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Our People

To ensure that the College is best-placed to deliver its objectives of promoting and advancing organ playing and choral directing, our team comprises a wide range of talented individuals.

On a day-to-day basis, the College is managed and run by a management team. Read more.

The College's activities across the UK are managed via a regional structure. Read more.

The roles of our Trustees and officers are constituted within the Charter to ensure that good governance prevails, and to enable the College to take the best of the musical world to the widest cross-section of our communities. Read more.


Management Team

Members of the management team are responsible for all the day-to-day administration of College matters. Contact telephone numbers and e-mail addresses are listed below for your convenience.

General calls and correspondence should be addressed in the first instance to:

The Royal College of Organists
PO Box 7328
New Milton
Hampshire
BH25 9DU
Telephone: 020 3865 6998
Email: admin@rco.org.uk

The main telephone number above should be used for all general enquiries.

For enquiries about RCO courses and events, please call the same number, or email bookings@rco.org.uk

If you need to contact a particular member of staff, click here for a list of College officers, their telephone numbers and e-mail addresses.

Registered Office
The Royal College of Organists
118 Pall Mall
London
SW1Y 5EA

Portrait of Andrew Parmley

Sir Andrew’s broad experience in music, education and the creative industries has led to a life spent in teaching, performing, research, examining, adjudicating, writing, composing and editing.

Born in Manchester, he was educated at Blackpool Grammar School, the Royal Academy of Music, at Manchester and London Universities, and at Jesus College, Cambridge. He started his career as Director of Music at Forest School near Snaresbrook, before moving on to roles at South Hampstead High School, the Grey Coat Hospital in Westminster, and as Principal of The Harrodian School in West London.

Sir Andrew served as the 689th Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2016-17, and he was knighted in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to music, education and civic engagement. A Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Sir Andrew is the Honorary Organist of St James Garlickhythe.

Tel: 07377 569 974
Email: andrew.parmley@rco.org.uk


Regional Team

The College's activities across the UK are led by our area teams, with four Regional Directors supported by Regional Consultants.

RCO South, South East and South West England

Director

Regional Consultants

  • Julian Haggett (Norwich/Norfolk)
  • John Halsey (Berkshire)
  • Stephen Pinnock (Kent)

RCO Midlands, Mid, South & West Wales

Director

Regional Consultants

  • James Lloyd Thomas (East Midlands)

RCO North of England, North Wales and The Isle of Man

Director

Regional Consultants

  • Prof. David Baker (Merseyside, Lancashire, West and North Yorkshire)
  • Andrew Cantrill (Cumbria, Co. Durham, Tyne & Wear and Northumberland)
  • John Scott Whiteley, assisted by Maximillian Elliott (York and East Yorkshire)

RCO Scotland and Northern Ireland

Director

Regional Consultants

  • To be appointed

Patrons and officers of the Royal College of Organists.

The roles of our Trustees and officers are constituted within the Charter to ensure that good governance prevails, and to enable the College to take the best of the musical world to the widest cross-section of our communities.

    Patron
  • His Majesty The King
    Vice Patrons
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury
  • The Archbishop of Westminster
  • The Rt Revd The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
  • The Most Revd and Rt Hon. The Lord Archbishop of York
  • The Rt Revd and Rt Hon. The Lord Bishop of London
  • The Free Churches Moderator
  • The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
  • The Lord Mayor of London
    President
  • Sarah MacDonald MA, FRCO, ARSCM
    Vice Presidents
  • Martin Baker MA, FRCO
  • Gerard Brooks MA, FRCO 
  • Stephen Darlington MA, DMus, FRCO
  • Paul Griffiths FRCO
  • David Hill MBE, MA, DMus, FRCO, HonRCO
  • Simon Lindley DUniv, FRCO(CHM)
  • Roy Massey MBE, DMus, FRCO(CHM), ADCM
  • George McPhee MBE, BMus, DUniv, FRCO
  • Philip Moore BMus, DUniv, FRCO, FRSCM
  • Martin Neary LVO, MA, DMus, FRCO
  • James O'Donnell LVO, KCSG, MA, FRCO
  • Christopher Robinson CVO, MA, DMus, FRCO, HonRCO
  • Dame Gillian Weir DBE, HonDMus, HonFRCO
  • Peter Wright MA, FRCO(CHM)
    Trustee Council
  • Katherine Dienes-Williams BA, MA, BMus, FRCO, FRSCM, KSL (Chair of Trustee Council)
  • Mark Brafield MA, FTCL, FRCO (Clerk to Trustee Council)
  • Trustees:
  • Sara Benbow LLB
  • Katherine Dienes-Williams MA, BMus, FRCO (Chair of Trustees)
  • David Hill MBE, MA, DMus, FRCO, HonRCO
  • Carl Jackson MVO, MA, FRCO
  • Stephen King BA, FCCA, FRCO
  • The Lord Lisvane KCB, DL
  • Sarah MacDonald MA, FRCO, ARSCM (President)
  • Philip Moore BMus, DUniv, FRCO, FRSCM
  • Christopher Morris
  • Katharine Pardee MM, DMA, DPhil
  • Ghislaine Reece-Trapp BA, FRCO
  • Tom Winpenny MA, FRCO (DipCHD)
  • Prof. Christopher Wood MD, MB, BCh, FRCPSG, FRCPE, FLSW, HonLMRCO
  • Peter Wright MA, FRCO(CHM)
    Academic Board
  • Tom Bell BMus/GradRNCM, PGDip (Director, RCO North of England, North Wales & IoM) ex officio
  • Tansy Castledine MA, MMus, FRCO co-opted
  • Stephen Farr MA, MPhil, PhD, FRCO (Chief Examiner) ex officio
  • Roxanne Gull MA, ARCO
  • Pam Hulme BA, MA, ARCO co-opted
  • Andrew Macintosh MA, MPhil, ARCO, HonLMRCO (Director, RCO Scotland and RCO Northern Ireland) ex officio
  • Andrew McCrea BMus, MMus, ARCO, HonRCO (Deputy Director and Director of Studies; Director, RCO Midlands & South Wales) ex officio
  • Daniel Moult MA, FRCO
  • Sir Andrew Parmley BMus, MMus, PhD, FRCO (Director and Chairman) ex officio
  • Robert Sholl BMus, MMus, PhD, FRCO (DipCHM) co-opted
  • Simon Williams BA, FRCO (Director, RCO East, South & South West England) ex officio