My name is Nicholas Busch, and I’ve had the recent honour of earning my Associateship with the RCCO this past May. Prior to this, I’ve received a Masters degree in Collaborative Piano Performance from Western University, studying with Dr. John Hess and Mariana Chibotar-Rutkevich. I’m the Director of Music at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, on Elgin St. in Ottawa, and most of my other work is as a collaborative pianist with several choirs in Ottawa, and teaching private piano lessons. I began my organ studies about 4 years ago, and was very thoughtfully guided towards completion of my ARCCO exam by Wesley Warren, to whom I attribute most of my technical understanding of the instrument. The organ is a fascinating instrument, and what I enjoy most about it is that it has taught me to listen and comprehend music in ways that I simply was not challenged to as a pianist. With my studies in organ performance, as well as choral conducting, I feel that I have become (or rather, am becoming) a more holistic and complete musician. Organists who inspire me include the aforementioned Wesley Warren, whose calm and deliberate approach to the instrument is inspiration in itself, and others who I find myself drawn to in performance include Oliver Latry, Thierry Escaich and Thomas Ospital to name a few. If you’d like to learn more about me please feel free to visit my website: nbusch.ca