EVENTS spring • summer 2020
1
Contrapuntus | Splendours of the Italian Baroque Saturday 29 February, The Queen’s College Chapel MUSIC.OX.AC.UK/EVENTS OUREVENTS KEY EV ENTS BATE COLLEGE FACULTY NEW SEMINARS COLLECTION MUSIC CONCERTS MUSIC
THE BATE COLLEGE Composer Speaks Mondays in 4th week (Michaelmas and Hilary) COLLECTION MUSIC 4pm, Lecture Room A, Mon–Fri 2-5pm throughout Faculty of Music Many Oxford colleges the year | Saturdays during Free and open to all term,10am-12pm have rich musical lives. The events included in Professor Robert Saxton The Bate Collection the brochure are merely convenes a series in which celebrates the history and a sample. For complete visiting composers discuss development of musical listings, check individual their work. instruments of the Western College websites. Classical tradition from the 2 Medieval period until the present day. The Collection is SEMINARS made available for study and FACULTY judicious use by scholars, The Faculty hosts seminar students, makers, and CONCERTS series organised by both players. The Bate’s shop has students and academics. musical toys, beautiful cards, The Faculty of Music holds gifts and delights.. several concerts throughout the year which span a range Oxford Seminars in Learn Gamelan with of genres and feature world- Music Theory and the Oxford Gamelan leading artists. Analysis (OSiMTA) Society Select Wednesday afternoons, 4.30pm, Wednesdays during term (0th week to 9th week) 6-9pm new music Committee Room, Seminar Room, Faculty of Music Faculty of Music Professors Martyn Harry Free and open to all www.oxfordgamelan.org and Robert Saxton convene www.music.ox.ac.uk/osimta the series of workshops, @OxfordAnalysis seminars and concerts Professor Jonathan Cross with musical director and Dr Sebastian Wedler Dr John Traill. convene the series. OUR EV ENTS SEMINARS STUDENT workshops and Beethoven INTERNATIONAL MUSIC masterclasses 2020 WOMENS DAY
It explores issues in Seminars in extensive period of questions music theory and analysis Ethnomusicology and and discussion, with wine. from critical, plural and interdisciplinary Sound Studies perspectives. Two or three a term, usually on Thursdays 5-6.30pm Research Colloquia St John’s College Barn Tuesdays during term, Oxford University Music Free and open to all 5.15pm, Denis Arnold Hall, Society exists to support and www.ethnomusicology develop the performance Faculty of Music andsoundstudies. and appreciation of music Free and open to all wordpress.com within the University. Details 3 The Colloquia feature Professor Jason Stanyek of ensembles and their leading figures, as well as convenes this series grounded performances can be found at younger scholars, from across in anthropology, sound www.oums.org. the world. They present studies and ethnomusicology. their research in papers on Leading scholars present OUMS Chamber all kinds of music-related adventurous takes on musical topics. Graduate students and sonic cultures. Music Annabelle Page and George Select Mondays during Haggett organise the series. Seminars in Medieval term 6pm (doors open c. 5:40) Presentations are followed and Renaissance Music by discussion and a drinks Holywell Music Room reception. Select Thursdays Free and open to all during term, 5-7pm www.chambermusic.oums.org Wharton Room, All Souls College OUMS Chamber Music provides a platform for Free and open to all the large community of Convened by Margaret chamber musicians in Bent, the long-established Oxford University to interact. series invites younger and It facilitates chamber music established international performance though our 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. workshops and INTERNATIONAL masterclasses Beethoven 2020 WOMEN’S DAY
The Faculty hosts several 2020 is Beethoven’s 250th Oxford’s musical community events aimed at helping anniversary with his music celebrates International students grow as composers, being performed across Women’s Day in a performers and listeners. the city. The Faculty will programme of workshops, showcase lesser-known concerts and talks. Jazz Workshops works through a series of workshops and concerts Various dates in term 2-4pm featuring international Denis Arnold Hall, performers. Also, watch out Faculty of Music for Beethoven in concerts by Faculty of Music student ensembles. students only These are led by two international performers and teachers, Mark Hodgson (bass) and Tom Richards (saxophone/piano). The workshops cover all areas 4 of jazz improvisation. Piano and drum kit are available. Otherwise, bring your own instrument.
