- Nicholas Grigsby
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Nicholas Grigsby Birth name Nicholas Grigsby Born September 13, 1974 Origin Salisbury, England 
Genres Classical music
Pipe OrganYears active 1986–present Website Nicholas Grigsby official site Nicholas Grigsby (born 13 September 1974) is a prominent New Zealand concert organist, academic, broadcaster and music critic.
A former organ scholar of Salisbury Cathedral, he studied organ and improvisation with Colin Walsh, Organist Laureate of Lincoln Cathedral, Peter Wright at Southwark Cathedral, London and in France at Rouen Conservatoire with the blind organist Louis Thiry, a former pupil of the late virtuoso Marchal.
He completed his Master of Music degree in organ & harpsichord performance with Dr. Rachael Griffiths-Hughes at Waikato University, Hamilton New Zealand graduating with First Class Honours.
Currently finalising a PhD thesis into the earliest aspects of the life of the musician Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), he was in 2008 awarded a Visiting Fellowship by Harvard University to undertake independent research at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Nicholas Grigsby is a regular broadcaster on the New Zealand national radio network Concert, presenting programmes such as the musicology-based Composer of the Week, the music review magazine Pressing On, and the interview programme, Appointment. He has also been broadcast as a solo organist by Radio New Zealand, the BBC in the UK, and also in the United States.
He is Artistic Director of the Whanganui Festival of Organ Music, New Zealand's principal showcase of pipe organ music, based at the historic Collegiate School, where since 2004 he has been Director of Music and School Organist, before this Grigsby was the Musical Director of Scots College, Wellington where he had replaced Nigel Williams .
Nicholas Grigsby is a regular performer at international festivals of organ music, most recently in New Zealand, Australia, Asia-Pacific, France, Germany, US, and the UK. He also presents duo organ concerts with the freelance organist & jazz pianist Max Kenworthy.
In 2007 the duo produced a live concert recording, Four Hands / Four Feet, from Dunedin Town Hall, New Zealand, which remains a critically acclaimed performance. Their concerts have also featured on the BBC's The Organist Entertains programme and Pipedreams on public radio throughout the US
In addition to the degree of Master of Music (Hons.), Grigsby holds the degree of Bachelor of Music with Honours, is a Licentiate in Organ Performance from Trinity College of Music, London, an Associate of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand, a Diploma holder in Organ Performance with Honours of the St. Cecilia School of Music of Australia & New Zealand, a Fellow in Musicology of the Australian Society of Musicologists & Composers, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Categories:- 1974 births
- Living people
- New Zealand musicians
- University of Waikato alumni
- Harvard University people
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