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The Royal College of Organists (RCO) is a charity [1] and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, with members worldwide. Its role is to promote and advance organ playing and choral music, and it offers music education, training and development, and professional support for organists and choral directors.
Richard (Irven) Purvis (August 25, 1913 – December 25, 1994) was an American organist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was best known for his expressive recordings of the organ classics and his own lighter compositions for the instrument.
Johnson published well over 300 compositions, most of them for church use, and was author of an Instruction Book for Beginning Organists (1964) and an Organ Teacher's Guide (1971). [ 1 ] Johnson's Trumpet Tune in D (1962) is the opening and closing theme for the weekly radio show With Heart and Voice, with host Peter DuBois. [ 2 ]
In 1994, Ennis established the London Organ Concerts Guide. [3] [6] She supported the Society of Women Organists. [2] [3] [11] She directed the John Hill Organ Series. [2] [11] She was a trustee of the Nicholas Danby Trust. [2] [3] [11] Ennis also taught the organ and had many students. [3]
A Graded Anthology For Organ: Book 1: A Practical Guide To Playing The Organ, Cramer Music 1997; A Graded Anthology For Organ: Books 2-5 (edited by Anne Marsden Thomas) Cramer Music 1997; The Church Year (in partnership with Ann Elise Smoot), Cramer Music 1996, Organ Practice, Royal School of Church Music 1993
Andrew Cantrill was a music scholar at Reigate Grammar School, and organ scholar at Barnard Castle School.He studied music at Durham University, where he was organ scholar of the College of St Hild and St Bede, conductor of the University Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra, and assistant conductor of the University Choral Society.
Karl Ludwig Gerok was born in Oberfischach, the grandson of Karl von Gerok [], a Stuttgart prelate and preacher (Oberhofprediger) at the Schlosskirche, the court church of the Stuttgart palace, and the author of Palmblätter.
He was the featured organist at the 1977 International Contemporary Organ Music Festival at the Hartt School of Music. [1] He was one of the leading organ teachers of his time in the United States. Among his more than 100 former students were organists such as Stefan Engels , George C. Baker , Ignace Michiels , Carole Terry and Wolfgang Rübsam .