The Association is affiliated to the Incorporated Association of Organists, a national federation of similar societies, which publishes an excellent quarterly magazine - The Organists' Review - which our members receive within the amount of their subscription. Also the IAO promotes and organises an annual Conference and training activities, usually in a university and/or cathedral town or city, in Manchester in 2000, and supports regional events. 

DDOCA membership is open to all who are interested, on payment of the appropriate annual subscription. We include among our members professional and amateur musicians of a wide range of interest in and expertise at the organ, students, and non-instrumentalists - as individuals or as a family. New members are always very welcome. 
                           
                      Membership Application Form [left click]

An elected committee and officers arranges a varied programme of meetings meetings, recitals, concerts, talks, visits and/or social occasions held monthly September to June in the Darlington and south Durham area and sometimes beyond, normally on a Sat.evening. All, including non-members, are most welcome at these events. 

For further details of membership, or about the Programme that follows, or indeed for any other information, please contact the Secretary (address above). 
                                   

PENDING ORGAN RECITALS in and around the North East
** Organisers of organ recitals in the North East and north North Yorkshire might like to publicise your event here **

Notice of recitals received is now published on the Association's Facebook page, in effect superseding this Listing.  
Below, the author uses what little information is supplied [less and less], but can take no responsibility for the comprehensiveness or accuracy of what details are given.

Series at:                                                                                                                        [To chronological list]


• Durham Cathedral [see Cathedral Recitals page for Programmes, as available]  

Ripon Cathedral  HG4 1QS [E-mail for information]     For recitalists, programmes etc click here

 Other local organ and organist's pages of interest:

 * Durham Cathedral organs' history   * Father Smith gallery
 * The current organ's stoplist       * The Cathedral organists 

* Diocesan Organs Adviser       * Harrison & Harrison: Organbuilders

* the late Martin Charlton's organ tour   * Dave Webster's pipe organ links      * [the late] Hector Parr's webpages

* Simon Fitzgerald's Durham & NE organs pages  * Iain Stinson organ webpages + links

* Tours of Organs in:                                                                                                                                                                   Alsace 2005  - Toulouse 2006 - Burgundy 2007 - Champagne 2008 - Bordeaux & the Dordogne 2009                     Languedoc 2010 -  Lyon 2011 - Normandy 2012 - Provence/Cote d'Azur 2013 - Loire 2014 - Alsace (again) 2015  -  Toulouse area (again) 2016  -  Bavaria 2017  -   Saxony 2018  -  Holland 2020 - Holland 2022

and wider interest pages:

• London Organ Concerts Guide
• The Organ magazine 
  
• Choir & Organ magazine

• The Royal College of Organists
• The Royal School of Church Music 
• Friends of Cathedral Music
• Cathedral Sounds
• The British Institute of Organ Studies
• The Institute of British Organ-builders
• The Association of Independent Organs Advisers
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