This is the last in a series of four video sets covering the professional, business & career skills required to any organist looking to start, build or change their career.

This Career Options (Examinations & Publishing) sequence contains presentations on: examining with the ABRSM; and careers in music publishing.

This is the third in a series of four video sets covering the professional, business & career skills required to any organist looking to start, build or change their career.

This Organists in Business: Career Options (Performing & Conducting) video sequence contains presentations on: working with choirs & orchestras; working in cathedrals; and choral conducting.

The Organists in Business conference was organised in Summer 2016, with more than a dozen musicians at the top of their respective professions giving detailed guidance to an audience of organists looking to start, build, or change their careers.

Selected presentations from the day are now available on iRCO.

This is the second in a series of four video sets covering the professional, business & career skills required to any organist looking to start, build or change their career.

This Career Options (Teaching) sequence comprises presentations on: teaching the organ; teaching in conservatoires; and teaching in the independent sector.

This download summarises the issues you need to consider before you launch yourself as an organ teacher, and how to keep and motivate your students.

The 2015 edition of the College’s annual research publication, The Journal of the Royal College of Organists, can be downloaded here as a complete edition.

Judith Bingham’s contribution to the solo organ repertoire spans some forty years, and organ writing has been a constant feature of Bingham’s compositional activity. This survey from Stephen Farr examines this important oeuvre from several performance related perspectives.

Richard Moore provides a catalogue of Peter Racine Fricker’s organ works, and discusses why he fell out of favour in the 1970s, in spite of writing prolifically until his death in 1990.

Ralph Downes was strongly influenced by his experience at the London Oratory and time spent in Holland and France, when it came to designing the revolutionary Royal Festival Hall organ. Jonathan Ambrosino suggests that the seven years Downes spent in the United States could also have influenced his ideas – in particular his friendship with G Donald Harrison of Aeolian-Skinner.