http://www.rco.org.uk/news_recent.php RCO News en http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=170 http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=170 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=169 http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=169 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0100 www.npor.org.uk. From 1st July the new NPOR Manager will be the RCO’s Administrator, Andrew Macintosh, contactable for NPOR matters via npor@bios.org.uk]]> http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=168 http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=168 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=167 http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=167 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Limpus Prize, Frederick Shinn Prize, and Durrant Prize Peter Shepherd Sawyer Prize and Durrant Prize Timothy Parsons Lord St Audries Prize Peter Shepherd Sowerbutts Prize and Durrant Prize Timothy Parsons Doris Wookey Prize John Dilworth Dr F J Read Prize Timothy Parsons CERTIFICATE OF THE COLLEGE (CertRCO) Duncan Courts (Christchurch) Nicky Pound (Whitnash) William Wallace (Chichester) Adriel Yap (Durham) DIPLOMA IN CHORAL DIRECTING (DipCHD) Shaun Turnbull (Wallsend) ]]> http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=164 http://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=164 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Accompanying a Soloist (7th January); New Music for the New Year (14th January); and Recital Class (21st January). At Temple Church, London EC4 on 11th February there is a Choral Directing Workshop with David Hill, and on the same day, Christ Church, Chelsea, plays host to a class given by Henry Fairs on Bach’s Leipzig Chorales. The College’s successful Sing! format returns a week later, with Sing! Haydn at St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, on 18th February, giving choral enthusiasts the chance to rehearse and perform Haydn’s ‘Nelson Mass’ in one day under the expert direction of Adrian Lucas, Organist & Director of Music, Worcester Cathedral. Returning to the RCO St Giles Organ School classes, attention then turns to Keble College, Oxford for Turn of the Century (25th February); Westminster Central Hall for Edwardian England (3rd March); and St Giles Cripplegate for both Stylus Fantasticus (8th March) and Learning to Sight-Read (17th March). Highlights for March include a second Choral Directing Workshop being held with Duncan Ferguson in Edinburgh on 24th March, as well as two more RCO St Giles Organ School classes – Bach’s Short Eight Preludes and Fugues on 24th March at St Giles Cripplegate and Extend a Hymn on 31st March at St Stephen’s, Victoria, London. A packed season comes to a close with the three-day Easter Course, this year held in Oxford from 12th April. At the heart of this course is the comprehensive tuition for those preparing for RCO organ playing examinations, but with strands too for advanced players and for ambitious youngsters. Highlights of the 2012 course are the presence of Dame Gillian Weir, who will play a recital on the new organ at Keble College and teach across the course, and the option of daily sessions on improvisation with Ronny Krippner, whose carefully structured and supportive teaching has proved so popular on several recent RCO events and whose recently released DVD ‘Ex Tempore’ has met with considerable acclaim. The course will use many of Oxford’s finest organs for tuition, including the new four-manual Tickell at Keble College, and as ever, the event will end with an informal student concert. ]]>