Nicholas McGegan OBE is a British harpsichordist, flautist, conductor and early music expert. McGegan received his early education at Nottingham High School. He subsequently studied music at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and at Magdalen College, Oxford. McGegan has participated in some of the earliest authentic-performance recordings during the 1970s as a baroque flautist, including Christopher Hogwood's seminal recordings of Mozart symphonies. He has taught music at such UK institutions as King's College, Cambridge, Oriel College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Music. In the USA, McGegan has served as artist-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1985, McGegan became music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco. In 1988, he was the Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival alongside Peter Maxwell Davies and Diane Wittry. From 1991 to 2011, McGegan was artistic director of the G�ttingen International Handel Festival. He has also held long-term appointments with the Drottningholm Theatre, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. McGegan founded the chamber music group, The Arcadian Academy. 

January 14th, 1950 in Sawbridgeworth (Age 74)