Nigel as a junior bandsman at the Royal Marine School of Music, Deal. (1977))

Nigel in the Band of HM Irish Guards (1982)

Nigel in the Staff Band of The Royal Army Medical Corps (1979)

• Musician – Staff Band of the Royal Army Medical Corps
• Musician – Band of HM Irish Guards
• Young Composer-in-Residence – Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
• Associate Composer – Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT)
• Manson Fellow – Royal Academy of Music
• Composition and Contemporary Music Tutor – Royal Academy of Music
• Assistant Director of Music – Canford Summer School of Music
• Head of Brass, Wind and Percussion – London College of Music and Media
• Composer-in-Residence – Black Dyke Mills Band
• Participant – United States of America, International Visitor Leadership Programme
• Executive Committee – The National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain
• Consultant to Hertfordshire Youth Wind Orchestra
• Composer-in-Residence – Alabama Wind Ensemble
• Head of Composition and Contemporary Music – London College of Music and Media
• Committee Member – British Dyslexia Association Music and Dyslexia Committee
• Artistic Director – Concert Planning and Events, London College of Music & Media
• Guest Professor – Xinjiang Arts Institute (north-west China)
• Associate Composer – Royal Military School of Music Kneller Hall
• Concert Executive – British Academy of Composers and Song Writers (BACS)
• Member of British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) *
• Composition Staff – Royal Northern College of Music
• Associate Composer – Band HM Grenadier Guards
• Associate Composer – Brass Band Buizingen *
• Membership – World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles *
• Membership - British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles *
  
• Membership – John Adams Society *
• Composer-in-Residence – Middle Tennessee State University School of Music (11 – 15 April 2011)
• Honorary Patron – Eynsford Concert Band *
• Visiting Adjunct Professor of Music at Middle Tennessee State University *
  
• Composer in Residence to the Marinierskapel der Koninklijke Marine (Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy) *
  
• Life Time Member of Brass Band Buizingen *

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