Education For Young Organists
OIF is recognised worldwide as the leading provider of organ tuition in a non-competitive environment. As indicators of the success achieved on one level, we can point to the outstanding success of OIF students in gaining Oxbridge organ scholarships (an average of 80% per year of those attending the Prospective Organ Scholars course), and in performing public recitals at prestigious venues arranged by OIF.
OIF’s Pulling Out the Stops course is targeted at recruiting beginner organists in the age range 9 to 14. Leading figures have commented that OIF has done much to address the well publicised dearth of those prepared to learn and play the organ in churches.
Since July 2002 the Prospective Organ Scholars course has been separated from the main summer school in Oundle and now takes place in Cambridge and Oxford in alternate years. The students are accommodated in an Oxbridge College, and thus are given a real boost prior to their all-important organ scholarship examinations in September. They are required to direct, sing and accompany three Evensongs in different college chapels, with Compline on two evenings. Mornings and late evening are taken up with organ tuition and practice, with full access being given to most of the superb college organs in Cambridge and Oxford.
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