The RCO Cinema streaming service is a partnership between the RCO and film-maker Fugue State Films, designed to make high quality films about the organ and its music available to the widest possible audience around the world.  

Still playing at 93 years of age, Robert Hoare, a blind organist, had lost his ARCO diploma certificate. In recognition of his remarkable career, the RCO created a replacement.

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

You can watch the College’s 2025 Conferment of Diplomas Ceremony here in full, or as edited highlights, and listen to the Ede & Ravenscroft recital given by Dr Isabelle Demers.

A gallery of pictures from the College’s annual Conferment Ceremony at Southwark Cathedral on Saturday 8 March, at which RCO President Sarah MacDonald presented successful examination candidates with their awards and diplomas, and also presented three RCO Medals.

Reports are coming in about the excitement and opportunities that are being generated by the RCO’s Organs in Schools scheme, and the ripple effect into local communities from making a digital organ available to young people.

Max Reger’s Twelve Pieces’ are some of his more accessible works for the organist. Martin Schmeding has edited a new Urtext edition, which includes an extensive essay on the performance of Reger’s organ works.

A celebratory concert by Gerard Brooks to mark the launch of Play the Organ Year 2025 concluded with an enthusiastic audience getting the chance to ‘have a go’ on the spectacular Hill organ in Methodist Central Hall in London.

An exploration of the authorship of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565, in an engaging set of documentary films and performances.