Andrew Nethsingha
Andrew Nethsingha is Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral, Artistic Director of the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival and Musical Director of Gloucester Choral Society. He has performed as both conductor and organist in the UK, North America, South Africa, China and many European countries.
Andrew’s early musical training was as a chorister in Exeter Cathedral, where his father was Organist for over quarter of a century. He later studied at the Royal College of Music, where he won seven prizes, and at St John’s College, Cambridge. He has held Organ Scholarships under Dr Christopher Robinson and Dr George Guest and worked at Wells and Truro Cathedrals before moving to Gloucester in 2002.
Andrew has worked regularly with some of the UK’s leading orchestras. This season his engagements include performances of the Britten War Requiem, Elgar The Dream of Gerontius and Mahler Symphony No 8 with the Philharmonia; Elgar Sea Pictures and Gershwin An American in Paris with the Royal Phiharmonic and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Gloucester Choral Society. A concert with the Philharmonia featuring works by Finzi and Vaughan Williams will be broadcast on the BBC later this year. He has also worked with the City of Birmingham Symphony and BBC Concert Orchestras and conducted a performance of Handel’s Messiah in Beijing. As an organist, Andrew has performed widely in Europe and the USA, including Notre Dame de Paris, Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto and Washington National Cathedral.
Under Andrew’s direction, the Gloucester Cathedral
Choir has been heard regularly on the BBC, including a live television broadcast
of Midnight Mass. The choir has given many concert performances in the UK
and recently toured the USA. This term they perform Bernstein’s Chichester
Psalms and the world premiere of a specially commissioned work
by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. The choir’s recent recording featuring
music by Britten, Copland, Finzi and Pizzetti has received widespread critical
acclaim.