Artists

Nicholas Phan is a Grammy® Award-winning lyric tenor whose artistry spans nearly five centuries of music. Hailed by the Boston Globe as ‘one of the world’s most remarkable singers’, he has earned international recognition for his captivating stage presence, keen musical intelligence, and communicative power.

In 2010 he co-founded Art Song Chicago to champion art song and vocal chamber music, where he continues to serve as Artistic Director.

Phan won the 2025 Grammy® Award for Best Opera Recording for his recording of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony. His album, A Change Is Gonna Come, was nominated for the 2025 Grammy® Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. His previous albums – Stranger: Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly, Clairières: Songs by Lili and Nadia Boulanger, and Gods & Monsters – were nominated for the same award in 2023, 2020 and 2017. He is the first singer of Asian descent to be nominated in the history of the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album category, which has been awarded by the Recording Academy since 1959.

A sought-after curator and programmer, Phan is the creator and host of BACH 52, a web series examining the contemporary relevance of Bach’s music. He has conceived programs for WFMT and WQXR, and developed immersive, multi-pronged projects for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Bravo! Vail music festival, Wigmore Hall, the San Francisco Opera Center, and New York’s Kaufman Music Center, where he was Artist-in-Residence during the 2023–24 season, as well as for San Francisco Performances, where he was Vocal Artist-in-Residence from 2014–18.