At the time of his death, Nicholas Danby was organ professor at both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was head of Organ Studies from 1989 to 1996. For over thirty years he was Director of Music at the famous London Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, Mayfair.
Throughout his life, Nicholas Danby worked ceaselessly to promote international and cultural exchange. The aim of the Trust is to perpetuate this by establishing in his memory a major European scholarship for organ study.