Nicholas White

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - NICHOLAS WHITE is a Grammy nominated composer and conductor, as well as a versatile organist, pianist and singer, with experience in many different styles of music. He lives in Litchfield, CT, and was recently appointed Artistic Director of Joyful Noise, Inc. and Organist and Choirmaster of Trinity Episcopal Church, Torrington, CT. He is also Founder and Music Director of Tiffany Consort.

Nicholas makes frequent appearances as an organist and conductor, and has a steady stream of commissions from choirs and organists throughout the United States. His recent musical experiences have been as diverse as music directing and playing the piano for a new theatre in South Florida, conducting the New York premiere of a major new choral work by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and playing the organ for the Dalai Lama.

Nicholas was born in London, England, and received his early musical training as a treble chorister. He held his first organist and choirmaster position at the age of fifteen, going on to become organ scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, from 1986-1989. Since coming to the U.S. in 1989, Nicholas has held various positions in churches, colleges and schools. From 1994-1998 he was Assistant Organist and Choirmaster of Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, and was also Keyboard Artist for the Cathedral Choral Society. He was Music Director and Conductor of the Woodley Ensemble, one of Washington's premiere chamber choirs, from 1997-2000, and was Organist and Choirmaster of St. Michael's Church, New York City, and Artistic Director of St. Michael's Music and Arts from 1998 – 2005. From 2006-2007 Nicholas was Organist and Choirmaster of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA and Composer-in-Residence at Philadelphia Cathedral.

In 2003 White founded the Tiffany Consort, a New York City based ensemble of eight accomplished singers. The group's first CD, "O Magnum Mysterium" was nominated for a Grammy, and the second CD, "In Sure and Certain Hope: Choral Music of Nicholas White", was released in December 2006. During the current season, Tiffany Consort will perform three concerts in New York City, as well as programs in Texas (Dallas and Lubbock), New York State (Poughkeepsie) and Connecticut (Norfolk).

Nicholas is also an active and critically acclaimed composer, with music published by Hinshaw, Trinitas, Augsburg Fortress and Oxford University Press. His large-scale work for solo soprano, chorus, organ, brass and percussion - "Magnificat" - was premiered at the National Cathedral in 1997, and other commissions include a work - "Full Freedom" - written for the annual choral tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which was premiered in January 2002 at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. White has received numerous commissions from choirs across the country, most recently from the Hanson Institute for American Music (Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY), Lyric Fest (Philadelphia, PA) and Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati, OH.