International Organ Day is now in its fifth year, and each year more and more countries have joined in this celebration of organs, organists, and organ music. We report on the huge variety of events, and instruments, that were part of International Organ Day 2024.

In the third of our Working Webinars created in partnership with the Musicians’ Union, Tansy Castledine, Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral, discusses leadership skills for organists and choral directors.

Find inspiration for Woman Composer Sunday, on 10 March, with these resources from the RCO and partner organisations.

Organists around the world celebrated International Organ Day 2023 with events, classes and demonstrations, posting films and pictures on social media throughout the day. We report on all the activities, culminating in the broadcast of The Organ Show-Live! on our YouTube channel.

The American Guild of Organists invited representatives of the RCO to be their guests at the first AGO National Convention to be held for four years. StopPress Editor Morwenna Campbell-Smith reports on a memorable visit to Seattle.

An annual celebration of women composers has been launched by the Royal College of Organists and the Society of Women Organists. Sunday 7 March 2021 – the nearest Sunday to International Women’s Day on 8 March – will be celebrated as Woman Composer Sunday. Here on StopPress we have inspiration and wide-ranging resources for organists looking for repertoire by women composers.

Details about online access to The American Organist journal, for RCO Members who are Affiliate Members of the AGO.

A benefit of our new reciprocal membership arrangement with the American Guild of Organists is free access to their journal The American Organist. We look at the magazine in more detail, and also preview a new addition to our choral and conducting resources on iRCO: two films on working with orchestras from conductor Nicholas Cleobury. 

The College has just announced a new reciprocal agreement with colleagues in the American Guild of Organists, which allows members of either organisation to join the other as affiliate members, and benefit from a range of perks.  We look at the AGO and what it can offer RCO Members, and at other American resources that might be of interest.