Winter Conference beats the winter blues
Eleni Keventsidou in a recital from the Athens Concert Hall for the online Winter Conference, February 2021 by Morwenna Campbell-Smith, StopPress Editor The RCO's first-ever Winter Conference this February was devised as the pandemic lockdown continued to prove a barrier to organists and organ enthusiasts getting together in person. RCO Director Simon Williams decided to build on the experience through 2020 of putting all the major RCO courses online, with a new format - a complete virtual conference, with seminars, presentations, recitals, a keynote speech and a trade show. He developed the idea with Drew Cantrill-Fenwick,…