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.

Individual teaching can be an important part of an organist’s work, and this Working Webinar outlines strategies for building and sustaining a teaching practice.

In the third of our Working Webinars created in partnership with the Musicians’ Union, Tansy Castledine, Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral, discusses leadership skills for organists and choral directors.

The majority of musicians will do some teaching at some point, and all teaching has safeguarding implications. This webinar, developed with our partners in the Musicians’ Union, covers the essential understanding of issues around safeguarding required by anyone working with children and vulnerable adults, whether in person or online.

The Royal College of Organists and its partners have produced a number of specimen contract and agreement documents for organists employed in places of worship, for performance(s), and in teaching roles.

Watch the first in our new Working Webinars series, developed in association with the Musicians’ Union, on what it means to be a truly healthy musician and how to balance our everyday lives with our music practice and creative endeavours.

Services, ceremonies and other performances are increasingly being made available to see and hear via the internet. Whether the performance is being broadcast live for a single live viewing, or subsequently made available for ‘catch-up’ viewing, our partners at the Musicians’ Union publish recommended minimum rates.

RCO Accredited Teacher, Anne Marsden Thomas, has curated a major new series of films for everyone involved in organ teaching. A summary of the series with links to all the films can be found here.

In this film, number 12 in the Teach the Organ Series, Anne Marsden Thomas offers a method for teaching sight-reading especially to beginner and elementary students.