Two young RCO members are carving out careers for themselves as composers, alongside their organ playing. Both Matthew Kelley and Tammas Slater won in the junior category the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers competition in 2015, and for both of them this has been a life-changer, leading to a series of further commissions.

There’s just a week left for teenage organists to enter the competition which takes place on Thursday 29 December, organised by the Organ Club, for cash prizes and opportunities for recitals. Prizewinners also gain free entry into the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition – which is co-organiser of this event. The deadline for entry is Thursday 10 November – so no time to lose!

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 3, 2009 can be downloaded here.

What pipe organ would you expect to see on the wall of an organ scholar’s bedroom? The 1735 Christian Muller instrument of the St Bavokerk, Haarlem, of course, in all its beauty and grandeur. The RCO took twelve lucky organists on a Masterclass to play it, under the tutelage of Reitze Smits.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 4, 2010 can be downloaded here.

This pre-concert talk was recorded at the world premiere at the Royal Festival Hall of the Legend of Melusine, which was commissioned as part of the RCO’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 2014.

The Journal of the Royal College of Organists is the College’s annual research publication, and Volume 2, 2008 can be downloaded here.

Joe McHardy was convinced he’d failed his FRCO earlier this year, so when he got emails telling him not only that he had passed, but been awarded the Durrant Prize, and then the John Birch Scholarship, he thought there must have been some mistake. He tells us what the Scholarship, and the RCO, have meant for him.

The RCO has published a major resource for organ teachers and students involved in or considering the Associated Board of the Royal College of Music’s graded organ examinations.