Nathan Vale made his London debut in 2001 at St John's Smith Square singing Britten's Les Illuminations. He is the winner of the 2006 London Handel Singing Competition, where he was also awarded the Audience Prize.

Nathan is currently the Peter Pears Scholar at the Royal College of Music where he studies with Ryland Davies on the Benjamin Britten Opera School. He is very grateful to the Elmley Foundation, the Countess of Munster Trust
and the Musicians Benevolant Fund for their continuing support.

 

Performances include Bach's Weinachts Oratorium in Aarhus Cathedral with Harry Christophers and the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Handel's Messiah in the Royal Albert Hall with Sir David Wilcocks, Evangelist in Bach's St John Passion in St Paul's Cathedral, Lichfield Cathedral and St Martin in the Fields, Handel's Messiah for the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra in Denmark, Mozart's Requiem with the London Mozart Players, Bach's Mass in B Minor in Wells Cathedral, Beethoven's Mass in C with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Haydn's Creation with Stephen Cleobury and the Philharmonia Choir and Orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall. Nathan was also the tenor soloist in the newly commissioned The Prodigal Son by Jonathan Girling, written for and performed by Evelyn Glennie and the Armonico Consort.

 

Operatic engagements include First Prisoner in Beethoven's Fidelio for Glyndebourne. Pedrillo in Die Entfürung Aus Dem Serail for Surrey Opera and the role of Nencio in Haydn's L'Infidelta Delusa for Bampton Cassical Opera.

 

A finalist in the Young Songmakers' Almanac and winner of the 2005 AESS English Song Competition, Nathan is increasingly in demand as a recitalist.

He has given song recitals for the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford, for the Housman, Gurney, Warlock and Ireland Societies, a recital to celebrate the life of Eric Sams alongside Dame Felicitty Lott and pianist Graham Johnson, Tippet's The Heart's Assurance with pianist Jonathan Beatty for the Bath Festival, and most recently a recording of English Songs with pianist Paul Plummer for SOMM Records.

 

Recent engagements include Finzi's Dies Natalis with the Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten's Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings for the Pinner Music Festival, Bach's Weinachts Oratorium with Paul Spicer's Birmingham Bach Choir in the Symphony Hall Birmingham and Mozart's Requiem in Hereford Cathedral.

 

This seasons engagements include the role of Nerone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea at the RCM, covering the role of the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Nireno in Handel's Poro rè dell'Indie and Handel's Soloman for the RCM, Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the Northern Sinfonia and Thomas Zehetmair and Bach's St. John Passion (arias) in Aarhus with Paul Goodwin.