Organ details
Open Day: 2012 dates will be made available when known. If you missed the 2011 open day, please do come along to any of our free public events, all of which can be found at www.ram.ac.uk/events
Postgraduates follow a curriculum designed specifically 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.
“Politicians could do worse than pay a visit to the Royal Academy of Music’s department of Organ Studies to see how substantial change can be achieved... the august conservatoire knows a thing or two about instituting and managing change, not for change’s sake but for the advantages it offers to students. Even the super-hungry and obsessively curious among those selected to join the Academy’s annual intake of organ students are unlikely to be undernourished by the learning experiences developed by Titterington and his colleagues” Choir and Organ, January 2008
“This is music [Messiaen’s Livre d’orgue] in which every note needs to be precisely placed and every gesture made to count: requirements that were comfortably met by Ilya Kudryavtsev in this absorbing performance... Kudryavtsev saw it through as an unbroken whole: clearly the future for Messiaen’s organ music is an assured one with exponents of this calibre to perform it.”
www.classicalsource.com, February 2008
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