Andrew Lumsden - Organ

Andrew Lumsden was educated at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and St John’s College, Cambridge before taking up the position of assistant organist at Southwark Cathedral.  In 1988, he was appointed sub-organist at Westminster Abbey where he played for many significant national occasions. In 1992, he moved to Lichfield to become Organist and Master of the Choristers, and in 2002 he became Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral. He was also appointed music director of the Waynflete Singers, a position he still holds.

During his time at Winchester, the boy and girl choristers took part in two BBC Proms concerts, singing with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under Sir Simon Rattle in 2014, and then in 2015, with the Danish National Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi. In 2017, the boy choristers and lay clerks took part in two Papal Masses in St Peter’s Square, singing with the Sistine Chapel Choir. In 2023, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for services to music by the University of Winchester. In 2024, the boy choristers and Andrew won a Grammy award for their part in recording of the soundtrack of a Star Wars video game.

Since leaving Winchester Cathedral in 2024, Andrew has pursued a busy career as a recitalist and choir trainer, as well as playing for services in cathedrals across the country. In the last year he has been to the USA twice, running a course for choir directors in New York and working with three Cathedral choirs. For the Michaelmas Term 2025 he worked as Director of Music at New College, Oxford, where he started his musical career as a chorister in 1971 under the direction of his father, Sir David Lumsden.
He presents a weekly classical music radio show on Southampton’s VoiceFM.