Havelock Nelson

Background

Nelson was born in Cork and studied in Dublin with Dina Copeman and Dorothy Stokes at the Royal Irish Academy of, organ with George Hewson and composition with John F. Larchet.

Education

He read medical studies and music at Trinity College Dublin (Trinity College, Dublin) and followed his first degree with doctoral research in bacteriology, completed in 1941.

Career

In 1950 he obtained a doctorate in music from Trinity College, Dublin. In 1947, he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in Belfast. He conducted the British Broadcasting Corporation Northern Ireland Orchestra, also the Studio Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Singers. On his retirement in 1977 he went to Trinidad to direct a local opera company.

Nelson died in Belfast.

Achievements

• He was co-founder, in 1939, of the Dublin Orchestral Players.