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SEPTEMBER 2019–JUNE 2020 SEPTEMBER 2019–JUNE2020 guide season concert Private Hallof theUniversity of Oxford St Stephen’s House, aPermanent Welcome Location and access St John the Evangelist church is on Iffley Road, between Marston Street and This year’s SJE International Piano Series will be our 7th and it starts James Street and opposite the University Sports Ground. No. 3 bus from 4th October with the young British-Turkish pianist Lara Melda central Oxford stops directly outside the church; Oxford Bus Company’s Ömeroğlu who won the BBC Young Musician competition in 2010 PickMeUp service will transport you from a location near your home (for details aged 16. Ten concerts in total, some old favourites and some new see pickmeup.oxfordbus.co.uk) and for London-Oxford travel, the coach stop faces, hailing from ten different countries and, once again, there is at St Clement’s is just 10 minutes’ walk away. 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES the opportunity to purchase a heavily discounted season ticket. Friday 4 October 2019, 7.30 pm The SJE Arts Next Generation Series continues into its 4th year, with Tickets an opening performance 11th February 2019 by the Royal College of Lara Melda Tickets for SJE Arts events are on sale through Tickets Oxford at Oxford Playhouse. Music Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir and Jess Gillam will be Outside promoters/groups performing at SJE Arts may use different agencies. Chopin: back on 6th March. For each event featured on the SJE Arts website, the ‘Buy Tickets’ tab will link you Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Nocturnes, Op. 9 nos. 1, 2 & 3 As well as our own concerts, we have many more to offer you: through to the appropriate outlet. Rachmaninov: Étude tableaux Op. 33 nos. 7 & 8 Scandinavian and other artists brought to us by Music at Oxford, Thursday 26 September 2019, 7.30 pm Prokofiev: from Romeo and Juliet Op. 75, nos. 5–8 seven days’ of Oxford Lieder Festival concerts; recitals in the Oxford Refreshments KOTTOS Interval Philharmonic Beethoven Festival; Oxford Contemporary Music; On site licensed bar. All profits go to the church restoration fund. Oxford debut Lyadov: Barcarolle in F Sharp minor, Op. 44 Oxford May Music and not forgetting our many regulars such as Rachmaninov: Preludes Op. 23 nos. 4 & 5 The Sixteen, Commotio, Oxford Bach Choir, Instruments of Time Programme includes: Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 and Truth and Corona Strings. Up to date details are on our website Further information Vivaldi: La Folia Winner of the BBC Young Musician competition 2010 www.sje-oxford.org and tickets for most events can be purchased Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56 For full details of all events please see the website www.sje-oxford.org. and still in her mid-20s, British-Turkish pianist Lara through Tickets Oxford and the Oxford Playhouse. Piazzolla: Fuga y misterio Melda has already performed with conductors such For enquiries either email [email protected] or call SJE Arts on Grieg: Norwegian Dance in D minor, Op. 35 01865 613507. as Kirill Karabits and Nicholas Collon and made her We are always very grateful for sponsorship, especially for the Next Vaughan Williams: 6 Studies in English Folk Song Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall debuts. Praised Generation Series. If you are interested please contact me about the KOTTOS’ electrifying and eclectic performances are not to be missed. Players of particularly for her Chopin interpretations, Lara’s possibilities, including for making the event personal – for instance a recorders, accordion, cello and guitar, their vibrant arrangements – often of dances and programme for tonight also explores the Russian special reception for your guests to complement the concert. folk songs by well-known composers – have met with critical acclaim, and their launch repertoire, including a barcarolle by the Romantic album was awarded Danish Radio’s classical station’s Listeners’ Prize. 2019 has already Lyadov, a master of polished piano gems, and

