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EVENTS Spring • Summer 2019
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elizabeth kenny
frday 8 March, Holywell Music Room
MUSIC.OX.AC.UK/EVENTS
THE BATE Bate Collection
Seminars new music and Dr Sebastian Wedler.
Our conception of theory
the series has a particular
grounding in anthropology, student
COLLECTION Select Fridays during term
1-2pm, The Bate Collection
Professors Martyn Harry
and Robert Saxton convene
and analysis is critical,
plural and interdisciplinary.
Sessions will last 90 minutes,
sound studies, and
ethnomusicology. music
Two or three seminars are
The Bate Collection www.bate.ox.ac.uk the series of workshops, refreshments are served, held each term, usually on
Free for All
celebrates the history and seminars 2019 seminars and concerts with and lively discussion is Free for All is the Faculty’s
Thursdays, 5-6.30pm at the
development of musical alice.little@music.ox.ac.uk musical director Dr John encouraged. They take place free lunchtime recital series
St John’s College Barn
instruments of the Western To tie in with the Anthony Traill. All events are free and on Wednesday afternoons, for student performers,
(near where St Giles meets
Classical tradition from the Baines Archive Project open to all. beginning at 4.30pm, in the with jazz bands, DJs and
Banbury Road).
Medieval period until the currently underway at the Committee Room of the string quartets taking to the
present day. The Collection Bate Collection, in Hilary Music Faculty. There is a wine reception stage. Free for All happens
Composer Speaks after each talk.
is made available for and Trinity Terms 2019 we Wednesdays during term,
Professor Robert Saxton
study and judicious use by will be hosting two seminar 1.10-1.45pm in the Denis
scholars, students, makers, series focusing respectively
convenes this series in which Research Colloquia Seminars in Medieval Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music.
visiting composers discuss The Colloquia feature
and players. The Bate’s on woodwind and brass their work. In Hilary term, and Renaissance Music To take part, get in touch
leading figures, as well
shop is an Aladdin’s cave of instruments. talks are held Mondays with student organiser Lauren
as younger scholars, from Thursdays 5-7pm on even
musical toys, beautiful cards, on weeks 4 and 5, 4pm in Hill at lauren.hill@oriel.ox.ac.
across the world. They weeks (Hilary term only).
gifts and delights. Lecture Room A, Faculty uk or check the Facebook
present their research in Wharton Room,
of Music. page FreeforAllOxford.
papers on all kinds of music- All Souls College
The Collection is open for
visiting throughout the year, COLLEGE related topics. Graduate Convenor: Margaret Bent
MUSIC
students Jason Weir and The long-established
on weekdays 2-5pm, and Emma Kavanagh organise series invites younger and
10am-12pm on Saturdays
during term time.
Many Oxford Colleges
SEMINARS the series. Presentations are
followed by discussion and a
established international
scholars to share new ideas
have rich musical lives. drinks reception. and discoveries across a OUMS
2 Learn Gamelan The Faculty hosts a number wide historical range. The Oxford University Music 3
The events included in
of seminar series organised The Colloquia are held Society promotes participation
with the Oxford the brochure are merely
by both students and
presentation is followed
a sample. For complete during term every Tuesday at by an extensive period of in music across the university.
Gamelan Society academics. All seminars are 5.15pm in the Denis Arnold questions and discussion, Details of ensembles and their
listings, check individual free and open to all.
Wednesday evenings -
College websites. Hall, Faculty of Music. with wine. performances can be found at
commencing 17 January www.oums.org.
