Events

This year's Bloomsbury Organ Day includes  recitalists Jane Watts, Catherine Ennis, and Anne Marsden Thomas, the RCO/St Giles School, and BIOS.  More information at www.organistsonline.org/britannia

from 1pm (free) an afternoon of recitals, presentations and displays; 5pm (£5) a substantial buffet; 6pm (£5) Celebrity Recital by Jane Watts

TRANSCRIPTIONS AND EDWARDIANA

Original organ music by Bridge, Stanford, Parry, and Lemare, with an exploration of the art of transcription - performed by Gerard Brooks, Timothy Byram-Wigfield, James Lancelot, Weston Jennings and Richard Brasier.

Book and pay online: http://book.londonorganday.co.uk

Tuition for the RCO exams and also a Repertoire & Skills strand for those who already play to diploma standard.  Resident at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (new organ by Taylor & Boody).  Tutors Dr David Ponsford, Johannes Geffert, and Sarah Baldock.

Full details and online booking from RCO website.

Residential weekend course for those at the start of their organ studies.  Young organists (10-15) up to and including Grade 5 standard or young pianists at or above Grade 4 welcome.  Tutors include Ann Elise Smoot, Tom Bell, Catherine Dienes-Williams and Scott Farrell.  Course includes a trip to Cambridge for an organ crawl round college chapels, a recital at King's College Cambridge, and an informal student concert on the last day.

Fee: £275 which includes tuition, accommodation, meals and transport during the weekend.

More details from Oundle for Organists

A course for advanced organists who are over 18 years old - play and hear some of the world's most sigificant organs, and meed the Titulaires of many of these instruments.  Limited places.  Students will be accompanied by Ann Elise Smoot and Neil Cockburn.

Fee: £275 to include Eurostar transport London to Paris, accomodation, meals in Paris.

for more details visit Oundle for Organists

A week of intensive tuition for young organists during the Oundle International Festival.  Tutors include Ann Elise Smoot, Neil Cockburn, James Lloyd Thomas, Magnus Williamson, Frederic Blanc, Stephen Farr, James McVinnie, Christian Wilson.

Fee:  £620 all inclusive.

For more details visit Oundle for Organists

The annual event organised by the Incorporated Association of Organists, including open consoles, recitals, lectures, ending with Annual Dinner in Norwich Cathedral refectory.  For more details go to IAO website.

Booking is now open for the RCO's annual summer course for organists directed by Anne Marsden Thomas.  Each student receives a unique timetable designed for their standards and needs - featured topics for daily masterclasses in 2015 are Bach, manuals-only repertoire and 21st century music.

Full details and booking on the RCO website.

The Lady Organist has written an insider account of the RCO summer course - click here for an account of the 2013 course, and here for a write-up of the course in 2014.