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I N C L U D E S H O L Y W E L L M U S I C R O O M C O N C E R T L I S T I N G S
FACULTY OF
MUSIC Autumn/Winter Events 2014/5Michaelmas & Hilary Terms
www.music.ox.ac.uk/events
OCTOBER 25 OXFORD PHILOMUSICA YOUNG ARTISTS PLATFORM: DANIEL SHAO 18NOVEMBER 2 BALLIOL COLLEGE: THE SMETANA TRIO CONCERT 16NOVEMBER 6 OXFORD UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA 18NOVEMBER 15 KEBLE COLLEGE: ORGAN RECITAL 16NOVEMBER 16 OXFORD PHILOMUSICA THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE: CHORAL VESPERS 17NOVEMBER 21/22 NEW COLLEGE: NEW CHAMBER OPERA 17NOVEMBER 22 MERTON COLLEGE 750TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT 17NOVEMBER 26 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PHILHARMONIA 18DECEMBER 1 OXFORD UNIVERSITY SINFONIETTA 18DECEMBER 3 OXFORD UNIVERSITY WIND ORCHESTRA 18JANUARY 24 ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT SIDE BY SIDE CONCERT 19JANUARY 30/31 NEW COLLEGE: NEW CHAMBER OPERA 17FEBRUARY 21 OXFORD PHILOMUSICA CONCERT 18
OCTOBER 13 VIOLIN MASTERCLASS: ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER 21OCTOBER 20 SCHUBERT SONGS MASTERCLASS: SUSAN YOUENS 21OCTOBER 27 CONDUCTING SEMINAR: JOHN TRAILL 21NOVEMBER 1 CONDUCTING WORKSHOP: JOHN TRAILL 21FEBRUARY 6 WORKSHOP AND CONCERT: MARMARA PIANO TRIO 20MARCH 6 WORKSHOP: CONTRAPUNCTUS 11MARCH 13 PIANO MASTERCLASS: ANGELA HEWITT 21
OCTOBER 27-31 HALF TERM: FAMILY EVENTS 23NOVEMBER 22 FAMILY FUN DAY 23NOVEMBER 26 BATE CONCERT 23FEBRUARY 14 FAMILY FUN DAY 23FEBRUARY 16-20 HALF TERM: FAMILY EVENTS 23
The Denis Arnold Hall and the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments are situated within the Faculty ofMusic, on St Aldate’s, Oxford, OX1 1DB.
These premises are accessible to those with mobility difficulties, visual impairments, and hearing impairments.
The Holywell Music Room is in Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3SB.Further information about the Faculty of Music is available on our website: www.music.ox.ac.ukFind us on our Facebook page ‘Music Faculty Events, University of Oxford’Chairman of Performance Committee: Dr Mine Dogantan-DackConcerts and Events Manager:Aloïse Fiala-MurphyEvents Office:Arabella Pratt, Marie-Alice Frappat and Cayenna PonchioneDesign and production: white space | www.white-space.netCover: Masters’ student practising on the Holywell Music Room grand piano (Photo: John Cairns)Other Photography: Peter Mays, John Cairns, Marco Borggrave, Sim Canetty-Clarke, Tom Barnes, Katrin Schander, Aiga Photography, Tina Takit/DG, Anne Deniau, Joel Baldwin and Hugo Glendinning.The weeks indicated next to the dates relate to the University term.
Welcome to the latest season ofconcerts and events organised and hosted by the Oxford Facultyof Music.
This autumn we are delighted towelcome two very special musicians
to give recitals in the Holywell Music Room: AlexandreTharaud, one of France’s best loved pianists, andviolinist and Music alumna Jennifer Pike. You may haveheard both of them at the Proms this summer.
A particular highlight for us in the Music Faculty is thecelebrations to mark the 50th birthday of one of ourcolleagues, Martyn Harry. You will have the chance tohear his music played by young Oxford musicians, aswell as His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Also, thefirst edition of OSEMP, the Oxford/SennheiserElectronic Music Prize, will no doubt be an importantevent in the national electronic music calendar.
In addition, the Humanitas programme welcomes tenorIan Bostridge; Oxford Lieder is working with ourstudents, composers and singers; Oxford Philomusica iscollaborating with the Bodleian Libraries to bring to life
the music of Adolf Von Henselt, and presentingmasterclasses with international stars Anne-SophieMutter and Angela Hewitt, in addition to orchestral andstring quartet composition workshops; and theOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment continues itstransformative student side-by-side project. All eventsare open to the public.
The New Year will see a concert by resident ensembleContrapunctus, the New Music Forum featuresdistinguished visiting composer Rebecca Saunders and,appearing for the first time in Oxford, the Marmara Triogives a concert and workshop.
And all are welcome to attend the Faculty’s regularseries of academic seminars, the fixed point on theweekly Oxford musicological landscape – details inside!
Do join us!
Professor Jonathan Cross, Chair, Music Faculty Board
If you would like to be added to our mailing list please email [email protected] with your details.
