“This week our Classical Californian will be acclaimed tenor Nicholas Phan, who’s also an educator and musical curator. He’s the Artistic Director and co-founder of Collaborative Art Institutes of Chicago (CAIC), and for the past decade or so has made San Francisco his home…”
Read MoreNicholas Phan is nominated for Best Classical Solo Voice Album. This is his 3rd nomination. The work is a composition called "Stranger" and it was written by modern composer Nico Muhly.
CBS News Bay Area interviewed Nicholas at the renowned Skywalker Sound in Marin County…
…The three of us connected over Zoom last month to discuss the genesis and reception of Stranger, the questions around identity and immigration which lie at the heart of the piece…
Read MoreCommissioned by the tenor Nicholas Phan and premiered in 2019, Nico Muhly's Stranger is undoubtedly one of the most moving new vocal works to come my way this year: setting texts including extracts from letters and interviews with immigrants from China and Sicily, the song-cycle explores what Muhly has described as 'different kinds of shared American stories', …
…The three of us connected over Zoom last month to discuss the genesis and reception of Stranger, the questions around identity and immigration which lie at the heart of the piece…
Read More“Composer and singer discuss the title-work on a new album from Avie, and consider the resonances of cultural identity explored in the new work, written for Phan
Nico Muhly’s Stranger, premiered in 2020, gives its name to a new album from Avie featuring the tenor Nicholas Phan. James Jolly caught up by video call with Nicholas Phan in San Francisco and Nico Muhly in New York to talk about the album, and how Stranger came into being.”
Read MoreNick appeared on WFMT’s Listening to Singers with OIiver Camacho for an interview and a survey of some of his recordings as part of the show’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month programming:
Of Greek and Chinese heritage, Nicholas Phan is one of the few male Asian singers to have broken through the world of classical music as a performer and recording artist. The Grammy-nominated tenor joins Oliver to talk about identity, championing art song, and to remember countertenor Brian Asawa.
Read MorePBS ‘Articulate’ profiles Nick and his collaboration with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society for the Emerging Voices Project
Read MoreWHEN TENOR NICHOLAS PHAN invited me to one of his rehearsals, I jumped at the chance. I’ve long admired Phan’s musical individuality and his smart, thoughtful blog, and I’m fascinated to see him at work. At an October 2016 meeting near Lincoln Center, Phan and pianist Myra Huang are revisiting “Gods and Monsters,”…
Read MoreNow devoting a good third of his career to art song, Phan recently gave a recital at London’s fabled Wigmore Hall. This season has also seen his role debut as the lead in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, and next season he sings Toronto Symphony’s concert version of Bernstein/Sondheim’s Candide. It’s a genuinely 21st-century career…
Read MoreOne would think that performing in some of the world’s most prestigious concert arenas and music festivals just as a matter of course would be enough for any young tenor. But for Nicholas Phan, singing with the world’s greatest orchestras and working with leading conductors is his idea of just getting started…
Read MoreTenor Nicholas Phan has earned critical acclaim for this two previous albums and his live performances, including being called an "artist who must be heard" by NPR. He has a busy schedule…
Read MoreWhen it comes to building a career, Nicholas Phan is not shy about rolling up his sleeves. The sweet-voiced lyric tenor could have pursued a prefab path and had a mostly opera career, and he still has some lofty operatic goals…
Read MoreLOVE MAY BE IMPERFECT, messy, in many ways indefinable, but it has endured as central concern—perhaps the central concern—of music. On Tuesday, Da Camera presents a concert of works stretching from John Dowland to Benjamin Britten, from Elizabethan England to Churchill’s United Kingdom, with love at its core…
Read More“…to make Chicago a world home for the study and performance of art song and vocal chamber music.”
That is the goal of the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago. They’ve recruited tenor Nicholas Phan as artistic director, and are hosting the 2014 Collaborative Works Festival this week…
Read MoreWatch Nicholas Phan sing even the simplest folk song and it is clear what it means to be invested in one’s work. The clarity of his tenor voice is matched only by his clarity of expression as he attempts to communicate the meaning of the poet…
Read MoreAmerican tenor Nicholas Phan smiles as he notes the nice if not immediately obvious fit between Hallowe’en and this week’s Toronto Symphony Orchestra programme, which includes Carl Orff’s popular Carmina Burana and the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings by Benjamin Britten…
Read MoreNicholas Phan dates his serious engagement with Benjamin Britten’s music to a recital he gave seven or eight years ago. It took place at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., where a friend was on the faculty. She encouraged Phan, a tenor, to sing Britten’s “Winter Words,” a song cycle on poems by Thomas Hardy…
Read MoreThe festivities will begin later this week when the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, of which Phan is artistic director, presents its second annual Collaborative Works Festival. Bracketing the five-day event will be two recitals of songs by Britten and others performed by Phan, Kiera Duffy, Jennifer Johnson Cano, pianist Martin Katz and other artists…
Read MoreGrecchinois, the name of Nicholas Phan’s engaging blog, reflects the Greek and Chinese heritage of this 34-year-old American tenor, who has fast made a name for himself as an expressive interpreter of the British composer Benjamin Britten. Raised Greek Orthodox in Ann Arbor, Mich., Mr. Phan, who initially studied the violin…
Read MoreNPR named him their “Favorite New Artist” in 2011. This tenor is completely comfortable in his shoes as artist, public figure, and regular guy; treating his fan base as an extension of his own friends. His blogs are personal in a way that inspires other singers confronting similar challenges, from head colds to stage fright…
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