Kent County Organists' Association
KCOA Mission Statement
The Kent County Organists' Association (KCOA) is affiliated to the Incorporated Association of Organists (IAO) and consists of almost 100 members. The object of the Association is to promote the friendly interchange of ideas on all matters of interest to organists and choir directors. With the exception of August and January monthly meetings are held on Saturdays and include recitals, lectures, discussions and visits to places of interest in various parts of the county and sometimes further afield.
The Royal College of Organists is delighted to announce Play the Organ Year 2025.
The Royal College of Organists is delighted to announce Play the Organ Year 2025.
Play the Organ Year is designed to inspire a year-long effort by the whole organ-playing community, not just to increase the number of people learning to play the organ, but also the number enjoying live and recorded organ music.
We firmly believe that the best way to achieve both these objectives is to get as many people as possible not just hearing and seeing the instrument, but playing it!
Canterbury: venue for the 2025 AGM
We return to Canterbury, this time for a visit to St Peter's Methodist Church and St Dunstan's parish church, neither of which the Association has visited within the past 35 years, if ever. Tea and the AGM will be held at the latter, and it should be possible to wrap up proceedings in time for members or their guests to attend Cathedral evensong if they so wish.
Reculver and Hoath
More details to be added when available.
Edenbridge parish church
Edenbridge parish church deserves a visit all to itself, because, as with Hythe, it contains two organs played from the same console. But there are a Graveyard Trail and a Town Trail as added inducements.
Spa Valley Railway and Tunbridge Wells
2.00 pm. Departure from Tunbridge Wells! We should have a steam locomotive in one direction or the other.
After the return trip to Eridge, we shall visit the parish church of King Charles the Martyr and have tea there.
Arrangements for group travel on the railway will be announced in due course.
An Improvisation Class led by Gerard Brooks at St Leonards Hythe on Saturday the 1st February 2025 at 2.30 p.m.
Our next event will be an Improvisation Class led by our member Gerard Brooks at St Leonard's, Hythe (CT21 5DN) on Saturday 1st February 2025 at 2.30 p.m. Gerard is a specialist in the area, having been involved in classes for the RCO and tutored students at the RAM in London.
Birmingham Trip March 2025 - Important! Please keep checking for revisions to the programme.
We can now confirm a visit to the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and both Cathedrals between the 10th and 13th March (N.B. amended dates) with an invitation to visit Coventry Cathedral on the return journey. Here is the provisional plan for our trip.
Monday 10th March A.M. Travel to Birmingham
Birmingham Town Hall - Organ recital by Thomas Trotter at 1.00p.m. Thomas has agreed to meet with us afterwards to discuss his long tenure as the City Organist.
Latest KCOA News
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An organ recital given by our President This will take place at St Leonard's church, Hythe, on Friday 9 May 2025 at 12 noon and last for one hour. |
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Director of Music St Leonards Church Hythe  |
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Dover Unitarian Organ If people would like to hear the little Dover Unitarian organ before it |
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Organist required United Benefice of Shipbourne with Plaxtol
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Spring and early summer 2025 dates for your diary Our meeting dates and venues for spring and early summer 2025 have now been fixed beyond the February and March meetings, which already have their own website entries. |
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Organist wanted – St John the Evangelist Groombridge I am a churchwarden at St John the Evangelist in Groombridge, Kent TN3 9QH. We seek a freelance organist to play the organ on the first two Sundays each month from January 2025. |
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New Musical Director for Sutton Valance Choral Society wanted Sutton Valence Choral is seeking to appoint a new Musical Director to take over from Bryan Gipps who will be retiring on 15 November 2025, after more than 20 years with the choir. |
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For Sale: The Holditch Organ, Dover Unitarian Church  |
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The Orgelbüchlein Project Volume 1
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Miriam Reveley - KCOA Advanced Class Winner 2024 - A further award in York! Congratulations to Miriam on her success in the IAO - RCO Competition held in York during July. Miriam was awarded the Susi Jeans Memorial Prize for her performance in the semi-final. |
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Organ Magazine - free to a good home!  |
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English Piano Collection - Rochester
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