Nicholas McGegan

Nicholas McGegan OBE (born 14 January 1950 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England) is a British harpsichordist, flautist, conductor and early music expert.

McGegan received his early education at Nottingham High School. He subsequently studied music at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and at Magdalen College, Oxford. McGegan has participated in some of the earliest authentic-performance recordings during the 1970s as a baroque flautist,^[1] including Christopher Hogwood's seminal recordings of Mozart symphonies. He has taught music at such UK institutions as King's College, Cambridge, Oriel College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Music. In the USA, McGegan has served as artist-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis.

In 1985, McGegan became music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (PBO) in San Francisco, USA. From 1991 to 2011, McGegan was artistic director of the Göttingen International Handel Festival.^[2] He has also held long-term appointments with the Drottningholm Theatre, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. McGegan founded the chamber music group, The Arcadian Academy. He was music director of the Irish Chamber Orchestra from 2002 to 2005.

McGegan has made more than 100 recordings, including many with the PBO and singers such as Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Lisa Saffer, for such labels as harmonia mundi. He has collected a number of honors, including an honorary degree from the Royal College of Music in London, the Handel Music Prize from the Handel Festival in Halle, Germany, and the honorary medal of the Friends of the Drottningholm Theatre.

McGegan resides in San Francisco and Glasgow.^[1] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Andrew Clements (2005-08-01). "Baroque star". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/aug/01/classicalmusicandopera.proms20051. Retrieved 2009-10-18. 
2. ^ Michael Schäfer (2010-12-30). "Händel-Festspiele: Ära McGegan geht zu Ende". Göttinger Tageblatt. http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Regionale-Kultur/Haendel-Festspiele-Aera-McGegan-geht-zu-Ende. Retrieved 2011-06-12. 
3. ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59446. p. 24. 12 June 2010.

External links

• Official Nicholas McGegan website
• Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra web site
• Interview with Nicholas McGegan by Bruce Duffie, July 19, 1988

Preceded by Laurette Goldberg	Music Director, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra 1985–present	Succeeded by incumbent
Preceded by John Eliot Gardiner	Artistic Director, Göttingen International Handel Festival 1991–2011	Succeeded by Laurence Cummings
Preceded by Fionnuala Hunt	Music Director, Irish Chamber Orchestra 2002–2005	Succeeded by Anthony Marwood (Artistic Director)

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Name	McGegan, Nicholas
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Date of birth	14 January 1950
Place of birth	Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire
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