Faculty Concerts

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Composer Speaks series. It explores issues Seminars in extensive period of questions in music theory and and discussion, with wine. THE BATE COLLEGE Mondays in 4th week Ethnomusicology and analysis from critical, (Michaelmas and Hilary) Sound Studies COLLECTION MUSIC 4pm, Lecture Room A, plural and interdisciplinary Faculty of Music perspectives. 2019-20 Two or three a term, Many Oxford Colleges topics will incude queer 2-5pm throughout the year Free and open to all usually on Thursdays Saturdays during term, have rich musical lives. music theory, maqam-s, and 5-6.30pm Professor Robert Saxton 10am-12pm The events included in Sibelius’s Swan of Tuonela. St John’s College Barn the brochure are merely convenes this series in which Oxford University Music The Bate Collection Free and open to all a sample. For complete visiting composers discuss Society exists to support and celebrates the history and www.ethnomusicology listings, check individual their work. Research Colloquia develop the performance development of musical andsoundstudies. College websites. and appreciation of music instruments of the Western Tuesdays during term, wordpress.com 2 Classical tradition from the 5.15pm, Denis Arnold Hall, within the University. Details 3 Professor Jason Stanyek Medieval period until the Faculty of Music of ensembles and their convenes this series grounded present day. The Collection is SEMINARS performances can be found at Free and open to all in anthropology, sound studies made available for study and FACULTY www.oums.org. The Faculty hosts seminar The Colloquia feature and ethnomusicology. Leading judicious use by scholars, series organised by both students, makers, and CONCERTS leading figures, as well as scholars present adventurous students and academics. OUMS Chamber players. The Bate’s shop is younger scholars, from across takes on musical and sonic The Faculty of Music holds Music an Aladdin’s cave of musical the world. They present cultures. a number of concerts toys, beautiful cards, gifts their research in papers on Select Mondays in term throughout the year which Oxford Seminars in time 6pm (doors open and delights. all kinds of music-related Seminars in Medieval span a range of genres and Music Theory and topics. Graduate students c. 5:40) feature world-leading artists. and Renaissance Music Holywell Music Room Learn Gamelan with Analysis (OSiMTA) Annabelle Page and Emma Kavanagh organise the Select Thursdays Free and open to all the Oxford Gamelan Select Wednesday during term, 5-7pm afternoons, 4.30pm, series. Presentations are www.chambermusic.oums.org Society followed by discussion and a Wharton Room, new music Committee Room, All Souls College OUMS Chamber Music Wednesdays during term Faculty of Music drinks reception. provides a platform for Free and open to all (0th week to 9th week), Professors Martyn Harry Free and open to all the large community of commencing 9 October and Robert Saxton convene www.music.ox.ac.uk/osimta Convened by Margaret chamber musicians in 6–9pm, Seminar Room, the series of workshops, @OxfordAnalysis Bent, the long-established Oxford University to interact. Faculty of Music series invites younger and seminars and concerts Professor Jonathan It facilitates chamber music www.oxfordgamelan.org with musical director Cross and Dr Sebastian established international performance though our Dr John Traill. Wedler convene the scholars to share new ideas well-attended concert series and discoveries across a in the Holywell Music Room wide historical range. The – the oldest purpose-built presentation is followed by an concert hall in Europe. EVENTS workshops cover all areas workshops and of jazz improvisation. Piano MICHAELMAS TERM and drum kit are available. masterclasses Otherwise, bring your own instrument. The Faculty hosts several Seminar in Medieval and Seminar in Research colloquium aimed at helping students Performance Clinics Renaissance Music Ethnomusicology and grow as composers, Moritz Kelber On select Fridays during Moritz Kelber Sound Studies performers and listeners. (University of Bern) | term 2-5pm Beethoven 2020 (University of Bern) | Kristen McGee Denis Arnold Hall, (De-)Constructing the Jazz Workshops Faculty of Music Enemy in Early Modern Seeing, Hearing, Touching, (University of 2020 is Beethoven’s 250th Smelling: Early Modern Various dates in term 2-4pm Free and open to all anniversary with his music Dance Groningen) | Denis Arnold Hall, Dance and the Senses Performance clinics are being performed across Tuesday 15 October DJs and PLOs in Berlin’s Faculty of Music the place for students to the city. The Faculty will (1st week) 5:15pm Thursday 17 October Electronic Jazz Scene: The Faculty of Music hone performance skills showcase lesser-known Denis Arnold Hall, (1st week) 5 –7 pm Case of Jazzanova Wharton Room, students only with a visiting professional works through a series of Faculty of Music All Souls College Thursday 17 October These are are led by two who will also share their workshops and concerts Free and open to all (1st week) 5-6:30pm international performers and experiences of building a featuring international Free and open to all The Barn at St John’s teachers, Mark Hodgson musical career. They are performers. Also, watch out College (Kendrew Quad) (bass) and Tom Richards led by Faculty Director of for Beethoven in concerts by Free and open to all (saxophone/piano). The Performance Liz Kenny. student ensembles. www.ethnomusicologyand soundstudies.wordpress.com 4 5

