Andrew Lumsden
As conductor of England's Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden has burnished the sound and the reputation of that nearly thousand-year-old ensemble. He is also a noted organist and has conducted several other important English choirs.
Lumsden was born in 1962; his father was the educator, choral director, and organist Sir David Lumsden. He attended secondary school at Winchester College, moving on to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), and then St. John's College, Cambridge, as an organ scholar. There, he assisted in training the college choir. He studied choral conducting and organ throughout, and his first post was as assistant organist at Southwark Cathedral in London, beginning in 1985. In 1988, he became sub-organist at Westminster Abbey, a high-profile position that saw him perform at important national commemorative events such as the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and a memorial service for Sir Laurence Olivier. Lumsden's organ playing was also frequently heard on the BBC, and he has been unusually visible among choral conductors in British mass media; not only has he conducted televised performances, he was also featured in the television series Great British Railway Journeys, discussing Winchester Cathedral and its famous organ. Lumsden was named organist and master of the choristers at Lichfield in 1992. He took the choir on tour to France, Germany, Italy, and the U.S., and he recorded five CDs with the group. He still found time to continue his solo organ career, appearing with, among other groups, the London Symphony Orchestra.
Lumsden became conductor and director of music at Winchester Cathedral, a major position in the English choral and organ worlds, in 2002. He presided over a growing music program at the cathedral that had just begun to encompass a girls' choir in the previously all-male preserve of cathedral choral singing, and he extended the cathedral choir's already vigorous recording program. Lumsden has continued to perform on the organ, and he also serves as director of the large southern English choir the Waynflete Singers. Lumsden has led the Winchester Cathedral Choir in a number of recordings for the Hyperion and Regent labels, including A Year at Winchester (2012) on the latter. In 2019, he conducted the choir in a Hyperion album of music by John Tavener. Outside music, he enjoys wine, cricket, and flying planes.
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Discography
11 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Tavener: Angels & Other Choral Works
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 29 mrt. 2019
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A Grand Chorus: The Organ of Westminster Abbey
Klassiek - Released by Guild Music on 6 nov. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Begone Dull Care
The Choristers of Lichfield Cathedral
Klassiek - Released by Lammas on 29 okt. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Winchester Cathedral: 50th Anniversary EP
The Boy Choristers of Winchester Cathedral, Andrew Lumsden
Klassiek - Released by Signum Records on 11 mrt. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Star of the East: Music for Epiphany to Candlemas
Andrew Lumsden, Sarah Baldock, The Choir Of Winchester Cathedral
Klassiek - Released by Herald on 19 nov. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Leighton: Choral Music
Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer, Andrew Lumsden
Koormuziek - Released by Chandos on 1 jun. 1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis, Vol. 3
Lichfield Cathedral Choir, Mark Shepherd, Andrew Lumsden
Klassiek - Released by Priory Records on 11 okt. 1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Howells: The Winchester Service & Other Late Works
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 31 mei 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Britten: Missa Brevis in D Major, A Ceremony of Carols, A Wedding Anthem (Choral Edition, Vol. 2)
Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer, Susan Drake, Andrew Lumsden
Koormuziek - Released by Chandos on 1 jan. 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tavener: Angels & Other Choral Works
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 29 mrt. 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Evensong for St Swithun's Day
The Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, Andrew Lumsden, Sarah Baldock
Klassiek - Released by Herald on 2 feb. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo