Andrew nethsingha biography
Andrew Mark Nethsingha, FRCO, ARCM (born 16 May ) is an English choral conductor and organist, the son of the late Lucian Nethsingha, also a cathedral..
Appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers in January , Andrew Nethsingha is the Abbey's director of music and principal conductor of the Abbey Choir.
Andrew Nethsingha
English conductor and organist (born 1968)
Andrew Mark Nethsingha, FRCO, ARCM (born 16 May 1968) is an English choral conductor and organist, the son of the late Lucian Nethsingha, also a cathedral organist.
He was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey in London in 2023, having previous held similar positions at St John's College, Cambridge, Gloucester Cathedral and Truro Cathedral.[1]
Education
Nethsingha's early musical training was at Exeter Cathedral School as a chorister of the cathedral, where his father, Lucian Nethsingha, was Organist and Choirmaster for over a quarter of a century.
He was a music scholar at Clifton College in Bristol, where he studied with Gwilym Isaac before gaining an organ scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge.[2] He later studied at the Royal College of Music, where he won seven prizes, and at St John's College.
He held organ scholarships under Christopher Robinson at S