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The English baritone, Nicholas Mogg, studied at Manchester Grammar School (2001-2008). He read music at Clare College, Cambridge (2008-2011), where he was a choral scholar as a member of Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (2011-2012). He studied on the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham (2014-2016). He is an Oxford Lieder Young Artist, a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Park Lane Group Young Artist, a Live Music Now Artist, a Drake Calleja Scholar, a soloist for the RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series, and a member of the Academy’s prestigious Song Circle. He won the 2017 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award, and in 2015 won the Joan Chissell Schumann Lieder Prize, the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, and the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform. He is winner of the 2017 Royal Over-Seas League Singers Section. He is the recipient of the Baroness de Turckheim Award, the Thompson Family Charitable Trust Award, and the Norman Ayrton Scholarship. He is supported by the Robert Easton Award, Drake Calleja Trust, Lady Clare Fund, George Law, the Josephine Baker Trust, the Drapers’ Company, a Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award, and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.
Operatic roles to date include Peachum in Die Dreigroschenoper, Jupiter in Orphée aux Enfers at Hackney Empire, Melisso in George Frideric Handel's Alcina for Royal Academy Opera, Count Almaviva in W.A. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro for Hampstead Garden Opera; Vicar in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring for Mid Wales Opera Young Artists; Falke in Die Fledermaus for Cambridge University Opera; and Starveling in B. Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Shadwell Opera at the Edinburgh Fringe. Opera scenes at RAM include Tarquinius B. Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, Guglielmo W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, and Schaunard in Leoncavallo's La Bohème. Nicholas sang at at the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival in May-July 2014, the Bavarian State Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2015, and was an Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera in 2016.
Nicholas Mogg has appeared as a soloist at the Barbican Hall, Concertgebouw, Palau de la Música Catalana, Bozar Brussels, KKL Luzern, and Philharmonie de Paris with conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, and Sir Roger Norrington. He has established a successful duo partnership with pianist, Jâms Coleman, and together they have performed recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival, Two Moors Festival, Roman River Festival, and the Ryedale Festival. Engagements in 2017-2018 include the title role in W.A. Mozart's W.A. Mozart's and Steward in Flight for Royal Academy Opera, Handel Messiah for Edward Higginbottom Spain, Schubert Schwanengesang at the Two Moors Festival with Jâms Coleman, and a return to the Oxford Lieder Festival for Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem. He currently lives in London, England |
