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Kathryn Whitney
Tickets from: or 01865 305305 or on door.
Web:
 
 
 

Sunday 18th
Performance: 3.00pm.
Tickets: Tickets: £15.00, £10 conc and £5.00 students.
Venue: Holywell Music Room.

Refractions of Englishness: An Afternoon of Song with Kathryn Whitney & Sholto Kynoch Kathryn Whitney

Programme to include: Purcell/Britten Orpheus Britannicus, Haydn English Canzonettas, Britten, French folk-song arrangements and a wonderful new work by Oxford composer John Caldwell La Subida del Monte Carmelo (St John of the Cross).

   
 
 
Holywell Music Room
Tickets from: Jackie Lester, 27 Upper Churnside. Cirencester GL7 1AP.
Tel: 01285 640194 or at the door on the afternoon of the concert.
 
 
 

Saturday 31st
Performance: 4.00pm.
Tickets: £10.00, £8.00 conc
and £5.00 students.
Venue: Holywell Music Room.

Mostly Mozart Mostly Mozart

The internationally renowned harpsichordist Richard Lester plays a programme of music by Haydn and Mozart on the Messina & Douglas harpsichord after Jan Dulcken (1747). Works include two well known Haydn sonatas, Mozart's Twinkle, twinkle little star variations, Sonata in C major K.545 and the Sonata in A major (Alla Turca).

   
 
 
Oxford Philomusica
Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 5NY.
Tel: 01865 305 305. Web:
 
 
 

Friday 9th
Performance: 8pm
Tickets: £8.00 - £37.00.
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre.

The Magic of Mozart The Magic Of Mozart

Mozart Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201 and Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550. Conducted by Enrique Batiz.
Three facets of Mozart’s unique genius are captured in this programme – the effervescence of the overture to his sunniest opera, the precocious teenage urbanity of the 1774 Symphony in A major and the near-Beethovenian emotional intensity of the great G minor symphony.

   
 
 
 
     
 
Adderbury Ensemble
Tickets: 07976 039385 or Oxford Playhouse (01865 305305) on-line:
Web:
 
 
 

Friday 9th May -
Saturday 10th May
Performance: 8pm
Tickets: £12.00, £10.00 conc.
Venue:see text.

Soldiers Tale By Stravinsky Soldiers Tale

The Adderbury Ensemble and Oxford Dance Theatre present Soldiers Tale by Stravinsky.
Conducted by Mark Goddard and Directed and Choreographed by Jackie Keirs.
Friday 9th May: Newman Rooms, St Aldtaes, Oxford OX1 1DP.
Saturday 10th May: Northwall Arts Centre, South Parade, Summertown, Oxford, OX2 7NN.
Tickets: £12.00, £10.00 conc available from 01865 305305 Oxford PLayhouse Box Office or at the door or online at

   
 
 

Sunday 18th
Performance: 11.15am
Tickets: See website
Venue: Recital Room, Bloxham School

Jennifer Pike (violin) & Dan Tong (piano)

To include: Schubert Sonatina in G minor and Beethoven Sonata in C minor.

 
 
 
Oxford Coffee Concerts
The Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford.
Tickets: Playhouse 01865 305305 or 07976 039385 or on the door.
Web:
 
 
 

Sunday 4th
Performance: 11.15am
Tickets: See website
Venue: Holywell Music Room

Doric String Quartet

Beethoven String Quartet op.74 (Harp)
Mendelssohn String Quartet op.13

 
 
 

Sunday 11th
Performance: 11.15am
Tickets: See website
Venue: Holywell Music Room

Adderbury Ensemble

Stravinsky Soldiers Tale
Full performance with Actors

 
 
 

Sunday 18th
Performance: 11.15am
Tickets: See website
Venue: Holywell Music Room

The Burney Players

Program to include Handel, Corelli and Geminiani

 
 
 

Sunday 25th
Performance: 11.15am
Tickets: See website
Venue: Holywell Music Room

Gould Piano Trio

Mozart Piano Trio in B flat K 502
Ireland Piano Trio no.2
Debussy Piano Trio

 
 
 
University of Oxford Faculty of Music
Tickets: The Oxford Playhouse 01865 305305
Web: or on the door
Full listing of the Faculty of Music events on
 
 
 

Friday 2nd
Performance: Free.
Venue: Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music.

Conducting Masterclass

Dr John Traill will lead student conductors in a day studying the art of conducting with an orchestra comprised of OUMS players. The focus this term is on the concerto repertoire.

 
 
 

Tuesday 6th,
Tuesday 20th and
Tuesday 27th
Performance: All Performances: 5.15pm.
Ticket: Free.
Venue: Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music.