OCTOBER 14 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: DANIEL GRIMLEY 28OCTOBER 21 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: RAFFAELE POZZI 28OCTOBER 23 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: SEAN CURRAN 27OCTOBER 28 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: LAURA TUNBRIDGE 28OCTOBER 30 SEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND SOUND STUDIES: ELIOT BATES 26OCTOBER 30 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: SUSAN RANKIN 27NOVEMBER 4 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: ANNE HYLAND 28NOVEMBER 11 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: STEVEN CONNOR 28NOVEMBER 18 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: DANIEL GRIMLEY AND STEPHANUS MULLER 28NOVEMBER 20 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: KATE VAN ORDEN 27NOVEMBER 25 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: JULIE BROWN 28NOVEMBER 27 SEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND SOUND STUDIES: ELENI IKONIADOU 26DECEMBER 2 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: HENRY HOPE 28DECEMBER 4 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: MAGNUS WILLIAMSON 27JANUARY 29 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: REINHARD STROHM 27FEBRUARY 12 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: SUSANA ZAPKE 27FEBRUARY 13-15 BALZAN WORKSHOP-CONFERENCE: MELANIE PLESCH 24FEBRUARY 26 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: EMMA DILLON 27MARCH 12 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: ANNA ZAYARUZNAYA 27
EVENT CALENDAR
OCTOBER 31 SCHUBERT’S LEGACY CONCERT 14NOVEMBER 8 OSEMP: OXFORD/SENNHEISER ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRIZE FINAL 12NOVEMBER 12 ENSEMBLE ISIS CONCERT: THE MUSIC OF ADAM GORB 14NOVEMBER 30 HARRYFEST I CONCERT 13DECEMBER 1 HARRYFEST II CONCERT 13DECEMBER 3 OXFORD PHILOMUSICA: STRING QUARTET COMPOSITION WORKSHOP 14FEBRUARY 3 OXFORD PHILOMUSICA: STRING QUARTET COMPOSITION WORKSHOP 14FEBRUARY 9 MIXED ENSEMBLE WORKSHOP: JOE CUTLER 14FEBRUARY 21 OXFORD PHILOMUSICA: ORCHESTRAL COMPOSITION WORKSHOP AND CONCERT 15FEBRUARY 21 OXFORD LIEDER: VOICE AND PIANO WORKSHOP 15FEBRUARY 23 RICHARD CASEY AND ED HUGHES CONCERT 15FEBRUARY 24 SOLO PIANO AND ELECTRONICS COMPOSITION WORKSHOP 15FEBRUARY 24 ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION WORKSHOP: TREVOR WISHART 15FEBRUARY 25 COMPOSER TALKS 15FEBRUARY 26 SOLO INSTRUMENT AND PIANO COMPOSITION WORKSHOP 15FEBRUARY 26 ENSEMBLE ISIS CONCERT: THE MUSIC OF REBECCA SAUNDERS 15FEBRUARY 27 NEW MUSIC PLAYERS COMPOSITION WORKSHOP: REBECCA SAUNDERS 15
NOVEMBER 14 LECTURE: GRAHAM VICK 25NOVEMBER 15 OPERA MASTERCLASS: GRAHAM VICK 25NOVEMBER 18 HUMANITAS LECTURE: IAN BOSTRIDGE 6NOVEMBER 19 HUMANITAS RECITAL: IAN BOSTRIDGE 6NOVEMBER 21 HUMANITAS SYMPOSIUM 6NOVEMBER 23 HUMANITAS OPEN REHEARSAL/MASTERCLASS 6NOVEMBER 29 CLAVICHORD RECITAL: DAVID GERRARD 25NOVEMBER 30 FORTEPIANO RECITAL: JOHN IRVING 25
NOVEMBER 3 ALEXANDRE THARAUD RECITAL 4NOVEMBER 23 HENSELT ANNIVERSARY CONCERT 7NOVEMBER 29 JENNIFER PIKE RECITAL 8MARCH 7 CONTRAPUNCTUS CONCERT 10C
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CONCERTS | Alexandre Tharaud
Monday 3 November (4th week)8pmHolywell Music Room
Piano recitalAlexandre Tharaud Following his Prom’s appearance with the BBC Philharmonic in July and earlier this year at theWigmore Hall, acclaimed French pianist Alexandre Tharaud brings his trademark versatileperformance and programmes for the first time to Oxford.
Tharaud reached an increasingly large fan base when he appeared in Michael Haneke's Oscarwinning film Amour in 2012.
His recital in the Holywell Music Room features some of Schubert's best-loved piano pieces,Tharaud's own arrangement of the iconic Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony No.5 and musicby French composers from both extremes of the piano music spectrum, Couperin and Ravel.
Book early to avoid disappointment.
