A themed recital spanning four and half centuries of music, meditating on humanity's relationship with time: how it sometimes feels as though it is flying by, how sometimes it feels as though it is endless, and how finite it is. No matter how much time we feel we have, we only have so much.
Read More“This tour de force by Phan and the PCMS provides a shot of adrenaline to the Philadelphia chamber music scene, attracting a more diverse audience to discover art songs and the picture they paint of history and social change.” – Broad Street Review
Read MoreA three day festival exploring the work of living composers in the genre of song.
“Best of 2019 - Best Programming” - Chicago Classical Review
Read MoreA special program commemorating the centenary of the World War I Armistice curated and performed by Phan for WFMT.
Read MoreA three day festival exploring the narrative and dramatic power of the song cycle.
Read More“American tenor Nicholas Phan led members of Cleveland’s Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire in a stunning live performance of Phan’s English Baroque lute song album, A Painted Tale…The original accompaniments were expanded to include an ensemble of two violins, two lute players (on various instruments), and two violists da gamba, all of whom are Apollo’s Fire regulars…There was not a weak moment in the 90-minute concert.”
- Cleveland Classical
Read MoreIn 2018, Nicholas Phan was the first singer to be invited to serve as guest artistic director of the Laguna Beach Music Festival, co-presented annually by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and Laguna Beach Live. The week-long festival served a survey of the wide breadth of the power of song, spanning multiple genres from German Lieder to pop standards of today.
Read MoreWhat are songs but stories set to music? Whether they are confessional stories of the self or the telling of any variety of narrative, songs are but musical tales.
Read MoreA festival of concerts which explored the influence of French poet, Paul Verlaine, who’s poetry has been set to music more than any other French poet.
Read MoreA festival of concerts which explored the complicated relationship between America and religion.
Read MoreA three-day festival of concerts which explored the complicated and deep relationships between Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
Read MoreA three-day festival of concerts which celebrated the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth in 2013.
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