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.

The June 2020 edition of RCO News, the College’s bi-annual magazine, can be downloaded by RCO Members here in pdf format.

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

There are over 150 surviving In Nomines: a plainchant used by some fifty-eight composers from Taverner to Purcell as a basis for keyboard and consort music. Jane Flynn investigates this fascinating compositional phenomenon and explores the interwoven theological and political context in which the In Nomine flourished.

As of last week, organists within the Church of England were allowed access to church buildings again, for organ practice, under new government guidance.  So we hope it’s not too optimistic to focus this week on pedalling technique, for organists who may be moving back to a pedalboard for the first time in many months; with advice on how to start playing again, and pedals-only music.