(1st week) 6-9.30pm The long-established series
Seminar Room, Oxford Seminars in Seminars in sees scholars from across the OUMS Chamber
Faculty of Music Music Theory and Ethnomusicology and
FACULTY
world share new ideas
Free and open to all Analysis (OSiMTA) Sound Studies and discoveries about Music
CONCERTS
OGS meet at the Faculty www.music.ox.ac.uk/oxford- www. ethnomusicology this fascinating period of Select Mondays in term
of Music on Wednesday seminar-in-music-theory- andsoundstudies.wordpress.com music history. time 6pm
analysis/ Holywell Music Room
evenings during the The series is convened
University Term. This is a The Faculty of Music holds @OxfordAnalysis by Professor Jason Stanyek. Free and open to all
chance to learn to play a number of concerts This new seminar series Featuring lectures by www.chambermusic.oums.org
the Javanese Gamelan throughout the year which meets two or three times leading scholars who have chambermusic@oums.org
with other members of span a range of genres and a term. Its convenors are adventurous takes on OUMS chamber music from
the group. feature world-leading artists. Professor Jonathan Cross musical and sonic cultures, student musicians.
EVENTS
workshops and (bass) and Tom Richards
(saxophone/piano). The
with a visiting professional
who will also share their HILARY TERM
masterclasses workshops cover all areas
of jazz improvisation, each
experiences of building a
musical career. They are
session focusing on particular led by Faculty Director of
The Faculty hosts a number tunes from the repertoire. Performance Liz Kenny.
of events aimed at helping
students grow as composers,
Piano and drum kit are Performance Clinics are held Research colloquium
available. Otherwise, bring in the Denis Arnold Hall,
performers and listeners. All your own instrument. Jazz Professor Sarah Collins
usually on select Fridays
are free and open to all. Workshops are held on during term, 2-5pm.
(UWA, Perth) | What’s
various Wednesdays and the use of musical
Jazz Workshops Fridays throughout Hilary
autonomy?
The Faculty’s Jazz Workshops Term in the Denis Arnold Rhythm and Signs
are a great way to develop Hall, Faculty of Music 2-4pm. Wednesdays during term Tuesday 15 January
skills and make connections 7-9pm, Ensemble Room (1st week) 5.15pm
Denis Arnold Hall,
with other jazz players in the Performance Clinics A music ensemble which
Faculty of Music
University. They are led by Performance Clinics are uses hand signals to
two international performers the place for students to create cohesive group Free and open to all
Displaced Voices The Orchestra of St John’s
and teachers, Mark Hodgson hone performance skills improvisation. (OSJ) performs compositions
Friday 18 January (1st week) by refugee and migrant
7.30pm students at the Oxford Spires
Somerville College Chapel Academy alongside works by
Concert Barber and Shostakovich and
new pieces by Young, Harrison
Jazz Workshop £16, £8 in advance and on
4 the door
and Thompson. 5
Friday 18 January
www.osj.org.uk
(1st week) 2-4pm The concert is preceded by a
Denis Arnold Hall, Panel Discussion and panel discussion at Somerville
Faculty of Music Poetry Reading College (5.30pm) and a
Free in advance and on reception and poetry reading
Free and open to all
the door at Open House Oxford, in
www.some.ox.ac.uk collaboration with the Oxford
principals.office@ Poetry Library (6.30pm).
some.ox.ac.uk
EVENTS KEY The Beginning of Students of the Opera and
Music Theatre course directed
BATE COLLEGE FACULTY an Idea by John by Professor Martyn Harry
COLLECTION MUSIC CONCERTS McGahern build on their legacy of
fantastic productions. They
Saturday 19 January 2019 premiere a new opera by
NEW SEMINARS STUDENT (1st week) 7.30pm Joel Baldwin (St Hilda’s), The
MUSIC MUSIC JdP Music Building, Beginning of an Idea, based
St Hilda’s College on John MacGahern’s short
£13 gallery £10 stalls story. Pre-concert talk with the
workshops and £5 students opera’s creators at 6:30pm.
masterclasses in advance and on the door
www.jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk
Research colloquium Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Dr Tom Western Viola Masterclass with Lawrence Power
(Oxford) | Aural Saturday 26 January
Borders, Audible (3rd week) 11am-1pm
Migrations: Sound and Denis Arnold Hall,
Faculty of Music
Citizenship in Athens
Free in advance and on the door
Tuesday 22 January www.oxfordphil.com
(2nd week) 5.15pm Ahead of performing in the Faculty’s Holocaust Memorial
Denis Arnold Hall, Concert, acclaimed viola player Lawrence Power shares his
Faculty of Music knowledge and experience with Music Faculty students.
