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Our 2025 application forms are now live! Tutors for our 2025 courses will be announced soon. creativeoundle.co.uk/cofo-2025-cour… POTS (beginners to Grade 5, including pianists who've never tried the organ) will run from 9-11 April and Summer School (Grade 6- diploma) from 11-17 August.

Read our course pages on the website for information about ages, fees, and everything else you need to know. Watch this space as we roll out our exciting tutor line-up for 2025 over the next two weeks. Apply soon: our courses fill up fast.

Applications went live a week ago and a quarter of our Summer School places are already gone. If you are thinking of joining us, do visit the website and fill in an application! And remember: don't let finances deter you. We can help.

For our students who want to learn more about working with singers (and of course, most organists are also working with choirs at some point in their careers), this day in Lichfield provides an excellent opportunity! lichfield-cathedral.org/worship-music/…

A wonderful series of events from our friends at Leicester MusicFest!

We are delighted to announce our stellar tutors for our 40th anniversary year! creativeoundle.co.uk/announcing-cof… For full biographies, click here creativeoundle.co.uk/cofo/organ-tut…

Our 40th anniversary tutoring team: AES, Gerard Brooks, Katherine Dienes-Williams, Henry Fairs, Alexander Hamilton, Francesca Massey, Richard Pinel, William Whitehead. Thank you, team! creativeoundle.co.uk/cofo/organ-tut…

Happy New Year to our wonderful COfO students! Next up is Pulling Out the Stops (POTS), which runs in Oundle (with a visit to Cambridge) from 9-11 April. The course is for complete beginners up to Grade 5: three jam-packed days of fun, friendship, and learning. Join us!

For details of POTS, how to book, and how to apply for a bursary click here creativeoundle.co.uk/cofo/pulling-o…

A fantastic opportunity to study at FSU with Professor Iain Quinn on a full tuition scholarship. Iain is a hugely distinguished colleague who has tutored on our COfO Summer Schools. Do get in touch with him for more details!

Prospective Oxford/Cambridge organ scholars: dates for the 2025 Open days have been announced. Cambridge: Tuesday 11 March and more information plus application form can be found here: cmp.cam.ac.uk/organ-awards-a…

Prospective Oxford/Cambridge organ scholars: dates for the 2025 Open days have been announced. Oxford's is on 26 April. More details plus how to register can be found here music.ox.ac.uk/event/choral-a…

hxminster.churchsuite.com/events/lx4upy4u The next recital in our Fabulous40! listings, featuring COfO Alumni, happens tomorrow in Halifax! Frankie Tempest is one of our newest Alumni, and a fantastic young player.

Announcing our fabulous 2025 Summer Organ Recitals! Check out our events page for more information about each recital. 11, 13, 15, and 16 August in and around Oundle, plus our student recital on 17 August at 2pm in Oundle School Chapel. creativeoundle.co.uk/summer-organ-r…

Calling all applicants!! We have been having some tech issues; if you've applied to a COfO course for 2025 and have NOT heard from us, please can you get in contact? Visit creativeoundle.co.uk and submit an enquiry - those are reaching us!

Why are we posting a picture of our POTS students at King's? Because we're going there again in 2026! Organists up to G5/pianists who want to try out the organ: come to Pulling Out the Stops 8-10 April 2026. It's fun, it's friendly and it's all on our website!

Our next POTS tutor: Gerdi Troskie. Gerdi will inspire and enthuse our students with her deep knowledge of music, and her fantastic ability to enthuse and engage students. Students: book for POTS (8-10 April) via our website! Read more about Gerdi here creativeoundle.co.uk/.../ofo.../ger…

New to COfO? Here's our Director, Ann Elise Smoot! She is always happy to answer any questions about our courses (or indeed about other things organ-y too). As always, Ann Elise will be tutoring on both POTS and Summer School. More here: creativeoundle.co.uk/team/ofo-team/…

Our friends at Leicester MusicFest are running another one of their wonderful Organ Days this January! Joseph McHardy tutored on our Summer School two years ago, and was fabulous - students, do put yourselves forward so that you can play to him!

Happy Friday! A little treat as we head into the weekend: James Vivian, one of our fabulous POTS tutors, playing Norman Cocker's Tuba Tune at London's Temple Church. Enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=KU4IgH…