Nicholas Dinopoulos studied singing at The University of Melbourne under Merlyn Quaife AM. He maintains a busy performance schedule consisting of various concert, recital and operatic engagements, most notably as a core member of Songmakers Australia. Also active as a conductor and educator, he serves on staff at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is artistic director of the Australian Boys Choir and the Giovanni Consort (Perth).

Opera credits include Caronte / Plutone (L'Orfeo), Ercole (Il Giasone), Un Scythe / Le Ministre du Sanctuaire (Iphigénie en Tauride), Bartolo / Antonio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Martino (L’Occasione fa il Ladro), L'Apparizione / Il Medico (Macbeth), Mars (Orphée aux Enfers), The Goldsmith (The Juniper Tree) and Cimarosa's Maestro di Cappella.

Nick has been heard frequently in live-to-air broadcasts on ABC Classic, 3MBS FM and Australian Digital Concert Hall, and appears on both the Chandos and Pinchgut Live labels. He has also given the world premiere performances of several significant new works from among the rising generation of Australian composers.

Engagements as a guest soloist have included the Bach Coffee Cantata and Grainger Tribute to Foster for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, El Cantor (María de Buenos Aires) for Victorian Opera, Polyphemus (Acis & Galatea) for Genesis Baroque, Christus in the St. Matthew Passion with the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra, Keeper of the Madhouse (The Rake’s Progress) for Auckland Philharmonia, Winterreise with pianist Andrea Katz, the Schubert Schwanengesang for Art Song Canberra, the Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri for the Melbourne Festival, Michael Haydn Requiem with the Australian Haydn Ensemble, the Verdi Requiem for Camberwell Chorale, four successive invitations to the Peninsula Summer Musical Festival, several return appearances for Bach Musica NZ, and recitals with Songmakers Australia at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Melbourne Recital Centre and for Musica Viva Australia.

www.nickdinopoulos.com

Bio taken from the last program in which Nick appears.