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| John H. Nisbet is Music Director and Organist
at St. Peter Church, New Britain, CT., which is
home to a magnificent Oberlinger
2 manual organ. Mr. Nisbet directs the vocal
and instrumental ensembles at St. Peter Church,
and administers the Sacred
Music concert series "Music Celebrating the
Church Year", offering the best in
sacred organ and vocal music. An active pianist
as well as an organist, Mr. Nisbet had early
training in Chamber Music and Bach with renowned
Bach scholar and conductor Blanche Honneger Moyse,
and her brother, the cellist Henri Honneger. He
later studied and performed at the Sarasota
Chamber Music Festival and The Marlboro Music
Festival, with pianists Luis Batlle and Bruno
Canino. Subsequently, Mr. Nisbet studied at the
Budapest Summer Festival, and studied with Ferenc
Rados in the former home of Franz Liszt.
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| Mr. Nisbet also studied choral
conducting with Istvan Parkai. During this
festival, Mr. Nisbet performed in the historic
Vigadó, the hall for which Beethoven wrote the
Consecration of the House Overture in 1812. Mr.
Nisbet's Organ studies began at historic St. Mark's
Church, Philadelphia, home to one of the most
famous American Classic Aeolian-Skinner organs,
with Wesley Parrott. Solo recitals as well as
chamber music are an active part of his schedule. As
part of the Music Celebrating the Church Year
series last season, Mr. Nisbet presented the U.S.
premiere of English composer Alan Ridout's
Fourteen Stations of the Cross suite for organ
John is also the monthly columnist of AGOnLine, in The American
Organist Magazine. AGOnLine is devoted to the
latest developments in the Internet, as they
relate to organists, and musicians in general.
The painting below, is a link to pages about Robert
H. Nisbet, the well-known American Landscape
painter, great-uncle of John H. Nisbet.
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