Meder: St Matthew Passion
Raumklang CD

'Nicki Kennedy sings beautifully in her solo arias...'
Goldberg

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino

'Two young and interesting soloists, already established...both specialising in the European baroque repertoire to which they bring - with the agnostic spirit of true belcanto athletes - a subtle and expressive voice: capable in the case of Kennedy, of a dazzling purity of tone...'
La Stampa

Mozart: Coronation Mass
Parlement de Musique

'The soloists surpassed themselves. The soprano Nicki Kennedy’s performance will be remembered with emotion as both powerful and measured.'
Vendée Matin - Neuil sur Autise

'The bright, flexible timbre of soprano Nicki Kennedy stood out from the vocal quartet. She performed the Agnus Dei in the Coronation Mass with wonderful simplicity. Thanks to the warm and heartfelt applause, it was encored.'
Luxemburger Wort - Echternach

Bach: St Matthew Passion
Orchester Damals und Heute

'In particular, Nicki Kennedy’s soprano shone out.'
Kölner Rundschau

Haydn: The Creation
Ensemble Vocale de Montpellier/Sylvanès Festival

'Nicki Kennedy (Gabriel and Eve) enchanted us with her crystalline, refined timbre and voluptuous vocalising.'
Le Progrès

Handel: Semele
Opera Parnassus/Manoel Theatre, Malta

'Nicki Kennedy gave a convincing performance of (Semele) as a voluptuous yielding coil of flesh who is at the same time possessive and demanding...she was beguiling in her aria with the mirror in Act 111, a suavely ravishing coloratura aria.'
The Sunday Times, Malta

Vivaldi: Cantatas
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble

'The great moments of charm were two cantatas...that enabled us to discover a soprano as talented as she is beautiful in the person of Nicki Kennedy. She has a beauty of tone and an ease that are remarkable...an agility and perfect musicianship. Her clear timbre and wide range were astonishing in these pieces.'
GV / le dauphiné

Music for Philip of Spain
Charivari Agreable

'Her sound is very focused and bell-like, her ornamentation neatly done.'
Robert Oliver / Early Music Review

Vivaldi: Cantatas, Vol 3

'Hers is a characterful voice, and intelligently deployed.'
Michael Quinn / Gramophone

LUBANARA/The Philosopher’s Stone
Hampstead & Highgate Festival

'Nicki Kennedy made a saucy Lubanara.'
The Times

'...much of the action in Stein is allotted to the ordinary couple, Lubanara and Lubano sung by a musical and coquettish Nicki Kennedy.'
Anthony Pryer / Times Literary Supplement

'Stephen Roberts and Nicki Kennedy enjoyed themselves as the comic couple Lubano and Lubanara and were rewarded with Mozart’s amusing cat duet.'
Matthew Rye / The Telegraph

'...Nicki Kennedy’s deliciously sensual Lubanara.'
Tim Ashley / Guardian

La libertà contenta
Barber Institute, Birmingham

'Nicki Kennedy was the bright-toned Aspasia.'
Rodney Milnes / The Times

'...Aspasia, sniffed around by all the men in the company, was voluptuous yet vulnerable in Nicki Kennedy’s portrayal.'
Christopher Morley / Opera

Early Music Series
Cròmata / Warwick Arts Society

'[Nicki Kennedy] she has a sparkling voice with a delicate and unobtrusive vibrato, and the agility and technique to handle the intricate ornamentation characteristic of this musical period.'
John Bradshaw / Post Review

Handel: Messiah
Darmstadt Konzertchor

'The soloists fitted well into this musical concept, Nicki Kennedy above all, with a fine, full, blossoming sound.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Bach: B Minor Mass
Gloucester Three Choirs Festival

'Bach’s B Minor Mass the evening before was an equal joy - thanks chiefly to Nicki Kennedy and Robin Blaze.'
Roderic Dunnett / The Independent

Recital
Glasgow Early Music Festival

‘Nicki Kennedy’s singing clear soprano...this was powerful, heady stuff...and Nicki Kennedy rose to the challenge wonderfully well.'
Stephen Strugnell/ Glasgow Herald

Recital of Baroque song
St George’s Church, Edgbaston

'...there as so much of the evening that was indeed most beautiful and delectable...Negri, delivered by Nicki Kennedy with enormous persuasiveness - her ornamentation is gently persuasive.'
Christopher Morley / Birmingham Post

CUPID & SEMELE/Handel: Semele
Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama

'revealing an astonishing coloratura facility in an upper range of considerable beauty.
Jim Brookes / Opera