Widely respected as a performer, composer, conductor and educator, Jamie Hitel will present works by Bach, Hindemith, Saint Saens, Judith Bingham, and Marcel Dupre, on Saturday, January 28, 5:00 pm, at Christ Church Greenwich Main Sanctuary. Jamie is Organist and Director of Music at Christ Church.
Formerly a Director of Chapel Music at Cambridge University, and Director of Music at Waltham Abbey, London, Jamie moved to the USA in 2000. Since that time, he has worked within the Episcopal Church, training choirs of boys, girls and adults.
Compositions include hymns, chants, anthems, and two stage musicals. Recently published anthems include Hark, the Glad Sound (Encore Publications), and Bread of the World (RSCM).
Jamie Hitel maintains a busy solo organ recital career. Recent venues have included Ripon Cathedral; St Martin’s Scarborough, UK; London’s St Paul’s and Westminster Cathedrals; New York’s Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue and Trinity Church, Wall Street; and Seattle’s Saint Mark’s Cathedral. Recent organ recitals in Germany have included concerts in Paderborn Cathedral and Braunschweig. He was also a special guest conductor of the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra and Valparaiso Chamber Choir in a 2015 series of performances at St Thomas Church, Leipzig, Germany. Jamie is Artistic Director of Ex Ecclesia – a pan-Atlantic chamber choir, specializing in music of the Anglican Choral Tradition.
Recent choral engagements include choir tours to Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster, Bristol Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Winchester Cathedral, and St Paul’s Cathedral, London. A tour to Westminster Abbey is planned for July 2024.
For more information and to RSVP, visit christchurchgreenwich.org
