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Piotr Maziarz: 2023 Scholarship
Piotr comes from Poland. He commenced his Masters studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire with Daniel Moult in 2023.
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Will was awarded a bursary to support his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
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Jed was awarded a bursary to support his studies at the Universität den Künste, Berlin, studying with Henry Fairs.
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Joshua was awarded a bursary to support his master's studies at the Universität her Künste, Berlin.
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Ophelia Amar: 2021 Scholarship
Ophelia, who is French and British, has lived in France and studied with Éric Lebrun at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music from September 2021 to September 2023 and was awarded a Master's Degree having studied with David Titterington and Bine Bryndorf. Ophelia has formerly studied at the Sorbonne and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She has experience as a concert performer, recording artist and church organist.
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Jas, from Lincolnshire, was awarded the Scholarship to enable his Master's course study with Pieter van Dijk at the Amsterdam Conservatorium. He completed the Pre-Master's course programme in Amsterdam earlier in 2018.
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Andrzej, from Poland, was awarded the Scholarship for post-graduate organ study at the Royal Academy of Music with David Titterington.
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The Trustees made a discretionary award for post-graduate conservatoire study with Professor Michel Bouvard in Toulouse from 2015-7.
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The scholarship was awarded to enable Freddie to study with Professor Ludger Lohmann at the Musikhochschule, Stuttgart from 2015-7.
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Max was awarded a bursary for a year's foundation course in Toulouse with Professor Michel Bouvard. Max then took up the post of Organ Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford.
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The third recipient of the bursary was Richard Gowers, who was then a music scholar at Eton College. The grant enabled him to study at the Mendelssohn Conservatoire in Leipzig for a year before returning to the UK to commence university, where he was an Organ Scholar at King's College, Cambridge.
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The second recipient of the bursary was from Sicily, and the grant helped support two years of study at the Royal College of Music in London.
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This award was for Richard to undertake the two-year concert examination course with Johannes Geffert at the Cologne Musikhoschschule. Previously, Richard had studied with Nicolas Kynaston at the Royal Academy of Music and was Organ Scholar at St Marylebone Parish Church.
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The Trust's first bursary recipient was Freddie James. Aged 18, Freddie had just left Westminster School, where he was a music scholar. The bursary enabled Freddie to undertake a year's organ performance study with Professor Jacques van Oortmerssen at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam before he returned to the UK to commence his university studies as Organ Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge.
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Christian Wilson was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar. As the third recipient of the Nicholas Danby Scholarship, he then undertook the solo performers' course (the highest degree in music possible in Germany) studying under Jon Laukvik at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart.
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The second Nicholas Danby Scholarship was awarded to Petros Bakalakos of Greece, to enable him to undertake a two year postgraduate course in organ study with Professor Jon Laukvik at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. Petros came to England initially as a piano student at The Royal Academy of Music, London. Prior to this, he had had little opportunity to hear the organ and its repertoire, since the Greek Orthodox Church allows no instruments to be played in its liturgies; consequently there is very little indigenous organ culture in Greece. Petros subsequently became a first study organ student, his teachers being David Titterington and James O'Donnell. He was awarded various prizes and graduated from the RAM with first class honours.
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The first Nicholas Danby Scholarship was awarded to Rafal Salamon of Cracow, Poland. The 26 year old organist was a graduate of the Academy of Music in Cracow, where he studied under Professor Joachim Grubich. The Scholarship enabled him to complete his postgraduate organ study with Professor David Titterington at the Royal Academy of Music.