Welcome to The Cape Organ Guild's website

The Cape Organ Guild was founded in 1923 by Dr Thomas Barrow-Dowling, who was also the first president. The Guild, based in Cape Town, is reputedly the oldest continuous musical society in South Africa. Among its objectives are the promotion of good fellowship and mutual help amongst its members in order to foster an interest in the effective presentation of the organ and its music as well as choral music (both sacred and secular). Anyone interested in such objectives is eligible for membership.

Public recitals (including the six South African organ festivals, featuring many well known organists such as Simon Preston and Dame Gillian Weir), lectures, master-classes and choral concerts are all features of the annual syllabus, together with many other non-public functions, and are usually held once a month.