Nicholas Danby

Nicholas Danby was a British organist, recitalist and teacher. He was a great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens and nephew of Monica Dickens. Danby was an Organ Professor at both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was head of Organ Studies from 1989 to 1996. For over thirty years he was Director of Music at the London Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, Mayfair. Danby attended Beaumont College, Old Windsor. He was apprenticed to the Belgian Guy Weitz, who was organist of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, in Mayfair, London. Danby succeeded him in this position, where he re-founded a professional choir and remained until his death. From 1963 to 1965 he was also Director of Music at Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon. Danby taught the organ at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music and was head of the organ department of the latter from 1989 to 1996. Among his students were Robert Costin, Paul Hale, Patrick Russill, Roger Sayer, Paul Trepte, Andrew Wilson-Dickson and Julian Perkins. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichola...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)