The Organ: History and Culture Zzounds.com - a music retailer that happens to host a great little page about the history of the organ
Organ Competitions in Canada Canadian International Organ Competition Concours d’Orgue du Quebec Osborne Organ Competition (Canada’s Summer Institute of Church Music) RCCO National Organ Playing Competition Lynwood Farnam Organ Competition (formerly John Robb Competition, Montreal Centre RCCO)
Organ Communities and Publications Online Royal Canadian College of Organists Fédération québécoise des amis de l’orgue Fédération francophone des amis de l’orgue Royal College of Organists (UK & Ireland) Incorporated Association of Organists (UK) American Guild of Organists Organ Historical Society OrgAlt E-mail List American Theatre Organ Society OrganFocus.com Het Orgel - Europe’s oldest magazine on the Art of the Organ PIPORG-L: a large and diverse e-mail list about the pipe organ and related subjects PIPECHAT-L: an informal "chat" discussion group for pipe/digital/electronic organs and related topics Cantos Music Foundation / Calgary International Organ Festival and Competition
Organ Education in Canada
Summer Institute of Church Music (Whitby, Ontario, Canada) McGill Summer Organ Academy/Académie éstivale d’orgue de McGill Calgary Organ Academy International Summer School at Mount Royal College Organ Academy at Stratford Summer Music
Recommended Music and Software Retailers in Canada
Belle Air Music (London, Ontario) Editions LucArel (Montréal, Québec) Music Plus (Kitchener, Ontario) Opus Two (Kitchener, Ontario) OrganWorks (organ control systems, Markham, Ontario) The Opera Store (Toronto, Ontario) Sibelius in North America
Organ Builders and Technicians in Canada
Andrew Mead and Associates (Port Hope, Ontario) Classic Organbuilders (Markham, Ontario) - see also OrganWorks.com, above Casavant Fréres (St-Hyacinthe, Québec) Alan T. Jackson & Associates, representatives for Toronto/Hamilton and Eastern Ontario Dodington & Dodington, representatives for Western and Northern Ontario Gober Organs (Elora, Ontario) Les Ateliers Guilbaut, Bellevance et Carigan Juget-Sinclair (Montréal, Québec) Laliberté-Payment (Repentigny, Québec) James Louder, Inc ORGANS.CA - Importer of fine new and used European pipe and digital organs and Canadian representative for Mason and Hamelin pianos. Orgues Letourneau (St-Hyacinthe, Québec) Pole and Kingham (Chatham, Ontario) Karl J. Raudsepp & Associates (Pointe Claire, Québec) D. Leslie Smith (Fergus, Ontario) John Struve and Associates (Toronto, Ontario) Karl Wilhelm, Inc (Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Québec), T/F: (450) 464-0612 Hellmuth Wolff et Associés (Laval, Québec)
Other OrgAlt Friends and Partners
Glenn Gould Foundation: Since so much recent OrgAlt activity has been devoted to one the 20th century’s premier media and musical geniuses, Glenn Gould Stratford Summer Music: Host of the Annual Organ Academy and Concerts Joyofsax.com: Cyber-home of Toronto saxophonist Daniel Rubinoff
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