When 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…

LOVE 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…

“…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…

Watch 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…

American 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…

Nicholas 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…

The 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…

Grecchinois, 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…

NPR 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…