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Jeremy Nicholas is an actor, writer, and musician, author of four books on classical music and biographies of Chopin and Leopold Godowsky. He is a recognized authority on pianists and the piano and regularly contributes to the magazines Gramophone and International Piano as a feature writer and critic. A new CD, “Homage to Godowsky” (Hyperion), performed by Andrey Gugnin, was conceived and curated by him. He has composed the music for several stage plays and four major television productions. Some of the 150 songs he wrote for BBC Radio’s Stop the Week have been published by Novello and recorded by artists such as Sarah Walker, Roger Vignoles, and Marc-André Hamelin. Organist Kevin Bowyer and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band are among those who have recorded his instrumental music. Early in his career, his solo performance of Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat,” in his own adaptation, earned him an Olivier Award nomination, while on television he played numerous leading roles in drama series and soap operas. A familiar voice on BBC radio, he won the prestigious Sony Gold Award for Best Arts Program in 1996. In his spare time, he is president of the Jerome K. Jerome Society and organist at St. Mary’s Church, Bocking, Essex, where he feels at home.