A practical guide to choir training
Drew Cantrill Fenwick presents a film discussing the variety of skills needed to get the best out of singers in a choir, from warm-up exercises, help with note learning and interval recognition, and conducting techniques.
Planning an introduction to the organ workshop
William Saunders explains how to set up and run a workshop to introduce the organ to new players, with hints on planning, organisation, publicity, funding, and finding an audience for organ outreach events.
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.
An Organ Academy for Uganda
Samuel Kimuli, an organist, composer and educator now based in the UK, decided to start an Organ Academy in his home country of Uganda to help young musicians who did not have the same opportunities as he had. He tells StopPress how he came to play the organ, and his ambitions for The Organ Academy.
A happy tenth anniversary for Halifax Organ Academy
Retiring in 2009 to his home county of Yorkshire, David Baker became involved in the local organ scene, but found both organ playing and teaching in a sorry state. Determined to do something about this he founded the Halifax Organ Academy, which has big plans for the future as it celebrates its tenth anniversary.
Teach the Organ Series : Teaching Church Organists
Films 9 and 10 in the Teach the Organ series curated by Anne Marsden Thomas, on teaching the specific skills required by the church organist.
Teach the Organ Series : Teaching Students How to Practise
The series of films in the Teach the Organ series continues, discussing how to develop practice techniques for students, and the importance of accurate learning.
Teach the Organ Series : Structuring Lessons and Lesson Repertoire
The Teach the Organ series of films continues with a discussion of how to structure an organ lesson, and how to choose suitable repertoire for elementary students.
