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Nicholas is Choir Director of St Giles' Church, Oxford, where he established a musical academy and several new choirs. The Academy includes a new organ school, which at present teaches nearly 20 organists, many of whom are young singers at St Giles'. Nicholas leads an outreach scheme with Viscount Classical Organs Ltd. to install organs in local schools. As an organist, Nicholas has a special interest in the music of J S Bach and the Italian School. Nicholas tutors undergraduates at the University of Oxford and leads study trip to the Continent for Oxford organ scholars.He hails directly from Swansea and indirectly from Morcone in southern central Italy. He studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Brasenose College, and the Royal College of Music where he completed his MMus with distinction. As a student he had the honour of working with a number of distinguished teachers, including Dame Gillian Weir. He has held scholarships at St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham, Brasenose College, and at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court. He was a Junior Fellow at the RCM, an Edison Fellow at the British Sound Archive, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. He completed his doctorate under the supervision of Laurence Dreyfus and with the guidance of Peter Williams.