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Nicholas Chalmers

CONDUCTOR
Senior Associate Artist: Royal Ballet and Opera, London
Principal Conductor: National Youth Choir 18-25
Associate Conductor, Learning: BBC Singers
Fernside Chair of Choral Conducting: Royal Academy of Music, London

Representation: General Management

Educated at the University of Oxford and Piacenza Conservatoire, Nicholas Chalmers is one of the leading conductors in the UK. His energy and vision have seen the establishment of highly successful artistic and education projects and his work impacts thousands of young people each year. Nicholas is driven by a passion to bring classical music to the next generation and to ensure that people in areas of under provision have better access to training and engagement in the performing arts.

From 2011, Nicholas was conductor of Northern Ireland Opera and established the chorus and partnership with the Ulster Orchestra and conducted The Medium, Tosca (Best Opera – Irish Times Theatre Awards), The Turn of the Screw, The Bear, Macbeth, The Flying Dutchman, Salome, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Powder Her Face and Noye’s Fludde (Belfast Zoo, Beijing and Shanghai).

In 2013, Nicholas founded Nevill Holt Opera and established an award-winning education and associate artists programme. The company introduced countless young people to opera in the East Midlands and its year-round education programme works with schools across the region. The rapid success of the company under his 10-year leadership led to a new opera house being built at Nevill Holt in Leicestershire. It opened in 2018 with Le nozze di Figaro. The exquisite new building has won plaudits for its acoustic design and reached the final of the RIBA Stirling prize in 2019. With Nevill Holt Opera, Nicholas has conducted The Magic Flute, La bohème, The Turn of the Screw, Carmen, Rigoletto, The Elixir of Love, Tosca, Noye’s Fludde, Le Nozze di Figaro, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cosí fan tutte and La traviata.

Nicholas works with leading orchestras and opera companies in the UK and overseas: Royal Northern Sinfonia; Britten Sinfonia; Manchester Camerata; BBC Concert Orchestra; The CBSO; The Ulster Orchestra; The English Chamber Orchestra; London Mozart Players; English National Opera, China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra; Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra; Zurich Opera; Opera National de Lyon. He has also held posts at Chichester and St Paul’s Cathedrals and at Westminster Abbey.

Nicholas is a Senior Associate Artist of the Royal Ballet and Opera, and makes his conducting debut there with Bernstein’s ‘A Quiet Place’ in autumn 2024.

Nicholas is the Associate Conductor, Learning of the BBC Singers and made his BBC Proms conducting debut in 2020 with the group. With the BBC Singers, he has programmed and conducted numerous broadcasts and concerts throughout the UK and helped establish the Singers’ partnership with youth choral groups in Stratford East, the future home of the BBC performing groups. In 2023 Nicholas became Principal Conductor of the National Youth Choir 18-25 and in September he 2024 he took up the role of Fernside Chair of Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Promoters please note: We update our biographies regularly and ask that they are not altered without permission. For updated versions, please e-mail: Jessica Kinney

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News

Nicholas Chalmers debuts at Royal Opera House

October 10th, 2024

Senior Associate Artist of the Royal Ballet and Opera, Nicholas Chalmers makes his conducting debut with the company at the Linbury Theatre 10 – 24 October 2024 in a Bernstein double bill Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place. These operas, inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s own life and written in 1951 and 1983 respectively haveRead more ›

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Nicholas Chalmers joins JBM for General Management

September 26th, 2024

JBM is delighted to announce the signing of conductor Nicholas Chalmers.  With a number of leading roles on the British music scene Nicholas is a dynamic and engaging musician. His energy and vision have seen the establishment of highly successful artistic and education projects and his work impacts thousands of young people each year. NicholasRead more ›

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Reviews

2022 La bohème – Nevill Holt Opera and Manchester Camerata

“In the pit, the Manchester Camerata plays with impressive tone and total engagement, while festival artistic director and conductor Nicholas Chalmers summons up all the vitality and momentum required for Puccini to hold the audience in his tight emotional grip. Nevill Holt is lucky to have such a superb musician at the helm.”

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