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Nick Allen is collaborating with Frank Podmore, Tom Bassett and Marion Wyllie in Group Seven. Click here to view the Group Seven blog.
From Lowestoft, Suffolk, Nick studied for three years before taking up his scholarship place on the undergraduate course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Now 23, he is in his fourth year and studies with Adrian Thompson.
Nick has performed as the soloist for numerous choral societies, touring with one as the guest soloist to Denmark, also performing on their recording. Nick's wide oratorio experience includes the solos in Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, Ramirez's Navidad Nuestra and later this year he will perform Beethoven's Mass in C Major and Haydn's Nelson Mass.
He has participated in masterclasses with Joan Patenaude-Yarnell, Julian Gavin and Paul Kiesgen, and has recently worked with other artists including Yvonne Kenny, Tracy Dahl, Kathryn Labouff, Eugene Asti, Sarah Walker, Sir Harry Christophers and Julius Drake.
Last year he understudied the role of Damon in Acis and Galatea under the late Sir Charles Mackerras at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh. Other roles include Freddie (Lerner & Lowe My Fair Lady) and The Defendant (Gilbert & Sullivan Trial by Jury). In January 2010, Nick made his Barbican Hall solo debut in a performance of the Hans Werner Henze (who was in attendance) orchestral song cycle, 'Voices', which is soon to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
In August he became the first person to play the role of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan in a week-long workshop with English composer Stephen McNeff and award winning novelist turned librettist Giles Foden, in their new opera The Last King of Scotland.
Nick has just completed the seven-week summer opera course held in Banff, Canada, where he made his operatic debut as Peter Quint in the Benjamin Britten opera The Turn of the Screw as part of the annual Banff Summer Arts Festival.
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