Editor of Organists’ Review

Following the decision of the current Editor of our quarterly magazine Organists’ Review to stand-down after eighteen years of outstanding service, we are pleased to announce that her successor is to be Francis O’Gorman. Francis is a former Oxford college organ...

IAO AGM 2021

The 2021 IAO AGM will be held at 2pm on Saturday 2 October in the Grimshaw Room, St Chad’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Birmingham, B4 6EU. To allow suitable arrangements to be made, those planning to attend should please notify the General Secretary in advance via...

Organ competition

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...

Our local associations

The IAO contribution to the RCO’s Organ Show Week included videos produced by several of our affiliated associations.  These were not shown in the live-streamed event, but you can find them HERE ....

Death of Peter Chatfield

The IAO has received the sad news of the death of a former General Secretary, Peter Chatfield. We should like to offer our sincere condolences to his family. A tribute will appear in the June edition of Organists’ Review...