The IAO/RCO Organ Playing Competition, which was to have taken place at the IAO’s postponed Edinburgh Music Festival, became an online event in July 2021.
There were six finalists with the winners being
- Wenying Wu (Weimar), 1st prize
- Merle Hillmer (Leipzig), joint 2nd prize
- Ashley Wagner (Birmingham), joint 2nd prize
The adjudicators were Gerard Brooks (RCO President), John Kitchen, MBE (IAO President) and Ann Elise Smoot (Director, Oundle for Organists)