Five questions for…Roger Carter
Roger Carter studied with Sylvia Gostelow and Christopher Scarf and later with Richard Popplewell, gaining Fellowships from the Royal College of Organists and Trinity College of Music. His subsequent studies have taken him around Europe – in 1984 he was…
Five questions for…Simon Williams
Simon is Organist and Director of Music at St. George’s Church, Hanover Square, in the centre of London. Simon and the choir there broadcast regularly on BBC Radio3 and Radio4. He trained at Durham University and The Royal College…
Happy Birthday to You
For those of us asked to play Happy Birthday to You on a regular basis – and vaguely wondering each time about the copyright issues – there’s a comforting lawsuit (that’s a rarity) going through the US courts. See this…
Hymn book heaven
My church had a clearout of cupboards recently, and I volunteered a home for a selection of ancient hymn books. It’s not just the old music typefaces I love (often clearer than in modern hymn books) but the snapshot of…
Five questions for…Gerdi Troskie
Gerdi Troskie is one of the RCO’s tutors, and the person most responsible for the improvements in my organ technique over the past two years. She studied post-graduate with the early music specialist Jacques van Oortmerssen at the Amsterdam Conservatorium, …
RCO choral conducting workshop with Patrick Russill
Temple Church, which serves two of the Inns of Court in London, was a location for the Da Vinci Code film, and is often full of Dan Brown enthusiasts. We had it to ourselves for a day in May, while…
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