| Biography | As recitalist, recording artist and teacher, Nigel Kerry is regarded as an organist of distinction. A graduate of Oxford University, he studied the organ in London with Nicholas Danby at the Royal College of Music. In 1998 he was appointed Director of Music of the Church Our Lady and The English Martyrs, Cambridge, one of the countrys largest Catholic Churches, serving a weekly congregation of some two thousand.
Nigel Kerry has performed recitals in many of the countrys most prestigious venues including Westminster Abbey, St Pauls Cathedral, St Johns Smith Square, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Norwich Cathedral and St Andrews Hall, as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, as well as at the Kings Lynn Festival, and in St Johns College as part of the Cambridge Summer Music Festival. To date he has featured as soloist and producer on some thirteen recordings, the latest to be released in September this year featuring the choirs of Our Lady and The English Martyrs, in the first commissioned choral tribute to Pope John Paul II that will be distributed worldwide.
Nigel Kerry is recognised as an inspired and articulate teacher of the organ. He has taught on the Eton Choral Courses, and is a regular tutor for the Oundle International Summer School for Young Organists, He teaches piano/organ to music students at Cambridge University and is a regular tutor on the practical organ course for the University Department of Continuing Education. Last year he was invited by the department to create a new course for church organists wishing to extend their knowledge and ability in the field of music and liturgy.
He is a founder member and Trustee of the new Cambridge Academy of Organ Studies for advanced students and is a visiting tutor in piano/organ at Kings College School and The Leys School. (December 2014) |