LINKS

This page is intended to grow into a list of favourite, most useful and up-to-date links to organ-related websites. It is being s-l-o-w-l-y built from scratch by personal submission, and every link will be tested to verify it is a genuine site. Although I try to check them occasionally, if you find any that are not working, I'd welcome a quick e-mail to let me know. If you would like to include your favourite organ-related website, please contact me through the contact form at the bottom of this page

• Organs
• Organ Music
• Organists
• Organ builders
• Organisations
• Concerts, festivals, competitions
• Music in Universities, Conservatoires, and Academies
• Music education, magazines and resources
• Organ-related books, gifts, CDs, videos

• Concert Hall organs: 
  New Zealand: Christchurch • Auckland • Dunedin
  Australia: Melbourne • Adelaide • Sydney • Brisbane • Tanunda Memorial Soldier's Hall, Barossa Valley¦ Japan: • Suntory Hall • England: Huddersfield Town Hall • Albert Hall (Nottingham); Alexandra Palace (unofficial website)  Alexandra Palace - official website • Royal Festival Hall • Royal Albert Hall • (London) • Birmingham SymphonyHall • Bridgewater Hall •
  USA: Idaho: Barrus Hall, BYU Idaho • Legion of Honour, San Francisco • Walt Disney Concert Hall • Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City •  Wanamaker organ, Philadelphia • Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center, Kansas City •

• Church and Cathedral organs: 
  UNITED KINGDOM: St Giles (Edinburgh) • Dunblane; • Bristol •  Durham • Salisbury • Guildford • Truro • Ely • Exeter • Chester •  Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (restoration project) • Wells • Westminster ; Beverley Minster •  Abbeys: Bath • Westminster • Temple Church (London) ; churches: Bridlington Priory • St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol • Bishop's Stortford
  EUROPEAN: • Germany: • Organs of Gdansk • Dillingen Basilica • Erfurt organs • St Marien, Lubeck • St Thomas, Leipzig • Hannover Marktkirche • Hildesheim Mariendom  • Magdeburg Dom • Passau Domorgel • Sayn Abbey Church • Weingarten Abbey • St Paulus, Ulm • Regensburg • France: Organs of St Sulpice • St-Bertrand-de-Comminges • Netherlands: Orgelseite.nl • Organs of Drenthe •
• NORTH AMERICA: USA pipe organ database • Grace Cathedral • St Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco • Montreal Christ Church Cathedral • Organs in Canada
  NZ: Christchurch Anglican Cathedral • Christchurch Catholic Basilica • Holy Trinity Auckland • St Paul's, Dunedin •

Miscellaneous organs & Oddities:  ATM organ • Beer Bottle Organ • The Singing Ringing tree • Las Piñas Bamboo Organ • Stalactite organ • Balloon organ • (reluctantly) Slowest piece of organ 'music' •

• University Organs:
  

Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham (UK); • Ruhr-Universität, Auditorium Maximum, Bochum • (Europe)
American Organ Institute (University of Oklahoma) 