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Friday 18 October (1st week) 2-4pm Ensemble Room, Faculty of Music For Faculty of Music students only Research Colloquium Les Chansons de Bilitis Stephen Millar Thursday 24 October (Cardiff University) | (2nd week) 3pm From Belfast to the The Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College Somme (and Back Again): £5 Legitimising Loyalist www.oxfordlieder.co.uk Paramilitaries Through The erotic poems of Pierre Louÿs (Les Chansons de Bilitis), Political Song which the author falsely claimed were translated from Ancient Greek, inspired several works by Debussy. This Tuesday 22 October is a rare chance to hear his Musique de scene pour les (2nd week) 5:15pm chansons de Bilitis, for two flutes, two harps and celeste, Denis Arnold Hall, introduced and narrated by Helen Abbott. Musicians from Faculty of Music Oxford University’s Faculty of Music are led by renowned Free and open to all harpist Gabriella dall’Olio. Seminar in Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies Hettie Malcomson (University of 6 Southampton) | 7 Narco Rap, Creative Agency and Academic Knowledge Production

Thursday 24 October (2nd week) 5-6:30pm Seminar in Medieval and The Barn at St John’s College (Kendrew Quad) Renaissance Music Free and open to all Jared C. Hartt (Oberlin www.ethnomusicologyand soundstudies.wordpress.com Conservatory of Music) | Naufragantes/ Navigatrix/ Aptatur: A Newly Discovered Motet on St Nicholas

Thursday 24 October (2nd week) 5-7pm Family Fun Week Wharton Room, All Souls College Monday 28 October to Friday 1 November (3rd week) 2-5pm Free and open to all Free and open to all Gallery activities including trails, colouring and word-searches.

TORCH | Lamartine et Clare Hammond Piano Recital la musique Wednesday 30 October (3rd week) 7.30pm Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College Tuesday 29 October (3rd week) 5pm (lecture) Free and open to all Taylorian Institute, Room 2 www.pmb.ox.ac.uk 8pm (concert) Mendelssohn Songs without Words, op. 67 Holywell Music Room Schumann Humoreske, op. 20 Free and open to all, TORCH | Chineke! Championing change and Hywel Davies Elternszenen booking recommended. celebrating diversity in classical music www.torch.ox.ac.uk Szymanowski Variations on a Polish Theme, op. 10 Wednesday 30 October (3rd week) 6pm Alongside a varied programme of works spanning the 19th 2019 marks the 150th New College Antechapel anniversary of the death of and 20th Centuries, Hammond presents a new commission French poet, Alphonse de from Hywel Davies. Elternzenen reflects on Hywel’s experience Free and open to all, booking recommended. Larmartine. French bass- of parenthood as Schumann’s Kinderszenen reflects on his www.torch.ox.ac.uk baritone Philippe Cantor sings experience of childhood. Chineke! Founder Chi Chi Nwanoku OBE talks about her orchestra texts by Lamartine, with pianist of majority BME musicians, followed by a performance from the Daniel Propper. Beforehand, Chineke! Chamber Ensemble. The concert features familiar works Olivier Feignier will lecture alongside pieces by BME composers. 8 on Lamartine’s poetry and its 9 musical incarnations.

EMPRES Presents | The Art of Noises IV Thursday 31 October (3rd week) 6pm Research Colloquium Modern Art Oxford www.modernartoxford.org.uk Angela Impey (SOAS, The Music Faculty’s electronic University of London) | music and research group Googlebox and Beyond: present a series of series of Film, festival and the politics innovative performances and of self-recognition in north installations that explore the central Namibia boundaries between music, art and technology. The night Tuesday 29 October includes works by students (3rd week) 5:15pm from the Faculty of Music and Denis Arnold Hall, Ruskin School of Art, Jonathan Faculty of Music Packham, Kathryn King, and more. Free and open to all

Beyond the Island | New Music for Gamelan Composer Speaks Ensemble ISIS Research Colloquium and Prepared Piano Kenneth Hesketh | Emily Howard and Kenneth Hesketh Ross Cole (University Saturday 2 November 7.30pm ‘Alike dissolving’ - forces of Friday 8 November (4th week) 7.30pm of Cambridge) | Holywell Music Room polarity, tension and order Holywell Music Room Vaporwave and the in recent works £15 £11 £5 Free for music students Off-Modern www.ocmevents.org Monday 4 November Ensemble ISIS conducted by Dr John Traill. Tuesday 12 November Rolf Hind piano, Hammer & Bronze gamelan quartet, Isabelle (4th week) 4.00-5.30pm (5th week) 5:15pm Carré flute/alto flute Lecture Room A, Faculty of Music Denis Arnold Hall, Leading a programme which explores tonalities and sound Faculty of Music worlds, Rolf Hind’s Beyond the Island interweaves Javanese Free and open to all Free and open to all metallophones and gong chimes with prepared piano. Kenneth Hesketh is Rolf Hind Beyond the Island (world premiere) Professor of Composition Richard Causton Chorales and Orchestration at the Symon Clarke Three Exits Royal College of Music and Robert Campion Moonglow, Earthshine (world premiere) the University of Michigan. From 2007 to 2008, He was Composer in the House 10 with the Royal Liverpool 11 Philharmonic Orchestra. Writing in numerous genres, his work is notable for its colourful orchestration, dense harmony and a highly mobile rhythmic style.

Research Colloquium Annelies Andries (University of Oxford) | From Trauma to Tragedy: Sounding out War Merton College Choir | Mozart Requiem in Revolutionary and Sunday 3 November (4th week) 5.30pm Napoleonic France Merton College Chapel Tuesday 5 November Free and open to all (4th week) 5:15pm Mozart’s Requiem sung liturgically by Merton College Choir, Denis Arnold Hall, accompanied by the Berkeley Sinfonia, and conducted by Faculty of Music Benjamin Nicholas. Free and open to all

Seminar in Medieval and Jazz Workshop Oxford Conducting Renaissance Music Institute Workshop Friday 15 November Andrew Wathey (5th week) 2-4pm Saturday 16 November Ensemble Room, 2019 (5th week) 2-5pm (University of Faculty of Music Northumbria) | Denis Arnold Hall, For Faculty of Music Faculty of Music John Dunstaple, Lionel students only Free for observers Power and the mid Fifteenth Century Music students | to take part, email [email protected]. Thursday 14 November Preliminary seminar for participants (5th week) 5-7pm Tuesday 12 November, 2-4pm, Wharton Room, Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music All Souls College Free and open to all

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Villiers Quartet

Saturday 16 November (5th week) 7.30pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College £25 gallery £15 regular £5 students www.jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk Oxford regulars The Villiers Quartet present ‘Russian Nights’. The Crane | Music from Armenia Stravinsky Three pieces for String Quartet Thursday 14 November (5th week) 7:30pm Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Major Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 Holywell Music Room £15 £10 Free for Music students A rare opportunity to hear folk, sacred, and art music by Armenian composers, performed by Armenian Canadian pianist Eve Egoyan and violinist Gascia Ouzounian. Arno Babajanian’s dazzling modernist sonata is presented alongside much-beloved works by Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khatchaturian, and sacred and folk music set by Komitas, an Armenian priest and ethnomusicologist who is widely considered the ‘saviour’ of Armenian music.

