James O'Donnell to perform Great Organ Music at Yale

On Sunday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m., James O’Donnell will give a free concert on Yale’s magnificent Newberry Organ in Woolsey Hall. Part of the Great Organ Music at Yale series, the music includes the Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain by Maurice Duruflé and Les Corps Glorieux: Sept Visions brèves de la Vie des Ressuscités by Olivier Messiaen. The American premiere of Delapsus Resurgam: Diptych for Organ by Francis Pott will also be performed. 

Click here to view full program details. The concert is free and open to the public or can be viewed via livestream.

James O’Donnell is professor in the practice of organ and sacred music at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music. For the last twenty-three years he was the organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey. There he led the Abbey’s music department and oversaw all musical aspects of the Abbey’s work, including directing its celebrated choir. He was also responsible for the music at royal, state, and national occasions, including the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 2002, and the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2022.

Internationally recognized as a conductor and organ recitalist, James O’Donnell has performed all over the world, including the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Europe. As soloist and director, he has also worked with many of Britain’s leading ensembles. Read more. 

Photo: James O’Donnell playing the Newberry Organ (Harold Shapiro, 2023)