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.
Play the Organ Year begins with a spectacular launch concert at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster featuring Gerard Brooks playing the imposing four-manual Great Hall organ. Admission free/retiring collection.
After the concert, which lasts about 50 minutes, there will be an opportunity for newcomers to the organ to 'have a go' playing the Great Hall instrument and/or the three-manual digital organ located in Central Hall's Chapel. No previous keyboard or even musical experience is necessary!
Organists are encouraged to bring along guests new to organ music or organ playing.
If possible, reserve your free place(s) in advance by clicking here, otherwise just come along on the day!
Refreshments will be available after the concert when there will be the opportunity to talk with repres,entatives of the organisation involved in promoting Play the Organ Year.
Please click here to email 'play [@] rco.org.uk' with any questions.
Click here for information about how you can join in with Play the Organ Year as an organist or someone wanting to find out more.
We are grateful to those at Central Hall for allowing us to include this concert as part of the Hall's regular recital series. For information about future concerts there and across the UK visit www.organrecitals.uk.
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)