Babajanian Sonata for Violin and Piano in B-flat Minor Khachaturian Song-Poem (Based on an Ashugi) Violin Concerto in D minor Op.46, 2nd movement Komitas Works including ‘The sky is cloudy’ and ‘It is spring’

Research Colloquium Henfrey Composition Prize Seminar in Medieval and Hannah Robbins Renaissance Music Tuesday 19 November (6th week) (University of St Catherine’s College Music House Henry Drummond Nottingham) | Free and open to all (University of Oxford) | www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/henfrey-prize-for-composition Too Darn Hot’: Cultural Blasphemy, Cursing and Tensions and Personal A workshop of shortlisted pieces for piano (Dominic Saunders) Sonic Violence in the and violin (Caroline Balding). The competition is open to Oxford Identity in Kiss Me, Kate Cantigas de Santa Maria students and local schools. In 2019 the judge of the competition Tuesday 19 November will be composer Professor Emily Howard, whose works are Thursday 21 November (6th week) 5:15pm featured in Ensemble ISIS’s concert on 8 November. (6th week) 5-7pm Denis Arnold Hall, Wharton Room, Performance Clinic Faculty of Music All Souls College Jeremy Huw Williams | Opera Free and open to all Free and open to all Thursday 21 November (6th week) 10.30am-12.30pm Holywell Music Room Free and open to all 14 Jeremy Huw Williams is a Welsh baritone of international acclaim. 15 Ahead of performing in the Faculty’s evening concert, he will TORCH | AI and Creativity coach vocal students from the Faculty of Music and talk about his role as president of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. Wednesday 20 November (6th week) 5:15pm Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Free and open to all, booking recommended. www.torch.ox.ac.uk A panel discussion with Marcus du Sautoy (Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science), Emily Howard (Composer, Professor of Composition at Royal Northern College of Music) and Sarah Ellis (Head of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company). Seminar in Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) | Curating sound at Soul Jazz Records

Thursday 21 November (6th week) 5-6:30pm The Barn at St John’s College (Kendrew Quad) Free and open to all www.ethnomusicologyandsoundstudies.wordpress.com

OUSinfonietta Family Fun Day Research Colloquium Michaelmas Term Saturday 23 November Amy Brosius Concert (6th week) 10am-2pm (University of Free and open to all Friday 22 November Birmingham) | (6th week) 8pm A day of family events Rivalry and ritual revenge: (doors open 7:15pm) featuring: A treasure trail, live singers, patrons and honour musical performances and University Church of culture in mid-seventeenth St Mary the Virgin demonstrations. Plus, a chance to play some of the instruments century Rome £10 £5 in advance and £12 in the handling collection. £6 on the door Tuesday 26 November www.ticketsource.co.uk/ (7th week) 5:15pm ousinftrinity2018/t-opjmpq Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Oxford’s premier student chamber orchestra present Free and open to all their termly concert, conducted by Joe Beesley, in a concert to include Schumann’s 4th 16 Symphony in D minor. 17

A Life in Music | Celebrating Susan Wollenberg’s 70th Birthday String Quartet Composition Thursday 21 November (6th week) 7.15pm Holywell Music Room Workshop £15 £10 Free for music students in advance and on the door Monday 25 November www.ticketsoxford.com (7th week) 2-5pm Musicians of international acclaim Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) Ensemble Room, and Paula Fan (piano) will perform a selection of Lieder and music Faculty of Music for solo piano to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Susan Free and open to all Wollenberg. Before the recital, Professor Wollenberg will be in Soloists of the Oxford conversation with Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey about her career Philharmonic Orchestra work and life in music. with student composers.

Susan Wollenberg Alles auf der Welt ist Wandel for voice and piano für Fanny Hensel for piano solo Grace Williams Y Gwdd (The Loom) for voice and piano Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn (Watching the Wheat) for voice and piano

Solo Piano Solo instrument & Performance Clinic Composition piano Composition Open Rehearsal with Workshop Workshop James Gilchrist Tuesday 26 November Wednesday 27 November Friday 29 November (7th week) 1-4pm (7th week) 10am-1pm (7th week) 3-6pm Denis Arnold Hall, Ensemble Room, The Clore Music Studios Faculty of Music Faculty of Music (New College), Free and open to all Free and open to all Mansfield Road Pianist Richard Casey works Free and open to all with student composers. With members of the Faculty’s Ahead of tonight’s concert, Ensemble ISIS. enthusiastic and prolific exponent of lieder James Gilchrist rehearses with singers from the Faculty of Music.

