1025 NW 21st Ave
Portland
OR
Distinguished organist James O’Donnell to perform at St. Mark’s church in NW Portland
Internationally recognized conductor, organist, and teacher, James O’Donnell will present an organ concert on Sunday evening, May 12 at 7:00 pm, at The Anglican Parish of St. Mark, located at 1025 NW 21st Avenue and Marshall Street.
In his 23-year tenure as Organist and Master of Choristers at Westminster Abbey, O’Donnell was responsible for all musical aspects of the Abbey’s work. He directed the music at great national occasions including the September 2022 State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, which was broadcast live throughout the world to an estimated audience of over 4 billion people and the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Mr. O’Donnell now holds the post of Professor in the Practice of Organ at Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in New Haven, CT.
O’Donnell will play works by composers J. S. Bach, F. Tunder, Orlando Gibbons, W. Byrd and Nicolas de Grigny on the church’s three manual tracker-action instrument with imposing horizontal trumpet made by the Werner Bosch firm of Kassell, Germany, installed in 1966.
Built in 1925, the present building is the third to house The Parish of St. Mark. It is Romanesque in style, modeled after the 10th-century Basilica of San Zeno in Verona, Italy. The Basilica is described as “one of the most beautiful and better preserved examples of Romanesque architecture in the whole of Northern Italy.” With outstanding acoustics and walls of hand-painted murals, the concert setting at St. Mark’s will not disappoint.
Concert tickets are available for purchase in advance at www.stmarkportland.org. Adults, $20; students, $15. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door. The concert is funded, in part, by the Portland, OR chapter of the American Guild of Organists among other individual and parish sponsors. Thank you to all contributors.
