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

Watch the College’s two 2022 Conferment of Diplomas ceremonies here, in full, or as edited highlights, and download the programme, along with the full texts of the speeches and citations.

Ivan Deb has won the first Aprahamian Scholarship for young organists, and in a partnership between The Arabesque Trust and Viscount Classical Organs, he now has a brand new two-manuals-and-pedals home organ for home practising.

The College enjoyed the opportunity to mark two years’ of achievements by its members, and recognise recipients of the RCO Medal, with not one, but two Conferment ceremonies at Southwark Cathedral this year.

Organists come in all shapes and sizes, and a recent survey has highlighted the problems many face in playing their instrument comfortably. A new campaign aims to address this, with practical solutions to ensure equal access and confidence for all.

Woman Composer Sunday is on March 6 this year, and the American Guild of Organists have teamed up with the Society of Women Organists to create an inspirational repertoire list to help organists take up the challenge.

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

Samuel Kimuli, an organist, composer and educator now based in the UK, decided to start an Organ Academy in his home country of Uganda to help young musicians who did not have the same opportunities as he had. He tells StopPress how he came to play the organ, and his ambitions for The Organ Academy.

A major investment in school singing by the Hamish Ogston Foundation is allowing Catholic Dioceses around the country to revive singing in schools and foster the next generation of church choristers: we look at how the Diocese of Middlesbrough has become part of this project.