Welcome to our website

We very much hope you will enjoy seeing about our work, preserving the historic music making skills required to play the King of Instruments, the mighty theatre organ, and perhaps be inspired to visit Rye to see one of our shows, or perhaps to make a donation to the charity. Congratulations to Richard Moore BEM Our world of organ music has been blessed with quite a number or awards over the years, including MBEs for Phil Kelsall and the late Len Rawle, and BEMs for Byron Jones and Nicholas Martin. We are thrilled to announce that in the 2025 New Year Honours, His Majesty King Charles III has awarded our founder, Richard Moore, the British Empire Medal (BEM) for his 'Services to Music Education and Preservation in East Sussex'. Congratulations, Richard Moore BEM. Funding The Rye Wurlitzer Academy is a Registered Charity, Number 1161821, and relies solely upon donations, sponsorships and staging of fund-raising events to continue its work. Please visit our sponsors page to see some of the many companies and individuals who have supported us. If you feel able to support us, please visit our Donations Page.

Enjoy a documentary film about the RWA...

Produced by RWA student, David Swarbrick, this short film gives an enjoyable insight to our activites. Whilst still studying, David has already enjoyed success with David J. Swarbrick Film Productions and this documentary won him the award for Best Student Film at the 2015 Rye International Film Festival.

The Rye Wurlitzer Academy

is the only project in the world with an ethos of teaching students how to play the theatre organ through providing them with regular lessons on a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ and giving them an electronic organ for home practise, all for FREE!