The most recent North Carolina Symphony concerts featuring Nicholas Phan were in 2018, when he performed in Mozart’s “Great” Mass in C minor.

To open the 2025/26 season, Grammy Award-winning lyric tenor Nicholas Phan curated and performed in Art Song Chicago’s 2025 Collaborative Works Festival. In October, he made his debut at the Rome Opera as Yonas in Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater, directed by Peter Sellars. Other highlights of the 2025/26 season include the New York Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Fundación Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid (ORCAM), and a day of concerts celebrating composer Rebecca Clarke at London’s Wigmore Hall, coinciding with the release of his new album Rebecca Clarke–The Complete Songs.

Phan won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. His album A Change Is Gonna Come was nominated for the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. His previous albums Stranger: Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly, Clairières, and Gods and Monsters were nominated for the same award in 2023, 2020, and 2017.    

In 2010 Phan co-founded Art Song Chicago, where he is artistic director. He has also served as guest curator with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Bravo! Vail Music Festival, San Francisco Opera Center, and San Francisco Performances, where he was the vocal artist in residence from 2014-2018.