Biography
NICK PEPIN: (Counter-tenor)
Nick has sung counter-tenor since the age of sixteen and now has a fast increasing solo concert
career. He has held lay clerk positions in Durham, Portsmouth, Denver (USA) and most recently
Winchester cathedrals, and has sung solo with them on radio and TV, and toured with them to
Scotland, Italy, Germany, France, Norway and the USA. With Winchester he has made numerous
recordings, including recently a disk of Gibbons Verse Anthems (solo) with Hyperion. He has
appeared at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in an Early Music performance of the Bach Magnificat. Recent
engagements include solos in Bernstein’s ‘Chichester Psalms’ in Guildford Cathedral under David Hill, Handel’s ‘Messiah’
in Sweden under Nicholas Cleobury, St.John Passion with Swindon Choral Society, Arvo Part’s St.John Passion in
Winchester Cathedral, Handel’s Belshazzar in Petersfield and the Winchester Festival, Bach’s St.Matthew Passion in
Lichfield, Handel’s Messiah in Denver, and Bernstein’s Missa Brevis in Washington DC.
Nick’s first loves are oratorio and early music. He has sung solo in many oratorios with the Portsmouth Baroque Choir,
Romsey Choral Society, the London Festival Orchestra, The Northern Sinfonia, the Parley of Instruments, the
Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Swindon Choral Society and the London Bach Choir. Nick also sings in numerous Early Music
ensembles, including Polyhymnia, with whom he has given programmes of Early Spanish Music in Toledo and Winchester
Cathedrals, a group from the University of Colorado in Boulder, K.E.M.P. (Knoxville Early Music Project) Tennessee, and a
newly formed Four Part Upper Voice Ensemble based in Washington DC. He sang with Washington National Cathedral
Choir at the funeral service of former President Ronald Reagan.
He is also a founder member of the group Pennine Parnassus that performs its unique blend of music and the spoken
word at venues in England, Scotland, and America. He has appeared in many Cathedral Lunchtime recitals accompanied
by his mother, June, in repertoire which includes folksongs and English and American music. His recent solo CD, issued by
Charlemagne Music entitled ‘Gentle Springs – A Pastoral Evocation’, includes many of these songs.
