Robert Costin
Robert Costin is a British organist, harpsichordist, and teacher. He is Head of Academic Music and Organist at Sherborne School.
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.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, and North America.
Discography
- Organ Triumphant
- Howells Organ Music
- The Excellent Art of Voluntary
- Liszt and Reubke Organ Works
- The Excellent Art of Voluntary
- Bach Goldberg Variations
- Bach Trio Sonatas
- Bach Well-Tempered Clavier
- The Classical Organ - music by C.P.E. Bach, Mozart and Haydn