Welcome to the Website of Nigel Potts
Nigel Potts has become renowned worldwide as “a consummate musician who knows how to communicate the essence of [the] music” (The American Organist), and whose “playing is assured and stylish” (Organists' Review, UK). He has built a reputation for his expressive, colorful and tasteful performances, always communicating and placing the music at the forefront with “…warm, sympathetic playing” (Choir & Organ, UK).
Critics are consistent in their remarks about his unique “sense of expression which never cloys” (The Sydney Organ Journal, Australia); “broad command of tonal color” (The New Mexican, USA); “gift for extracting melody, highlighting the phrase and his exactitude in exploiting the vast palette of the tonal colour” (Organ News, New Zealand); and the way in which he uses the organs “extensive resources with imagination and taste”. (The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, USA).
Please browse this site to discover more about his performances, recordings, transcriptions and other aspects of his career. For all enquires please email: nigel@nigelpotts.com
SPRING TOUR 2012 -
NIgel will be performing 5 concerts in a 3 week tour this spring, which includes solo recitals in Lubbock, TX & Nashville, TN, as well as three performances of the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto duo (as below) in Seattle, WA; Sun City West, AZ; and Toronto, Canada. Please see the 'Calendar' page for more information.
RACHMANINOV PIANO CONCERTO # 2 - for Piano & Organ- now 'live' on YOU-TUBE
Nigel Potts & Jeremy Filsell, pianist, offer a unique duo concert program featuring Rachmaninov’s ever popular Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor. The concert (with Nigel performing his orchestral reduction on the organ) also includes
Nigel's own transcriptions of Rachmaninov's Vocalise and Liszt's Liebestraume, No.3 in A flat.
For upcoming Rachmaninov Concerto duo concert dates, please see the 'Calendar' page. For more information or to enquire about hosting this rare concert program, please email: nigel@nigelpotts.com
ASIAN TOUR 2011
Last November, Nigel completed his third tour to the Far East where he performed recitals, present workshops on 'British Organ Music of the 19th & 20th Centuries' and taught masterclasses in each of his tour venues of Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei, Taiwan.
Latest CD Release: British Fantasies & Fanfares is available for sale
"Nigel Potts is a consummate musician who knows how to communicate the essence of this music. Instrument, music, and performer combine to create musical magnificence not to be missed." The American Organist, December 2009
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Nigel records transcriptions on the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ
Nigel appeared as the Guest Organist on Philadelphia's WRTI-FM radio station program The Wanamaker Organ Hour in 2009.
The hour long program
of transcriptions included music by: Walton, Bach, Purcell, Rachmaninov, Elgar, Delius, Whitlock of which several were his own, including his transcription of Liebestraume by
Liszt.