seen the group accompanying Danish Queen Margrethe on a state visit to Argentina and four pieces portraying contrasting passions from completing a successful 10-day concert tour in China; now Music at Oxford is delighted Prokofiev’s superb Romeo and Juliet suite. to welcome them! Michèle Smith, Director, SJE Arts Photography: Amalia Bastos, Marco Borggreve, Sim Canetty-Clarke, Janice Carissa, Robin Clewley, Ends: 9.15 pm Benjamin Ealovega, Bernd Eberle, Lino Lategan McGregor, Ira Polyarna, Simon Jay Price, Raphaelle Photography, Ends: c. 9.15 pm Tickets: £30, £26, £17; under 25s £10 reduction. Martin Mydtskov Rønne. Illustration, page 4: Patricia Drew. Prints pictured on page 18 (clockwise from top Tickets: £42, £28, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off. Series season tickets available at near 50% discount. www.sje-oxford.org right): Alex Williams, Uniz Chuey, Chris Otley, Catriona Brodribb. www.sje-oxford.org Sunday 10 November 2019, 4.00 pm Alexander Taras De Sina, piano recital Bach/Busoni: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 Bach: WTK II. G minor, BWV 885 Boulez: 12 Notations Beethoven: Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, ‘Appassionata’ Interval Verdi/Liszt: Paraphrase de concert on Rigoletto Wagner/Liszt: Transcription of Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde Liszt: Après une lecture du Dante, Fantasia quasi sonata Praised for his elegant and philosophical aesthetic, pianist Alexander Taras De Sina holds Roderick Williams a unique place in the rising generation of classical soloists, acclaimed as “a master of orig- inal interpretation…”. In his Oxford debut and in honour of Remembrance Sunday, De 11–26 October 2019 Sina presents a programme exploring themes of love, loss, and longing. In conjunction with recitation of his own poetry inspired by the works, he curates a journey through our Oxford Lieder Festival darkest anguish towards redemption in the striving of our human spirit itself. Tales of Beyond: Ends: 6.00 pm 2–27 October 2019 Magic, Myths and Mortals Tickets: £15, £13, £10, under 25s £5. Open Wednesday to Sunday 10.00 am–5.00 pm Sunday 13 October, 5.00 pm: Ivana Gavrić Oxford Art Society Sunday 13 October, 7.30 pm: Christoph Prégardien and Sholto Kynoch Saturday 19 October, 5.15 pm and 10.00 pm: Imogen Cooper Open Exhibition and Young Artists Saturday 19 October, 7.30 pm: Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn Competition 2019 Monday 21 October, 8.00 pm: Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn Wednesday 23 October, 8.00 pm: Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn The Oxford Art Society was formed in 1891 and holds annual Members and Open Thursday 24 October, 8.00 pm: Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton Exhibitions. Non-members are encouraged to submit work to the Annual Open Friday 25 October, 7.45 pm: Dorothea Röschmann and Malcolm Martineau Exhibition for selection. It is from this exhibition that new members are invited to join Friday 25 October, 10.00 pm: Gweneth Ann Rand and Simon Lepper the Society. Saturday 26 October, 7.30 pm: Louise Alder, Nikolay Borchev and Sholto Kynoch The exhibition will fill the SJE Arts Cloister Gallery with paintings, prints, sculpture Festival Suppers in St Stephen’s House Dining Room on all dates except 24 October, and ceramics. £15/£13pp. Advance booking is essential. Entrance is free and most of the artworks will be for sale. Tickets: £42–£10, see www.oxfordlieder.co.uk for specific event. www.sje-oxford.org www.sje-oxford.org Saturday 7 December 2019, 7.30 pm Commotio Saturday 30 November 2019, 7.30 pm Choral Music for Advent and Christmas Opus 48 Works by Britten, Inness, Maxwell Davies, McDowall, Rose, Tippett Unaccompanied Choral Masterpieces Commotio returns to SJE for their annual Advent and Christmas concert which features seasonal choral works all written in the past 90 years. The centrepiece of the programme Director: David Crown is Christ’s Nativity written by a 17-year old Benjamin Britten in 1931. Commotio will also Verdi: from Four Sacred Pieces perform rarely heard works by Peter Inness, Peter Maxwell Davies, Bernard Rose and Tippett: Spirituals from A Child of Our Time Michael Tippett, as well as recent works by Cecilia McDowall. Howells: Requiem Ends: 9.15 pm Duruflé: Four Motets Tickets: £12, concessions £10 