18 Oxford University 19 Oxford Contemporary Opera Philharmonia Tuesday 26 – Wednesday 27 November (7th week) 7.30pm Michaelmas Term Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College Concert Tickets available on the door ‘Feeling New Strength’ | String Quartets and The Oxford Contemporary Opera Society returns to the Wednesday 27 November JdP, with new operas written and performed by students. (7th week) 8pm the Voice Sheldonian Theatre Friday 29 November (7th week) 7.30pm £10 £5 in advance and Holywell Music Room £12 £6 on the door www.ticketsource.co.uk/ £15 £10 Free for music students ousinftrinity2018/t-opjmpq www.ticketsoxford.com Dynamic ensemble The Kreutzer Quartet perform Beethoven’s With conductor Charlotte fifteenth string quartet, whose lively middle section ‘Neue Corderoy. Kraft fühlend’ (feeling new strength) is set against music that echoes a solemn religious song. In this innovative concert, The Kreutzer join forces with singers from the Faculty of Music, led by renowned tenor James Gilchrist. Their programme explores more contrasts, performing songs accompanied by string quartet, and string quartets inspired by songs.

Haydn String Quartet in D minor op. 103 Hob. III:83 ‘Der Greis’ Hob XXVc:5 for voices and string quartet Beethoven ‘Elegischer Gesang’ for Voices and Strings op. 188 String Quartet no. 15 in A minor op. 132 ‘Heiliger Dankgesang’ TRINITY TERM

Oxford University Research Colloquium Seminar in James Gilchrist (tenor) & Anna Tilbrook (piano) Wind Orchestra Ethnomusicology and Marten Noorduin (University of Oxford) | Saturday 25 January (1st week) 7.30pm Michaelmas Term Towards an Understanding of Early to Mid-Nineteenth- Sound Studies Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College Concert Century Orchestral Rehearsal Practices in London John Mowitt £30 gallery £20 stalls £10 students www.jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk Saturday 30 November Tuesday 3 December (8th week) 5:15pm (University of Leeds) | In a varied programme, the long-established duo perform Julian (7th week) 8pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Jamming Philips’ Love Songs for Mary Joyce, a haunting setting of poems University Church of Free and open to all by John Clare. St Mary the Virgin Thursday 23 January (1st week) 5-6:30pm £10 £5 in advance and £12 £6 on the door The Barn at St John’s www.ticketsource.co.uk/ College (Kendrew Quad) ouwo Free and open to all Oxford’s premier wind www.ethnomusicologyand orchestra returns for their soundstudies.wordpress.com termly concert, presenting an evening of exciting and 20 rarely-explored repertoire 21 which includes the UK premier of Jacob Beranek’s Památnik. Conducted by Chris O’Leary. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music Stephen Rose (Royal Holloway) | Protected publications: privileges for printed music in German-speaking lands, 1500-1600

Thursday 30 January (2nd week) 5-7pm Wharton Room, All Souls College Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music Free and open to all Giovanni Varelli (Magdalen College) | Mapping Notational Dialects of Early Medieval Italy: Current Challenges and Future Prospectives

Thursday 5 December (8th week) 5-7pm Wharton Room, All Souls College Free and open to all

Performance Clinic Mixed Ensemble Jazz Workshop Composition Workshop Elizabeth Kenny | Friday 7 February (3rd week) 2-4pm Solo song in the Thursday 6 February Seventeenth Century: (3rd week) 1.30-4.30pm Ensemble Room, from lute song to opera Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Friday 31 January Faculty of Music For Faculty of Music students only (2nd week) 2-4pm Free and open to all Denis Arnold Hall With Ensemble ISIS conducted Free and open to all by Dr John Traill. Convened by Richard Causton, University of Cambridge.

