Westminster Abbey has introduced that Andrew Nethsingha is to turn into its new Organist and Grasp of the Choristers from the start of 2023. He’ll exchange James O’Donnell, who departs the Abbey at Christmas for a brand new place at Yale within the US.
In taking on his new place, Nethsingha will probably be leaving his present position as director of music at St John’s Faculty, Cambridge, the place he has been an enormous success in his 15 years in submit. Since taking up from David Hill in 2007, he has taken the Cambridge choir from energy to energy, with a string of extremely acclaimed recordings starting from acquainted works by Mozart and Vaughan Williams to lesser-known repertoire and composers from the present-day – commissioning new music has been an indicator of Nethsingha’s time in cost.
He will probably be taking up at a choir that’s in equally superb fettle. Broadly considered one of many world’s most in a position choirmasters, James O’Donnell has been at Westminster Abbey since 2000, when he made the quick journey over from Westminster Cathedral. The choir’s recordings for the Hyperion label, not least of British music from the Renaissance and early-Twentieth century, have additionally loved rave opinions. Excessive-profile events to have taken place below his watch embody the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011.
Commenting about his new appointment, Nethsingha, who was beforehand at Gloucester and Truro cathedrals, says that ‘will probably be an incredible privilege to contribute to the worship in a constructing of such magnificence and historic significance. Following the work of his eminent predecessors, James O’Donnell has created a choir of monumental distinction’.
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