“His range of touch and colour, and his sheer enthusiasm, shine through every jewel-likepiece.” (The Guardian)
Schubert Six Moments Musicaux D.780 Op.94Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No.5 (transc. for piano Tharaud)Couperin Extracts from Pièces de clavecin : La Logivière, Les Rozeaux, Les Baricades
mistérieuses, Le Carillon de Cithère, Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou Les MaillotinsRavel Miroirs
Tickets£14/£10
01865 305 305www.ticketsoxford.comIn person at the OxfordPlayhouse or on the door
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OTHER EVENTS | Humanitas
Humanitas Visiting Professorship at the Universities of Oxfordand CambridgeCreated by Lord Weidenfield, the Humanitas programme is managedand funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in collaborationwith the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford. TheProfessorships in Music at Oxford are in association with St John’sCollege (Professor Jason Stanyek, Academic Director) and NewCollege (Professor Michael Burden, Academic Director).
Ian BostridgeHumanitas Visiting Professor in ClassicalMusic and Music Education18-23 November (6th Week)
Tuesday 18 November 5-6.30pmAuditorium, St John’s CollegeLecture: Why Winterreise?Schubert's Song Cycle, Then and NowDrinks reception follows the lecture
Wednesday 19 November 5-7pmHolywell Music RoomRecitalIan Bostridge, tenorJulius Drake, pianoSchumann’s Dichterliebe and songs by Lizst and Strauss.
Friday 21 November 9am-7pmErtegun House, 37A St GilesSymposium: Voice, Memory, Song
Sunday 23 November 2.30-5.30pmSheldonian TheatreOpen Rehearsal/Masterclass: Mahler Orchestral Songs with the OxfordUniversity Orchestra and guest singers
Sunday 23 November (7th week)7pm Holywell Music Room
Henselt Anniversary ConcertRichard Beattie Davis Collection
Dmitri Shostakovich Two Pieces for string quartet Aleksandr Borodin String Quartet No. 2, in D major Adolf von Henselt* Piano Concerto, Op. 16bis
(chamber version)
The Soloists of Oxford Philomusica, Resident Ensemble at The Queen’s CollegeDaniel Grimwood, pianoCayenna Ponchione, conductor*
Adolf von Henselt is regarded by many as the father of theRussian school of piano playing and this year marks both thebicentenary of his birth and the 125th anniversary of hisdeath. The composer's Piano Concerto will be performedin its chamber version by renowned pianist Daniel
Grimwood (pictured) and The Soloistsof Oxford Philomusica in thisspecial concert to mark theBodleian Library’s acquisitionof the substantial RichardBeattie Davis collection ofRussian music donated tothe library by his widow Mrs
Gillian Davis. The first half of theconcert will feature Borodin’s wonderfully lyricalString Quartet No. 2 as well as the Two Pieces forString Quartet by Shostakovich, whose teacher,Glazunov, is a prominent figure in the collection.
Promoted by Oxford Philomusica in association with theBodleian Libraries and the Faculty of Music.
Tickets£20Students £15
www.oxfordphil.com01865 980980
The events are free and open to all,but admittance is strictly by ticket only.
To register for your free ticket: www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/humanitas
CONCERTS | Henselt Anniversary Concert
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Saturday 29 November (7th week)Holywell Music Room
7pmIn ConversationQ&A between violinist and Music alumnaJennifer Pike, composer and Music alumnusThomas Hyde, composer and Music Facultylecturer Robert Saxton.
7.30pmRecitalJennifer Pike, violinPeter Limonov, piano
Oxford Music alumna and outstandingviolinist Jennifer Pike pays a rare visitto Oxford.
In the intimate setting of the Holywell MusicRoom she plays a programme of chambermusic with talented pianist Peter Limonov,mixing new and classic pieces for the violin.
The youngest-ever winner of the BBC YoungMusician of the Year and the youngest majorprizewinner in the Menuhin InternationalViolin Competition, Jennifer is highly indemand as a soloist with top orchestrasworldwide, having recently released to greatacclaim the Sibelius Concerto with theBergen Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis.
Thomas Hyde Sonata for violin and piano,Op.14 (2014)
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 in E flatmajor Op. 12, no. 3
“A tremendous juxtaposition of artistic flairand humility” (The Herald)
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CONCERTS | Jennifer Pike
Tickets£15/£12
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Saturday 7 March (7th Week) 7.30pmChapel of The Queen’s College, Oxford
ContrapunctusOwen Rees, director
In the Midst of Life: Music from the Baldwin PartbooksThe Baldwin partbooks in the library ofChrist Church are the richest single sourceof Tudor music copied during Elizabeth I'sreign. This concert presents motets from thepartbooks on the theme of mortality byByrd, Parsons, Mundy, Taverner, and Tallis,with the centrepiece being Sheppard’s epicMedia vita. The Tenor partbook of the set ismissing, and Contrapunctus here presentnew reconstructions of several works.Contrapunctus is Vocal Consort in Residenceat the University of Oxford. Their debut disc‘Libera nos: The Cry of the Oppressed‘ onSignum Classics was shortlisted for theGramophone Early Music Award 2014.