Performance Clinics Select Fridays during term 2-5pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free and open to all Performance clinics are the place for students to hone performance skills with a visiting professional who will also share their experiences of building a musical career. They are led by Faculty Director of Performance Liz Kenny. EVENTS HILARY TERM
Research Colloquium Robert Rawson (Canterbury Christ DANSOX presents: Making “The Cellist” Church University) | Music, Religion and Monday 20 January (1st week) 8pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College Diplomacy — A Re- Evaluation of Gottfried Free and open to all, booking essential via www.eventbrite.co.uk Finger’s Role in the Triumph The Royal Ballet and Choreographer Cathy Marston discuss of the Italian style in Cathy’s choreographic process for her new work for The England Royal Ballet, inspired by the momentous life and career of the renowned cellist, Jacqueline du Pré. Tuesday 21 January (1st week) 5.15pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free and open to all
5
Seminar in Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies John Mowitt (University of Leeds) | Jamming
Thursday 23 January (1st week) 5-6.30pm The Barn at St John’s College (Kendrew Quad) Free and open to all www.ethnomusicologyand soundstudies.wordpress.com Seminar in Music Theory and Analysis Martin Stokes (King’s College London) | Translating modes and the problem(s) of cross-cultural music analysis: the case of Maqam Nahawand
Wednesday 29 January (2nd week) 4.30pm Committee Room, James Gilchrist (tenor) & Anna Tilbrook (piano) Faculty of Music Free and open to all Saturday 25 January (1st week) 7.30pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College £30 gallery £20 stalls £10 students www.jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk 6 In a varied programme, the long-established duo perform Julian Philips’ Love Songs for Mary Joyce, a haunting setting of poems by John Clare.
William Kelly (University of Oxford) | Seminar in Medieval and Empty Orchestras: Reflections On (Nearly) Five Decades of Renaissance Music Karaoke-Singing in Japan Stephen Rose (Royal Tuesday 28 January (2nd week) 5.15pm Holloway) | Protected Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music publications: privileges for Free and open to all printed music in German- speaking lands, 1500-1600
Thursday 30 January (2nd week) 5-7pm Wharton Room, All Souls College Free and open to all Family Fun Day
Saturday 1 February (2nd week) 10am-2pm The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Free and open to all A day of family events featuring: A treasure trail, live musical performances and demonstrations. Plus, a chance to play some of the instruments in the handling collection.
7
Performance Clinic Research Colloquium Elizabeth Kenny | Stephanie Pitts Solo song in the Seventeenth Century: from lute song to opera (University of Sheffield)| The Art of Persuasion: Friday 31 January (2nd week) 2-4pm Denis Arnold Hall Audience Development for Classical Music in a Time Free and open to all of ‘Crisis’
Tuesday 4 February (3rd week) 5.15pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free and open to all Oxford Beethoven Festival Symposium 8 Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra | Orchestra in Residence at the University of Oxford
Thursday 6 & Friday 7 February (3rd week) 9.30am-5.15pm (Thursday) & 9am-5.30pm (Friday) Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College £25/day in advance, free for students at the door www.oxfordphil.com Experts from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Vienna, Connecticut, Manchester, Los Angeles, North Carolina and London, and from Beethoven-Haus Bonn, come together to consider aspects of Beethoven’s music and his time, and examine trends in his music’s performance and reception.
The Faculty’s Claire Holden (AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Art) and Professor Laura Tunbridge will be taking part in the Symposium. Visit www.oxfordphil.com for more details. Richard Causton | La Terra Impareggiabile
Thursday 6 February (3rd week) 7.30pm Holywell Music Room £5, Free for Music Faculty students www.ticketsoxford.com or on the door Baritone Marcus Farnsworth and pianist Huw Watkins perform the UK premiere of this song cycle of poems by Sicilian writer and Nobel prize-winner Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-68), translated into English by composer Richard Causton. Marcus and Huw will also perform Beethoven’s song cycle An die Ferne Geliebte, alongside Lieder by Schubert.
