"One of the most eloquently communicative tenors on the scene today"
-THE BALTIMORE SUN
Grammy Award-winning tenor Nicholas Phan joins WFMT to share selections from his acclaimed discography of lieder and art song including the Grammy nominated A Change is Gonna Come, a collection of American protest songs. Co-founder and artistic director of Art Song Chicago, Phan also previews the organization’s upcoming Collaborative Works Festival and Lieder Lounge series.
GRAMMY® winning tenor Nicholas Phan releases Joel Puckett: Short Stories in London on 22 August on Avie. The album features Puckett’s orchestral song cycle, There Was as Child Went Forth, which was created for Phan and was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Joseph Young….
Nick is interviewed for the Skaneateles Festival Podcast!
Grammy Award-winning tenor and curator Nicholas Phan continues to balance opera, concert, and recital appearances with curatorial projects in the 2025–26 season. Highlights include his Rome Opera debut in the Italian premiere of Adriana Mater, curatorial projects for Art Song Chicago and London’s Wigmore Hall, returns to the New York Philharmonic and Washington’s Kennedy Center, and two major new album releases…
American tenor Nicholas Phan won the 2025 Grammy® Award for Best Opera Recording for his starring role on the world premiere recording of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater. This was his fifth Grammy® Award nomination and his first win...
Grammy Award-winning tenor Nicholas Phan joins WFMT to share selections from his acclaimed discography of lieder and art song including the Grammy nominated A Change is Gonna Come, a collection of American protest songs. Co-founder and artistic director of Art Song Chicago, Phan also previews the organization’s upcoming Collaborative Works Festival and Lieder Lounge series.
Nick is interviewed for the Skaneateles Festival Podcast!
“…Phan was the program’s anchor, shining each time he took the stage. Even some of the greatest opera singers have had limited success in the art-song repertoire…To be successful, a singer does not so much perform art songs as enter into and inhabit these miniature worlds, serving more as a musical storyteller than an actor. Phan is the epitome of such an interpreter…”
“…’Reiner Geist, lass doch mein Herz,’ …a beautiful work that shows more than a touch of Italian opera influence. Much less celebratory than the surrounding Bach cantatas, the piece in this performance owed much to Phan, who was a phenomenal soloist. His legato was unshakeable…“. – San Francisco Chronicle
“Nicholas Phan is a fine protagonist, steering this provocative course between cantata and musical theatre. His fervent, crystalline diction fuels the revolution, not that the electrically democratic Palaver Strings are short of ideas. Phan gives Farayi Malek the final word, and it’s a soulful call to action”
“…[Phan] opened the evening with “Comfort ye,” not only comforting but also smiting with his expressiveness. In “Every valley shall be exalted” he gave a virtual a master class in how to sing a melisma…”
“…tenor Nicholas Phan, who gave a stunning concert of solo Baroque vocal music with the Bach Collegium San Diego (BCSD) directed by Ruben Valenzuela this past weekend…Phan’s elegant phrasing, pellucid German, and resonant vocal sonority combined with the customary panache of BCSD could not have been more rewarding…”
“…Phan was the program’s anchor, shining each time he took the stage. Even some of the greatest opera singers have had limited success in the art-song repertoire…To be successful, a singer does not so much perform art songs as enter into and inhabit these miniature worlds, serving more as a musical storyteller than an actor. Phan is the epitome of such an interpreter…”