Organ
Head of Organ
David Titterington
MA, Hon DMus, Hon FRCO, Hon RAM
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 masterclasses world-wide and
is a member of many international juries.
Has premièred many important works
and records extensively. Visiting
Professor, Ferenc Liszt Academy,
Budapest. In 2007, David Titterington
was appointed Artistic Director of the
International Organ Festival at St Albans.
The Academy’s comprehensive and Your Audition T ‘ his is music [Messiaen’s Livre d’orgue]
specialist organ curriculum has a world- Specific requirements are available at in which every note needs to be precisely
Ilya Kudryavtsev: postgraduate wide reputation. The course includes www.ram.ac.uk/organ and from the placed and every gesture made to count:
‘ Even one month after arriving here and contemporary music seminars, Registry. See p.59 for general details. requirements that were comfortably met
diving into the Academy’s intensive improvisation, integration with Historical by Ilya Kudryavtsev in this absorbing
schedule, I could already feel my Performance studies, the history and The Teachers performance… Kudryavtsev saw it
confidence growing. Towards the end repertoire of the organ and workshops
Nicolas Kynaston Hon FRCO through as an unbroken whole: clearly
of my second year here, I performed
by distinguished guest teachers such as Susan Landale BMus, Hon ARAM, Hon FRCO the future for Messiaen’s organ music
Messiaen’s Livre d’orgue after a few
Marie-Claire Alain, Kenneth Gilbert, Piet Lionel Rogg Hon DMus, Hon FRCO is an assured one with exponents of this
months of very hard preparation — not long
Kee, Kei Koito and Daniel Roth. In June Patrick Russill MA, Hon RAM, Hon FRCO calibre to perform it.’
ago, I hadn’t even imagined being able to
2002, a pioneering harmonium course David Titterington MA, Hon DMus, www.classicalsource.com
play such a demanding work.
began under the direction of Anne Page.
Hon FRCO, Hon RAM
February 2008
Our trip to Neresheim was a great
Students have regular access to organs Visiting Professors Comments on the ‘Grand Chorus’ recording:
opportunity to learn about German
in the ‘classical’ and 19th-century French Jon Laukvik (Stuttgart Hochschule)
instruments. I played in services every
symphonic traditions, the four-manual James O’Donnell KCSG, MA, FRCO, T ‘ his recording project is a remarkable
day and performed to 1,200 people. Even
classical organ by Rieger in nearby St
FRSCM, Hon RAM
achievement, thoroughly recommended’
within the Academy, we can explore
Marylebone Parish Church is part-owned by British Journal of Organ Studies 2006
the Academy and used as its main teaching Harmonium
different styles of organ — I know that
instrument, as well as a two-manual organ, Anne Page BMus T ‘ he two CDs allow us to compare and
I can play anywhere in the world now!
after the great French builder Cavaillé-Coll, contrast the myriad colours, characters
in the Duke’s Hall. A rare Neapolitan organ Organology and tonal qualities of these organs played
I’ve also performed at Spitalfields Festival
of 1763 by Michelangelo & Carlo Sanarica, William McVicker BA, PhD, LRAM, ARCO, by 19 performers, who have succeeded in
and in Huddersfield, and have gained
restored in Italy by the renowned Riccardo
Hon FIMIT, Hon ARAM
bringing out the best of each instrument.
experience from playing in other concerts
Lorenzini, was inaugurated in spring 2004. The result is a wonderful musical
outside the Academy, too. I’ve gone to
Aural Skills and Paperwork achievement and a recording of major
conducting classes, and I’ve played in
Postgraduates follow a curriculum designed David Pettit MA, BMus, FRCO, Hon ARAM documentary significance’
ensembles. I have also thought a lot:
for their individual needs. Performance Choir and Organ, January 2007
as an organist you’re often invisible
practice projects are supervised by specialists AHRC Creative Research Fellow
to the audience, but nevertheless in a and frequently take the form of overseas Diana Burrell BA, FTCL Recent Student Successes
particularly close relationship with both visits where repertoire study is matched to William Whitehead (1994)
the instrument and the building you’re in. a specific organ-building tradition. P ‘ oliticians could do worse than pay
Organ professor, Trinity College of Music;
That brings a lot of challenges, but has a visit to the Royal Academy of Music’s
First Prize Odense International Organ Competition
given me plenty of ideas too.’ The one-year Organ Foundation Course department of organ studies to see
Colm Carey (1994)
is designed primarily for ‘gap-year’ how substantial change can be
Belfast City Organist
students preparing either for Oxbridge achieved… the august conservatoire
Matthew Martin (2000)
organ scholarships or for those wishing knows a thing or two about instituting
Assistant Master of Music, Westminster Cathedral
to develop their organ playing and choral and managing change, not for change’s
Stephen Grahl (2003)
direction skills to a high level before sake but for the advantages it offers
Director of Music, St Marylebone Parish Church;
university or conservatoire studies. to students. Even the super-hungry
Assistant Organist, New College Oxford
and obsessively curious among those
Daniel Cook (2003)
‘Grand Chorus’, a double-CD of 22 selected to join the Academy’s annual
Assistant Director of Music, Salisbury Cathedral
historic and important organs South of intake of organ students are unlikely
Bart Jakubczak (2003)
the Thames recorded in collaboration with to be undernourished by the learning
Organ teacher, Fryderyk Chopin University of Music Warsaw;
Prix de la Presse, Lausanne International Bach Competition
the Southwark and South London Society experiences developed by Titterington
of Organists, was released in 2006. The and his colleagues’
Thomas Wilson (2006)
Precentor, Westminster Cathedral
recordings are documented at www.ram. Choir and Organ, January 2008
ac.uk/SSLSO
Department Administrator:
Sandra Green
Telephone 020 7873 7309
Email organ@ram.ac.uk
Open Day: check www.ram.ac.uk
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