Family Fun Day Ensemble ISIS 22 23 Friday 7 February Saturday 1 February (2nd week) 10am-2pm (3rd week) 7.30pm Holywell Music Room Free and open to all Richard Causton | £5 Free for students A day of family events La Terra In the second of our Richard featuring: A treasure trail, live Impareggiabile musical performances and Causton concerts, the Faculty’s flagship student ensemble demonstrations. Plus, a chance Thursday 6 February to play some of the instruments (6th week) 7.30pm performs his works alongside in the handling collection. Holywell Music Room student compositions. Baritone Marcus Farnsworth Composer Speaks and pianist Huw Watkins perform the UK premier of this Anne Dudley | song cycle of poems by Sicilian Themes and Variations in film scoring writer and Nobel prize-winner Salvatore Quasimodo (1901- Monday 10 February (4th week) 4.00-5.30pm 68), translated into English by Lecture Room A, Music Faculty String Quartet the composer. Free and open to all Composition Workshop Lieder Composition Anne Dudley is a British composer, keyboardist, conductor Workshop and pop musician. She was the BBC Concert Orchestra’s first Tuesday 4 February Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both (3rd week) 2-5pm Tuesday 11 February classical and pop genres, but is perhaps best known as one of Ensemble Room, (4th week) 10.30am-1.30pm the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and as a Faculty of Music Jacqueline du Pré Music film composer. In 1998, Dudley won an Oscar for Best Original Building, St Hilda’s College Free and open to all Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty. In addition to The Kreutzer Quartet works Free and open to all over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she served as music with student composers. With Sholto Kynoch (piano). producer for the film version of Les Misérables.

Trio Owon | Beethoven’s Piano Trios Villiers Quartet Family Fun Week Seminar and Medieval and Renaissance Music

Free and open to all, booking recommended Saturday 15 February Monday 17 February to Christiane Wiesenfeldt (University of Music www.torch.ox.ac.uk (4th week) 7.30pm Friday 21 February Franz Liszt Weimar and University of Jena) | Musicians of passion and maturity Trio Owon perform all of Jacqueline du Pré Music (3rd week) 2-5pm Building, St Hilda’s College Self-Thematization as Identity Concept in the Renaissance: Beethoven’s major piano trios in two days. Free and open to all “Music about Music” by Tomas Luís de Victoria £25 gallery £15 regular Tuesday 11 February, 7.30pm, Holywell Music Room Gallery activities including £5 students trails, colouring and word- Thursday 27 February (6th week) 5-7pm Piano Trio in E flat major op. 1/1 www.jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk Wharton Room, All Souls College Piano Trio in C minor op. 1/3 searches. Piano Trio in B flat major op. 11 ‘Gassenhauertrio’ The Villiers Quartet return Free and open to all Piano Trio in D major op. 70/1 ‘Ghost’ to Oxford with an all-English programme.

Wednesday 12 February, 7.30pm, Holywell Music Room Purcell Fantasias Piano Trio in G major op. 1/2 Purcell Chaconne Piano Trio in E flat major op. 70/2 (arr. by Britten) Piano Trio in B flat major op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Robert Saxton Fantazia (1993) Britten String Quartet Jazz Workshop 24 No. 2 in 25 C major op. 36 Friday 21 February (5th week) 2-4pm Ensemble Room, Faculty of Music For Faculty of Music students only Seminar and Medieval Orchestral Composition and Renaissance Music Workshop

Elzbieta Witkowska- Friday 14 February Zaremba (Warsaw, (4th week) 10am-5pm Location to be confirmed Polish Academy of Free and open to all Sciences, Institute With the Oxford Philharmonic Oxford University of Art) | conducted by Dr John Traill. Philharmonia Hilary Keyboard and the fifteenth Term Concert century musica ficta: on the road toward the twelve Wednesday 26 February steps octave (7th week) 8pm Sheldonian Theatre Thursday 13 February (4th week) 5pm-7pm £10 £5 in advance and Wharton Room, £12 £6 on the door All Souls College www.ouphil.oums.org Free and open to all Conducted by Charlotte Corderoy.

