“The large cast was steered through with class and finesse by young conductor Nicholas Jenkins – just the sort of talent a small, ambitious company needs to help it progress.”
Die Rheinnixen / New Sussex Opera / Opera Now

“The Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre – Grenoble were faultless.”
Purcell, Handel, Haydn / Les Musiciens du Louvre – Barbican Hall, London / The Guardian

“Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre ...English diction was almost exemplary...a lively and interesting choral sound. It helps that they are trained by the talented young conductor Nicholas Jenkins.”
Purcell, Handel, Haydn / Les Musiciens du Louvre – Barbican Hall, London / Music and Vision

“The Choir of LMDLG excelled itself – I have seldom heard such finely graduated tonal contrasts.”
Purcell, Handel, Haydn / Les Musiciens du Louvre – Barbican Hall, London / Seen and Heard

“Yet with Jenkins (a regular assistant to Marc Minkowski) tirelessly sustaining both dramatic momentum and rhythmic buoyancy, the magnificent instrumental richness of Mozart’s first mature opera was clear.”
Idomeneo / New Sussex Opera / Opera

“As conductor, Nicholas Jenkins has an engaging, undemonstrative style that allowed him to coax a performance out of Kent Sinfonia that was full but never lush…
enthralled capacity audience….a sustained delight.”
Idomeneo / New Sussex Opera / Sussex Express

“Nicholas Jenkins -  extremely helpful booklet notes"
Entre Nous – Celebrating Offenbach / Opera Rara /  Opera magazine

“Under the baton of Nicholas Jenkins, the music was often beautifully lyrical and smooth.”
Tobias and the Angel / New Sussex Opera / Brighton Argus

"...directed by the talented young conductor Nicholas Jenkins...Strauss’ Die Göttin im Putzzimmer was negotiated with skill by the ensemble under Jenkins’ confident leadership."
Allegri – Howells – Strauss  / Londinium – City Voices /  Music and Vision

‘”The young English conductor Nicholas Jenkins conducted with great embraces - a period-instrument orchestra, responding to the wish of the Opéra de Besançon to present the complete Mozart operas in an appropriate 18th Century style.”
Così fan tutte / Opéra de Besançon / Resmusica

“His reading of the Freischütz overture was intensely dramatic, an opera in itself...Jenkins built towards this (fourth) movement (of Brahms: Symphony No. 3) throughout the whole work, admirably grading the climaxes, clearly defining this wonderful architecture ...in Nicholas Jenkins we have a future Furtwängler, rather than a Toscanini. Good luck to him.”
Weber – Brahms / Helios Orchestra /Oxford Times

"Grange Park Opera's employment of a full time chorus director, Nicholas Jenkins, has paid off, and the twelve men of the chorus gave Massenet's male-voice choruses a lovely sheen."
Thaïs / Grange Park Opera /  Music and Vision

“Ardeur, finesse et sensibilité, les Choeurs des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble ont été à la hauteur de leur réputation."
Dido and Aeneas / Théâtre du Châtelet /  Le Monde

“this year’s chorus is much better than Grange Park’s usual."
L’Elisir d’amore / Grange Park Opera /  Daily Telegraph

“Nicholas Jenkins has an excellent musical pedigree and is a fluent, expressive conductor. This was an outstanding performance.”
Carmina Burana / Eltham Choral Society / Kentish Times

“Best of all was young Nicholas Jenkins in the pit, directing his orchestra with drive and fire. No phoney authenticity here – just a vibrant account of a master score.”
Così fan tutte / University of Oxford / Oxford Times

“The first UK performance of Offenbach’s romantic opera The Rhine Fairies was an occasion no music-lover would want to miss – the whole piece expertly held together by conductor Nicholas Jenkins.”
Die Rheinnixen / New Sussex Opera / Sussex Express

“This revelatory concert performance of Offenbach’s grand romantic opera…
The whole cast, chorus and the Kent Sinfonia under the baton of Nicholas Jenkins performed with dedication.”
Die Rheinnixen / New Sussex Opera / Opera

“The Kent Sinfonia responded generously to Nicholas Jenkins’ characteristically expansive direction, not least in the many deftly etched orchestral solos, and there was no stinting on the casting.”
The Poisoned Kiss / New Sussex Opera / Opera

“A lively performance. Nicholas Jenkins conducted with authority. The afternoon passed by all too quickly.”
The Poisoned Kiss / New Sussex Opera / Musical Pointers