Nicholas Nowicki - Piano

Nicholas Nowicki (Piano) MMus RNCM, BA York

PROGRAMME

Beethoven - Sonata no.8 in C minor, Op.13 (Pathétique)

Brahms - Drei Intermezzi, Op.117

Ravel - 'Alborada del gracioso' from Miroirs

ABOUT

Nicholas enjoys a successful career as a pianist, conductor and teacher. A

graduate of University of York where he won the concerto prize and the highest

final recital mark in the University’s history, he received the Charles Heywood

Scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he obtained a

Masters with distinction in Performance and was awarded the Clifton Helliwell

Memorial Prize.

Nicholas is in demand as soloist and accompanist and has performed in many

prestigious venues across Britain, accompanying Bryn Terfel amongst others, and

has performed live on BBC Radio 3 and recorded on the Chandos label. Teaching

and education is central to his career; currently, he teaches at RGS Newcastle

(since 2008) and at the Centre for Advance Training at Sage Gateshead, as well as

having a large private teaching practice. He aims to engender a love of music in all

his students. Recent students have gone to conservatoire, and received music

scholarships and exhibitions at Magdalen College and Eton. He is an accompanist

for both Newcastle and Durham Universities.

As a conductor, he is Musical Director of Tees Valley Youth Orchestra, the region’s

only full-size youth orchestra and has led them to the National Finals of Music for

Youth at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on 5 occasions, as well as extraordinary

performances at Carnegie Hall, New York in 2019 and Royal Albert Hall in 2021. He

also conducted Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra for the International Festival of

Animation.

He mentors young musicians taking their first steps in the musical world through

the Accompany programme.

For more information and enquiries, please visit:

www.nicholasnowicki.com