Free and open to all
Seminar in Medieval and
6 Renaissance Music 7
John Milsom (Liverpool
Hope University |
Polyphony, in four parts:
composing, performing,
listening, reflecting
Thursday 24 January Holocaust Memorial Concert
(2nd week) 5-7pm
Wharton Room, Saturday 26 January (2nd Week) 7.30pm
All Souls College Holywell Music Room
Free and open to all £10 £5 Free for music students in advance and on the door
www.ticketsoxford.com
Oxford Philharmonic Boris Brontsyn violin, Alena Baeva violin, Laurence Power viola, Natalie Clein cello
Orchestra Erwin Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Quartet
Young Artists’ Platform Hans Krása Passacaglia and Fugue for String Trio
Saturday 26 January Berthold Goldschmidt Retrospectrum
(2nd week) 6.30pm
Erwin Schulhoff Duo for Violin and Cello
Sheldonian Theatre
Hans Krása “Tanec” (Dance) for String Trio
Free in advance and on
the door
www.oxfordphil.com On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day our Artist in Residence, Natalie Clein, programmes a concert
Opportunity for student with works by composers, activists and victims of the Holocaust.
musicians to share their work.
Oxford Improvisers Lieder Composition Mixed Ensemble Composition Workshop Family Fun Week
Monday 28 January Workshop With Alice Thursday 31 January (3rd week) 1.30-4.30pm Saturday 2 February
(3rd Week) 7.30pm Privett (soprano) and Denis Arnold Hall (3rd Week) 10am-2pm
Ensemble Room Bate Collection
Sholto Kynoch (piano) Free and open to all
Free and open to all With members of Ensemble ISIS, conducted by Dr John Traill. Free and open to all
www.oxfordimprovisers.com Tuesday 29 January
A day of family events,
(3rd week) 10.30am-1pm
A music session open for featuring a treasure trail, live
Jacqueline du Pré Music
all to take part in. Oxford musical performances and
Building, St Hilda’s College
Improvisers is a group demonstrations. Plus, a chance
dedicated to the practice Free and open to all to play some of the instruments
of free musics. Please come in the handling collection.
and join us with instruments,
voices, and open ears!
Research Colloquium Jazz Workshop EXPO Series
8 Dr Alice Little (Oxford) | John Malchair, Wednesday 30 January Mash Marathon and Ensemble ISIS Concert 9
(3rd week) 2-4pm Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd week) 6.30pm
William Crotch, and ‘national music’ i n Oxford, Denis Arnold Hall, JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College
1790-1805 Faculty of Music
£5 on the door
Tuesday 29 January (3nd week) 5.15pm Free and open to all www.jdp.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Every year the JdP’s new music marathon presents an evening-
Free and open to all long festival concert of experimental music, live electronics,
contemporary classical instrumental music and video. This year’s
Ensemble ISIS concert focuses on the work of British composer
Michael Zev Gordon alongside student compositions.
Composer Speaks Research Colloquium Oxford University The Villiers Quartet | Point and Counterpoint
John Pickard | Rain, steam and speed: brass Dr Chris Tarrant Orchestra Friday 8 February 2019 (4th week) 7.30pm
Mathematical Institute
bands and the contemporary composer (Anglia Ruskin) | Thursday 7 February
(4th week) 8pm £15 £20 Students £5 off Under 18s 50% off
Monday 4 February (4th week) 4 - 5.30pm Carl Nielsen, musical www.musicatoxford.com
Sheldonian Theatre
Music Faculty, Lecture Room A vitalism, and reactive Haydn Quartet in G op. 77 no.1
£15 £10 £7 in advance and
Free and open to all modernism on the door Mozart Quartet in G K. 387
John Pickard is best known for a series of powerful orchestral www.ouo.oums.org Beethoven Quartet in C# minor, op. 131
Tuesday 5 February
and instrumental works. He has written five alongside The Villiers Quartet present an exploration of fugal intricacy
(4th week) 5.15pm Peter Stark conducts
other orchestral works of symphonic dimensions: Sea- from musical giants Mozart and Beethoven plus a buoyant work
Denis Arnold Hall, Shostakovich’s gigantic
Change (1989), The Flight of Icarus (1990), Channel from Haydn, the father of the genre, characterised by balance,
Faculty of Music ‘Leningrad’ symphony, led by
Firing (1992-93) and the Trombone Concerto: The Spindle of proportion and order – perfect music to experience in the finely-
Ellen Dunn.
