Born Southampton, 23 July 1933.
Died East Sandwich, Massachusetts, 4 April 2016.
English conductor.
Royston Nash is remembered in Britain as musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from1970 to 1979. He later enjoyed a long career as an orchestral conductor in the United States.
He was a trumpeter, studying that instrument as well as conducting in Deal at the Royal Marines Music School, then in London at the Royal Academy of Music. He returned to Deal for several years as director of music, before joining D'Oyly Carte.
He moved to the United States, first as conductor of the Nashua Symphony Orchestra, then, for twenty-seven years, the Cape Cod Symphony.
With the D'Oyly Carte his most important recordings were the first complete versions of Utopia Limited and The Grand Duke. He also recorded H M S Pinafore and The Mikado.
Sourced mainly from obituary in Opera August 2016.
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