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Organ

Organ Open Day - 14th September 2007

Head of Organ:
David Titterington
MA, Hon DMus, Hon FRCO, Hon ARAM

Organ Administrator:
Dorothy Koh MMus

Telephone 020 7873 7405
Email organ@ram.ac.uk

Organ

David Titterington MA, Hon DMus, Hon FRCO, Hon ARAM

(Pictures: Photo of David Titterington)

Organ Scholar at Pembroke College, Oxford, and the Conservatoire de Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, with Marie-Claire Alain and Susan Landale (Premièr Prix à l’unanimité). Gives recitals and master-classes world-wide and is a member of many international juries. Has premièred many important works and records extensively. Visiting Professor, Ferenc Liszt Academy, Budapest. Head of Organ Studies since 1996.

The Course

The Academy’s comprehensive and specialist organ curriculum has a worldwide reputation. The course includes contemporary music seminars, improvisation, integration with Historical Performance studies, the history and repertoire of the organ and workshops by distinguished guest teachers such as Marie-Claire Alain, Kenneth Gilbert, Piet Kee, Kei Koito and Daniel Roth. In June 2002, a pioneering harmonium course began under the direction of Anne Page.

Students have regular access to organs in the ‘classical’ and 19th-century French symphonic traditions, the four-manual classical organ by Rieger in nearby St Marylebone Parish Church is part-owned by the Academy and used as its main teaching instrument, as well as a two manual organ, after the great French builder Cavaillé-Coll, in the Duke’s Hall. A rare Neapolitan organ of 1763 by Michelangelo & Carlo Sanarica, restored in Italy by the renowned Riccardo Lorenzini, was inaugurated in spring 2004.

Postgraduates follow a curriculum designed for their individual needs. Performance practice projects are supervised by specialists and frequently take the form of overseas visits where repertoire study is matched to a specific organ-building tradition.

The one-year Organ Foundation Course is designed primarily for ‘gap-year’ students preparing either for Oxbridge organ scholarships or for those wishing to develop their organ playing and choral direction skills to a high level before university or conservatoire studies.

'Grand Chorus', a double-CD of 22 historic and important organs South of the Thames recorded in collaboration with the Southwark and South London Society of Organists, was released in 2006 and is documented at www.ram.ac.uk/SSLSO.

Your Audition (see p.56 for general details)

See www.ram.ac.uk/organ or contact the Registry for requirements.

The Teachers

Nicolas Kynaston Hon FRCO
Susan Landale BMus, Hon FRCO
Lionel Rogg Hon DMus, Hon FRCO
Patrick Russill MA, Hon RAM, Hon FRCO
David Titterington MA, Hon DMus, Hon FRCO, Hon ARAM

Visiting Professors
Jon Laukvik (Stuttgart Hochschule)
James O’Donnell KCSG, MA, FRCO, FRSCM, Hon RAM

Harmonium
Anne Page BMus

Organology
William McVicker BA, PhD, LRAM, ARCO, HonFIMIT, Hon ARAM

Aural Skills and Paperwork
David Pettit MA, BMus, FRCO, Hon ARAM

AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Diana Burrell BA, FTCL


‘This recording project is a remarkable achievement... Thoroughly recommended’
British Journal of Organ Studies 2006

David Pipe

(Picture: Photo of David Pipe)

‘I first came to the Academy after leaving school, as a student on the newly-formed Organ Foundation course. I had been offered a place to study music as Organ Scholar at Downing College, Cambridge, and was keen beforehand to improve my playing and gain a wider experience of organ and church music. I was so impressed by the organ department’s teaching and atmosphere that I considered returning as a postgraduate. After completing my degree, I came back to the Academy to study on the Masters course, and was appointed Organ Scholar at Southwark Cathedral.

The organ department has given me the opportunity to ally the study of historical playing styles with hands-on experience; there have been visits to play the Dom Bédos organ at Ste-Croix in Bordeaux and the great Cavaillé-Coll at St-Sulpice in Paris.

In my view, the department offers unrivalled playing and studying opportunities, promoting a rounded approach to organ music and its associated disciplines.’