Nick Pritchard

A native of West Sussex, the tenor Nick Pritchard initially studied in Oxford and sang there in the New College Choir under Edward Higginbottom. Since the fall of 2012 he has continued his training with Russell Smythe and Christopher Glynn at the Royal College of Music in London. In 2013 he won the London Bach Society Singing Competition. As a soloist he has already worked with such conductors as John Eliot Gardiner, Laurence Cummings, Simon Lepper, and David Hill. He has performed at the Brighton Early Music Festival, Royal Albert Hall, and St John’s Smith Square. For his performance of the role of Paolino in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto at the British Youth Opera, he received the Dame Hilda Bracket Award. Pritchard’s operatic repertoire includes such roles as Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lysander in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Alfred in Die Fledermaus.

March 2015