9
Richard Causton Marcus Farnsworth
Huw Watkins Mixed Ensemble Young Artists’ Platform Composition Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra | Orchestra in Workshop Residence at the University of Oxford Thursday 6 February (3rd week) 6.30pm Thursday 6 February (3rd week) 1.30-4.30pm Sheldonian Theatre Denis Arnold Hall, Free and open to all Faculty of Music www.oxfordphil.com Free and open to all Ken-Ee Choong (piano) will perform a twenty-minute piano Music students workshop recital before the OPO’s concert. their compositions with Ensemble ISIS conducted by Dr John Traill. Convened by Richard Causton, University of Cambridge.
10 Jazz Workshop
Friday 7 February (3rd week) 2-4pm Ensemble Room, Faculty of Music For Faculty of Music students only 11
Ensemble ISIS Concert Oxfordshire Senior Concerto Competition Final Conducted by John Traill Saturday 8 February (3rd week) 7.30pm St John the Evangelist Church Friday 7 February (3rd week) 7.30pm Tickets £10 £7 (students £5) Holywell Music Room www.oxfordphil.com £5 Free for students Music students Ewan Millar (oboe), Charlie Lovell-Jones In the second of our Richard (violin) and Julian Trevelyan (piano) will join the Oxfordshire Causton concerts, the County Youth Orchestra to perform a movement of a concerto Faculty’s flagship student of their choice. The panel of distinguished adjudicators will ensemble performs his works announce the Competition winner the same evening. for ensemble alongside student compositions. Lieder Composition Workshop
Tuesday 11 February (4th week) 10.30am-1pm Clore Studio, New College Free and open to all Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo soprano) and Sholto Kynoch (piano) will workshop student compositions
12
Young Artists’ Platform Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra | Orchestra in Residence at the University of Oxford
Thursday 13 February (4th week) 6.30pm Composer Speaks Sheldonian Theatre Anne Dudley | Themes and Variations in Film Scoring Free and open to all Monday 10 February (4th week) 4-5.30pm Lecture Room A, Music Faculty Free and open to all Anne Dudley is a British composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the BBC Concert Orchestra’s first Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both classical and pop genres, but is perhaps best known as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and as a film composer. In 1998, Dudley won an Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty. In addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she served as music producer for the film version of Les Misérables. Research Colloquium Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music Katherine Hambridge Elzbieta Witkowska-Zaremba (Warsaw, Polish (Durham University) | Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art) | Keyboard Cross-Dressing the German and the fifteenth century musica ficta: on the road toward the Voice, c. 1800 twelve steps octave Thursday 13 February (4th week) 5pm-7pm Tuesday 11 February (4th week) 5.15pm Wharton Room, All Souls College Denis Arnold Hall, Free and open to all Faculty of Music Free and open to all
13
Conducting Orchestral Composition Workshop Masterclass with Marios Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Papadopoulos Dr John Traill | Orchestra in Residence at the University Oxford Philharmonic of Oxford Orchestra | Orchestra in Friday 14 February (4th week) 12.15pm-6pm Residence at the University Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College of Oxford Free and open to all Friday 14 February The orchestra will workshop student compositions, one of (4th week) 11am-12pm which will be given its world premiere in the 2020/21 season. Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College Free admission, registration required www.oxfordphil.com Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
Saturday 15 February (4th week) 7.30-9.30pm Chapel of The Queen’s College £25 (£5 students) www.queenschoir.com/tickets Monteverdi’s masterpiece is performed by the combined forces of Contrapunctus, the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford and the Instruments of Time & Truth, directed by Owen Rees.