Friday 6 March (7th Week) 2-4.30 pmDenis Arnold Hall, Faculty of MusicWorkshop: Editing the Baldwin PartbooksAn opportunity to develop skills in editingTudor polyphony and completing missingparts. The workshop will be led by Prof. OwenRees and Dr Magnus Williamson, and formspart of the AHRC ‘Tudor Partbooks’ researchproject. Five singers from Contrapunctus willparticipate, giving the opportunity foreditorial solutions to be tried out during thesession, and to seek the singers’ perspective.Free admission – open to the public
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CONCERTS | Contrapunctus
Tickets£15/£12
01865 305 305www.ticketsoxford.comIn person at the OxfordPlayhouse or on the door
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HarryFestCelebrating the 50th Birthday ofProfessor Martyn HarrySunday 30 November (8th week)Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College
6.15pm Pre-concert talk7pm ConcertJonathan Powell, piano Cavaleri Quartet
Harry Chamber Intimacy (2005)Bletchley Bedford Sandy (2014)Beltway Series (2014)Wild Boar Quartet (2014)
Tickets: from £3st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp/ticketsMusic Faculty members free
Monday 1 December (8th week)Holywell Music Room
7.15pm Interview with the composer 8pm ConcertHis Majestys Sagbutts and CornettsEnsemble Isis conducted by John Traill
Harry Fantasy Unbuttoned (1998)Eingestellt (2007)At his Majesty’s Pleasure (2012)
Free Admission
These two concerts mark the 50th birthdayof composer Martyn Harry, who is based at St Anne’s and St Hilda’s colleges. HarryFestfeatures a programme of chamber andinstrumental music at the JdP (with guestsoprano Lore Lixenberg), and a concert ofensemble works including the UK premiereof “Eingestellt” (played by members of theCavaleri Quartet and bassist DeborahPritchard) and a selection of movementsfrom “At His Majesty’s Pleasure”, performedby His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
OSEMPOxford/Sennheiser Electronic Music Prize Saturday 8 November (4th week)Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College
7pm – 10pmOSEMP Final
The Music Faculty and leading audio specialist Sennheiser UK have this year organized the very firstOxford/Sennheiser Electronic Music Prize [OSEMP]: an annual competition and event to helppromote innovative and communicative electronic music composition in the UK.
The jury panel members include notable electroacoustic composers, Natasha Barrett, Martyn Harryand Trevor Wishart.
On 8 November, finalists will be invited to take part in the OSEMP showcase event. There will be amixed bag of multi-channel electroacoustic diffusion plus some live electronics performance sets. Thefinalists will all perform their pieces and the three winners will be announced. Trevor Wishart is set topreview a movement of his latest 8 channel electroacoustic work, Natasha Barrett will perform amulti-channel piece, and Manchester’s Slip Discs record label will showcase artists from its roster.
All this plus OxLOrk, Oxford’s own laptop orchestra will be performing in the atrium during intervalsthroughout the evening.
Free admission, limited numbers – www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp/tickets
OSEMP updates @OSEMPupdates
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NEW MUSIC | HarryFestNEW MUSIC | OSEMP
Orchestral CompositionWorkshop and ConcertSaturday 21 FebruarySheldonian TheatreOxford Philomusica, John Traill, conductor10am-12pm Workshop7.30pm Concert including world
premiere of Nahash by Huw Belling (selected fromthe 2013/14 Composers’Workshop). Workshopadmission free. For concerttickets see page 18.
New Music Forum 2015 21-27 February (6th week) This week-long festival of new musicfeatures performances, talks and intimateworkshops by visiting performers andcomposers and Oxford’s compositionfaculty and students. Admission is freeunless otherwise stated.The Forum’s composer in residence,Rebecca Saunders (pictured), joins us fromBerlin from 25-27 February.
Concert –Schubert’s Legacy: New Aspects
Friday 31 October (3rd week) 1.10pmHolywell Music RoomA collaboration with the Oxford Lieder Festivaland Oxford Comparative Criticism and
Translation centre.Postgraduate compositionstudents work withOxford writers on newversions of Schubert’sGoethe texts in English.The new pieces are
presented along withSchubert’s original songs.
Post-concert discussion of the creative processled by Prof. Robert Saxton.
Tickets £12 www.ticketsoxford.com 01865 305305
Concert – Ensemble ISISWednesday 12 November (5th week) 1pmHolywell Music RoomOxford University’s elite New Music ensemble,Ensemble ISIS performs the music of AdamGorb, Head of the School of Composition atthe Royal Northern College of Music. JohnTraill, conductor. Admission is free.
Mixed Ensemble Composition WorkshopMonday 9 February (4th week) 1.30-4.30pmDenis Arnold Hall, Faculty of MusicComposer Joe Cutler responds to studentcompositions performed by Ensemble ISIS,conducted by John Traill. Admission is free.
String QuartetComposition WorkshopThe Soloists of Oxford Philomusica
Wednesday 3 December (8th week)Tuesday 3 February (3rd week) 2-5pmHolywell Music RoomAdmission is free.
