Your RCO event details can be found below.
Please note that the 24-hour clock is used on all event listings, with all times being GMT/BST. To book courses and classes, please follow the Book Online link wherever you see it, and email bookings@rco.org.uk or call 020 3865 6998 with any queries. Where events are free or not bookable online, please follow the instructions for that event.
This is our flagship course which inspires and extends the skills of young organists who hope to become university, cathedral or church organ scholars. It's also a great course for teenage organists who simply wish to gain experience in accompanying and conducting choirs and to expand their knowledge of the church music repertoire. Core age range 15–19.
RCO Members and the general public will be very welcome at the services and concerts during the course. Click here for the complete list, which is also available on the Downloads page of this website.
Choral evensong:
Tuesday 23 July (17:15) in Keble College Chapel
Thursday 25 July (17:15) in Queen's College Chapel
Saturday 27 July (15:30) in Exeter College Chapel
Choral compline:
Monday 22 July (21:15) in Brasenose College Chapel
Wednesday 24 July (21:15) in New College Chapel
Recitals:
Tuesday 23 (13:10), Daniel Moult plays Bach in the Chapel of The Queen's College
Wednesday 24 July (13:10), David Goode plays Romantic Organ Music in the Chapel of Exeter College
Thursday 25 July (13:10), Neil Cockburn plays Baroque Music in the Chapel of Pembroke College
Friday 26 July (13:10), Catherine Ennis plays a mixed programme in the Chapel of New College.
Student recital Friday 26 ( 19:30) in Christ Church
Cathedral.
Course details:
• accommodation at St Hilda's College, Oxford - idyllic riverside gardens setting
• inspirational classes—repertoire, technique,
accompanying, conducting, improvisation, keyboard skills
• practise on superb organs
• students perform Choral Services open to the public
• celebrity recitals and student recitals
• buzzing social scene and punting
The course is directed by RCO Head of Student Development James Parsons and our team of expert tutors comprises:
Neil Cockburn, Head of Organ Studies, Mount Royal
University Conservatory, Calgary, Canada and Artistic Director, Calgary Organ Festival
Catherine Ennis, President–elect, the Royal College of Organists and Director of Music at St Lawrence Jewry in the City of London
David Goode, Organist and Head of Keyboard, Eton College
Daniel Hyde, Organist and Informatur Choristorum, Magdalen College, Oxford
Daniel Moult, one of the UK's leading players and tutors.
Owen Rees, Director of Music, The Queen's College, Oxford
Simon Williams, Director, RCO Academy and Organist & Director of Music, St George's, Hanover Square, London W1
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Peter Branker Bequest and Yamaha UK, together with bursary support funded by the Percy Whitlock Trust.
This course is a vital fuelling station for all who aspire to an organ scholarship at university or for a gap-year. And there’s a warm welcome too for adult observers to listen-in and also to sing with the student choir.
Click here for the Booking Form, which is also available in the Downloads section of the website. Email or call James Parsons on 05603 440489 to be sent one or with any questions.
Click here for the Bursary application form which should be received by the College by 30 April 2012.