14
Villiers Quartet
Saturday 15 February (4th week) 7.30pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College £25 gallery £15 regular £5 students www.jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk The Villiers Quartet return to Oxford with an all-English programme. Purcell Fantasias Purcell Chaconne (arr. by Britten) Robert Saxton Fantazia (1993) Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C major op. 36 Family Fun Week Music for Two Cellos: Old and New | Rohan de Saram and Neil Heyde Monday 17 February to Friday 21 February Thursday 20 February (5th Week) (5th week) 2-5pm Holywell Music Room The Bate Collection of 11am Chamber Coaching (Music Students Only) Musical Instruments 6pm Concert Free and open to all Free and open to all, Register at www.eventbrite.co.uk Gallery activities including trails, colouring and word- searches. Neil Heyde
15 Research Colloquium James Cook (University of Edinburgh) | Hearing Historic Scotland
Tuesday 18 February Rohan de Saram (5th week) 5.15pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free and open to all
Jazz Workshop Research Colloquium Alessandra Palidda Friday 21 February (5th week) 2-4pm Ensemble Room, Faculty of Music (Oxford Brookes For Faculty of Music students only University) | On- and Off- Stage Cultural Intervention in Republican Milan (1796- 1802): Features, Issues and Significance
Tuesday 25 February (6th week) 5.15pm Dante and the music of ante-purgatory Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Friday 21 February (5th week) 6-7pm Somerville College Chapel Free and open to all Free and open to all Somerville College Choir and Katie Bastiman (Somerville 4th year student linguist) present a guided tour through the 16 rich variety of music represented in The Divine Comedy. Featuring music by Z. Randall Stroope, James MacMillan, Herbert Howells, and Thomas Tallis.
International Women’s Day at St Catz
Tuesday 25 February (7th week) 5.30-6.45pm Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College Free and open to all
Oxford University Philharmonia Hilary Term Concert
Wednesday 26 February (7th week) 8pm Sheldonian Theatre £10 £5 in advance and £12 £6 on the door www.ouphil.oums.org Conducted by Charlotte Corderoy.
17
Seminar in Music Theory and Analysis Elizabeth Eva Leach (University of Oxford) | Imagining the un-encoded: analysing affect in a twelfth- century love song
Wednesday 26 February (7th week) 4.30pm Committee Room, Faculty of Music Free and open to all
Seminar in Young Artists’ Platform Ethnomusicology and Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra | Orchestra in Sound Studies Residence at the University of Oxford
Shzr Ee Tan (Royal Thursday 27 February (6th week) 6.30pm Holloway) | Too ‘Hot’ for Sheldonian Theatre East Asians?: Tango, Salsa Free and open to all and the Performance of Class www.oxfordphil.com and Sex in Singapore Music student Katie Bunney (saxophone) will perform a Thursday 27 February twenty-minute recital before the OPO’s concert. (6th week) 5-6.30pm The Barn at St John’s College (Kendrew Quad) Free and open to all www.ethnomusicologyand soundstudies.wordpress.com
18
Seminar in Medieval and OUSinfonietta Hilary Term Concert Renaissance Music Friday 28 February (6th week) 8pm Christiane Wiesenfeldt University Church of St Mary the Virgin (University of Music £10 £5 in advance £12 £6 on the door Franz Liszt Weimar and www.ousinf.oums.org University of Jena) | Oxford’s premier chamber orchestra present their Self-Thematization as Identity termly concert, which includes the world premiere of Concept in the Renaissance: the winning entry from this year’s OUMS Composition “Music about Music” by Competition. Conducted by Joe Beesley. Tomas Luís de Victoria
Thursday 27 February (6th week) 5-7pm Wharton Room, All Souls College Free and open to all 19
Contrapunctus Contrapunctus Workshop Splendours of the Italian Baroque Friday 28 February (6th week) 2-4.30pm Saturday 29 February Holywell Music Room (6th week) 7.30pm The Queen’s College Chapel Free and open to all observers. Faculty of £15 £10. Free for Music students – apply to Music students take part www.ticketsoxford.com Ahead of their concert on Giovanni Legrenzi (1626- Saturday 29 February, Owen 1690) was one of the Rees and soloists from greatest composers of Contrapunctus will work with the Venetian Baroque. In Faculty of Music students the period splendour of on seventeenth-century Queen’s College Chapel, repertoire and performance ‘imacculate’ vocal ensemble issues. Contrapunctus perform his motets alongside works by Colonna and other contemporaries, all influential successors of Monteverdi. Oxford Conducting Institute Workshop John Traill and Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey with the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra Saturday 29 February (6th week) 9.30am-12.30pm Centre for Music (OCMS), Bayswater Road, Oxford, OX3 9FF Music students: to take part, email [email protected]. Free for observers Preliminary seminar for participants: Tuesday 25 20 February, 2-4pm, Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music
Elizabeth Kenny (lute) | La Conversation
Saturday 29 February (6th week) 7.30pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College £25 gallery £15 stalls £5 students www.jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk Crossing borders with the seventeenth century lute. Piano Masterclass with Marios Papadopoulos Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra | Orchestra in Residence at the University of Oxford Monday 2 March (7th week) 2.30-4.30pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free admission, registration required www.oxfordphil.com
21
Research Colloquium John Croft (Brunel University London) | Music From Nowhere
Tuesday 3 March (7th week) 5.15pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free and open to all International Women’s Day Celebration Friday 6 March (7th week) 6-6.45pm Somerville Chapel Free and open to all Performers from across the university will present selected choral and instrumental works by female composers to commemorate International Women’s Day 2020. The musical performances will be accompanied by brief analytical presentations on the works’ textual and musical content.