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NEW MUSICCo-convenors: Professor Martyn Harry and Professor Saxton. Musical Director: Dr John Traill.
Voice and Piano Composition Workshop In association with Oxford Lieder FestivalSaturday 21 February 2-5pmHolywell Music Room
Concert for Piano and ElectronicsMonday 23 February 8pmJacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College
Richard Casey, piano and Ed Hughes, electronicsMusic by Hughes, Harry and Harvey.
Tickets: £5, music students freewww.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building
Solo Piano and ElectronicsComposition Workshop Tuesday 24 February 10am-1pmJacqueline du Pré Music Building
Trevor Wishart ElectroacousticComposition WorkshopTuesday 24 February 2-5pmJacqueline du Pré Music Building
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Composer TalksWednesday 25 February9.30am-12pmCommittee Room, Faculty of MusicCurrent Oxford postgraduates speak abouttheir creative processes. Refreshments served.
Solo Instrument and PianoComposition Workshop Wednesday 26 February3-6pmEnsemble Room
Ensemble ISIS Concert: The Musicof Rebecca SaundersThursday 26 February 1pmDenis Arnold Hall, Faculty of MusicISIS performs new music by students and visiting composer, Rebecca Saunders. John Traill, conductor.
New Music Players Composition WorkshopFriday 27 February 10.30am-1.30pm2.30-5.30pmDenis Arnold Hall Guest composer Rebecca Saunders respondsto student compositions for clarinet, cello,harp and percussion in this workshopconvened by Prof. Martyn Harry.
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New College Friday 21 andSaturday 22 November
(6th week) 8.30pmNew College Ante-chapel
Tomaso AlbinoniThe DomineeringChambermaid
New Chamber OperaMusical director: Michael Pandya Director: Michael Burden
Tickets £12/£6 fromwww.ticketsource.co.uk
Merton College Saturday 22November (6thweek) 7.30pm
Merton College 750thAnniversary Concert
Merton College Choirperforms a programme toinclude the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’sChorale-Prelude, set to apoem by Geoffrey Hill,Stravinsky’s Mass, and musicby William Byrd.
Tickets £20 fromwww.ticketsoxford.com
New CollegeFriday 30 andSaturday 31January
(2nd week) 8.30pmNew College Ante-chapel
Michael NymanThe man who mistook hiswife for a hat
New Chamber OperaMusical director: Michael Pandya Director: Michael Burden
Tickets £12/£6 fromwww.ticketsource.co.uk
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WORKSHOPS & MASTERCLASSESCOLLEGE MUSIC
Merton College Thursdays at 1.15pmMichaelmas Term – 16, 23, 30 October; 6, 20, 27 November; 4 December.Hilary Term 2015 – 22, 29 January; 5, 12, 26 February; 5, 12 March.
Daniel Hyde, organist of Magdalen College, plays the complete organ works of J S Bach to celebrate thenew Dobson organ at Merton College, in their 750th year. It is some years since the complete workshave been played in Oxford, especially by a single performer. Admission free with retiring collection.
Balliol CollegeSunday 2 November (4thweek) 8.30pm Balliol College Hall
The Ernest Walker Concert (1845th concert)by the Smetana TrioJosef Suk Trio in C Minor, op. 2Bedrich Smetana Trio in G Minor, op. 15Antonin Dvorak Trio, op. 90, "Dumky"Free admission - open to the public
Keble College Saturday 15 November (5thweek) 8.30pm Keble College Chapel
David Bednall improvises to the filmNosferatu on the Tickell organ.Admission free with retiring collection.
Oxford PhilomusicaOrchestra in Residence at the University of Oxford
The Queen’s College Sunday 16 November (6th week) 6.15pm
The Queen’s College Chapel
Queen’s Choral VespersThe Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford Philomusica, Owen Rees conductor.Echoing the Leipzig tradition of sacred worship, Oxford Philomusica join the Choir ofThe Queen’s College for a Choral Vespers service of reflection, featuring Bach’s best-loved cantata ‘Wachet auf’ (Sleepers Awake) and music from Monteverdi’s great choralmasterpiece, the achingly beautiful 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin. Admission free.
