Jamie Hitel

Director of Music

Jamie Hitel, as the new Director of Music, will give leadership to all of our choirs and our wonderful music program.  Jamie most recently served as the Organist and Master of Choristers at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Akron, Ohio, a parish with a vibrant music program including various choirs of men and boys, girls, and adults. He has also served as Director of Music at Waltham Abbey in the United Kingdom; as Organist Choirmaster at a parish church in Norway; and as Director of Chapel Music at Robinson College, Cambridge University.  He has held a fellowship at Trinity College of Music, London, and an associateship at the Royal College of Music.  Educated at Cambridge University, he has appeared on the BBC and NPR radio.  Jamie is an internationally respected musician, recitalist, recording artist and teacher with a strong pastoral and community basis for music in his parish setting.  It will be a true blessing to proceed on the journey of musical life and development together in the years to come.