Necessity (1997-98). Free and open to all crafted surroundings of the Mathematical Institute.
10 11
Seminar in Medieval and Jazz Workshop
Renaissance Music Friday 8 February
Étienne Anheim (4th week) 2-4pm
Denis Arnold Hall,
(Directeur d’études, Faculty of Music
Ecole des Hautes Free and open to all
Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris) |
The musical chapel
of the popes in
Avignon during the
fourteenth century
Thursday 7 February
(4th week) 5-7pm
Wharton Room,
All Souls College
Free and open to all
Avignon as transcultural hub Bate Collection Research Colloquium Performance Clinic
A ‘Music and Late Medieval European Court Gallery Recital Professor Emma Caroline Balding | Performing unaccompanied
Cultures’ study day Tuesday 12 February Hornby (Bristol) | Bach on modern string instruments: how
Friday 8 February (4th Week)
(5th Week) 1-1.45pm Processional chants in Baroque should we go?
Bate Collection
St Luke’s Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter early medieval Iberia: Friday 15 February (5th week) 2-5pm
Free and open to all
www.malmecc.eu
Alumna Jam Orrell will explore
adventures in musical Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music
A study day considering a range of themes centring around music past and present on a analysis Free and open to all
cultural transfers and scientific knowledge in papal Avignon, 1723 viola-d’amore, revealing Perfomers continue to take sides on how best to perform the
providing fresh insight through interdisciplinary discussion Tuesday 12 February
the instrument’s inspiring and iconic works for solo violin and cello by Johann Sebastian Bach
based on a series of short position papers. (5th week) 5.15pm
unusual sound colours. (1685-1750). International violinist and teacher Caroline Balding
Denis Arnold Hall,
is equally at home in modern and baroque repertoire. She will
Faculty of Music
work with students on approaching Bach using the best insights
Free and open to all from both traditions.
12 13
Oxford Seminar in Music
Theory and Analysis
Julian Horton (Durham
University) | Rethinking
sonata failure:
Composer Speaks structure and process
Debbie Wiseman | From page to screen in Mendelssohn’s
Monday 11 February (week 5) 4-5.30pm Overture Die schöne
Music Faculty, Lecture Room A
Melusine
Free and open to all
Debbie is one of the UK’s most successful female composers. Wednesday 13 February
She has over 200 credits for both the big and small (5th week) 4.30pm
screen, including soundtracks for television shows The Committee Room,
Promise, Wolf Hall and Prophecies and Dreams; and for Faculty of Music
the films The Coroner (2015), Father Brown (2013), Doc Free and open to all
Martin (2004) and Shakespeare & Hathaway – Private
Investigators (2018).
Bate Collection Family Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music Oxford Philharmonic
Friendly Week Roger Bowers (University of Cambridge) | Orchestra
18-22 February The household chapel at the turn of the Conducting
(6th week / half term) fifteenth century: John of Gaunt, ‘Roy Henry’, Masterclass with
2-5pm
Bate Collection
and John Dunstable Marios Papadopoulos
Free and open to all Thursday 21 February (6th week) 5-7pm Friday 22 February
Wharton Room, All Souls College (6th week) 12.15pm
Gallery activities including
trails, colouring and Free and open to all Centre for Music,
word-searches. Bayswater Road, OX3 9FF
Free in advance and on
the door
14 15
Research Colloquium Performance Clinic Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestral
Dr Marian Jago Claire Holden | 19th-century chamber music: Young Artists’ Platform Composition
(Edinburgh) | Disability, performers as co-creators Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week) 6.30pm Workshop
authenticity, recording, Wednesday 20 February (6th week) 2-5pm Sheldonian Theatre Friday 22 February
and the location of the Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free in advance and on the door (6th week)
www.oxfordphil.com 1.15-2pm, 3-6pm
work in jazz: the case Free and open to all Centre for Music,
Student musicians give solo recitals.