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STUDENT MUSIC
Oxford University Music Society exists to support, develop and improve theperformance and appreciation of music within the University. Members receivea weekly newsletter summarising upcoming musical events throughout the
city, as well as discounts to a plethora of performances throughout Oxford. For moreinformation visit www.oums.org
Oxford University OrchestraThursday 6 November (4th week)8pmSheldonian TheatreStrauss Don JuanBrahms Symphony no.4Hugh Brunt, conductorSean Dunn, leaderTickets: http://ouo.oums.org/
Oxford University PhilharmoniaWednesday 26 November (7th week)8pmSheldonian Theatre Tickets £10/5 http://ouphil.oums.org/
Oxford University Sinfonietta
Monday 1 December (8th week)8pmChapel, St Peter's CollegeByrd Pavan and Galliard a 6Haydn “London" SymphonyMaxwell-Davies Symphony no. 4Isabel Stoppani de Berrié, conductorTickets £10/£5 http://ousinf.oums.org/
Oxford University Wind Orchestra Wednesday 3 December (8th week)7.30pmChapel, St Peter's College Programme to be announcedTickets £8/4 in advance, £10/5 on the door http://ouwo.oums.org
Saturday 21 February (5th week)7.30pm Sheldonian TheatreHuw Belling Nahash (world première)Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minorSibelius Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 43Oxford PhilomusicaMakoto Nakata violinMarios Papadopoulos conductor
Following her success in the 2014 OxfordshireYouth Concerto Competition, undergraduateMusic student Makoto Nakata takes to thestage to perform with Oxford Philomusica. Theorchestra will also give the world première ofDPhil student Huw Belling’s Nahash, a workselected from the Philomusica’s 2013/14Composers’ Workshop. Finally, Sibelius’s greatSymphony No. 2 brings this fascinatingprogramme pairing youthful talent andprofound wisdom to a close.Tickets: £42-£5 Box office: 01865 980980www.oxfordphil.com
Orchestra of the Age of EnlightenmentOrchestra in association with the Faculty of Music
Saturday 24 January (2nd week)3pm Holywell Music RoomConcertDirector: Alison BuryFlute: Lisa BeznosiukKeyboard: Robert HowarthMusic Faculty students
After a successful first year running their student programme in Oxford, principal players ofthe Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment are back this year working with Music students,giving them an insight into historical performance and playing side by side in what promises to be a special occasion for performers and audience alike. They will present an excitingprogramme of core baroque repertoire music featuring French music by Lully and Rameau,Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.1 in G and Purcell’s Chaconne from Fairy Queen. A uniqueopportunity not to be missed.
Open to the public – Admission free
Oxford PhilomusicaOrchestra in Residence at the University of Oxford
Saturday 25October(2nd week)6.30pmSheldonian Theatre
Young ArtistsPlatform
Music by Roussel,Carter and Jolivet
Daniel Shao FluteJoshua Hagley Piano
Free admission
In 2002 Oxford Philomusica was appointed the Orchestra in Residence at theUniversity of Oxford. This Residency offers training, tuition and performingopportunities to students, as well as a prestigious season of concerts for
students and academics alike.
Violin Masterclass with Anne-Sophie Mutter Monday 13 October (1st week)
10-11amSheldonian TheatreA fantastic opportunity to witness a masterclass with the celebrated virtuoso violinist. To apply toparticipate, please contact [email protected] Tickets £5.
Piano Masterclass with Angela HewittFriday 13 March (8th week) 11am-12.30pm
Holywell Music RoomOne of the world's leading solo artists gives a masterclass to student pianists.To apply to participate, contact [email protected] £5, 01865 980 980 to book.
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Schubert Songs MasterclassMonday 20 October (2nd week) 2.30pm-5pm Harris Manchester College Chapel
Renowned Schubert scholar and inspiring teacher, Susan Youens(University of Notre Dame) will work with Music students onSchubert songs. This masterclass is offered by the Oxford LiederFestival as part of their 2014 Schubert Project. Tickets £3 on the door, free to Music students.
Workshop by Marmara Piano TrioMine Dogantan-Dack, piano; Mona Kodama, violin; Sarah Butcher, celloFriday 6 February (3rd week) 2-3.30pm Holywell Music Room The Marmara Piano Trio will conduct an interactive workshop on Beethoven’s infrequentlyperformed trio in E Flat major, Op. 70 No.2.
The workshop will familiarize the audience with this piano trio work byintroducing the structural and thematic components of each movement, and the larger-scale tonal narrative that unfolds.
The workshop will be followed by an evening concert by the Marmara Trio.
Concert by Marmara Piano TrioFriday 6 February(3rd week) 6.30pm Holywell Music Room Marmara Piano Trio was established in2009, and has won amajor award from theAHRC (Arts andHumanities ResearchCouncil of the UK) fortheir research onclassical chamberensemble practice. The trio has emerged as an innovativeensemble throughtheir practice of open-rehearsals and workshops reflecting on music-making. Haydn Piano Trio in E major Hob.XV/28Brahms Piano Trio in C minor Op.101 (1886)Beethoven Piano Trio Op. 70 No. 2 in E Flat major
Free admission - Open to the public.
WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES
Music students
[email protected] to sign-up for the masterclass for free
AllstudentsEmail [email protected] to reserve your free ticket
Conducting Workshops with John Traill (Oxford Conducting Institute)
Monday 27 October 2-4pmDenis Arnold Hall, Faculty of MusicSeminar for participants. Free admission - open to the public.
Saturday 1 November (3rd week) 9.30am-12.30pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of MusicWorkshop with orchestra provided by OUMS. Repertoire: Mendelssohn String Symphony No.10 in b minor.
A second workshop will take in May with the OxfordshireCounty Youth Orchestra. Outstanding participants will beselected for a third workshop, with the Oxford Philomusica,
on 19 June 2015 at the Sheldonian Theatre.
