afield. Recent highlights have included Septimius in Handel Theodora with Trevor Pinnock at the Halle Handel-Festspiel, the title role in Rameau’s Dardanus with Emmanuelle Haïm, le Récitant in Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ with Sir Colin Davis in London, Messiah with Nicolas McGegan and the RSNO, Mozart Requiem with Richard Tognetti and the ACO, Haydn Harmonie-Messe with the Staatskapelle Dresden. He has also sung Bach’s major oratorios with some of the leading conductors of this repertoire: Johannes-Passion with Paul McCreesh, Marc Minkowski, Sir John Eliot Gardiner; Matthäus-Passion with Laurence Cummings, John Butt, B Minor Mass with Andrew Parrott, Gardiner; Weihnachts-Oratorium with Gardiner, Butt and OAE. He has also appeared with BBCSO and Nicholas Kraemer and with Juanjo Mena, at the Proms with the King’s Consort, and at the Berlin Philharmonie with the OAE.
Operatic performances include Theatre Du Capitole in Toulouse, l’Opéra Comique, Paris, Glyndebourne, the role of Tenor Actor in Judith Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera for RAO, as well Mozart’s Ferrando, Belmonte, Tamino and Belfiore. A committed recitalist, he has appeared singing Winterreise and Winter Words at the Maribor Festival (Slovenia), Janacek A Diary of one who Vanished at King’s Place and at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Die Schöne Müllerin at the Chelsea Schubert Festival, and Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge with the Badke Quartet.
Future plans include engagements at the Paris Opéra, Johannes-Passion with Stephen Layton/OAE/Polyphony, Purcell Fairy Queen and Evangelist in Matthäus-Passion with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort throughout Europe, and recordings of the Johannes-Passion.