22 Oxford University Wind EMPRES presents: Dr Annie Mahtani Orchestra presents: Spatial Composition/Diffusion Workshop Escapades Monday 2 March (7th week) 2pm Thursday 5 March Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College (7th Week) 8pm Please contact: [email protected] to participate! University Church of St Mary the Virgin A practical workshop introducing key concepts and technologies relating to spatial music composition and £12 £5 students in performance - employing an 8-channel surround-sound advance and on the door speaker array. www.ticketsource.co.uk/ouwo Dr Annie Mahtani is an electroacoustic composer, sound Following their ‘Varsity Winds’ artist, performer and Senior Lecturer in Music at the performance at Trinity College, University of Birmingham. Her output encompasses Cambridge earlier this term, electronic music composition from acousmatic music to Oxford’s premier wind orchestra free improvisation. As a collaborator, Annie has worked returns to University Church extensively with dance and theatre, and on site-specific for ‘Escapades’: a musical installations. With a strong interest in field recording, her excursion exploring great work often explores the inherent sonic nature and identity British and American works for of environmental sound, amplifying sonic characteristics that both film and the concert hall. are not normally audible to the naked ear. Her music explores Featuring John Williams’ ‘Catch abstract and recognizable sound worlds and all the spaces in Me if You Can’ and music by between. Annie works extensively with multichannel audio Ticheli and Macconchy. both in fixed medium works and in live performance. Conductor: Christopher O’Leary Soloist: Molly Goldstone Choirs of Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville College Research Colloquium Sunday 8 March (8th week) 5.30pm Darci Sprengel Somerville College Chapel (University of Oxford) | Free and open to all Atmosphere as Biopower? Managing ‘The Barrier of A sequence of music and readings for Lent and the Spring, Fear’ through DIY Music in sung by the combined choirs of Lady Margaret Hall and Contemporary Egypt Somerville College to mark International Women’s Day 2020. Email [email protected] for more information. Tuesday 10 March (8th week) 5.15pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free and open to all
23
The Mozart Piano Quartet Sunday 8 March (8th week) 7.30pm Balliol College Hall Free and open to all, entry on the door Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47 Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor Op. 25 Bach: St John Passion Seminar in Medieval and Wednesday 11 March (8th week) 7.30-9.30pm Renaissance Music Somerville College Chapel Eva Maschke (University Matthew Thomson Evangelist of Heidelberg) | Benjamin Thompson Christus Polyphony on parchment Instruments of Time and Truth and paper: New observations on the recently-discovered Will Dawes Conductor Ars nova fragments from Leipzig
Thursday 12 March (8th week) 5-7pm Wharton Room, Performance Clinic and All Souls College Concert Free and open to all Anneke Scott and Steven Devine | 24 Beethoven, Marches for Military Music Wednesday 11 March (8th week) Faculty of Music 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 Military Music by Beethoven, culminating in an outdoor concert. Anneke will then be 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. TORCH | Creative Industries Pathway | Suffragette City: a Bird’s Eye View of the Music Business
Friday 13 March (8th Week) 3-5pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free and open to all. Register for your ticket at www.eventbrite.co.uk Piney Gir, Samantha Whates and Fiona Bevan - three musicians, three songwriters and three unique vantage points of the music industry. Piney, Samantha and Fiona will be performing at the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre in Oxford after the talk. Tickets and more information available at wegottickets.com.
