Nigel was born in Denbigh, North Wales and studied at the Royal Manchester and Royal Northern College of Music. He moved to South Wales in 1975 to join the orchestra of the Welsh National Opera as principal tuba and two years later joined the BBC National Orchestra of Wales as principal tuba. Nigel has also maintained a busy schedule teaching tuba and brass studies at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff since 1977.
He has held a number of conducting appointments with The Buy as You View (formally Cory) Band, Parc and Dare, BTM and was the resident conductor with Tredegar band from 1994 to 1997, arguably one of the band’s most successful periods.
During 1998 Nigel was the resident conductor of the Flowers (Cheltenham) Band, one of the top West of England bands.
In October 1999 he briefly resumed his link with Tredegar band, assisting them with their preparation for the National Brass Band Championships where the band were awarded third prize.
Nigel is also much in demand as a freelance conductor and adjudicator and during the last 25 years has directed over 250 contest performances and many more concert appearances, with over thirty different bands.
For ten years Nigel presented 'Sounding Brass' on BBC radio Wales.
He has travelled extensively in the UK and toured Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Canada, Russia, Japan and the U.S.A. and most of the major European countries.
