Nicholas Phan, tenor
Friday, October 7, 2011
8:00 pm
Nicholas Phan performs Nce Sta Quaccuna Po' from Stravinsky's Pulcinella, with Roxana Constantinescu, mezzo-soprano, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Artist Website:
www.nicholas-phan.com
Nicholas Phan is an operatic tenor of remarkable talent. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he has also studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival and School, and is an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.
An accomplished recitalist and concert singer, he has appeared with many of the leading orchestras in the U.S., including the Atlanta Symphony, the National Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
His recordings of Stravinsky's Pulcinella with Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony was recently released on the CSO Resound label and his world premiere recording of Evan Chamber's orchestral song cycle, The Old Burying Ground was released in July 2010.
In the United States Phan has sung various operatic roles with the Portland, New York City, Los Angeles, and Arizona opera companies and in Europe with the Opera de Lille Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, and Glyndebourne companies.
In the summer of 2009, he was featured in Gramophone Magazine as an "Artist to Watch," which then quoted the Chicago Sun-Times stating that Nicholas Phan was "vocally and dramatically at the level of the finest international artists."