25 TRINITY TERM
Seminar in Beethoven’s Complete Seminar in Music Theory Ethnomusicology and Music for Cello and and Analysis Sound Studies Piano Jack Boss (University Michael B. Silvers Tuesday 28 April, 7.30pm of Oregon) | Visions (University of Illinois, Wednesday 29 April, 7.30pm of Moonlight and Holywell Music Room Global Coherence in Urbana) | Making Free entry, but reservation “Mondestrunken” from as Musicking in the Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire Capitalocene: Luthiery, advised. For more details, see www.torch.ox.ac.uk/ Materials, and Timbre in Wednesday 29 April Cariri, Brazil To mark the 250th anniversary (1st week) 4.30pm of Beethoven’s birth, Cellist Committee Room, Monday 27 April Sung-Won Yang and pianist Faculty of Music (1st week) 5-6:30pm Enrico Pace perform the Free and open to all The Barn at St John’s composer’s complete music College (Kendrew Quad) for cello and piano in the Free and open to all Holywell Music Room. www.ethnomusicologyand 26 soundstudies.wordpress.com
Mixed Ensemble Composition Workshop
Thursday 30 April (1st week) 10.30am-5.30pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free and open to all With Ensemble CHROMA conducted by Dr John Traill. 27 EMPRES Presents: The Art of Noises V
Thursday 30 April 2020 (1st week) 6-10pm Modern Art Oxford Free entry, please register for tickets at www.modernartoxford.org.uk The Music Faculty’s Electronic Music Practice RESearch EMPRES Symposium group and Modern Art Oxford present another evening of aural adventure in the shape of the Art of Noises Friday 1 May series. EMPRES will take over the Modern Art Oxford (1st week) 9am-5pm galleries to present a series of innovative performances Faculty of Music and installations that explore the boundaries between Free and open to all music, art and technology. Composer and performer Atau www.empres.music.ox. Tanaka will lead a workshop and performance at the event. ac.uk/symposium-2020 He uses muscle sensing using the EMG signal in musical The day-long exchange performance where the human body becomes musical presents multiple instrument. He has created large scale installations bringing perspectives from together sound/image, mobile, and network technologies. composers, performers There will also be performances and installations from the and musicologists on Oxford Music Faculty and Ruskin School of Art graduate and issues surrounding the undergraduate communities! relationship between music Find out more at www.empres.music.ox.ac.uk and technology.
Violin Masterclass with Seminar in Sacred works by Maxim Vengerov Ethnomusicology and Giovanni Bononcini Oxford Philharmonic Sound Studies (1670-1747) Orchestra | Seth Brodsky (University Saturday 13 June Orchestra in Residence at of Chicago) | (7th week) 7.30pm the University of Oxford Chapel of the Is There Music after Queen’s College Friday 1 May Psychoanalysis? Drive, Desire, Repetition £25 (£5 students) (1st week) 10am-1pm www.queenschoir.com/ Trinity College Chapel Monday 4 May tickets Free admission, (2nd week) 5-6:30pm Sacred works by Giovanni booking recommended The Barn at St John’s Bononcini (1670-1747), www.oxfordphil.com College (Kendrew Quad) to include his Te Deum Maxim Vengerov is one Free and open to all in D, and his funeral of the world’s greatest www.ethnomusicologyand anthem for the Duke violin virtuosos of 40 years soundstudies.wordpress.com of Marlborough, When 28 experience. He will coach Saul was king over us student violinists. performed by the choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford and the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Owen Rees.
