Nicholas Grigsby is one of New Zealand's most popular and sought after organ recitalists

He maintains a hectic schedule performing at prestigious venues around the world on a regular basis.

This has included Westminster Abbey, Westminster and St. Paul’s Cathedral London, as well as cathedrals and concert halls throughout Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Australia, Asia Pacific and the U.S.A., including Washington National Cathedral

2008 sees a substantial International Concert Tour visiting Australia, Hong Kong, Britain, France, Germany & Russia, performing seventeen concerts in quick succession

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His teachers in organ and improvisation included Colin Walsh, Organist Laureate at Lincoln Cathedral and Louis Thiry, Professor at the National Conservatory in Rouen, France, (himself a former pupil of the late André Marchal)

He completed his Master of Music degree in Organ and Harpsichord in New Zealand with Dr. Rachael Griffiths-Hughes, graduating with First Class Honours

In 2007 he received a Doctoral Scholarship, and is currently completing a PhD thesis, having researched The Lutheran Chorale set in Variation Form. In 2009 he will become a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University continuing his independent research into the life of J.S. Bach

Nicholas is a popular broadcaster. He presents Pressing On and Composer of the Week on National Radio NZ: Concert

This has included special programmes such as ‘Parisian Organist-Composers of the 20th Century’, and his most recent work, the lives and compositions of Maurice Duruflé, Jean Langlais and Gaston Litaize. In 2008, he will present the National Organ Week programme, the second occasion he will have done so

He is a National Recording Artist for Radio New Zealand, his last concert a live broadcast from the Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul for National Organ Week, and in 2008, Four Hands/Four Feet: Concert Organ Duos for BBC Radio 2’s The Organists Entertains from Hull City Hall UK

He is Artisitic Director of the Wanganui Festival of Organ Music based at the historic Collegiate School, New Zealand's principal showcase of pipe organ music featuring the world’s finest organists annually

Nicholas is a regular and well received performer at international festivals of organ music worldwide. He also presents concerts with the freelance organist Max Kenworthy

In 2007 Nicholas Grigsby and Max Kenworthy produced a live concert recording, Four Hands / Four Feet, on the historic organ of Dunedin Town Hall, New Zealand, which was for six weeks in the top ten of the Radio New Zealand classical charts. It has also featured on the BBC's The Organist Entertains programme and Pipedreams on public radio throughout the USA

In addition to the degree of Master of Music, Grigsby is a Licentiate in Organ Performance from Trinity College London, an Associate of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Visiting Examiner for the St. Cecilia School of Music of Australia & New Zealand from whom he holds the Diploma in Organ Performance with High Honours

He is married to Fenella Bovill-Grigsby, and they own and run a small farm and Equine and Canine Rehabilitation Centre in Taranaki, North Island, New Zealand

Sample of 2008 Concert Repertoire:

J.S. Bach:

• BWV 768:Sei Gegrusset (Chorale Variations)
• BWV 767: O Gott, du Frommer Gott (Chorale Partita)
• BWV 766: Christ, der du bist der helle tag (Chorale Partita)
• BWV 769: Canonic Variations - Vom Himmel hoch
• BWV 582: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor
• BWV 542: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor
• BWV 543: Prelude & Fugue in A minor
• BWV 548: Prelude & Fugue in E minor
• BWV 541: Prelude & Fugue in G major
• BWV 544: Prelude & Fugue in B minor
• BWV 564: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C minor
• BWV 572: Fantasia (Piece d'Orgue) in G major
• BWV 651-668: Leipzig 18 - Selections

Nicolaus Bruhns:

• Prealudium in E moll

Jan-Pieterzoon Sweelinck

• Fantasia Chromatica

Julius Reubke:

• Sonata on the 94th Psalm

Max Reger:

• Fantaisie & Fugue uber den Chorale: "Eine Feste Burg"
• Variations & Fugue on "God Save the King"

Franz Schmidt:

• "Hallelujah" Toccata & Fugue in D major
• Toccata in C

Jehan Alain:

• Deux Dances a Agni Vavishta
• Litanies
• Petit Piece

Cesar Franck:

• Pastorale
• Prelude, Fugue & Variation
• Final
• Andantino

Olivier Messiaen (* anniversary year *):

• L' Ascension
• Apparition de L'Eglise Eternelle
• Le Banquet Celeste
• Offrande au Saint-Sacrement

Louis Vierne:

• Carillon de Longpont (Style Libre)
• Cathedrales (Pieces de Fantaisie)
• Les Cloches de Hinckley (Pieces de Fantaisie)
• Hymne au Soleil (Pieces de Fantaisie)
• Impromptu (Pieces de Fantaisie)
• Carillon de Westminster (Pieces de Fantaisie)
• Aubade (Pieces de Fantaisie)
• Trois Improvisations (transc. Durufle)
• Naiades

J. Guy Ropartz

• Prelude Funebre

Gaston Litaize:

• Lied
• Epiphanie

Paul Dukas

• L'Apprentir Sorciere

Camille Saint-Saens

• Dance Macabre
• Fantaisie No. III op. 157 in C major

Alexandre Guilmant:

• Priere et Berceuse op. 27
• Cantilene Pastorale
• Sontata No. 1 in D minor (complete)
• Sonata No. 2 in F major (complete)
• Sonata No. 3 in C minor (complete)
• Sonata No. 4 in D minor (complete)
• Sonata No. 5 in C major (complete)
• Grande Choeur

Charles-Marie Widor:

• Symphonie No. 2 in D major (complete)
• Symphonie No. 4 in F major (complete)
• Symphonie No. 5 in F major (complete)
• Symphonie No. 6 in G minor (complete)

Maurice Durufle:

• Prelude et Fugue sur le nom D' Alain
• Prelude, Adagio et Chorale varie: Veni Creator
• Prelude sur I'introit de L'Epiphanie
• Fugue sur le Carillon de Soissons

Eugene Gigout:

• Grande Choeur Dialogue
• Toccata

Henri Mulet:

• Rosace
• Noel
• Toccata: Tu es Petrus

Gabriel Pierne:

• Trois Pieces (Complete)

Leonce de Saint-Martin:

• Toccata de la Liberation

Marcel Lanquetuit:

• Toccata in D major

Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens:

• Grand Fantasy: The Storm!

Dan Locklair:

• Rubrics: Five Liturgical Meditations

Paul Spicer:

• Kiwi Fireworks - Variations: "God Defend New Zealand!"

John Wells:

• Fifth Suite for an Organ Tuned to Meantone