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Classicsonline Home » Artists » » McVinnie, James

James McVinnie

James McVinnie is the Assistant Organist of Westminster Abbey. He held organ scholarships at St Albans Cathedral and Clare College, Cambridge (where he read music). In 2006 he became Organ Scholar and then Acting Sub Organist of St Paul’s Cathedral where he played for regular services and many great state occasions. He teaches the organ at Dulwich College and Tonbridge School and is also Director of Music at St Andrew’s, Holborn. He has an increasingly busy schedule as an organ soloist and continuo player in the United Kingdom and abroad. He takes a keen interest in new music and has had pieces written for him by Nico Muhly, Graham Ross and Robert Walker. In summer 2009 he made his solo début in the Salzburg Festival with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Ivor Bolton. He studies the organ with Thomas Trotter and Hans Fagius.