and £8. Vaughan Williams: Shakespeare songs Pärt: Magnificat Following a critically acclaimed first year, Oxfordshire’s newest choral society and their Music Director David Crown launch their second season with a concert of stunning Thursday 14 November 2019, 7.30 pm unaccompanied choral masterpieces. Weimar Republic Centenary: From the haunting spirituals taken from Tippett’s A Child of Our Time to Howells’ delicate and mesmeric Requiem, alongside beautiful music by Arvo Pärt, Verdi, Duruflé Sunday 15 December 2019, 7.30 pm from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill and Vaughan Williams, this will truly be an evening to remember. Sarah Gabriel: soprano and actor Ends: 9.45 pm A Ceremony of Carols Iain Farrington: piano Tickets: £20, £10 concessions. vOx Chamber Choir The centenary of the Weimar Republic marks Germany’s first democratic but flawed constitution, arguably one of the most liberal and progressive ever penned. However, David Crown: conductor its weaknesses also aided Hitler in his rise to power in 1933. Jenny Broome: harp In the Berlin of the time, artists in underground nightclubs satirised and dissected the Written on his return home across the Atlantic from exile in the States in 1942, Britten’s political maelstrom in the streets above and captured the febrile human condition of the A Ceremony of Carols was set for children’s chorus, receiving its Wigmore Hall premiere moment. Placing well-known songs and music by composers such as Weill, Hollaender in December 1943. That year Britten also made a setting for SATB in which he skillfully and Schulhoff into context alongside Lieder by Richard Strauss and contemporaneous manages to retain the sense of childhood innocence created in the original setting. This readings and images, Sarah Gabriel and Iain Farrington conjure up a remarkably fertile choral masterpiece will form part of an evening of seasonal music given by this leading period in German music. Oxford a cappella group. Ends: c. 9.30 pm Ends: 9.45 pm Tickets: £42, £28, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off. Tickets: £20, £15. www.sje-oxford.org www.sje-oxford.org Thursday 19 December 2019, 7.45 pm Thursday 23 January 2020, 7.30 pm 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES The Sixteen at Christmas Beethoven Tuesday 4 February 2020, 7.30 pm Programme to include Jonathan Biss, piano Eric Lu William Walton: Make we joy now in this fest Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28, ‘Pastoral’ Chopin: Three Mazurkas, Op. 59 Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the apple tree Piano Sonata No. 20 in G minor, Op. 49 no. 2 Schubert: Allegretto in C minor, D 915 Gustav Holst: This have I done for my true love Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 no. 3 Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 118 Praetorius/arr. Sandstrom: Lo, how a rose e’er blooming Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 Interval Cecilia Mcdowall: Of a Rose Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101 Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28 Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (harpist, Frances Kelly) Medieval and traditional carols If Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier was the Old When Eric Lu performed Chopin’s Sonata No.2 Testament of the piano repertoire, in the 19th century in the semi-final of Leeds International Piano We are delighted to welcome back Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. This year’s Beethoven’s piano sonatas took their place as its New Competition 2018, the Independent remarked: programme includes Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols – a masterful and idiomatic work Testament. This concert forms the first in a full survey ‘it took one’s breath away with its measured that continues to be a staple of the choral canon and is an example of Britten’s genius. of the sonatas from different pianists in recital 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES grandeur’. Eric Lu won the competition and, The remainder of the programme combines the traditional medieval carol tunes upon throughout 2020. Here Jonathan Biss, most at the age of only 21, stepped confidently on to which so much