Nicholas Mulroy

Tenor Nicholas Mulroy, a native of Liverpool, initially studied modern languages at Clare College in Cambridge before taking up vocal training at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has earned his international reputation above all as the Evangelist in the Bach Passions and has performed these works with such conductors as Marc Minkowski, Paul McCreesh, Nicholas McGegan, Laurence Cummings, and John Eliot Gardiner. On the opera stage, Mulroy’s engagements have included appearances in Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery at the Glyndebourne Festival, Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie at the Opéra National de Paris, and Rameau’s Dardanus in Lille, Caen, and Dijon.  His credits as a lieder singer include Janácek’s Diary of One Who Disappeared at the Oxford Lieder Festival and Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge in Edinburgh. His recording of Handel’s Messiah won a Gramophone Award.

February 2013