Every July, Oundle for Organists invites up to forty five students to ‘become’ organ scholars in Oxbridge College Chapels. Last year we went to Cambridge – this year we shall be guests in Oxford.
If you are aiming for an organ scholarship within the next two to three years (and there are many on offer!), then this course really is a ‘must’! The same applies if you have actually already gained a university organ award or are serving a gap-year placement at a school or cathedral. All will gain
huge benefit from the training offered by this proven and extremely popular course – and have a great time!

SCOOP!
94% of 2008 Cambridge Organ Scholarships
(that’s all but one) - and 80% of 2007 Oxford
Organ Scholarships - went to Oundle for
Organists students!

Overhaul your organ playing and keyboard skills; revel in the atmosphere of a collegiate-style choral world, in which you will sing, conduct, accompany, play organ voluntaries, learn about liturgy, and perform three public Choral Evensongs in different
chapels; sing Compline by candelight.
Some of the choral repertoire featured will be specially commissioned by Oundle for Organists and premiered at our Oxford services. Prizewinning young composer Thomas Neal (A level student) will be contributing a new Antiphon Te Lucis ante
terminum for Compline.
A university organ scholarship is the finest of musical apprencticeships. There is enormous scope for dedicated and talented organ students to enter the music profession via an organ scholarship, by gaining experience both in the organ loft and in front of choirs. There are vacancies at Oxbridge and other universities, in cathedrals and parish churches, in
concert halls, conservatoires and schools; there are

undergraduate and post-graduate placements, plus numerous gap year and sixth form opportunities all over the UK and throughout the Anglican world overseas. Some require organ playing skills of awesome competence, others appoint musical
motivators who show the necessary skills and personality to assemble choirs and deliver choral services. But! a lamentable lack of adequately prepared young musicians is much in evidence and positions actually go unfilled.
Join us in Oxford next July and set your sights!

Accommodation
Students and tutors will occupy comfortable single rooms at The Queen’s College Florey Building (recently redecorated) close to the centre of Oxford – with the University’s beautiful historic buildings all within minutes’ walk. All meals are
provided and dinner each evening will be in The Queen’s College Hall.

Travel
Oxford is served by trains from London Paddington and London St Marylebone; rail access from other points is easily researched. By road use M40 etc. It will be possible to drive into short-term parking slots at The Florey Building in order to offload luggage etc.
For those travelling from abroad: Heathrow Airport offers a coach link, leaving every 20 minutes, with a destination stop in Oxford’s The High (Street).

“I learned more in those two Oundle weeks
put together than in three years of organ
tuition at school ……”
(Organ Scholar, Royal Holloway, University of London)

the all-inclusive fee for this course is £530
to apply - click here