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The Nicholas Danby Trust was founded in 1997 after the untimely death of the distinguished international recitalist and leading conservatoire teacher.
At the time of his death, Nicholas Danby was Organ Professor at both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was head of Organ Studies from 1989 to 1996. For over thirty years he was Director of Music at the famous London Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, Mayfair.
Throughout his life, Nicholas Danby worked ceaselessly to promote international and cultural exchange. The aim of the Trust is to perpetuate this by establishing in his memory a major European scholarship for organ study.
The Nicholas Danby Scholarship, value £6000 per annum, is awarded biennially to a postgraduate organ student of exceptional promise, enabling him/her to undertake conservatoire study outside his/her home tradition for up to two years. The scholarship is therefore open to students from music colleges in the UK for study elsewhere in Europe, and to conservatoire students from other European countries who would like the opportunity to study in the UK. The trustees aim to help scholarship holders at the beginning of their career, through securing recitals in prestigious venues and by offering sound professional advice.
The Trust also offers undergraduate bursaries, value £3000 per annum, to enable study within a conservatoire either in the UK or continental Europe.
Applicants are considered on recommendation from their conservatoire Heads. They are then interviewed and auditioned by the four professional organists on the board of Trustees: James O'Donnell (Westminster Abbey), Patrick Russill (The London Oratory), Catherine Ennis (St Lawrence Jewry, City of London), and Peter Wright (Southwark Cathedral).
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The most recent Newsletter
is available in pdf format –
click here to download.
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Some dates for your diary:
Christopher Nickol – a pupil of Nicholas Danby – is giving three recitals in aid of the Trust. See the "News & Events" section for details.
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Margaret Danby AGSM FRSA, Secretary & Treasurer