During this time, he was conductor-in-chief of the Three Choirs Festival for nine seasons, for which he commissioned and conducted the premieres of several works by British composers.
[2] He remained active as a concert organist, and gave the opening recital on the newly rebuilt organ at Hereford Cathedral in 2005.
He was awarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music (DMus) in 1990 and appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1997.
His arrangement of the Ukrainian melody 'Long the Night', was included in the carol anthology Noel!, published by Novello in 2000.
[3] In 2021 Massey published his autobiography, An Organist Remembers: Memories of a Life in Cathedral Music.