Graduate Students’ Colloquium

Tuesday 6th: Richard Middleton (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) ‘Faith, Hope and the Hope of Love: On Fidelity in the Era of Phonographic Technology’
Tuesday 6th: Matthew Werley (Magdalen College) ‘Strauss’s Silent History’
Tuesday 20th: Nicola Dibben (University of Sheffield) ‘Björk: Nature, Technology and Icelandic National Identity’
Tuesday 27th: Stephen Rumph (University of Washington, USA) ‘Changing the Topic in Mozart: Groundworks for a Syntax of Classical Topics’

 
 
 

Tuesday 27th
Performance: 1.00pm
Tickets: Free.
Venue: Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music.

Barkingside Barkingside

Acoustic quartet of young British improvisers.
For more information www.music.ox.ac.uk

   
 
 
The Oxford Sinfonia
Tickets: From the Oxford Playhouse 01865 305305
Tel: 07775 904626.
Web:
 
 
 

Saturday 17th
Performance: 7.30pm.
Tickets: available on the door. Venue: St George’s Church, Halton Wendover

Peter Bassano conducts The Oxford Sinfonia

Peter Bassano conducts The Oxford Sinfonia wind ensemble
Ravel Mother Goose, Bruckner Motets and Faure Requiem.

 
 
 

Saturday 14th June
Performance: 8.00pm.
Tickets: Tickets: £12 (10 conc). Venue: St Mary’s church, High Street, Oxford.

Colin Bradbury conducts The Oxford Sinfonia

Colin Bradbury conducts The Oxford Sinfonia.
Mendelssohn Ruy Blas overture, Beethoven piano concerto no3 (soloist Bernard Roberts) and Schubert symphony no 9 Great C major.

 
 
 
Music at Oxford
10b Littlegate Street, Oxford OX1 1QT.
Tel: 01865 242865 (Tickets 0870 7500659 Box Office)
Web:
 
 
 

Saturday 17th
Performance: 8.00pm
Tickets: From £20.00.
Venue: Christ Church Cathedral.

Dame Gillian Weir Dame Gillian Weir

Dame Gillian Weir’s intense programme of great organ works marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen.
‘One might say that Dame Gillian Weir was born to play Messiaen.’ Gramophone.

   
 
 

Saturday 24th
Performance: All Day Event.
Tickets: from £6. Day passes £20.00.

Springboard

A brand new classical festival showcasing the UK’s top young musicians. Recitals throughout the day, culminating in an evening concert. There will also be demonstrations, lawn games, an art exhibition and delicious food.

   
 
 
Carling Academy Oxford Carling Academy Oxford
190 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1UE
Web: Customer Information Line: 0905 020 3999 (25p per min)

Tickets available from www.ticketweb.co.uk or 0844 477 2000. Tickets can also be purchased from HMV Oxford, 43-46 Cornmarket Street, Oxford, OX1 3AH Tel. 01865 728190. There will be a 10% booking fee added to all ticket purchases.
 
The Zodiac is Oxford's leading live music and club venue. A much respected venue on the live music circuit, it hosts a wide range of music and club nights and has an outstanding reputation and musical heritage.
   
 
 

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Topman NME New Noise Tour. www.nme.com
The Skatalites www.skatalites.com
Royworld www.myspace.com/royworldtheband
We are The Physic www.myspace.com/wearethephysics
Mr Scruff www.mrscruff.com
Jesse Malin www.jessemalin.com
Les Savy Fav www.lessavyfav.com
Magnum www.magnumonline.co.uk
Boot-Led-Zeppelin www.boot-led-zeppelin.co.uk
The Charlatans www.thecharlatans.net
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong www.jingjangjong.com
Little Man Tate www.littlemantate.co.uk
The Smiths Indeed www.thesmithsindeed.co.uk
The Count & Sinden www.simpleproductions.co.uk
The Metros www.themetros.com
Noah and the Whale www.myspace.com/noahandthewhale
The Ting Tings www.myspace.com/thetingtings
Give It A Name Introduces Tour Ft. www.giveitaname.co.uk
Wednesday 13 www.wednesday13.com
Broken Social Scene www.myspace.com/brokensocialscene
All Time Low www.alltimelow.com
Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer www.zoloftherockandrolldestroyer.com
Stornoway www.myspace.com/stornoway
Saul Williams www.myspace.com/saulwilliams
Kids In Glass Houses www.myspace.com/kidsinglasshouses
Duke Special www.dukespecial.com
Dead Kennedys www.deadkennedys.com
DJ Derek www.myspace.com/skylarkin_soundsystem
Limehouse Lizzy www.limehouselizzy.co.uk

   
 
 
Big Village
16b Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BG.
Tel: 01865 247714. Bookings: 01865 305305
Web:
 
 
 

Saturday 3rd
Performances: 7.30pm. Tickets: £10.00, £8.00 conc, U12s Free call 01865 305305.
Venue: The North Wall Arts Centre.