of Lennie Tristano Claire Holden is a professional period-instrument violinist Bayswater Road, OX3 9FF
and scholar of historical performance. In this performance
Tuesday 19 February Free and open to all
clinic, she will explore performers’ relationships with musical
(6th week) With the Oxford Philharmonic
text and performance material in the 19th Century. What are
5.15pm Orchestra and conductor
the limitations and pitfalls of performing from Urtexts? How
Denis Arnold Hall, John Traill.
different was the preparation and perception of chamber
Faculty of Music
music before the publication of scores? How different might
Free and open to all the artistic priorities of 19th-century musicians have been from
those of performers today?
Oxford University Oxford University Wind Orchestra String Quartet Jazz Workshop
Sinfonietta Saturday 23 February (6th week) 8pm Workshop Wednesday 27 February
Friday 22 February University Church With members of the Oxford (7th week) 2-4pm
(10th week) 8pm £10 £5 in advance and on the door www.oums.org Philharmonic Denis Arnold Hall,
University Church of Faculty of Music
OUWO present their termly concert. Tuesday 26 February
St Mary the Virgin, Free and open to all
High Street, OX1 4BJ (7th week) 2-5pm
Ensemble Room,
£10 £5 in advance and Faculty of Music
£12 £6 on the door
www.ousinf.oums.org Free and open to all
OuSinf present music from
the first and second Viennese Charpentier, Mass for Four Choirs, and other
Schools, Schoenberg’s first masterpieces of the French Baroque
chamber symphony and
Beethoven’s iconic fifth. The Sunday 24 February 2018 (7th week) 8pm
orchestra performs these Venue Chapel of The Queen’s College, Oxford
alongside a world premiere www.queenschoir.com/tickets
of the winning piece from the
16 OUMS’s 2018 Composition Edward Higginbottom directs the celebrate choir in a concert 17
Competition. Charlie Lovell- revealing little-known masterpieces of 17th-century French
Jones leads the orchestra, sacred music, including the dramatic Messe à 4 choeurs by
Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
with Tom Fetherstonhaugh Research Colloquium Oxford Seminar in Music
conducting.
Professor Stephen Theory and Analysis
Downes (Royal Emily Tan | Analysing
Holloway) | Two late Strauss
sentimental englishmen Wednesday 27 February
in the 1930s: music, (7th week) 4.30pm
Oxford Millennium Committee Room,
class and dignity in Faculty of Music
Orchestra the Merchant-Ivory Free and open to all
Saturday 23 February adaptation of Ishiguro’s
(6th week) 8pm
Sheldonian Theatre
“The Remains of
£10 £5 in advance and the Day”
on the door Tuesday 26 February
www.omotickets.com (7th week) 5.15pm
‘To the New World’: a Denis Arnold Hall,
celebration of the influence of Faculty of Music
jazz and film on 20th century Free and open to all
American orchestral music.
Performance Clinic Flickering Presences Oxford Conducting Institute workshop Research Colloquium
Alison McGillivray | Feldenkrais for all musicians Thursday 28 February Saturday 2 March (7th week) 9.30am-12.30pm Professor Matthew
Thursday 28 February (7th week) 2-3.30pm (7th week) 5.30-7pm Oxfordshire County Music Service, Centre for Music, Head (King’s College
Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music St Catherine’s Music House Bayswater Rd, OX3 9FF
London) | The American
Open to Music students only Free and open to all Free and open to all
‘lady composer’ in
The Feldenkrais Method® is an educational method which Repertoire: Elgar, Enigma Variations
offers a unique way to bring about improved movement and A concert of new works for Hollywood musicals
enhanced functioning. In this performance clinic, practitioner flute, video and digital sound. of the 1930s: towards
and concert cellist Alison McGillivray will explore practically a history of fictitious
how the way we move can influence the music we make.
