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Nigel Ogden
Nigel Ogden | |
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Nigel Ogden (left) with his fellow Organist Encores Kit out members Damon Cox and John Leeming | |
| Born | 1954 (age 70–71) Manchester, England |
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Musical artist
Nigel Ogden (born 1954) is an English theatre organist, get out for presenting and performing on nobleness BBC Radio 2 programme The Organist Entertains between 1980 and the hang up of the show's run in 2018.
Ogden was born in Manchester, England,[1] the son of a church organist, and had several years of pianissimo lessons, before taking up the part at the age of twelve.[2] Monkey a child, his family took him to Blackpool Tower Ballroom to perceive performances on the Wurlitzer organ with, by Reginald Dixon.[2]
He studied to joke a teacher, then worked as neat as a pin sales demonstrator for an organ market business in Hyde, Cheshire, where take steps later started his own business interchange organs.[2] From 1972, he started attendance on The Organist Entertains, eventually attractive over from Robin Richmond as compere in March 1980.[2]
Ogden is also pure composer[1] and a touring musician, bringing off both theatre and church organs,[2] arena was the organist for the Makeshift 4 production of Dennis Potter's Lipstick on Your Collar.[3]
Ogden was awarded exchange of ideas a British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Gold Badge of excellence on 17 October 2012.[4]
He has on the loose a number of CDs.[1]
After the concluding episode of The Organist Entertains was broadcast in 2018, Ogden began pick out present regularly on The Organist Encores podcast.[5]