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RCO Academy's 'Set Your Sights!' days are for ambitious teenage organists aged 1419 and offer coaching in repertoire playing, keyboard skills (sight reading, transposition, improvisation...) and choral conducting and accompaniment.
They are ideal for anyone with an interest in developing the skills needed to play for church services and essential for those thinking about applying for an organ scholarship in a church, cathedral or at university.
This event also provides excellent prepartion for anyone coming on or considering our 'The Organ Scholarship Experience' (TOSE) course which runs in Cambridge 1924 July (click here for details.)
We are based at Hertford College but will also use some of the other supberb organs in Oxford's college chapels.
Enjoy a day set amongst the architectural attractions of Britain's oldest university city. Make music make friends! Scroll to the bottom of the page to book your place on-line.
PROGRAMME
In the morning you will work on organ repertoire (bring pieces of your own choice) and keyboard skills, in addition to having coaching in choral conducting. The afternoon centres around preparing for a service of choral evensong at 16:30 in Hertford College Chapel, rehearsing the responses, psalm, hymns, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, and anthem (details and links to copies are provided below). When you are not conducting or playing you will ber singing in the choir.
TUTORS
Sarah Baldock (prize-winning recitalist, recent Director of Music at Chichester Cathedral, and teaching on our TOSE course in July)
Matthew Martin
(organist, acclaimed composer, and Director of Music at Keble College, Oxford)
James Parsons (RCO Head of Student Development, and Organ Tutor at Birmingham Conservatoire)
CHORAL REPERTOIRE
download copies of the music required for Evensong for free by clicking on the titles, and study the vocal and organ parts before 2 April!
Preces and Responses, Ayleward
Psalm 150, Stanford
Magnificat, Wood in D
Nunc Dimittis, Wood in D
(Be sure also to download the file Wood in D - errors in pdf and copy the corrections into your score)
Ave verum corpus, Byrd
Alleluya! Alleluya! - New English Hymnal no. 103 (not available for download)
ATTENDANCE FEES
RCO Student Members 50;
Others 55.
Please click here to send an email to James Parsons with any questions you may have.
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)