Christmas music has been based, contrasted with more modern delights Friday 24 January 2020, 7.30 pm perceptive of American pianists, offers the world stage. including Warlock’s Corpus Christi and Walton’s festive Make we joy now in this fest. us five sonatas including the Vadym Kholodenko Tonight, Eric Lu’s principle focus is on Chopin Ends: 9.30 pm meditative ‘Pastoral’, the straight- and the 24 Preludes. Each one a miniature Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor K 457 Tickets: £49, £45, £35, £28, £25, £14. Pre-concert dinner £20 (limited availability). talking Sonata No. 20 and the masterpiece, this set challenged all the Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 10 in A major D 664 emotionally charged Sonata preconceptions of the era about preludes being Saariaho: Ballade No. 27. mere introductory works. We welcome Eric back Interval Ends: 9.30 pm to SJE and anticipate a thrilling evening. Scriabin: Selection of Preludes Tickets: £25, £20, £15, £10, Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 Ends: 9.15 pm students from £5. Vadym Kholodenko’s winning performances at the 2013 Cliburn competition brought a Tickets: £30, £26, £17; under 25s £10 reduction. cheering audience to its feet. He has since performed with major orchestras throughout Series season tickets available at near 50% discount. North America, Europe and Japan and last season’s recital highlights included appearancs at Salle Gaveau, Paris, Vienna Konzerthaus and his Wigmore Hall debut. Kholodenko’s programme for tonight is built around three sonatas: a rare example of Mozart in a minor key; Schubert’s joyful and lyrical ‘Little’ sonata and, to close, the majestic Piano Sonata No. 2 by Rachmaninov. Ends: 9.15 pm Tickets: £30, £26, £17; under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at near 50% discount. www.sje-oxford.org www.sje-oxford.org 4TH SJE ARTS NEXT GENERATION SERIES Tuesday 11 February 2020, 7.30 pm RCM Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir in works by Bach, Father and Son J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.1 BWV1046 J.S. Bach: Motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 C.P.E. Bach: Symphony No.1 in D major H663 Wq183 Interval J.S. Bach: Ascension Oratorio BWV11 The Royal College of Music Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir present a concert celebrating two masters of the baroque – J.S. Bach and his favourite and most successful son C.P.E. Bach, in a programme of vocal and instrumental music. 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES The concert opens with Bach’s first Brandenburg Concerto, the largest and most 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES Wednesday 4 March 2020, 7.30 pm Friday 7 February 2020, 7.30 pm dramatic of the six, and ends with his bright and joyous Ascension Oratorio, showcasing Thursday 27 February 2020, 7.30 pm the RCM baroque trumpets and wind players. In addition, the Chamber Choir perform Inon Barnatan Engegård Quartet one of Bach’s most ambitious motets, and the orchestra tackle a symphony by the great Alexei Volodin Oxford Debut master’s son that is full of grace and excitement. J.S. Bach arr. Busoni/Petri: Choral Preludes Ends: 9.15 pm Medtner: Fairy Tales (selection of 8) Mendelssohn: Songs without Words (selection) Mozart: String Quartet No.15 in D minor Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 Tickets: £15. Sibelius: Voces Intimæ, Op. 56 Interval Adès: Paraphrase on Powder Her Face Grieg: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27 Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28 Interval Formed under the midnight sun in 2006, the Engegård Quartet has rapidly become one Internationally renowned Russian pianist Alexei Volodin brings us an all-Russian Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 15 in B-flat major, D 960 of Norway’s most sought after ensembles. Their bold, fresh interpretations of the programme. Magic pervades the opening with a selection from Medtner’s evocative ‘One of the most admired pianists of his generation’ (New York Times), Inon Barnatan is classical repertoire combined with a deep attachment to their Scandinavian roots has miniatures, collectively titled Fairy Tales. Prokofiev’s short and