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Nick Hitchens
Tuba
When did you join the orchestra?
August 1997
Favourite ENO opera?
Peter Grimes
Best ENO moment?
Peter Grimes, BBC Proms
How did you start?
Brass band family, St Austell, Cornwall.
Passion outside of opera?
Living in France, good food and red wine.
Career Highlights
Nicholas was born in St Austell, Cornwall in 1966 and at a very young age took up playing a brass instrument.
He played euphonium with the St Austell Band making several solo radio broadcasts on both local and national radio until gaining a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1985 to study the tuba.
Last updated: 22nd July 2021