Oxford Spezzati | Nicholas Mumby Jonathan Bridcut | Alexander Campkin | Claire Eadington Rhydian Griffiths | Julia Hailstone | Rachael Parsons Gaelyn Pilmoor | Robin Whitehouse | Jonathan Wikeley Nicholas Mumby is the Principal Conductor and Director of Music for the Oxford Spezzati Soloists & Orchestra. He graduated with a degree in Classics in 2003 from Exeter College, Oxford, where he was also an Academical Clerk. He then completed the law conversion courses and currently works as a trainee solicitor for Slaughter and May. He has studied conducting and organ under Dr Christopher Tinker, attended conducting classes with Dr Marios Papadopoulos, studied piano under Jonathan Darnborough and attended classes with Norma Fisher. In 2003 he was appointed as the first Conducting Apprentice at the Berkshire (USA) Choral Festival, held at Canterbury Cathedral. Nicholas was the Principal Conductor of the Oxford Millennium Orchestra from 2000 to 2005, conducting numerous concerts, and taking the orchestra from relative obscurity to its current respected position. During his tenure with OMO he conducted most of the major symphonic repertoire, and worked with many soloists including Jonathan Darnborough, Stuart Baran and Charlie Wilson. He also organised four highly successful summer concert tours to France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Germany. He currently holds the position of Conductor Emeritus. He has also held conducting positions with the Cantores Exonienses, the Keble College Orchestra, the Oxford Bach Choir and the Oxford Millennium Opera Company. He has conducted two fully staged operas, Purcell's Dido and Æneas in 2000 and Mozart's Così fan tutte in 2005. He has also had an active involvement in sacred choral music, singing with all of the major Oxford choirs, and holding positions as Master of the Music at Pusey House and Assistant Director of Music at St. Michael at the Northgate.