energetic 3rd Sonata celebrated for his poetic sensibility, musical intelligence, and consummate artistry. He has attracted international acclaim; the quartet’s debut CD was praised as ‘breath-taking’ in follows. a career that takes him around the world and a repertoire similarly broad, ranging from The Strad. Taking the entire second half and bringing the concert to a dramatic close, is Bach to the contemporary. For their first ever performance in Oxford, they combine Mozart’s much-loved quartet Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No. 1. This colossal work of shifting colours and contrasting His programme for tonight includes Mendelssohn’s lyrical Songs without Words, in D minor with works by Grieg and Sibelius. Anyone familiar with orchestral works moods poses an incredible challenge to the pianist and is seldom performed. It will be a Thomas Adès piano transcription of scenes from his darkly comic opera, and to end, the by these two composers will quickly find idiomatic motifs in these quartets – they are rare treat to hear it. transcendental Piano Sonata in B-flat that Schubert composed shortly before his death. symphonic structures in charming miniature. Ends: 9.15 pm Ends: 9.15 pm Ends: c. 9.30 pm Tickets: £30, £26, £17; under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at near Tickets: £30, £26, £17; under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at near Tickets: £42, £28, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off. 50% discount. 50% discount. www.sje-oxford.org www.sje-oxford.org 4TH SJE ARTS NEXT GENERATION SERIES 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES Friday 3 April 2020, 7.30 pm Friday 6 March 2020, 7.30 pm Thursday 26 March 2020, 7.30 pm Ink on a Pin Jess Gillam, saxophone, Angela Hewitt The Rivers with Zeynep Özsuca, J.S. Bach: The Rivers presents a programme of stunning acapella arrangements of contemporary piano Four Duets, BWV 802–805 artists such as Joni Mitchell, Massive Attack, London Grammar, Radiohead, Imogen Eighteen Little Preludes BWV 924, 930, Heap, as well as original arrangements. To include: 925-928, 933–43, 999 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES An Oxford-based vocal group of experienced singers, The Rivers have been performing Anna Clyne: new piece for sax and Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944 a wide repertoire of acapella music since 2016. Following their 2019 Autumn tour they electronics Saturday 21 March 2020, 7.30 pm Interval return to Oxford and promise an evening of rich arrangements of soulful, groove-driven Graham Fitkin: Gate French Overture in B minor, BWV 831 songs. Support act to be confirmed. Gavin Bryars: Harlesden Stephen Hough Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 Ends: 9.40 pm Works by Weill and Nyman Bach arr. Busoni: Chaconne In 2016 Angela Hewitt embarked on her Bach Tickets: £14, concessions £8. John Harle: Rant! Busoni: Berceuse Odyssey, a four-year mission to present all major First-ever saxophonist to reach the Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op.35 keyboard works of J.S. Bach in venues around the BBC Young Musician final, first ever Interval world. This May she gives the final performance, saxophonist to sign with Decca Hough: Piano Sonata No. 4 ‘Vida Breve’ Odyssey XII, in New York. Classics, presenter at BBC Proms Liszt: Funerailles, from Harmonies poétiques Tonight her programme includes Eighteen Little 2019 and host of her own show on et religieuses, S 173 Preludes, pieces Bach wrote for teaching his son, BBC Radio 3 – Jess Gillam is truly Liszt: Bagatelle sans tonalite, S 216a and two experiments in the reproduction of orchestral irrepressible! Liszt: Mephisto-Waltz no. 1, S 514 formats for the keyboard: the impressive, eleven Along with show-stealing BBC Proms Stephen Hough explores the theme of death. Bach movement Overture in the French style and the performances, Jess has appeared at the wrote the Chaconne in memory of his first wife, lively Italian Concerto. An evening with much to BAFTAS and picked up a Classical Brit while Busoni’s Berceuse acquired the subtitle ‘the look forward to from the hands of a master. Award. 