Watch the College’s 2024 Conferment of Diplomas Ceremony here, in full, or as edited highlights, and download the programme, along with the full texts of the speeches and citations.

A gallery of pictures from the College’s annual Conferment Ceremony at Southwark Cathedral on Saturday 9 March, at which RCO President David Hill presented successful examination candidates with their awards and diplomas, and also presented four RCO Medals.

Watch the College’s 2023 Conferment of Diplomas Ceremony here, in full, or as edited highlights, and download the programme, along with the full texts of the speeches and citations.

A gallery of pictures from the College’s annual Conferment Ceremony at Southwark Cathedral on Saturday 4 March, at which RCO President David Hill presented successful examination candidates with their awards and diplomas, and presented four RCO Medals.

A talk on Spanish and Portuguese organ music in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, written and presented by Martin Schmeding. This is the set history period for ARCO written papers, 2 July 2022-January 2023.

A talk on Brahms and the organ, written and presented by Martin Schmeding (Professor of Organ, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig), of particular interest to FRCO students.

Andrew McCrea discusses how to approach the organ repertoire question of the CRCO written paper with particular reference to Stanford’s Six Short Preludes and Postludes, Op.101 and Op.105, the set repertoire for July 2022–January 2023.

A recorded talk by Robert Sholl, with downloads, designed to help candidates the history of organ music written papers at FRCO, but also useful to others interested in French organ music from 1920-2000. 

Watch the College’s two 2022 Conferment of Diplomas ceremonies here, in full, or as edited highlights, and download the programme, along with the full texts of the speeches and citations.