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.

Engaging programming features in this year’s two BBC Proms organ concerts, with an international mix of performers and composers.

The Coronation Service at Westminster Abbey on 6 May combined music from 350 years of church and royal tradition with many new commissions, all personally selected by The King.

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.

A recorded conversation between RCO President David Hill and Dame Gillian Weir, originally presented during the Cambridge Summer Music Festival 2022.  Dame Gillian discusses her distinguished career as a concert organist and recording artist, illustrated with extracts from her various recordings. 

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.

Ivan Deb has won the first Aprahamian Scholarship for young organists, and in a partnership between The Arabesque Trust and Viscount Classical Organs, he now has a brand new two-manuals-and-pedals home organ for home practising.

Pieter Shaw discovered a wonderful Schnitger organ in a local church in Bellingwolde, close to the Dutch/German border, and then was delighted to be offered the post of organist there. He tells StopPress about the instrument and the role of the organist in the Netherlands.

Before her death last year, Jennifer Bate made specific requests for a memorial concert in her name. This event has just been announced, and it will also include the posthumous presentation of the RCO Medal to Jennifer, in recognition of her contributions to organ performance and teaching.