Robert Costin
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Robert Costin is a British organist, harpsichordist, and teacher. He is Head of Academic Music and Organist at Sherborne School.[1]
Life and career
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. In November 2024, he was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of his contributions to the profession.[2]
Costin has held organist positions at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, and Blackburn Cathedral. His teaching appointments include roles 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 extensively in Europe, Australasia,[3][4] and North America.[5]
Discography
- Organ Triumphant (Kiwi Pacific Records)
- Howells Organ Music (Atoll Records)[6]
- The Excellent Art of Voluntary (Atoll Records)
- Liszt and Reubke Organ Works (Atoll Records)[7]
- The Excellent Art of Voluntary (Atoll Records)
- Bach Goldberg Variations (Stone Records)[8][9]
- Bach Trio Sonatas (Stone Records)[10]
- Bach Well-Tempered Clavier (Stone Records)[11][12]
- The Classical Organ - music by C.P.E. Bach, Mozart and Haydn (First Hand Records Records)
References
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External links
- Official website
- Artist page on Stone Records website
- Template:Trim/mn0002962105 Template:PAGENAMEBASE at AllMusic
- Robert Costin (Organ) at Bach-Cantata.com
- Biography on British Isles Music Festival website
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- Living people
- Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- People educated at Oundle School
- English classical organists
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
- 21st-century British organists
- 21st-century British male musicians
- British male classical organists
- 1971 births
- Teachers at Worksop College