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.

Nicki has performed, broadcast and recorded at many of the major festivals of Europe, Japan and the U.S.A, with a wide range of orchestras including The Academy of Ancient Music, Les Musiciens du Louvre, L'Orchestre des Champs Elysées, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Purcell Quartet, Le Parlement de Musique, the Brook Street Band and others.

This current season's engagements include three concerts at the Wigmore Hall with the Brook Street Band following their release of a double disc of Handel's English Cantatas for the Avie label, an all Haydn programme at the Easter Festival, King's College Cambridge, with the Academy of Ancient Music, a recording of Handel Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate and Croft Ode for the Peace Treaty of Utrecht for the Netherlands Bach Society and a disc of Spanish works with the Coro Cervantes. Following the release of Mattheson's Der Liebreiche und Geduldige David for CPO with Die Kölner Akademie, she will join them again to record a Christmas Oratorio by the same composer, and she has recently returned from the Zamora Festival in Spain performing Meder's Passionsoratorium nach Matthaus with the same orchestra.

Other most recent work has included concerts with Modo Antiquo of Vivaldi including VAGAUS in Juditha Triumphans at the Via Stellae Festival in Santiago de Compostela, Vivaldi Gloria at the Sanssouci Festival Potsdam and a recent release of Orlando Furioso (role of ANGELICA) for CPO. With Die Kölner Akademie she has performed Bach's Mein Herz Schwimmt im Blut at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and with the Brook Street Band she performed Handel's Lucrezia and O Qualis de Coelo Sonus at the Wigmore Hall. In Prague's Wenceslas Festival she performed Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate and Beethoven's Mass in C and at the Sylvanes Festival in France, Haydn's Creation.

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.