Contrapunctus Martyn Harry, ‘At His Oxford Conducting Institute Workshop Elizabeth Kenny (lute) | Workshop Majesty’s Pleasure’ La Conversation Saturday 29 February (6th week) 2-5pm (2012-2016, complete Centre for Music (OCMS), Bayswater Road, Oxford, OX3 9FF Friday 28 February Saturday 29 February (6th week) 2-4.30pm world premiere) Free for observers (6th week) 7.30pm Holywell Music Room Music students | to take part, email [email protected]. Jacqueline du Pré Music Friday 28 February Free and open to all Building, St Hilda’s College (6th week) 7.30pm Preliminary seminar for participants Tuesday 25 February, 2-4pm, Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music £25 gallery £15 stalls Ahead of their concert on Keble College Chapel Saturday 29 February, Owen £5 students www.keble.ox.ac.uk Rees and soloists from www.jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk Contrapunctus will work with Performed by His Majestys Crossing borders with the Faculty of Music students on Sagbutts & Cornetts. seventeenth century lute. seventeenth-century repertoire and performance issues. Contrapunctus | Splendours of the Italian Baroque

Saturday 29 February (6th week) 7.30pm The Queen’s College Chapel 26 27 £15 £10 Free for music students www.ticketsoxford.com Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) was one of the greatest composers of the Venetian Baroque. In the splendour of Queen’s College Chapel, ‘imacculate’ vocal ensemble Contrapunctus perform his Oxford University OUSinfonietta Hilary Term Concert motets alongside works by Colonna and other contemporaries, all Wind Orchestra influential successors of Monteverdi. Friday 28 February (6th week) 8pm Hilary Term Concert University Church of St Mary the Virgin Saturday 7 March £10 £5 in advance £12 £6 on the door www.ousinf.oums.org (7th week) 8pm Oxford’s premier chamber orchestra present their termly University Church of concert, conducted by Joe Beesley, which includes the St Mary the Virgin world premiere of the winning entry from this year’s OUMS £10 £5 in advance and £12 Composition Competition. £6 on the door www.ticketsource.co.uk/ ouwo Oxford’s premier wind orchestra present an exciting evening of chamber music, feature John Williams’ saxophone concerto Escapades (from ‘Catch Me If You Can’). Conduced by Chris O’Leary with soloist Molly Goldstone.

The Mozart Piano Quartet Performance Clinic and Concert Sunday 8 March (8th week) 7.30pm Balliol College Hall Anneke Scott and Free and open to all Steven Devine I www.balliol.ox.ac.uk Beethoven, Marches for One of the world’s leading chamber ensembles, The Mozart Military Music Piano Quartet perform two giants of the genre. Wednesday 11 March Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47 (8th week) Faculty of Music Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor Op. 25 1-4pm Performance Clinic 4.30-5pm Outdoor Concert 6-7pm Concert and Tour Free and open to all Period horn player Anneke Scott works with wind and brass students to explore the lesser-known Marches for 28 Military Music by Beethoven, 29 culminating in an outdoor concert. Anneke will be then joined by fortepianist Steven Devine for a performance of Beethoven’s Sonata for Horn and Piano op. 17, followed by a showcase of the pianos in the Bate Collection.

Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music Eva Maschke (University of Heidelberg) | Polyphony on parchment and paper: New observations on the recently-discovered Ars nova fragments from Leipzig

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DATE DAY EVENT TIME VENUE PAGE OCTOBER 24 Thu Les Chansons de Bilitis 3pm Lincoln College 7 31 Thu The Art of Noises IV 6pm MAO 9

NOVEMBER 2 Sat Beyond the Island 7.30pm HMR 10 8 Fri Ensemble ISIS 7.30pm HMR 11 14 Thu Music from Armenia 7.30pm HMR 12 21 Thu A Life in Music 7.15pm HMR 16 29 Fri Feeling New Strength 7.30pm HMR 19

FEBRUARY 6 Thu La Terra Impareggiabile 7.30pm HMR 23 7 Fri Ensemble ISIS 7.30pm HMR 23 11 Tue Beethoven’s Piano Trios I 7.30pm HMR 24 12 Wed Beethoven’s Piano Trios II 7.30pm HMR 24 29 Sat Splendours of the Italian Baroque 7.30pm The Queen’s College 26

32 MARCH 11 Wed Beethoven’s Military Marches 1-7pm FOM 29

FOM Faculty of Music HMR Holywell Music Room MAO Modern Art Oxford

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