You can watch the College’s 2026 Conferment of Diplomas Ceremony here in full, or as edited highlights, and listen to the Ede & Ravenscroft recital given by international concert organist Katelyn Emerson.

A gallery of pictures from the College’s annual Conferment Ceremony at Southwark Cathedral on Saturday 7 March, at which RCO President Sarah MacDonald presented successful examination candidates with their awards and diplomas, and also presented three RCO Medals.

John Henderson’s prize-winning print edition of the Directory of Composers for Organ is now available as a mobile app to download for both Apple and Android devices.

Organist Christian Tolentino from Manila talks about his RCO studies, and life as an organist in the Philippines.

The College’s bi-annual magazine for members contains features, details of forthcoming events and courses, and general news and views from the RCO.

Jeremiah Stephenson discusses and illustrates ways in which the piano accompaniments in the vocal scores of Viennese Mass settings by composers such as Haydn, Mozart and Schubert can be adapted in order to make them effective and practical when played on the organ.

As musicians, we get plenty of instrumental guidance, but we need to go beyond the music and into our minds if we are to successfully cope with playing under pressure. This is a skillset of its own, and in this webinar we look at developing a toolkit to create our best performance on stage.

What’s it like attending the big RCO Summer Course? StopPress Editor Morwenna Campbell-Smith describes her first encounter as a beginner organist, and then attending again twelve years later as a more experienced player.

The 2024 edition of the College’s research publication, The Journal of the Royal College of Organists, can be downloaded here as a complete edition. It explores the world of publishing in Grand siecle France, looks at Bach’s deft handling of thematic material in pedal parts, and marks anniversaries regarding Franz Schmidt, and Charles Villiers Stanford and Walter Parratt. And in one of his last articles before his death in 2024, Francis O’Gorman looks at the meaning that destroyed organs can hold.