Nicholas Chalmers

Nicholas Chalmers is the Assistant Chorus Master of English National Opera, and Musical Director of Second Movement. From 2003 until 2008, he was the Director of Music at Westminster Abbey Choir School and Musical Director of the Bromley Youth Choirs.

He was a chorister at Tewkesbury Abbey, Organ Scholar at Chichester Cathedral and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he also conducted the Oxford University Chamber Choir. After graduating, he moved to the organ scholarship at St Paul’s Cathedral, and was Head of Chapel Music at Forest School, East London. From 2007 to 2008 he was the Choral Conducting Scholar of the London Symphony Chorus.

For second movement he has conducted Mozart and Salieri (2004) and Trouble in Tahiti (2005), The Medium and Impresario (2006), and their triple bill Les Deux Aveugle, Rothchild’s Violin and The Knife’s Tears (2007), all to wide critical acclaim. With Chelsea Opera Group, he has been chorus master for Beatrice di Tenda (2007) and Macbeth (2008). In addition to his work at ENO, he works regularly with the BBC Singers.