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Robert Costin

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Robert Costin is a British organist, harpsichordist, and teacher. He is head of Academic Music at Sherborne School.[1]

Life and career

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Robert Costin began his musical career as a chorister at Peterborough Cathedral and later became a music scholar at Oundle School. He studied organ and harpsichord at the Royal Academy of Music from 1989 to 1990, and was organ scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, from 1990 to 1993. In 1990, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists.

Costin has held organist posts at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, and Blackburn Cathedral, and teaching posts at Worksop College, Bedford School, Ardingly College, Highgate School, St Paul's Cathedral School, St Louis School, Milan, Rugby School Thailand, and Sherborne School.

As a performer, Costin has toured in Europe, Australasia[2][3], and North America.[4]

Discography

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  • Organ Triumphant (Kiwi Pacific Records)
  • Howells Organ Music (Atoll Records)[5]
  • The Excellent Art of Voluntary (Atoll Records)
  • Liszt and Reubke Organ Works (Atoll Records)[6]
  • The Excellent Art of Voluntary (Atoll Records)
  • Bach Goldberg Variations (Stone Records)[7][8]
  • Bach Trio Sonatas (Stone Records)[9]
  • Bach Well-Tempered Clavier (Stone Records)[10][11]
  • The Classical Organ - music by C.P.E. Bach, Mozart and Haydn (First Hand Records Records)

References

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  1. ^ "Sherborne School Staff". Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  2. ^ "World renowned organist goes back to roots (NZ Herald)". Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  3. ^ "NZ Herald Concert Review: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Auckland Town Hall". 15 April 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Seen and Heard International Recital Review, Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York". 6 April 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  5. ^ "From organ to orchestra: one producer's exciting search for sonic thrills (NZ Herald)". July 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Liszt and Reubke Organ Works review". MusicWeb International. May 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Goldberg Variations review". The Independent. August 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  8. ^ "CD booklet" (PDF). Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  9. ^ "CD booklet" (PDF). Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  10. ^ "CD booklet" (PDF). Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  11. ^ "Radio New Zealand Interview". 7 April 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
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