EXPLORING NEW REPERTOIRE
typical age range 14-17
If you are relatively new to organ playing and have reached about grade 6 standard, this popular annual course, with its winning formula, will give you such a boost! You will enjoy the chance to play to the tutors in small class groups, and there are many excellent organs in and around Oundle for your practising.
There will days out to Cambridge (just 45 minutes away) for workshops at the consoles of the wonderful College Chapel organs.
The Presentation Recital at Oundle on Sunday 25 July gives many the chance to perform in public.
Playing the organ can be a solitary sort of experience: there may not be many or even any other organists at your school. But on Oundle for Organists courses you’ll soon make new friends – kindred spirits with the same interest – in an informal, non-competitive environment, and leave with valuable awards to encourage your musical progress!

STYLE & TECHNIQUE
typical age range 16-22
This programme caters for more advanced students; either those in the sixth-form, considering taking their organ studies further, or those already embarked on university or conservatoire courses. Grade 8 is the benchmark. If you are already pretty fluent, you'll benefit from the close attention of our expert tutors - whether your enthusiasm is for baroque, romantic, or contemporary repertoire, we have a tutor to help you.
If you could do with practical help on accompaniment, organ management, or improvisation, we will give that close attention as well. You will also feature strongly in the students' Presentation Recital.

Oundle
has a great collection of mechanical-action organs, in the town and in nearby villages.

These include:

3-manual and pedal Frobenius
in Oundle School Chapel
2-manual and pedal Bower
in the Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
2-manual and pedal Woodstock
in Fotheringhay Church
2-manual and pedal Walker
in Tansor Church
2- and 1- manual and pedal instruments
in Woodnewton, Stoke Doyle Church
and at Oundle School

Students will also play the superb 4-manual Hill/Harrison organ of Peterborough Cathedral, and a variety of instruments in Cambridge, including the much-praised new Kuhn at Jesus College.

Accommodation
Students will live in one of the Oundle School boarding houses, all of which are comfortable and well equipped. Full board is provided, and the Festival Club will be the focus for social events like Quiz Night. Sports facilities will be open for use at various times.

Travel
Oundle in Northamptonshire is an attractive and historic market town, easily reached by road or rail. By train - travel to Peterborough where we will meet students if required; by car - use A1(M) or A14, both of which pass within 8 miles of Oundle.
If travelling from abroad, London Stansted is the most convenient airport to use (direct rail link to Peterborough).