2019 highlights included man’s lullaby at his mother’s coffin’. Sonata No. 2 by Ends: 9.15 pm the Lucerne Festival, with Radio Chopin has the Funeral March slow movement and Tickets: £39, £32, £25, £18; under 25s France Philharmonic Orchestra Hough’s own Sonata reflects on the transience of life. £29, £22, £15, £8. Series season tickets in Paris and her American Of the three Liszt works, Funérailles commemorates available at near 50% discount. debut playing in New York friends killed in the Hungarian uprising and the and Washington D.C. Mephisto waltz conjures the devil himself. A programme Jess is joined by her regular with much on which to reflect. accompanist, talented pianist Ends: 9.15 pm Zeynep Özsuca. Tickets: £35, £28, £21, £17; under 25s £10 reduction. Ends: 9.15 pm Series season tickets available at near 50% discount. www.sje-oxford.org www.sje-oxford.org Saturday 16 May 2020, 7.30 pm 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES A Celestial Banquet Saturday 25 April 2020, 7.30 pm Saturday 9 May 2020, 7.30 pm Instruments of Time & Truth Francesco Piemontesi Let us Garlands Bring with Oxford Consort of Voices (dir. Edward Higginbottom) Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 12 in G major, D 894 Roderick Williams: Baritone Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Missa Assumpta est Maria Interval Corona Strings (Leader, Catherine Leech) Interlaced with Sonatas by Henry Purcell Schubert-Liszt: 12 Lieder from Franz Schubert (selection) Janet Lincé: Conductor Oxford’s own period instrument ensemble presents a Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178r Gerald Finzi: Let us garlands bring feast of rich and virtuosic music from the Michelin stars Francesco Piemontesi is renowned for refined musicianship allied to a flawless technique. Dag Wirén: Serenade of late 17th-century France and England. Instruments of A former pupil of Alfred Brendel, he credits Brendel with teaching him to ‘love the detail Roderick Williams: New commission (World Premiere) Time & Truth, described on BBC Record Review as ‘an of things’. John Ireland: Concertino Pastorale absolutely superb band of instrumental soloists’, was Highlights of Piemontesi’s last season included recitals at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Corona Strings with internationally acclaimed baritone Roderick Williams bring you a founded in 2014 to provide a platform for international London, and Lincoln Centre, New York, and the launch of a major Schubert cycle at concert on the theme of love and loss. The programme features Dag Wirén’s joyous Ser- performers resident in and around Oxford, many of the 2018 Schubertiade. Renowned for a special affinity with music of the Classical and enade in contrast with the profoundly moving Concertino Pastorale by John Ireland. The whom hold Principal positions with groups such as the Romantic periods, his programme, focusing on two of the greatest Romantics, promises highlight of the evening will be a newly commissioned work composed and premiered by Academy of Ancient Music, the English Baroque Soloists a wonderful experience. Roderick Williams as soloist and the evening culminates in the title work, Gerald Finzi’s and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Ends: 9.15 pm exquisite song cycle Let us garlands bring in the version for baritone and string orchestra. Ends: 10.00 pm Tickets: £30, £26, £17; under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at near Ends: 9.15 pm Tickets: £42, £32, £24, £20 and £15, under 25s 50% discount. Tickets: £25, £18, concessions £21, £14. half price on all bands. www.sje-oxford.org www.sje-oxford.org 4TH SJE ARTS NEXT GENERATION SERIES Wednesday 3 June 2020, 6.00 pm Les Voix Humaines Sansara choir Tom Herring: Artistic Director Liam Byrne: Viola da Gamba Programme to include Marin Marais: Les Voix Humaines Nico Muhly: Malmesbury Motets (for choir and solo viola da gamba) John Bennet: Weep O mine eyes Liam Connery: Piangere, Affogare Inspired by the solo viol piece of the same title by Marin Marais, Les Voix Humaines is a v collaboration between award-winning vocal ensemble SANSARA and renowned viola da gamba player Liam Byrne. The combination of voice and viol is central to early music from across Europe: this project seeks to investigate the relationship by commissioning 