Find resources here for Woman Composer Sunday, which takes place on March 5 this year. It’s an international platform for music written for organ by women composers, and a new recommended repertoire list created by the Society of Women Organists along with the American Guild of Organists is now available to download.

The RCO was delighted to present Professor Suzuki Masaaki with the RCO Medal at a masterclass for Royal Academy of Music organ students in London this January.

Copies of the College’s magazine for members from April 2007 to January 2020 can be downloaded here as pdfs.

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

In the summer of 2022, James Lloyd Thomas set off for Nigeria.  He was following in the footsteps of other RCO tutors over the years, to spend a week with the organists and choristers in the Lagos cathedrals and churches, coaching them in the English cathedral traditions of organ-playing and singing.

The public were quick to show their appreciation of all the music that underpinned the services marking the passing of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We look at the contributions made in particular by organists, choral directors and composers, including those associated with the RCO from its earliest days.

The Royal College of Organists mourns the passing of its patron Her Majesty The Queen, and remembers in particular her presence at the College’s 150th Anniversary celebrations.

Bach’s Orgelbüchlein (or Little Organ Book) was left incomplete on his death. Now contemporary composers have been comissioned to fill in the 118 missing pieces, and the completed Orgelbüchlein Project will have its UK premiere this September.

We hear about organ studies at RCO-accredited City of London School, both in the classroom and the wider City churches and cathedrals.