The Association is organising organ classes (for the third year running) in the Chichester Festival on Saturday, 21st March 2026 with the adjudicator David Price, on the organ of St George’s Church, Cleveland Road, Whyke, Chichester, PO19 7AD. The classes are listed below:
Any age open recital: own choice programme up to 15 mins
Any age: any one chorale prelude (or chorale partita) by any composer
Recital 15 yrs and under: own choice programme up to 10 mins
Recital 18 yrs and under: own choice programme up to 15 mins
Any age: own choice of any organ music written in or after 1925: up to 10 mins
Any age: short recital: own choice of any organ music for manuals only and/or manuals and pedals up to 10 mins: the adjudicator will give encouraging suggestions but this class will be non-competitive
Any age: any one piece from the book The Church Organist’s Collection Vol.1 The Church Year, selected and edited by Anne Marsden Thomas and Ann Elise Smoot pub. Cramer
Entries need to be made by midnight on 30th November 2025 through the website of the Chichester Festival of Music, Dance and Speech https://cfmds.org.uk/sections/organ