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES new work for choir and solo viol, drawing on the Fifteenth Century notion that the viol was the instrument closest to replicating the subtleties of the human voice. Friday 29 May 2020, 7.30 pm Ends: 7.45 pm Alina Ibragimova, violin, Tickets: £18, £15, under 25s £5. and Cédric Tiberghien, piano Wednesday 20, Friday 22 and Sunday 24 May 2020 The Phoenix Piano Trio is established as one of today’s leading An All Mendelssohn Journey ensembles, bringing together three individually renowned players. Beethoven 2020 Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien first met as members of the BBC Radio 3 New In Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year, they explore the composer’s Generation Artists scheme in 2005. Along with individual careers, the duo has gone on to Phoenix Piano Trio genre-defining masterpieces. This three-concert series begins with perform throughout Europe and North America, has toured Australia and Asia and been the first works to which, in 1795, Beethoven allocated an opus number: Wednesday 20 May 2020, Friday 22 May 2020, Sunday 24 May 2020, a regular guest of Wigmore Hall. 7.30 pm–9.45 pm 7.30 pm–9.15 pm 7.30 pm–9.30 pm a major statement for the young composer in Vienna. In the middle In January 2019 Alina and Cédric made a memorable first appearance in the SJE Arts Beethoven: Beethoven: Beethoven: concert, we hear the highly contrasting Trios of Op.70; with the famous Piano Series performing Beethoven, Janáček and Schumann. Tonight, they focus entirely Trio in E flat, Op.1 no.1 Allegretto in B, WoO.39 Variations on a theme of ‘Ghost’ Trio that may owe something to the Witches in Beethoven’s on Felix Mendelssohn. Trio in C minor, Op.1 no.3 Trio in D, ‘Ghost’, Op.70 no.1 Dittersdorf, Op.44 unrealised sketches for an opera of Macbeth. The series concludes with Trio in G, Op.1 no.2 Trio movement in E flat, Hesse 48 Variations on Ich bin der the sublime ‘Archduke’ Trio of 1811. Ends: 9.15 pm Trio in E flat, Op.70 no.2 Schneider Kakadu, Op.121a Tickets for each concert: £42, £28, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s Tickets: £39, £32, £25, £18; under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at Trio in B flat, ‘Archduke’, Op.97 50% off. near 50% discount. www.sje-oxford.org www.sje-oxford.org 8–25 June 2020 Oxford Printmakers’ Midsummer Show Oxford Printmakers returns to SJE Arts after a very successful 40th anniversary exhibition in 2018, and a previous show in 2016. Their new exhibition Midsummer Show presents another colourful and lively body of work featuring techniques including 7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES lithography, etching, woodcut, screen- printing, collagraphy & monoprinting. Wednesday 10 June 2020, 7.30 pm Oxford Printmakers, with its hundred Steven Osborne strong membership, has notched up over four decades of printing, exhibiting and Schubert: Andante in A major, D604 teaching, operating from their East Oxford Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 14 in A major, D959 workshop In Tyndale Road. The workshop Interval Saturday 20 June 2020, 7.30 pm will also be open during Artweeks 2020. Rachmaninov: Fragments Entry free, works on sale. Stabat Mater Nunc Dimittis from Vespers arr. Rachmaninov, Op. 37, no. 5 www.oxfordprintmakers.co.uk Oriental sketch Oxford Bach Choir Moments Musicaux, Op. 16 Scarlatti: Stabat Mater Scottish pianist Steven Osborne’s insightful and idiomatic interpretations show immense Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor musical depth. His numerous awards include Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist J.S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm of the Year 2013 and two Gramophone Awards. The OBC’s summer concert showcases three great works whose composers tried to Steven begins with work by Schubert including the penultimate piano sonata, written recreate the old polyphonic style perfected by the likes of Palestrina. Each ended up in the last months of Schubert’s life and reflecting his mental state. Following the saying something quite new and special in their own way. Thus J.S. Bach and Domenico interval, Steven turns to Russia and to Rachmaninov, a repertoire