EXPLORING NEW REPERTOIRE (ENR)
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, and a punting picnic.
The Presentation Recital at Oundle on Sunday 19 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 (ST)
typical age range 16-22
This programme caters for those who may be sixth-form students or who are in the early stages of university or conservatoire courses. Grade 8 is the gateway. Already pretty fluent at the organ? You’ll be ready then to tune in to the tutors’ special expertise and enthusiasms as you move into more challenging areas of organ literature! Period fingerings, articulation, organ management, improvisation will all be on the menu. You will also feature strongly in the students’ Presentation Recital.

Oundle
has a great collection of excellent mechanical-action organs in the town and in nearby villages - Victorian and neo-classical; all are ideally suited for classes, recitals and practising:

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 Creed Chapel Ashton

Access is also planned for students to play the superb, romantic 4-manual Hill/Harrison organ of Peterborough Cathedral – and fine instruments in Cambridge.

Accommodation
Students will live in St Anthony, one of Oundle School’s comfortable and well equipped boarding houses; it’s just opposite the Chapel. All meals will be taken in the Two-Acre Club dining room.
The nearby Festival Club is the social hub of the campus – a spacious friendly area in which to relax (Quiz Night is always a big laugh!). Sports facilities will be open for supervised use at various times.

Travel
Oundle in Northamptonshire is an attractive, 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).