Westminster Abbey organist steps down

JAMES O’DONNELL, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, will step down this Christmas after 23 years at the helm.

O’Donnell is moving on to become a Professor at Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

“It has been an immense privilege to have held the responsibility for the music at Westminster Abbey since January 2000,” he said.

“It has been hugely inspiring to make music day by day with the Abbey’s outstanding choristers, lay vicars, and organists and to have played a part in so many great occasions in this extraordinary place.”