for which he has won Scarlatti, in the eighteenth century, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, recently back from the critical acclaim with his release of Rachmaninov’s Études Tableaux (Hyperion 2018). trenches of the First World War, looked backwards, but each created something new and We welcome him back to SJE most warmly. utterly characteristic. These pieces will sound especially fine in the magnificent acoustic Ends: 9.15 pm of St. John the Evangelist. Tickets: £35, £28, £21, £17, under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at Ends: 9.00 pm near 50% discount. Tickets: £35, £25, £15. www.sje-oxford.org www.sje-oxford.org Sunday 15 September 2019, 5.00 pm Wednesday 20 November 2019 Tuesday 4 February 2020, 7.30 pm 30 April–3 May 2020 Amici della Voce octet Yazz Ahmed Polyhymnia Tour Eric Lu, piano Oxford May Music Festival and Chelys Consort of Viols Saturday 30 November 2019, 7.30 pm Friday 7 February 2020, 7.30 pm Saturday 9 May 2020, 7.30 pm Thursday 26 September 2019, 7.30 pm Opus 48: Engegård Quartet: Oxford Debut Corona Strings KOTTOS: Oxford Debut ‘Unaccompanied Choral Masterpieces’ with Roderick Williams, baritone Saturday 8 February 2020, 7.30 pm Saturday 28 September 2019, 4.00 pm Wednesday 4 December 2019, 7.30 pm Oxfordshire Concerto Competition Saturday 16 May 2020, 7.30 pm Commotio 20th Anniversary Adderbury Chamber Ensemble Instruments of Time & Truth Reunion Concert Candlelit Concert Tuesday 11 February 2020, 7.30 pm with Oxford Consort of Voices Royal College of Music Friday 4 October 2019, 7.30 pm Saturday 7 December 2019, 7.30 pm Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir 20, 22 & 24 May 2020, 7.30 pm Lara Melda, piano Commotio: Phoenix Piano Trio: Beethoven 2020 ‘Choral Music for Advent and Christmas’ Thursday 27 February 2020, 7.30 pm 2–27 October 2019 Alexei Volodin, piano Saturday 23 May 2020, 7.30 pm Oxford Art Society Open Exhibition Sunday 8 December 2019, East Oxford Community Choir with and Young Artists Competition 4.00 pm & 7.00 pm Wednesday 4 March 2020, 7.30 pm Grenoble choir, Haydn: ‘Creation’ Oxford Youth Choirs & Oxford Girls’ Choir Inon Barnatan, piano Saturday 5 October 2019, doors 7.30 pm Friday 29 May 2020, 7.30 pm Grace Petrie Tour Saturday 14 December 2019, Friday 6 March 2020, 7.30 pm Alina Ibragimova, violin, 2.00 pm & 7.00 pm Jess Gillam, saxophone, and Cédric Tiberghien, piano Tuesday 8 October 2019, 7.45 pm Oxford City Singers Christmas Concert with Zeynep Özsuca, piano Scandi Noir: Tord Gustavesen Trio Wednesday 3 June 2020, 6.00 pm Sunday 15 December 19, 7.30 pm Friday 13 March 2020, 7.30 pm Sansara Choir 13–26 October 2019 vOx Chamber Choir: Magdalen College School: and Liam Byrne, Viola da Gamba Oxford Lieder Festival events at SJE Arts ‘A Ceremony of Carols’ ‘Music at Magdalen’ 8–25 June 2020 9–11 November 2019 Thursday 19 December 2019, 7.45 pm Saturday 21 March 2020, 7.30 pm Oxford Printmakers’ Sobell House Exhibition The Sixteen at Christmas Stephen Hough, piano Midsummer Show

Saturday 9 November 2019, doors 7.30 pm Friday 20 December 2019, Thursday 26 March 2020, 7.30 pm Wednesday 10 June 2020, 7.30 pm The Delines plus support doors 7.00 pm Angela Hewitt, piano Steven Osborne, piano Steve Hogarth: ‘H Natural’ Sunday 10 November 2019, 4.00 pm Sunday 29 March 2020 Saturday 13 June 2020, 7.30 pm Alexander Taras De Sina, piano Saturday 11 January 2020, 7.30 pm Oxford Girls’ Opera performances Commotio East Oxford Community Choir: Thursday 14 November 2019, 7.30 pm Berlioz: ‘Enfance du Christ’ Friday 3 April 2020, 7.30 pm Saturday 20 June 2020, 7.30 pm ‘Weimar Republic Centenary: The Rivers: ‘Ink on a Pin’ Oxford Bach Choir: ‘Stabat Mater’ from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill’ Thursday 23 January 2020, 7.30 pm Jonathan Biss, piano Saturday 25 April 2020, 7.30 pm Friday 15 November 2019, 7.30 pm Francesco Piemontesi, piano Magdalen College School: Friday 24 January 2020, 7.30 pm ‘Music at Magdalen’ Vadim Kholodenko, piano Number 1177459 Charity Registration Tickets and more information at www.sje-oxford.org All profit from ticket sales goes towards the SJE restoration fund, see the website for more details sje arts at st john the evangelist church, 109a iffley road, oxford, ox4 1eh