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. 

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).

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 ** 

The author uses information provided, but can take no responsibility for the accuracy of the details given.

Series at:                                                                                                                               [To chronological list]


• Durham Cathedral [see also Cathedral Recitals page] [E-mail for information] 
  

• Newcastle Cathedral    [E-mail for information]

Mostly Monday lunchtimes at 1.00 - 1.45pm [Bank Holiday recitals* start at 11am]

• Ripon Cathedral   [E-mail for information]

• Carlisle Cathedral [E-mail for information]

Nothing further announced at :



Holy Cross, Haltwhistle
All Saints, Gosforth [E-mail for information]
St.Nicholas, Gosforth  [E-mail for information].

St.George, Jesmond, Newcastle [E-mail for information].
St.John, Grainger Street, Newcastle   [E-mail for information]  Admission £7.50/£5
St.Dominic's Priory, Newcastle [E-mail for information]
St.Hilda, South Shields (Market Place) [E-mail for information]
St.Paul, Jarrow 
St.Barnabas, Burnmoor, nr. Chester le Street
Whitburn Parish Church
St.Andrew, Roker, Sunderland
Houghton le Spring Parish Church [E-mail for information]
St. Oswald, Durham  [E-mail for information]
St.Margaret, Durham
Rowley Baptist Chapel [Bevington Chamber organ c. 1820] [E-mail for information]
St.Ives, Leadgate  [E-mail for information] Admission £5
Ushaw College Chapel [E-mail for information]  College bi-centenary in 2008
St.Brandon, Brancepeth: Willis organ transferred from Winterton [Tel 0191 3867403 for information]
St.Andrew, South Church, Bishop Auckland [E-mail for information]  - Organ webpage
St.Helen Auckland Parish Church  [E-mail for information]
New Victoria Centre, High Street, Howden-le-Wear, Co.Durham [E-mail for information]
Barnard Castle School Chapel (organ refurbished by Principal Pipe Organs of York) [E-mail for information]  

St.Romald, Romaldkirk, Teesdale  [E-mail for information]
St.Edmund, Sedgefield [E-mail or information]
St.Hilda, Hartlepool [E-mail for information] 
St.George URC, Hartlepool  [E-mail for information]
St.Peter, Stockton [E-mail for information] - new Makin organ
Stockton URC [E-mail for information]
St.Mary's Cathedral, Dalby Way, Middlesbrough  [E-mail for information]
St.Cuthbert, Kirkleatham, Redcar [E-mail for information]
Saltburn Methodist Church [E-mail for information]
St.Mark's, Marske-by-the-Sea
St.Hilda, West Cliff, Whitby [E-mail for information]
St.Peter, Osmotherley [E-mail for information]
St.Mary, Studley Royal [Fountains Abbey]     

 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

* Martin Charlton's organ tour   *   Webster's pipe organ links


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

* Alsace Organs 2005    * Toulouse Organs 2006  *  Burgundy Organs 2007  *  Champagne organs 2008                * Bordeaux & the Dordogne 2009   * Languedoc 2010

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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Why not see if an organ you know is in the National Pipe Organ Register.