female composers
Tuesday 5 March
(8th week) 5.15pm
Denis Arnold Hall,
Faculty of Music
Free and open to all
18 19
Theatre of the Ayre | A quiet revolution: English Blood on the Floor
vocal music during the interregnum Oxford University
Saturday 2 March 2018 (7th week) 7.30pm Sinfonietta and
JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College Oxford University
£20 £15 £5 in advance and on the door Jazz Orchestra
www.jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk
Tuesday 5 and Wednesday
Elizabeth Kenny (lute and theorbo) performs with her ‘crack 6 March (8th week) 8pm
squad of top instrumentalists - Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Jacqueline du Pré Music
Brook (bass baritone) and Alison McGillivray (bass viol and lyra Building, St. Hilda’s college
viol) - they present an inspirational programme of seventeenth
£16 gallery £13 stalls
century music of quiet revolution.
£8 student in advance and
on the door
www.jdp.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
The two ensembles come
together for the first ever
student performance of
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s
Blood on the Floor. Tom
Fetherstonhaugh conducts.Oxford Philharmonic
Orchestra
Violin Masterclass with
Natalia Lomeiko
Wednesday 6 March
(8th week) 1-3.30pm
Denis Arnold Hall,
Faculty of Music
Free in advance and on
the door
www.oxfordphil.com
20 21
Somerville College Choir meet Seminar in Medieval and International Women’s Day
The Basin Street Brawlers Renaissance Music Friday 8 March (8th Week) 7.30pm
Wednesday 6 March (8th week) 8-9.15pm Laurence Libin | Holywell Music Room
Somerville College Chapel Reconstructing £10 £5 Free for music students
£10 £5 available in advance and on the door in advance and on the door
medieval instruments: www.ticketsoxford.com
choir@some.ox.ac.uk
The Basin Street Brawlers (London’s ‘world class’ jazz band),
Why bother? Our concert includes music by women composers from across
join up with Somerville College Choir to perform a concert the ages, including leading 17th century vocal composers
Thursday 7 March
of jazz infused spirituals and hymns. Leave with your toes- Francesca Caccini and Barbara Strozzi. Soprano Katherine
(8th week) 5-7pm
tapping, and your spirits high. Watson is joined by our new Director of Performance,
Wharton Room,
Elizabeth Kenny on theorbo.
All Souls College
Free and open to all
Laurence Libin (Curator of
Musical Instruments emeritus
at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, USA)EVENTS
TRINITY TERM
Mixed Ensemble Composition Workshop Oxford Philharmonic
with CHROMA Orchestra
Tuesday 30 April (1st week) 10.30 - 5.30pm Horn Masterclass with
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Katy Woolley
St Hilda’s College
Wednesday 1 May 2019
Free and open to all (1st week) 10am-12pm
Denis Arnold Hall,
Faculty of Music
Free in advance and on
the door
www.oxfordphil.com
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and Global History:
Sounds of South Asia Agency, Affect,
Music and dance at the court in Kabul – Temporality
reimagining classical forms Thursday 2 - Friday 3
Wednesday 13 March (9th week) 7.30pm May 2019 (1st week)
Holywell Music Room TORCH, Radcliffe
Humanities Building
£10 £5 Free for music students in advance and on the door
www.musicatoxford.com www.torch.ox.ac.uk/cpagh
‘Veronica Doubleday, daireh An interdisciplinary
Sadie Harrison, composer/arranger two-day conference
Ensemble Zohra organised by the
Colonial Ports and
From the late 19th century to the early 20th century the rulers in Global History (CPAGH)
Kabul (known as Amirs) were great music lovers and patrons of Network in Oxford, with
music. This lecture-recital explores their fascinating use of classical two keynote speakers and
forms to create music of imagination and wonder. a World Café workshop
alongside themed panels.
