Nicholas Michael Smith

Nicholas Michael Smith OBE (born 1967, also known as Nick Smith, ) is a British conductor, composer, and music educator. Since 1994, Smith has lived and worked in the People’s Republic of China. His contributions to classical music performance and education in China have been the subject of documentaries and interviews on Chinese television and radio. In 2011, Smith was awarded an OBE in recognition of his “services to music and to UK/China relations”. Biography After relocating to Beijing in 1995, Smith worked with the Beijing Concert Hall on educational concerts to foster interest in western classical music with Chinese audiences. In 1997, Smith founded the Peking Sinfonietta and, in 2002, the Beijing International Festival Chorus. Smith has worked with Chinese author Hong Ying composing incidental music for her children’s book The Girl from the French Fort, premiering the work at Beijing Concert Hall in 2016. Smith has also translated several of Hong Ying’s children’s books into English. In 2019, Smith’s recording of the oratorio Corona Divinae Misericordiae by David Braid with soprano Patricia O’Callaghan was nominated for a Juno Award for ‘Classical Album of the Year’. In 2020