• Downloadable sheet music:  SheetMusicPlus • Score Exchange • Musicaneo • Free Sheet Music  • Musitek• Mutopia • Forwoods ScoreStore • Petrucci Music Library •
• Music notation programmes: Forte • Music Publisher • Lilypond • Finale • Sibelius • Smartscore • QuickScore • Pizzicato • Mozart •
• Music listening programmes: Pipe Dreams • Organlive (US) •  Dutch organ radio • Priory Radio • BBC Songs of Praise • Positively Baroque • The Organ Experience • 
• Music Publishers & stockists:
  ​UK:  Sheet Organ Music • Fagus Music • Oxford University Press • Kevin Mayhew • usedorganmusic.co.uk • Presto Classical • Encore publications •  Firehead Editions • Chichester Music Press • Tim Knight Music
  USA & Canada: Day Murray Music's Sheet Music Authority • Michaelsmusicservice.com • Lois Fyfe Music • Evensong Music • Editions Cheldar •
  Europe: Schirmer • Dr J. Butz • Schott • Trumph • Henry Lemoine • Universal Edition • Boeijenga's Book and Music store •  Albersen Muziek (NL) •
• Elsewhere:  Crescendo Music Publications • Musicroom • Sonata Music and Arts (Singapore)
• Organ recordings, producers and record labels: Atoll • Hyperion • JAV Recordings • Presto Classical • Priory Records • Gothic records • Delphian Records • Aeolus • Orgelradio • Arkiv Music • 
• Composers of organ music: 
  Bob Chilcott • Daniel Gawthrop • Dan Locklair • Didier Matry • Grimoaldo Macchia • Anthony Ritchie • Paul Spicer • Ronald Watson • Jean Françaix • Marco lo Musico • June Nixon • Hans Uwe Hielscher • Karg-Elert Archive • Frederick Hohman • Jean-Pierre Leguay  • Thierry Escaich • Hans-André Stamm • Denis Bédard • Carson Cooman •
• Other:  Golden Chord (Braille Music Transcription Service)

Thomas Åberg Riccardo Adamo • Jean-Charles Ablitzer • Gail Archer • Agnes Armstrong • Graham Barber • Martin Bambauer • Jennifer Bate • Kerry Beaumont • David von Behren • Diane Meredith Belcher • Justin Bischof • Ben Bloor • Kevin Bowyer • Richard Brasier • David Briggs • Gerard Brooks • Andrew Cantrill • Cameron Carpenter • Paul Carr • David Cassan • Yves Castagnet • Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin  • Chelsea Chen • George Chittenden • Jennifer Chou • James David Christie • Monica Czausz  • Maurice Clerc • Carson Cooman • Ken Cowan • Lynne Davis • Christopher Dawes • Richard Dawson • Stephan Debeur • Pamela Decker • Isabelle Demers • Nina De Sole • Joan DeVee Dixon • Katherine Dienes-Williams • Jonathan Dimmock • Matthias Dreißig • Bruce Duncan • Jean-Baptiste Dupont • Richard Elliott • Katelyn Emerson  •  Thierry Escaich • Jesse Eschbach • Henry Fairs • Jeremy Filsell • Roger Fisher • Axel Flierl • Andrew Fletcher • James Flores • Faythe Freese • Richard Gowers • Harald Grokus • Marie-Agnès Grall-Menet • Marco Hakanpaa  • Paul Hale • David Halls • Randall Harlow • Philip Hartman • Felix Hell • Keith Hearnshaw • Robert M. Helmschrott • Johan Hermans •  Christopher Herrick • Michael Hey • Hans Uwe Hielscher • Darren Hogg • Frederick Hohman • Christopher Holman • John Hosking • Christopher Houlihan • Peter Hurford • Gunnar Idenstam • Paul Jacobs • Weston Jennings • Kay Johannsen • Amy Johansen • Keith John • Barry Jordan • Hans-Dieter Karras •  James Kennerley • Silvius von Kessel • Peter Kofler • Roman Krasnovsky • Antonina Krymova  • James Lancelot • Marie-Louise Langlais • Anna Lapwood • Olivier Latry • Nathan Laube • Carsten Lenz  • Iris Lenz • David Aprahamian Liddle • Marco Lo Musico • Grimoaldo Macchia •  Frederick Magle • Adrian Marple • Kimberly Marshall • Luca Massaglia • Didier Matry • Alessandra Mazzanti •  Thierry Mechler • Katherine Meloan • Frank Mento • Samuel Metzger • Mª Ángeles Jaén Morcillo • Alan Morrison • Daniel Moult • June Nixon • Anthony Newman • Tim Noon • Nigel Ogden • Hector Olivera • Thomas Ospital  •  Adam M. Pajan • Giorgio Parolini  • Robert Pecksmith • Dominic Perissinotto  •  Margaret Phillips  • Peter Planyavsky ​• Iain Quinn • Mark Quarmby • Raul Prieto Ramirez • Ton Reijnaerdts • Cherry Rhodes • Dorothy Young Riess  • John Riley • Paul Rosoman • Daniel Roth • Ludwig Ruckdeschel • Dick Sanderman • Bernard Sanders • Martin Schmeding • Martin Setchell • Marco Sever • Dominico Severin • Ben Sheen • Carolyn Shuster Fournier • David Sinden • Ulfert Smidt • Ann Elise Smoot • Damin Spritzer • Hans-André Stamm • Marek Stefanski • Gordon Stewart • Gabriele Studer • Fred Swann • Mons Leidvin Takle • Stephen Tharp  • Simon Thomas Jacobs ​• Timothy Tikker • Richard Townend • Ian Tracey • D'Arcy Trinkwon • Sean Tucker • Olivier Vernet • James Vivian • John Weaver • Patrick Wedd • Gillian Weir • James Welch • John Wells • John Scott Whiteley • Carol Williams  • Arthur Wills • Todd Wilson • Tom Winpenny • Christopher Wrench • Rostislaw Wygranienko • Daniel Zaretsky •