The concert forms part of a week-long residency for Ensemble Aimed widely at scholars
Zohra, the first-ever all female orchestra of Afghanistan. Led in Anthropology, History,
by postdoctoral researcher, Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, the Musicology, Sociology, and
residency combines side-by-side performances with the Orchestra other related disciplines in
of St John’s, Oxford University and Oxfordshire County Youth the Humanities and the
Orchestra musicians, with panel discussions on women’s musical Social Sciences.
education in Afghanistan, schools’ concerts and other special
events. See www.osj.org.uk for more information.EMPRES Presents
The Art of Noises III – Featuring Trevor Wishart
Thursday 2 May (1st week) 6pm
Modern Art Oxford
Free
www.modernartoxford.org.uk
empres@music.ox.ac.uk
The EMPRES Collective and Modern Art Oxford present another
evening of aural adventure. EMPRES will take over the Modern Art
Oxford galleries to present a series of innovative performances and
installations that explore the boundaries between music, sound
and technology. This time, EMPRES will welcome the celebrated
electroacoustic composer Trevor Wishart for a lecture and
performance. There will also be performances from the EMPRES
Synth Ensemble, the Oxford music student community, and more.
The University of Oxford’s Electronic Music Practice RESearch
24 group (EMPRES) aims to promote and advance research and public 25
dissemination in Electronic Music Practice. It does so by working
with musicians, composers, producers, researchers and academics
from a wide range of disciplines interested in electronic music, as Performance Clinic Merton College Choir
well as other members of the music industry. Simon Lepper | Saturday 4 May (1st week) 8pm
Pianists with Merton College Chapel
Duo Partners: £35 - £5 in advance www.musicatoxford.com
Collaboration as Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore K. 339
Mozart Ave verum corpus K. 618
Communication Mozart Missa brevis in F major, K.192
Friday 3 May (1st week) Merton College Choir Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas
2-5pm
Denis Arnold Hall,
Faculty of Music
Free and open to all
Simon Lepper is an award-
winning international
accompanist and Professor
of Collaborative Piano at the
Royal College of Music. He will
work with pianists and their
instrumental and vocal partners
to help them negotiate a
musical partnership of equals.Natalie Clein with the Doric Quartet Oxford Improvisers ANIMA: New Music with Animation
Friday 10 May (2nd Week) 7.30pm Monday 13 May Friday 31 May (5th week) 7.30pm
Sheldonian Theatre (3rd Week) 7.30pm JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College
£42 – £5 Free for music students in advance and on the door Ensemble Room
£5 on the door only
www.musicatoxford.com Free and open to all www.jdp.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
Bloch Solo Suites www.oxfordimprovisers.com
The ANIMA ensemble conducted by Chris Roe presents a night
Haydn String Quartet Op. 33 No. 2 A music session open for of live music with film. They perform scores made by students
Schubert String Quintet in C, D. 956 all to take part in. Oxford from the Ruskin School of Art, in close collaboration with student
Improvisers is a group composers from the Music Faculty of the University of Oxford.
Cellist Natalie Clein and the celebrated Doric String Quartet join dedicated to the practice
forces for a special evening of collaborative music-making. Their of free musics. Please come
programme will culminate in a performance of Schubert’s awesome and join us with instruments,
String Quintet: a pinnacle of the chamber music repertoire. voices, and open ears!
Goehr & Harry: A Mini-Festival
Saturday 8 June (6th week)
26 1.15pm Lunchtime Recital with Jonathan Powell 27
7.30pm Villiers Quartet with Ib Haussman
JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College
Family Friendly Week 1.15pm – £3 students £7 stalls £10 gallery
7.30pm – £5 students £13 stalls £18 gallery
28-31 May (half term / 30% discount when booking for both events
5th week) 2-5 pm www.jdp.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
Bate Collection These two concerts interleave piano works and string quartets by
Free and open to all one of Britain’s greatest living composers, Alexander Goehr, and
Gallery activities including trails, his former student, Martyn Harry.
