Episode 03: George Throup

Welcome to episode 3 of FORTE Podcast!

I travelled to London this Summer past to interview George Throup, a second-year organ student at the Royal College of Music, London, where he studies with David Graham.

In 2017, George won the keyboard category at St Alban’s Young Musician of the Year Competition. He also participated and was a finalist in the London Organ Competition that year.

Timestamps

(0:17) Life at the Royal College of Music

(1:18) Practise Motivation

(3:08) Teacher-Student relationship

(5:30) Social media

(6:48) Musical risks/ Order and Chaos

(11:32) Musicians with unique identities

(19:58) Cancelled and upcoming concerts

(21:00) Playing transcriptions

(24:00) Organ techniques for transcriptions

(29:00) George’s journey into organ playing

(39:21) Listening to music everyday

(41:12) Re-contextualising classical music into modern world

(47:15) ‘Colour’ in music

(58:01) Prescribed repertoire at RCM

(1:01:39) Goals for the remaining two years at Conservatoire

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Photo: Anthony Cheng