• ​ARTIST AGENCIES: Trockenbrod • Karen MacFarlane • LIST OF FRENCH ORGANISTS (from orgue.free.fr)

• General:
  International Society of Organ builders • Institute of British Organ Builders • Association of German Organ Builders • Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America • American Institute of Organ Builders • Swedish Society of Organbuilding
• British:
  Mander organs • Harrison & Harrison • Goetze & Gwynn  • GO-Organ Builders • Willis Organs • Institute of British Organ Building • Peter Collins • Organ Design • Kenneth Jones • Pipe organs Ireland  • George Sixsmith • David Wells Organ Builders Ltd
• European:
  Bernard Aubertin • Rieger Orgelbau • Orgelbau Klais • Orgelbau Kuhn • Goll Orgelbau • Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau • Karl Schuke Berlin •  Marcussen and Son • Sandtner Orgelbau • Fratelli Ruffatti • Winterhalter • von Beckerath • Eisenbarth • Siegfried Schmid • Yves Sévère • Bertrand Cattiaux • Vleugels GmbH • Orgelbau Göckel GmbH • Weimbs Orgelbau • Rémy Mahler • Pom • Pels • Eule • Gronlunds • Organs of Arp Schnitger • van den Heuvel • Flentrop  • Henk Klop  • Walcker • Jehmlich • Ivan Larrea • Mathis Orgelbau • Jens Steinhoff Orgelbau • Orgelbau-Schulte • Gerhard Grenzing • Pascal Quoirin • Marcus Stahl • van der Putten • Voceumana (NEW) • Woehl • Orgelbau Waltershausen • W. Sauer Orgelbau
• North America:
  Létourneau • Casavant-Frères •  Juget-Sinclair (CA)
  Schoenstein •  Austin • Schantz • Lively-Fulcher • Bigelow & Co. • Bond  • Fisk • Reuter • Rosales • Parsons • Fritts • Dobson • Taylor and Boody • Quimby  • Bedient (USA) • Richards, Fowkes & Co. •  Pasi  •
• Asia and Australasia:​ South Island Organ Company • (NZ)  (AUS) Pierce Pipe Organs •

