Nicholas Shaw maintains a varied career as a conductor and keyboard player and holds positions across the UK. He has worked with the Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North in concert and had devised and presented award winning education projects to young people of all ages. He has a particular passion for new music and has commissioned fifteen new choral works based on the writings of John Donne, the former Preacher, the most recent of which was nominated for an Ivor Novello award.
Nicholas trained as the organ scholar of Magdalen College, Oxford and then studied at the Royal Academy of Music as a founding student on the choral conducting course. As an organist he has broadcast on both TV and radio and has held positions at Rochester and Westminster Cathedral and the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace. He was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2012, and was nominated an inspirational educator by the Worshipful Company of Educators in 2023.
