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).
In North America, Nigel is represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists. Please browse this site to discover more about his performances, recordings, transcriptions and other aspects of his career...
Just returned from ASIA!
Nigel has just returned from 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.
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
piano and organ music by York Bowen (1884-1961) who was known as ‘the English Rachmaninov’.
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
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.