Nick Pritchard

Born in West Sussex, Nick Pritchard read music as a choral scholar at New College, Oxford and studied with Russell Smythe at the Royal College of Music International Opera School.

Concert highlights include Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Monteverdi Choir under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra under Paul McCreesh, Bach Cantatas with Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon.

Operatic roles have included Matthew in Mark Simpson’s Pleasure for Opera North, Prologue The Turn of the Screw for Opera Holland Park, and Telemaco The Return of Ulysses and Mercurio La Calisto, both for English Touring Opera.Recent and future engagements include  Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Aldeburgh Music Festival, Pisander Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria for the Royal Opera House, Ferrando Così fan tutte for Opera Holland Park, Henry Crawford Mansfield Park for The Grange Festival, Britten’s Les Illuminations and Serenade with L’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under Adrien Perruchon, Charpentier’s Te Deum with the Early Opera Company at Wigmore Hall, Bach’s St John Passion with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under John Butt (arias), Polyphony and the OAE under Stephen Layton (Evangelist), and in New York with the Choir of New College, Oxford.