Artists

Nicki Kennedy read Spanish at Bristol University, where she was awarded a First Class Honours Degree. She studied singing as a post graduate at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (Now the Conservatoire) and at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded numerous prizes.

In a solo career specialising primarily in Baroque and Classical music, the most recent solo highlights included singing roles in Vivaldi’s Il Catone, Dixit Dominus, In furore iustissimae irae and Giudita Triumphans with Modo Antiquo in Krakow, Mexico City, Rome, Florence, Beaune and Vienna, and concerts with Brook Street Band at the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square and other festivals including appearances on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune programme. She visited and performed as soloist at many of the world’s most prestigious festivals including Aix-en-Provence, Beaune, Cervantino (Mexico) Boston Early Music Festival, Aldeburgh, Potsdam and others too numerous to mention. She performed Vivaldi at the Maggio Musicale in Florence and in Turin with the Accademia Stefano Tempio. Nicki worked with a number of chamber ensembles including appearances with The Brook Street Band, The Dante Quartet and the Divertimenti Ensemble. Other seasons included Netherlands Bach Society and Die Koelner Akademie, She toured with King’s College Choir and The Academy of Ancient Music in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, visiting King’s College, Cambridge, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam as well as the festivals of Lessay, St Malo and La Chaise Dieu in France. With Die Koelner Akademie she performed Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and in Sweden, Bach Cantatas. She is an annual visitor to Guernsey where she has performed with the Guernsey Bach Choir for a number of years.

Other highlights included the Christmas Oratorio, St John Passion, Handel Italian Motets and Messiah with Le Parlement de Musique, Chants d’Auvergne with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pergolesi Stabat Mater with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Winter Olympics, Haydn Die Schöpfung with the Orchestre des Champs–Elysées, Mozart Vesperae solemnes de confessore and Weber Mass in G at Sylvanes Festival, Vivaldi Cantatas with Les Musiciens du Louvre, Poulenc’s Gloria at King’s College Cambridge, Meder’s St Mathew Passion at the Boston Early Music Festival and in Los Angeles with Die Koelner Akademie and concerts with the English Chamber Orchestra, Florilegium and the Philharmonia Orchestra. 20th Century and contemporary work Berio Circles at Aix–en–Provence Festival and workshops with English National Opera Studio. Nicki also performed in numerous operas in particular in the roles of Mozart, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Purcell operas over her career, appearing on stages throughout the U.K, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

Nicki has a varied discography to her name, not only as a soloist but also joining London’s top session choirs to record pop and film soundtracks including many of the major Hollywood films, games and animations of the past 15 years, including the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Shrek, the Hobbit and the Harry Potter films amongst many, many others.