• Societies, trusts, institutes: The Society of Women Organists (SWO) • USA & Canada: American Guild of Organists • Organ Historical Society • Royal Canadian College of Organists  New Zealand: NZ Association of Organists • NZ Organ Preservation Trust • Australia: Organ Historical Trust of Australia • Organ Music Society of Adelaide • Society of Organists Victoria • Organ Music Society of Sydney • Organ Society of Queensland, Inc • Singapore AGO • UK: Incorporated Association of Organists • Royal College of Organists • National pipe Organ Register • The Scottish Federation of Organists • British Institute of Organ Studies •  Ulster Society of Organists and Choirmasters • Pipe Organ Preservation Co of Ireland • Friends of Cathedral Music • The Organ Club • The Berkshire Organists' Association • ¦ EUROPE: France: Orgue en France  • Association des grandes orgues de Chartres  • Italy: Associazione Musicale Fabio da Bologna ; Denmark: Danish organist and Kantor Society • Luxembourg: Amis de l'Orgue Luxembourg • Netherlands: Royal Society of Organists and Church Musicians • Norway: Norwegian Organ Society ; Germany: Society of Organ friends • Organ Academy, Stade, Germany​ • The Irish Pipe Organ Register
• Chat groups, blogs & networking: Mander Organs Discussion Board • The Organ Forum • Magle International Music Forums • The Lady Organist Blog • Henry Fairs Diary • Das Portal der Königin - Orgel-Blog • Organistsonline • Manuals and pedals - an organist's odyssey

• Where you can find concerts:  Organ recitals UK • The London Organ Concert Guide (UK); • Organ Focus • Organiste.net • (US & Canada); • Australian Organ Recitals Directory (AUS) •
• Organ Festivals: Toulouse Les Orgues • St Albans International Organ festival • Treviso International Organ Festival • Lisboa International Organ Festival • Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields • Schnitger Festival • Art Unorganised • Musikfest-Bremen • Dudelange Organ Festival • International Organ Festival Haarlem • Creative Oundle for Organists • Malta International Organ Festival • Annual Windfire Festival (Australia) • Gdansk Organ, choral and chamber festival •
• Organ Competitions: Canadian International Organ Competition • Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition • Northern Ireland International Organ Competition •  Grand Prix de Chartres International Organ Competition • Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford •  I° International Organ Competition of Vicenza (Italy)

• List of University and College Schools of Music world-wide •  University of Utah • Royal Academy of Music • Eastman School of Music - Sibley Music Library • University of Sydney Organ • Birmingham Conservatoire • Göteborg International Organ Academy • ​RICE University - the Shepherd School of Music

• Vox Humana Journal • Organ improvisation • The International Organ Foundation • Organ demonstrations • How is a church organ different from a theatre organ? • Encyclopaedia of Organ Stops • Choir & Organ • The Organ • Musical Opinion • Organists' Review • Sacred Destinations (incl. Cathedrals) • Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ • The Joy of Music (with Diane Bish) • Pro-motion Music • Orgel-information (German organs)  ECHO (European cities of Historic organs) • Organ curiosities • Organs of Japan • Organs of Malaysia • French organs (Les Orgues) • The Bullet-proof Musician • Organ Media Foundation • Practical Harmonisation by Stephen Taylor • Virtual Campus for Organists & Choir Directors • Irish Pipe Organ Page • Bach on Bach • Bach Cantatas Website • Organ Museum, Kelheim • Hymnary.org • Virgil Fox legacy  • Lessons for the new organist • ​Copyright and the Church • Theatre Organ Store • The Organ Podcast • Organ Database (NL) • Organ Index (in German) • Pipe Organ Map • Greifenberg Institute for Musical Instrument Studies

• Organ Historical Society Catalogue • Organ Calendars • Organ gifts • Organ Anecdotes • Music typing keyboard •  Mark Schweizer's Liturgical Mysteries • Ad Fontes •
• Organ videos (YouTube etc):  Churchmouse collection • Kalevikiniemi's Channel • JV68 •  Virgil Fox • American Guild of Organists YouTube channel • Archive of Recorded Church Music • Gert van Hoef • JAV Recordings • Marko Hakanpää • Casavant: Inspiration Organ • Lana Krakovsky • Tim Rishton - Orgelbuchlein Series on YouTube • ​​

• Organ-related gifts:  Organ gifts and Goodies • AirTurn page turner • Organ Calendars • Organ greeting cards • Michael's Music Service Gifts • Organ prints • Redbubble gifts

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