A Profile of the Bristol Bach Choir Accompanist
NIGEL NASH came to Bristol in the last century to read Music at the University, and conducted Carmen
and Die Fledermaus for the University Operatic Society, as well as appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
He now teaches organ and piano at Badminton School, and Millfield School in Street, where he plays for the regular school
services in Wells Cathedral. He was Director of Music at Westbury-on-Trym Parish Church from 1986 until 1997, and in 1990
he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. Nigel was appointed accompanist of the Bristol Bach Choir in May
1998 and has played for the choir in many concerts in Bristol, Oxford and Gloucester, and on tour in Paris, Oporto,
Prague & Dresden. He is currently a deputy organist at Bristol Cathedral.
He has been involved with several broadcasts on national radio and television including HTV's Morning Worship,
Carols from Wells Cathedral, BBC Radio 4's Daily Service, and Sunday Half-Hour on Radio 2, and once
came within inches of appearing on BBCtv's 'Casualty'! He has accompanied many choirs and choral societies in the West
Country including Bristol Cathedral Choir, Bristol Choral Society, Miscellany, City of Oxford Choir, The Chantry Singers,
Organum, Jubilate Singers (Cheltenham), Wells Cathedral Voluntary Choir and Nailsea, Chew Valley, Melksham and Axminster
Choral Societies, as well as playing for Choral Workshops directed by former Kings Singers Nigel Perrin & Brian Kay. He
has given recitals in Bristol Cathedral, St. Mary Redcliffe and in Bristol University's Great Hall and has performed organ
concertos by Handel and Poulenc with the Bristol Philharmonic Orchestra, Bristol Chamber Orchestra and Emerald Ensemble.
He has recorded a number of CDs with Miscellany and the Bristol Bach Choir, including the world premiere CD recording of
organ music by Lennox Berkeley as part of the Bach Choir's CD Ancient & Modern. In July 2007 he was honoured to play for a
degree ceremony in Bristol University where the distinguished organist and Messiaen scholar Jennifer Bate received an
honorary doctorate.