The Oxford Conducting Institute events range in focus from professional training, work in education and with non-professional orchestras, to outreach, enterprise, andcareer development.
Music students
[email protected] to sign-up for the
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THE BATE COLLECTION |Bate Collection of Musical InstrumentsFaculty of Music, St Aldate’s, Oxford OX1 1DBwww.bate.ox.ac.uk 01865 276139
The Bate Collection The Bate Collection celebrates thehistory and development of musicalinstruments of the Western Classicaltradition from the medieval perioduntil the present day. The Collectionis made available for study and
judicious use by scholars, students, makers, andplayers, so as to enhance and increase theknowledge of the history of music as well asthe enjoyment of historical performance.
The Bate Collection ShopA veritable Aladdin’s cave of musical toys,beautiful cards, gifts and delights.
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The Faculty of Music is seeking funding for artist
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BATE CONCERTViol Concert Wednesday 26 November (5th Week)8pmHolywell Music RoomTickets £6/£12Enquiries to: Bate [email protected]
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONMusic of the TudorsUntil November 2014Free admission – Open to the public
EVENING CLASSES Learn Gamelan with the OxfordGamelan SocietyWednesday Evenings6-9.30pmcommencing 15 OctoberOGS meet at the Faculty of Music on Wednesdayevenings during the University Term. This is a chanceto learn to play on the Javanese Gamelan with othermembers of the group.
www.bate.ox.ac.uk/forecast-of-events.html
FAMILY EVENTS27 – 31 October (half term week) 2–5pm
16 – 20 February (half term week) 2-5pm
Gallery activities including trails, colouring andword-searches.Free of charge, no advance booking necessary
FAMILY FUN DAYSSaturday 22 November 10am-2pmSaturday 14 February 10am-2pmA day of family events featuring: A treasure trail, livemusical performances and demonstrations. Plus achance to play some of the instruments in thehandling collection.
Free of charge, no advance booking necessary
www.bate.ox.ac.uk/family-friendly-activities.html
Led by Reinhard Strohm, Emeritus Professor of Music at Oxford University in collaboration withan international committee of musicologists from Humboldt University, Berlin, The HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem, King's College London, University of Oxford, University of Vienna and theUniversity of Zurich, this two-day event is part of a new research programme in musicology,Towards a Global History of Music.
Open to the public – Admission freeEmail [email protected] for more information
Supported by the Balzan Foundation
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Balzan Programme in Musicology 2013-2016
“Towards a Global History of Music”
WORKSHOP-CONFERENCE Friday 13 - Sunday 15 FebruaryDenis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music
Topical encounters and rhetorics of identity in Latin American art musicConvenor: Dr Melanie Plesch (The University of Melbourne)
SEMINARS | Balzan workshop-conference OTHER EVENTS | Visiting Chair in Opera Studies / Bach Conference
VISITING CHAIR IN OPERA STUDIES2014-15: GRAHAM VICKFriday 14 November (5th week)5pmT. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton CollegeLecture: Opera and the socially responsible artistSaturday 15 November (5th week)9.30-12.30Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of MusicOpera MasterclassFree admission but tickets are required fromhttp://www.ticketsource.co.uk
Graham Vick is the Artistic Director of BirminghamOpera Company and works in the world’s major operahouses with the world’s leading conductors: Muti,Levine, Haitink, Gergiev, Runnicles Ozawa, Mehta.
He was Director of Productions at Scottish Opera(1984-1987) and at Glyndebourne (1994-2000). Hismany awards include Italy’s Premio Abbiati five timesand Britain’s South Bank Show Award for Opera inboth 1999 and 2002.
The University's statutory Visiting Chair in OperaStudies, funded by the Clore-Duffield Foundation, ishosted by New College.
C.P.E. BACH TERCENTENARYCONFERENCE Organisers: Susan Wollenberg, Joe Davies,and Andy Lamb
C.P.E. Bach and Eighteenth-CenturyKeyboard Culture29–30 November 2014Faculty of MusicAnnette Richards and Matthew Head will providethe keynote addresses in this two-day conference.Other invited speakers will include: Keith Chapin,Tom Irvine, Joshua Walden, Hans-GünterOttenberg, Estelle Joubert, Sheila Guymer, JohnMcKean, Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat, and SusanWollenberg. The conference will feature twokeyboard recitals.For further details and information aboutregistration see: www.music.ox.ac.uk/cpeb
Clavichord recital by David GerrardSaturday 29 November (7th week)9.15pmSt Cross CollegeMusic by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg PhilippTelemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel BachTickets on the door: £12/£6
Fortepiano recital by John Irving Sunday 30 November (8th week)3pmHolywell Music RoomSonatas by Joseph HaydnTickets on the door: £14/£7
In this workshop-conference, convened by Dr Melanie Plesch (The University of Melbourne), an international panel of musicologists explores how the theory of topics can help elucidate thecomplex webs of identity in Latin American art music.
