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.
Hosted by Tom Bell and Cathy Lamb the RCO's TOSE (The Organ Student Experience) Community offers Student Members aged up to 19 the chance to meet online for interviews with and presentations from leading and early-stage professional organists. Expand your knowledge and have fun! Remember, there is no minimum playing standard required to join the TOSE Community.
If you have not already registered please click here to send an email to Makoto James, TOSE Community administrator [makoto.james @ rco.org.uk] with your name and email address so that we can send you the link for future meetings. All meetings are recorded and the edited films are made available to TC Members.
This first meeting of the 2024-2025 academic year includes a presentation on the RCO's accreditation programme from RCO Chief Examiner Stephen Farr ; a presentation by David Pipe, new co-director of TOSE Week, Organist of Huddersfield Town Hall and Doom Metal collaborator extraordinaire; and an interview with Elizabeth Burgess, one time organ scholar at Christ Church, Oxford and now mainly working as a pianist.
Dates for subsequent TOSE Community meetings: Monday 25 November; Thursday 6 February; Thursday 3 April; Tuesday 1 July.
Not yet an RCO Student Member? Click here for information about the benefits and to join online.
Click here for information about the TOSE-in-a-Day event in York on Saturday 9 November.
TOSE Week runs in Oxford 21 - 27 July 2025. Booking will open no later than 1 December 2024.
For RCO courses and classes, the following key is used as a guide to level and suitability:
Beginner (Grades 1-4)
Intermediate (Grades 4-6)
Advanced (Grades 6-8 / CRCO)
Diploma 1 (CRCO–ARCO)
Diploma 2 (ARCO–FRCO)