Nicholas Grigsby

Nicholas Grigsby (born 1974) is a prominent international concert organist, academic, broadcaster and public speaker.

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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. His PhD thesis explores the earliest aspects of the life of the musician Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), including advances in the forensic document analysis of early manuscripts, for which in 2008 he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship by Harvard University, and a Doctoral Studies Scholarship in New Zealand.

Nicholas Grigsby has been 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.

After completing his initial university education at Cardiff University, and in Rouen, France, he was from 1996 to 1999 based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. From 1999 to 2003 he was College Organist and Master-in-Charge of Polo at Cheltenham College. He subsequently became Director of Music and Master-in-Charge of Sailing at Scot's College, Wellington New Zealand. From 2004 to 2014 he was Artistic Director of the Wanganui Festival of Organ Music, New Zealand's principal showcase of pipe organ music, based at the historic Collegiate School, where he was Director of Music for a decade, and latterly Housemaster of Hadfield. His professional base is now Southern China, Hong Kong and Macao. He is active in International Education development initiatives, in particular with digital-learning in bi-lingual learning environments. He is the current Festival Director for the 2016 International Secondary Schools' Choral Music Festival, and has forthcoming concert performances in Hong Kong and overseas.

Nicholas Grigsby is a regular performer at international festivals of organ music, most recently in Bermuda, New Zealand, Australia, Asia-Pacific, France, Germany, United States, 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 his postgraduate degrees, 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, 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.