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SEMINARS | Seminars in Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies
Michaelmas termThursday 30 October (3rd week)Eliot Bates Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at theUniversity of Birmingham
Village - Environment - Studio: “Doga için Çal”and the Cartographies of Modern TurkeyDoga için Çal, literally ‘play for nature’, is a video seriesfeaturing hundreds of amateur and professionalmusicians ostensibly playing or singing forenvironmentalism. This highly acclaimed, corporate-sponsored series quickly went viral after its initialsegment aired online in 2011. But the specific politicalvalences of the project are unclear, and in many regardsDoga için Çal, with its uncontroversial folksongrepertoire and absence of any ethnic language songs, isquite conservative. I argue that the series is perfectly‘natural’ with regards to Turkey's nearly ninety-yearhistory of state-driven national folklore projects. Ratherthan a radical departure, Doga için Çal serves to ‘re-map’ both Turkish nationalized folklore and the
practices and spaces of the recording studio onto the Turkish Republic and Turkish diaspora – and in doing soheralds the 'death of the village' and underscores the asymmetrical economic development of different regions.My talk uses these videos to explore the audible aspects of how maps and mapping practices come to makespace more sensible.
Thursday 27 November (7th week)Eleni Ikoniadou Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication atKingston University
The Virtual Dimension of SoundIn the age of computational media, sound and itssubcultures can offer dynamic ways of accounting forbodies, events, and their perceptions. Particularly in thelast decade, an emerging audio culture, crossing boththeory and the arts, echoes an attempt to resist thetyranny of ocularcentrism and enable the considerationof new modes of thought. This talk explores the tracesand potentialities prompted by the sonic and theengagement that it affords with the speculative andpotential aspects of the event. It proposes that a notionof rhythm detached from the idea of counting andregularity can unlock the virtual dimension of sound,coexisting with but not exhausted by what is actuallyheard, sensed, and consciously perceived.
Convened by Professor Jason Stanyek | Thursdays 5-6:30pm, Ertegun House (37A St Giles) Free admission – Open to the publicSEMINARS | Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Michaelmas termThursday 23 October (2nd week)Sean Curran (Trinity College, Cambridge) The hocket as a musicopoetic device in somethirteenth-century motets
Thursday 30 October (3rd week) Susan Rankin (Cambridge University) Capturing Sound: Designing notation
Thursday 20 November (6th week)Kate van Orden (Harvard University) Musica Transalpina: French Music, musicians,and identity in 16th-century Italy
Thursday 4 December (8th week)Magnus Williamson (Newcastle University)Praying for a safe delivery: Mary Tudor, ThomasTallis and the chronology of Tudor Music
Hilary termThursday 29 January (2nd week)Reinhard Strohm (Oxford University) 600 years of origins: Polyphonic practices inEurope in- and outside the historiographicalcanon
Thursday 12 February (4th week)Susana Zapke (Konservatorium Wien)Urban music in Vienna in the 14th-15thcentury: public spaces and musical practices
Thursday 26 February (6th week)Emma Dillon (King’s College, London)Song and the Old French Romance tradition
Thursday 12 March (8th week)Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University)The late works of Philippe de Vitry
Thursdays 5-7pmWharton Room, All Souls CollegeFree admission – Open to allConvenor: Margaret Bent
The speaker’s presentation is followed by a full hour of discussion during which wine is served.
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SEMINARS | Research Colloquia
Tuesdays 5.15pmDenis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free admission – open to allThe Music Research Colloquia series is organised by graduate students (this year, Christopher May andAlexi Vellianitis).The Colloquia feature leading figures as well as younger scholars presenting their researchin papers on all kinds of music-related topics. The speakers come from Oxford and many differentuniversities around the world. Presentations are followed by discussion and a drinks reception. Students,staff and the general public are warmly encouraged to attend.
Tuesday 14 October (1st week) Daniel Grimley (Merton College, Oxford)
“In the Mood”: The Affective Landscapes of Edvard
Grieg's Stemninger
Tuesday 21 October (2nd week)Raffaele Pozzi (Universita di Roma) “Le Maître du temps”: Robert Cahen and Pierre Boulez
Tuesday 28 October (3rd week) Laura Tunbridge (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Listening to Lieder Between the Wars
Tuesday 4 November (4th week) Anne Hyland (The University of Manchester)Convergent Evolution in the Nineteenth-Century
Piano Trio: Schubert and Hummel as Case Study
Tuesday 11 November (5th week) Steven Connor (Peterhouse, Cambridge)To the Ear a Great Compassion: Listening, Countingand Number
Tuesday 18 November (6th week)Daniel Grimley (Merton College, Oxford) and Stephanus Muller (Stellenbosch)Film screening and discussion: Night is Coming: a Threnody for the Victims of Marikana
Tuesday 25 November (7th week)Julie Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London)Title to be announced
Tuesday 2 December (8th week)Henry Hope (Magdalen College, Oxford)Barbarossa's Hoffest of 1184: a Case Study in theHistoriography of Minnesang’
