Nicholas Grigsby

Who is Nicholas Grigsby?

Nicholas Grigsby 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, 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.