Seminar in Music Theory Seminar in and Analysis Ethnomusicology and Chloë Alaghband- Sound Studies Zadeh (University of Ivan Raykoff (The Manchester) | New School) | Femininities in circulation: Voices of Palestine in gender, emotion and north Contr’Eurovision 1979 and Indian semi-classical music Globalvision 2019
Wednesday 13 May Monday 18 May (3rd week) 4.30pm (4th week) 5-6:30pm Committee Room, The Barn at St John’s Faculty of Music College (Kendrew Quad) Free and open to all Free and open to all www.ethnomusicologyand soundstudies.wordpress.com 29
Sir Bryn Terfel | Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra in Residence at the University of Oxford
Friday 19 June (8th week) 7.30pm, Sheldonian Theatre £60 £40 £30 £20 (students from £5) www.oxfordphil.com
Sir Bryn Terfel bass-baritone Clara Dent oboe Marios Papadopoulos conductor Hannah Schneider conductor*
This concert with British bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel features the premiere of a work by Carol J. Jones, chosen from the 2019 Composers’ Workshop and conducted by DPhil student Hannah Schneider.
Carol J Jones The Light Thief* world premiere Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto in D major, TrV 292 Wagner Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin ‘Was duftet doch der Flieder’ from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre About us
Faculty of Music St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1DB
(01865) 276133 [email protected] music.ox.ac.uk The Faculty of Music is an internationally-renowned centre of music teaching and research. Events at the Faculty are frequently held in the Denis Arnold Hall and various teaching rooms.
30
The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Faculty of Music, St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1DB
(01865) 286261 [email protected] bate.ox.ac.uk The Bate Collection is the most comprehensive collection of European woodwind, brass and percussion instruments in Britain. The Bate has over 2000 instruments from the Western orchestral music traditions from the Renaissance, through the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and up to modern times. The collection exists as both a research facility and a concert venue. Programme design: The Graphic Bomb Photography: Patrick Allen | Vicki Bailey | Sam Barnes | Stuart Bebb | Bwag | John Cairns | NM Choi | John Croft | Benjamin Ealovega | Richard Haughton | Julie Kim | Jack Liebeck | Helen Messenger | Josep Molina | Neda Navaee | Simon Wall | Josep Molina | TallWall Media If you would like to be added to our mailing list please email [email protected] or call 01865 276125. All of our venues are accessible or partly accessible. Please contact individual venues for full information.
Holywell Music Room Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3SB
(01865) 276125 [email protected] music.ox.ac.uk The Holywell Music Room is the city of Oxford’s chamber music hall, situated on Holywell Street in the city centre, within the grounds of Wadham College. It is said to be the oldest purpose- built music room in Europe, and hence Britain’s first concert hall. 31
Modern Art Oxford 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford, OX1 1BP
(01865) 722733 [email protected] modernartoxford.org.uk Modern Art Oxford is one of the UK’s most exciting and influential contemporary arts organisations. Founded in 1965, it is the only public institution dedicated to contemporary visual arts in Oxford and is free and open to all. DIARY | FACULTY CONCERTS
DATE DAY EVENT TIME VENUE PAGE FEBRUARY 6 Thu La Terra Impareggiabile 7.30pm HMR 23 7 Fri Ensemble ISIS 7.30pm HMR 23 29 Sat Splendours of the Italian Baroque 7.30pm The Queen’s College 26
MARCH 11 Wed Beethoven’s Military Marches 1-7pm FOM 29 2 Mon Dr Annie Mahtani: Workshop 2pm JdP 22
APRIL 28 Tues Sung-Won Yang and Enrico Pace: Beethoven 7.30pm HMR 26 29 Wed Sung-Won Yang and Enrico Pace: Beethoven 7.30pm HMR 26 30 Thu The Art of Noises V 6pm MAO 27
FOM Faculty of Music HMR Holywell Music Room MAO Modern Art Oxford JdP The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building 32
Performance and Events Office: Liz Green, Jasmin Irscheid, Jasper Minton-Taylor and Rebecca Sackman-Smith Director of Performance: Elizabeth Kenny Faculty Board Chair: Professor Suzanne Aspden www.music.ox.ac.uk OxfordMusicFaculty @OxMusicFaculty oxmusicfaculty