Cradlehall School in Inverness recently took delivery of a digital organ through the RCO’s Organs in Schools scheme. Inverness Cathedral organist Adrian Marple describes the enthusiasm for organ-playing that has developed, and how he began teaching the organ to youngsters in the first place.

Madeline Smith returns from the American Guild of Organists’ National Convention in Missouri with a sense of great optimism for the future of our instrument.

The College’s bi-annual magazine for members contains features, details of forthcoming events and courses, and general news and views from the RCO.

You can watch the College’s 2026 Conferment of Diplomas Ceremony here in full, or as edited highlights, and listen to the Ede & Ravenscroft recital given by international concert organist Katelyn Emerson.

A gallery of pictures from the College’s annual Conferment Ceremony at Southwark Cathedral on Saturday 7 March, at which RCO President Sarah MacDonald presented successful examination candidates with their awards and diplomas, and also presented three RCO Medals.

Organist Christian Tolentino from Manila talks about his RCO studies, and life as an organist in the Philippines.

The College’s bi-annual magazine for members contains features, details of forthcoming events and courses, and general news and views from the RCO.

What’s it like attending the big RCO Summer Course? StopPress Editor Morwenna Campbell-Smith describes her first encounter as a beginner organist, and then attending again twelve years later as a more experienced player.

The 2024 edition of the College’s research publication, The Journal of the Royal College of Organists, can be downloaded here as a complete edition. It explores the world of publishing in Grand siecle France, looks at Bach’s deft handling of thematic material in pedal parts, and marks anniversaries regarding Franz Schmidt, and Charles Villiers Stanford and Walter Parratt. And in one of his last articles before his death in 2024, Francis O’Gorman looks at the meaning that destroyed organs can hold.