Born in Liverpool, Nicholas Mulroy was a chorister at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral. He studied Modern Languages at Clare College, Cambridge and completed postgraduate studies at the RAM.
As a singer, he has sung Bach’s major oratorios with some of the leading conductors of this repertoire: Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Paul McCreesh, Marc Minkowski, Laurence Cummings, John Butt, Paul McCreesh, Andrew Parrott. He has also appeared with some of the world’s leading orchestras: the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the RLPO, the Hallé, the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Rotterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, and BBC Philharmonics, and, has been a frequent guest of the OAE, Arcangelo, Concerto Copenhagen, the English Baroque Soloists, Irish Baroque Orchestra, AAM, le Concert d‘Astrée, the English Concert.
A committed recitalist, he has appeared at festivals around the world, as well as many times at Wigmore Hall in repertoire ranging from Purcell’s amazing Harmonia Sacra with Elizabeth Kenny, via Schubert songs and both Bach Passions, to songs by Ned Rorem, Stephen Hough, and Britten‘s complete Canticles on the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
Nick has appeared on around 100 recordings, including major works by Handel and Bach, as well as Piazzolla‘s amazing María de Buenos Aires, Byrd and Tallis Cantiones Sacrae 1575, Stravinsky with SCO, and De Pasión Mortal, a personal collection combining Purcell and Monteverdi with the brilliant and vibrant nueva trova/nueva canción movement from 20th century Latin America.
Alongside singing, Nick has a growing reputation as a musical director: he is Associate Director of the Dunedin Consort, with whom he has led performances of both Bach Passions, Purcell Odes, and carefully curated choral programmes.
He is Director of the Trinity Boys Choir, and has prepared them for performances with ROH, Glyndebourne, Opéra de Lille, the CBSO, at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as Stockhausen‘s virtuosic Montag aus Licht.
He is a Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and a Musician in Residence at Girton College, Cambridge.