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Nicholas Mulroy

Tenor

  • tenor Nicholas Mulroy was a persuasive, airy-sounding Evangelist
    Erica Jeal, The Guardian
  • Nicholas Mulroy's Acis is resonant and suave, combining muscularity and elegance
    David Vickers, Gramophone
  • the tenor Nicholas Mulroy was a poignant Evangelist
    Geoffrey Norris, Daily Telegraph

  • Born in Liverpool, Nicholas Mulroy studied at Clare College Cambridge and Royal Academy of Music.

    He regularly appears with leading ensembles throughout Europe, including Monteverdi Choir with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Le Musiciens du Louvre with Marc Minkowski, Les concerts d’Astrée with Emmanuelle Haïm, Gabrieli Consort with Paul McCreesh as well as concerts with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Koelner Akademie, Dunedin Consort, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Proms, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic and Spitalfields Festival. Other conductors he has worked with include Laurence Cummings, Trevor Pinnock, Sir Colin Davis and Nicholas Kraemer.

    On stage he has worked with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and on Tour, Opera Comique Paris, Theatre Capitole de Toulouse and at the Opera de Lille.

    Recordings include a Gramophone Award-winning Messiah with Dunedin Consort on Linn, and releases with Exaudi on NMC, King’s Consort on Hyperion and I Fagiolini on Chandos.

    Nicholas Mulroy is represented worldwide by Andrew Rosner at Rayfield Allied.
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    • St John Passion
      OAE & Polyphony / Stephen Layton

      Layton has honed his preferred version, but only aficionados will notice or mind. Concentrate instead on the purity of sound, the emotionally expressive yet restrained performance by all and the impeccable attention to text of the soloists…
      Fiona Maddocks, The Observer
      Nicholas Mulroy, assigned to the tenor arias, has a very different voice from Bostridge, fuller and altogether more vibrant.
      Marc Rochester, International Record Review
      Alongside the top-class and pliable choral singing of Polyphony comes the roll call of exceptional soloists – Nicholas Mulroy among them.
      Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Gramophone (May 2013)

    • St John Passion
      Dunedin Consort / John Butt on Linn

      Nicholas Mulroy was a superb Evangelist, alert and vivid.
      Kate Molleson, The Guardian
      ...the increasingly impressive Nicholas Mulroy’s alert, lightly coloured Evangelist strikes a balance in which declamation and lyricism are equally ardent and equally touching.
      Lindsay Kemp, Gramophone
      Tenor Nicholas Mulroy’s firmly-contoured Evangelist balances the musical and narrative imperatives of the recitatives with judicious sensitivity.
      Paul Riley, BBC Music Magazine
      The hero of the piece was tenor Nicholas Mulroy. Ever present as the Evangelist, he also participated in all the chorales and choruses and sang three solos. The most emotive of these was the tortured “Ach, mein Sinn”, which portrays Peter’s grief following denial and dereliction of friendship. I have seen Mulroy perform on a number of occasions and would contend that this was a truly special performance. I noticed that, although singing from memory, for much of the evening – even in recitative – he was turning pages without looking. This embodiment of the visual layout as well as the audio landscape of the music speaks volumes about the dedication which went into preparation.
      Alan Coady, Bachtrack
      Nicholas Mulroy made a lucid Evangelist: he had his work cut out narrating the whole tale, but he pulled it off superbly.
      David Kettle, The Scotsman

    • St Matthew Passion
      Dunedin Consort

      In his story-teller, he [Butt] has found an Evangelist with the candid vulnerability of Helmut Krebs. Yes Nicholas Mulroy brings his own striking naturalness of delivery, clarity of diction and honesty... The coloration explores, in microcosm, the Evangelist's own heartfelt identification with the drama into which he seems unwittingly drawn, and which heightens, almost unbearably, as the work unfolds
      Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Gramophone
      … his eight remarkable singers match spine-tingling tone with astonishing maturity. Nicholas Mulroy as Evangelist has a powerful dramatic sense, sometimes floating free of Bach's note values – he is mercilessly harsh when Jesus is spat upon – elsewhere meticulous: Peter’s denial would move the hardest heart... all confirmation of this as my new benchmark
      BBC Music Magazine
      Led by Nicholas Mulroy's intensely dramatic yet compassionate Evangelist... In sum, a St Matthew of disarming emotional and dramatic immediacy
      Richard Wigmore, The Daily Telegraph

    • Christmas Oratorio
      Monteverdi Choir

      the tenor Nicholas Mulroy was a poignant Evangelist
      Geoffrey Norris, Daily Telegraph
      I'd defy anyone to deny the Incarnation after hearing the tenor Nicholas Mulroy narrate that unique moment in powerfully persuasive recitative
      Hilary Finch, The Times
      tenor Nicholas Mulroy was a persuasive, airy-sounding Evangelist
      Erica Jeal, The Guardian
      Nicholas Mulroy (tenor/Evangelist) narrated the Christmas story with crystalline diction and a pleasingly plangent tone
      Hugh Canning, Sunday Times

    • Acis and Galatea
      Dunedin Consort

      All the soloists sing the chorus parts. The result is a wonderfully intimate reading, which bounces along with the spring and precision of a chamber performance. There is some world-class singing here: <...> Nicholas Mulroy makes an affecting Acis
      Stephen Pritchard, The Guardian
      Susan Hamilton and Nicholas Mulroy successfully painted the bliss of the titular lovers in the first act through their succession of sweetly idyllic airs
      Rowena Smith, The Guardian
      The Act One love duet (Happy We) was cloudlessly voiced, and Mulroy was mellifluous in his aria Love In Her Eyes Sits Playing.
      Conrad Wilson, Glasgow Herald
      Nicholas Mulroy's Acis is resonant and suave, combining muscularity and elegance.
      David Vickers, Gramophone

  • Nicholas Mulroy’s Discography

    Nicholas Mulroy’s Repertoire List

    BRITTEN
    • Billy Budd (Novice)
    • Albert Herring (Albert)
    • Turn of the Screw (Peter Quint)
    • Church Parables (various)
    • Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute)
    HANDEL
    • Theodora (Septimius)
    • Rodelinda (Grimoaldo)
    • Ariodante (Lurcano)
    MONTEVERDI
    • L’Orfeo (Orfeo, Pastore)
    • L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Arnalta, Lucano)
    MOZART
    • Magic Flute (Tamino, Monostatos)
    • Cosi fan tutte (Ferrando)
    • Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio)
    • Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Belmonte)
    • La Finta Giardiniera (Belfiore)
    POULENC
    • Les Dialogues des Carmélites (Le Chevalier)
    PROKOFIEV
    • Betrothal in a Monastery (Novice)
    RAMEAU
    • Castor et Pollux (Castor)
    • Dardanus (Dardanus)
    ROSSINI
    • La Cenerentola (Ramiro)
    • Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Almaviva)
    WEIR
    • A Night at the Chinese Opera (Tenor Actor)

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