colouring and word-searches.RESEAR!H
CONFERENCE
International Bicentenary Conference:
‘Clara Schumann (née Wieck) and her World’
Friday 14 - Sunday 16 June 2019 (7th/8th week)
!OLLOQUIA
Lady Margaret Hall
www.claraschumannbicentenary.com The Colloquia are Tuesday 15 January (1st week) Tuesday 19 February (6th week)
held during term Professor Sarah Collins Dr Marian Jago (Edinburgh)
This two-day conference, hosted in association with The Oxford
every Tuesday at 5.15pm (UWA, Perth)
Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), seeks to reassess
in the Denis Arnold Hall, Disability,
Clara Schumann’s music and cultural milieu within the
Faculty of Music. What’s the Use of Authenticity,
gender-aware and interdisciplinary climate of contemporary
musicology. It will include lectures, presentations and a recital. Free and open to all Musical Autonomy? Recording, and the
The Colloquia feature leading Tuesday 22 January (2nd week) Location of the Work
figures, as well as younger Dr Tom Western (Oxford) in Jazz: The Case of
scholars, from across the
world. They present their Aural Borders, Audible Lennie Tristano
research in papers on all kinds Migrations: Sound and
Musical Instrument Collectors and Collections: international conference of music-related topics. Tuesday 26 February (7th week)
28 Citizenship in Athens Professor Stephen Downes 29
Bank holiday weekend, Friday 23 -Sunday 25 August 2019 Graduate students Jason Weir (Royal Holloway)
Faculty of Music and Emma Kavanagh organise Tuesday 29 January (3rd week)
www.bate.ox.ac.uk/conference2019 the series. Presentations are Dr Alice Little (Oxford) Two Sentimental
The conference will explore themes in musical instrument collecting including how instruments
followed by discussion and a
John Malchair, William Englishmen in
drinks reception.
are collected, displayed and conserved; who collects them, how and why; the relationships
Crotch, and ‘national the 1930s: Music,
between makers, musicians, collectors, curators, dealers and scholars, as well as current research Class and Dignity
taking place in musical instrument collections in and outside museums around the world. music’ in Oxford,
1790-1805 in the Merchant-
Ivory Adaptation
Tuesday 5 February (4th week) of Ishiguro’s “The
Dr Chris Tarrant (Anglia Ruskin)
Remains of the Day
Carl Nielsen, Musical
Vitalism, and Reactive Tuesday 5 March (8th week)
Professor Matthew Head
Modernism (King’s College London)
Tuesday 12 February (5th week) The American
Professor Emma Hornby (Bristol) ‘lady composer’ in
Processional chants Hollywood musicals
in early medieval of the 1930s: towards
Iberia: adventures in a history of fictitious
musical analysis female composersAbout us
Performance and Events Office: Programme design: The Graphic Bomb
Liz Green, Jasper Minton-Taylor and Photography: Bwag | Stuart Bebb | John Cairns |
Rebecca Sackman-Smith Jack Liebeck | Helen Messenger | Neda Navaee
Director of Performance: Elizabeth Kenny
Faculty Board Chair: Professor Suzanne Aspden If you would like to be added to our mailing
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01865 276125.
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The Faculty of Music is an The Holywell Music Room is the
internationally-renowned city of Oxford’s chamber music
centre of music teaching and hall, situated on Holywell Street
research. Events at the Faculty in the city centre, within the
are frequently held in the grounds of Wadham College. It
Denis Arnold Hall and various is said to be the oldest purpose-
teaching rooms. built music room in Europe, and
hence Britain’s first concert hall.
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The Bate Collection of Modern Art Oxford
30 Pembroke Street, Oxford,
Musical Instruments OX1 1BP
Faculty of Music, St Aldates,
Oxford, OX1 1DB (01865) 722733
(01865) 286261 info@modernartoxford.org.uk
andrew.lamb@music.ox.ac.uk modernartoxford.org.uk
bate.ox.ac.uk Modern Art Oxford is one of
The Bate Collection is the most the UK’s most exciting and
comprehensive collection of influential contemporary arts
European woodwind, brass organisations. Founded in 1965,
and percussion instruments in it is the only public institution
Britain. The Bate has over 2000 dedicated to contemporary
instruments from the Western visual arts in Oxford and is free
orchestral music traditions from and open to all.
the Renaissance, through the
Baroque, Classical, Romantic
and up to modern times. The
collection exists as both a research
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