Cheltenham in 1970, his first musical experience coming as a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral. Educated at
The King’s School, Gloucester, and subsequently at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar, he moved to London in 1995, having spent the previous three years in Cheltenham as a hotel pianist and church organist. He currently divides his activities between composing, playing, lecturing and conducting.

In 1992 he was unanimously awarded the Norwich Festival Composition Prize, also winning the Gregynog Young Composers’ Award (1993) and sharing the Barbara Johnstone Composition Prize (1995), while he has been shortlisted for the Cornelius Cardew, Purcell, Oare String Orchestra and William Mathias composition awards. Recent premières have included In Tenebris I, II and III for the Occam Singers and the free reimagination of Thomas Tallis’ Spem In Alium for no fewer than forty countertenors. He is currently working on a song cycle, as yet untitled, for tenor Philip Salmon and a second harpsichord work for contemporary music specialist Chau-Yee Lo. His award-winning Ave Verum was released by Hyperion Records last April (Children Of Our Time - CDA67575).

Nick is Associate Musical Director of the Occam Singers, Chorus Master of the Parliament Choir and the Malcolm Sargent Festival Choir, Organist of St. George’s RC Cathedral, Southwark and Brighton College, and an active recitalist. Until recently he was head of Musical Techniques at Trinity College of Music, where he also lectured on the Academic Faculty, and he teaches piano and organ at The London Oratory School and at Brighton College.
A Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Nick is also an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Saint Cecilia, and was recently appointed their first Composer In Residence.

By night Nick is keyboardist with rock band JEBO. Their first album, Sinking Without You, has been described as ‘a masterpiece’ (Classic Rock Society), ‘awesome’ (Bristol Rocks) and ‘phenomenal’

(Planeta-Rock), and is available from i-Tunes.
Nick’s website is at www.noneill.freeserve.co.uk