Andrew Cantrill-Fenwick introduces the keyboard skills which are elements of the RCO’s practical examinations – transposition, sight reading, score reading, harmonisation, and figured bass.

A practical guide to writing fugues for students, of particular interest to candidates for the RCO Diploma examinations, but useful to anyone with some skills in basic harmony who wishes to expand their knowledge.

Graham Barber performs and discusses the organ music of organist and composer Francis Jackson, born in 1917.

RCO Director Andrew Macintosh explores the resources that are available online for organists and choral directors, on the RCO’s virtual campus, iRCO.

An insight into the Hammond Organ – Jean Martyn explains how different styles are created, from Bossa Nova to Samba, Reggae, and A Whiter Shade of Pale.

Tom Bell introduces the organ music of two English composers for organ who lived hundreds of years apart: Orlando Gibbons, and contemporary composer Alan Gibbs.

To mark the 150th anniversary of Louis Vierne’s birth, Andrew Cantrill-Fenwick presents a film on his life and legacy. 

In a set of three webinars Frederick Stocken looks at the Bach Chorale question of the ARCO examination written paper, which requires the completion of the harmony to a given chorale melody, in the style of J S Bach.

Darius Battiwalla shows how improvising music for the movies differs from improvising during a church service, and suggests ways to develop the skills, and stamina, required.