Robert Costin

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

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Life and career

Robert Costin was a chorister at Peterborough Cathedral and 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. His teachers included Christopher Gower, James Parsons, Nicholas Danby, and David Sanger. He 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. He has performed extensively throughout Europe, Australasia, and North America. [2]

Discography

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  2. "Seen and Heard International recital review, Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York" . Retrieved 11 August 2023.
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