Working Webinars: Building an organ teaching practice
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.
Working Webinars: Leadership Skills
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.
Working Webinars : Working with children and vulnerable adults
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.
Organists’ contracts & legal agreements
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.
Working Webinars: The Healthy Organist
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.
Live streaming & broadcast rates
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.
Teach the Organ Series – Film Summary
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.
Teach the Organ Series : Teaching Sight-reading
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.
Teach the Organ Series : Teaching Registration
Film 11 in Anne Marsden Thomas’s Teach the Organ series offers a method for teaching registration and organ management, especially to beginner and elementary students.