Nick Davies
Musical Director

Nick Davies trained in classical music at the Royal College of Music. His theatre experience began in 1986 as Assistant MD for a national tour of The Sound of Music. Since then he has conducted many shows including the 1988 West End production of South Pacific. In 1989 he was appointed Musical Director of the Foundacion Comedia Musical, the leading musical theatre company in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where shows include Damn Yankees, South Pacific and Guys and Dolls.

Subsequent credits include The Sound of Music and Annie Get Your Gun on tour and in the West End, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella for New York City Opera, also in Japan. In 1993 he conducted the final concert of the Macau International Music Festival with the orchestra of the Central Opera Company of Beijing and the San Carlos Choir from Lisbon.

He has conducted many other orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, with whom he has recorded classic rock albums, a Disney collection, Beatles hits, many film scores, an album of nursery rhymes, and six CDs for 'The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays the music of..." Oasis, George Michael, Madonna, REM, U2 and Meatloaf. He has conducted the London Sinfonia, the Wren Orchestra of London, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra.

In 1993 he became Musical Director of Les Misérables in the West End, also working as Musical Supervisor for new productions in Duisburg, Germany, Helsinki, Finland and Antwerp, Belgium. He conducted the original German cast album and also produced the Belgiar CD recording, which received a gold disc. He has been Music Director for Les Misérables in Concert, Martin Guerre at the Prince Edward Theatre, Oklahoma! at the Lyceum (NT transfer) and recently for The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's.

He has also conducted UK and European tours with Chris de Burgh.