Benjamin Nicholas

After a substantial career in the choirs of English cathedrals and schools, conductor Benjamin Nicholas was appointed as chief conductor of the Oxford Bach Choir in 2018. Within the essentially conservative milieu of cathedral choral music, Nicholas has been unusually supportive of contemporary music. Nicholas was born in 1976. Like so many other English choir directors, he started out as a chorister himself, with the Choir of Norwich Cathedral. He is an "Old Norvicensian," a former student at the Norwich School. He became an organ scholar at Chichester Cathedral in 1994, an...