Nicki Kennedy enjoys a distinguished reputation as an accomplished exponent of baroque and classical repertoire. She possesses a warm voice of considerable agility and flexibility. This, coupled with a sparkling personality and great musicality and linguistic ability has marked her out as a favourite with audiences and promoters.

She read Spanish at Bristol University, where she gained a First Class Honours Degree before continuing her studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded numerous prizes.

In concert, Nicki has sung with ensembles including Le Parlement de Musique, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Les Musiciens du Louvre, English Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and Florilegium at festivals including Aix-en-Provence, Pontoise, Ambronay, Utrecht Early Music, Halle, Boston Early Music Festival, Three Choirs and London Handel Festival.

Recent concerts include Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra, Bach's Mein Herze Schwimmt im Blut at the Cité de la Musique in Paris and Meder's St Matthew Passion at the Boston Early Music Festival and in Los Angeles with Die Kölner Akademie and Acis and Galatea with the Brook Street Band at Petworth Festival. Forthcoming highlights this season are Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate and Beethoven's Mass in C in Prague at the Wenceslas Festival, Vivaldi Opera Arias in Italy and Vivaldi's Salve Regina, Laudate Pueri and In Furore Iustissimae Irae in Spain with Modo Antiquo, Handel's Lucrezia at the Wigmore Hall with the Brook Street Band and a recording of Mattheson's oratorio David with Die Kölner Akademie for CPO.

Operatic engagements have included ORIANA (Amadigi) and PHILIDEL (Purcell's King Arthur) touring festivals including Bayreuth, Potsdam and Hanover with Der Lautten Compagney, Cena Furiosa (a staged madrigal by Monteverdi) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at La Monnaie, Brussels, SEMELE (title role) at the Teatru Manoel, Malta, LA MUSICA in L'Orfeo for Purcell Quartet touring Japan, AMORE in L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the Megaron, Athens, AMORE/VALETTO in L'Incoronazione di Poppea with the Purcell Quartet in Japan and Vivaldi roles BARZANE in Arsilda, Regina di Ponto, VAGAUS in Judita Triumphans, ANGELICA in Orlando Furioso, and LUCIO in Tito Manlio with Modo Antiquo at the Barga Festival. Other roles include ZERLINA in Don Giovanni, PAMINA in Die Zauberflöte and BELINDA in Dido and Aeneas.

Discography includes SECOND PRIESTESS in Iphigénie en Tauride with Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ausencias de Dulcinea and Himnos de los neofitos de Qumran by Rodrigo with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Meder's Passionsoratorium nach Matthaus with Die Kölner Akademie, Vivaldi's VAGAUS in Judita Triumphans, BARZANE in Arsilda, Regina di Ponto, LUCIO in Tito Manlio and two volumes of Vivaldi Cantatas with Modo Antiquo, Music for Philip 11 of Spain with Charivari Agréable and Sentieri di neve e foco with Crómata. She has broadcast regularly on BBC radio and many major European stations, including RAI 3, Deutschlandfunk, Netherlands Radio, France Musique and WDR.