Daphna Sadeh & The Voyagers Daphna Sadeh

A decade ago, when cross-cultural music was still a relative rarity, Daphna Sadeh was a member of the innovative "East/West Ensemble". The musicians came from diverse origins, with deep roots in the culture of Asia, The Mediterranean and the Middle East. The Voyagers, Daphna's current group, encapsulate the same spirit, and continue the quest of creating inter-cultural music as a reflection of the world in which we live.

   
 
 

Saturday 24th
Performance: 7.30pm.
Tickets: £13.50, £10.00conc, U12s Free call 01865 305305. Venue: Wolvercote Village Hall, Oxford.

Merlin Shepherd’s Kapelye Merlin Shepherd

After discovering an archive of extremely rare Jewish silent films made in Kiev between 1910-1945 he and his wife Polina accompanied the films on clarinet and piano at festivals all over Europe and in the US.

The couple also work together on a yiddish a capella quartet "Ashkenazim", performing in London, Brighton, Moscow, St Petersburg, throughout the former Soviet Union and most recently at Ashkenaz in Toronto.

Most recent collaborations have been with remixer/reworker of Balkan & Jewish music Max Pashm on his latest release "Never Mind the Balkans"

   
 
 
Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
St Hilda’s College, Oxford OX4 1DY.
Tel: 01865 276821.
Tickets: 01865 305305.
Web:
   
 
 

Sunday 18th

Cushion Concerts - the Saxophone
Performance: 9.30. 10.30 & 11.30am.
Tickets £5.00.

 

   
 
 

Saturday 24th

Springboard: Tomorrow's Musicians Today
Performance: All day.
Tickets: Tickets £20.00.
Mini festival in day including much more than music - all day.
   
 
 

Saturday 31st
Performance: See Website.
Tickets:£13.50 /£10.00.

JdP Series - Badke Quartet Badke Quartet

Aldeburgh on Tour. Programme to include Haydn and Beethoven.

   
 
 
Oxford Chamber Orchestra
Tel: 01865 305305.
Web:
 
 
 

Sunday 13th
Performance: 3pm
Venue: Holywell Music Room
Tickets: £5.00, £15.00 &
£17.00

Jonathan Williams conducts the Oxford
Chamber Orchestra
Oxford Chamber Orchestra

Mozart Overture to ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Wagner Siegfried Idyll, Bizet Carmen Suite No 1 and Elgar ‘Enigma’ Variations’. ‘A superbly played concert from one of Oxford’s premier ensembles’ Cherwell24. ‘They didn’t disappoint; they kept up the momentum to the last, their delivery utterly enthralling’ Oxford Times.

   
 
 
Oxford Chamber Music Society
Tickets: Oxford Playhouse 01865 305305.
Web:
Web:
 
 
 
Early Music by Candlelight
Tickets at the door or from The Playhouse: 01865 305305. Group concessions: 01865 751928.
Web:
 
 
 
North Wall Arts Centre
South Parade, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7NN
Web:
 
 
 
Orchestra Europa
Tickets: From the Oxford Playhouse 01865 305305
Web:
 
 
 
City of Oxford Orchestra
Tel: 01865 744457.
Email:
Web:
 
 
 
English Sinfonia
Tel: 0845 643 1379. Email:
Web:
 
 
 
The Spin
The Wheatsheaf, 129 High Street, Oxford.
Tel: 01865 741909.
Web:
 
 
 
The Oxford Sinfonia
Tickets from Oxford Playhouse 01865 305305.
Tel: 07775 904626. Web:
 
 
 
Opera Anywhere
Tickets: Oxford Playhouse 01865 305305
Web:
 
 
 
Charivari Agréable
Tel: 01865 305305 for tickets or 01865 751928 for further information.
Tickets: £20.00 and £18.00 (conc £18/£16/312) at the door and from The Oxford Playhouse.
Web:
 
 
 
Oxford Lieder
12 Windrush, Nr. Burford, Oxon, OX18 4TS
Web:
 
 
 
The 18th Century Concert Orchestra
For Tickets:
Web:
 
 
 
Moonrakers Celtic Music
Tel: 01865 769206.
Email:
Web:
 
 
 
The Sixteen
Box Office: 01865 305 305
Web:
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Oxford Chamber Music Festival
Information:
Tickets: or
Tel: 01865 305305
 
 
 
Oxford Chamber Orchestra
Tickets: Tel: 01865 305305 Oxford Playhouse or on the door.
Web:
 
 
   
 
 
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