FACULTY OF Autumn/Winter Events 2016/7 MUSIC Michaelmas & Hilary Terms
INCLUDES HOLYWELL MUSIC ROOM CONCERT LISTINGS
Bach project: A beginning Saturday 8 October
NEW! Lunchtime Student Recitals Thursdays 1pm Faculty of Music, St Aldates’s Free Entry
www.music.ox.ac.uk/events EVENT CALENDAR
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E NOVEMBER 13 BATE CONCERT: IMPROVISO CONCERT 17 C NOVEMBER 20 VILLIERS QUARTET EVENING CONCERT 6 N
O NOVEMBER 23 VILLIERS QUARTET LUNCHTIME CONCERT 6 C NOVEMBER 29 BATE CONCERT: PRINCE REGENT’S BAND 8 OCTOBER 10 NEW COLLEGE: ROBERT QUINNEY ORGAN RECITAL 10 OCTOBER 16 ST HUGH'S COLLEGE: ENSEMBLE PEREGRINA CONCERT 10 OCTOBER 21 SJE ARTS: IMOGEN COOPER CONCERT 11 OCTOBER 22 ST PETER’S CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT 13 OCTOBER 20 MUSIC FACULTY FREE STUDENT RECITAL 13 OCTOBER 24 NEW COLLEGE: ROBERT QUINNEY ORGAN RECITAL 10 OCTOBER 27 MUSIC FACULTY FREE STUDENT RECITAL 13 OCTOBER 29 MERTON COLLEGE CHOIR OXFORD LIEDER CONCERT 11 NOVEMBER 3 MUSIC FACULTY FREE STUDENT RECITAL 13
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S NOVEMBER 6 OXFORD UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA CONCERT 12 U NOVEMBER 9-12 LINCOLN COLLEGE MUSICAL REVUE 11 M NOVEMBER 10 MUSIC FACULTY FREE STUDENT RECITAL 13
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This term we are delighted to launch Director of Performance Natalie Clein's Bach Project, which will span E NOVEMBER 17 MUSIC FACULTY FREE STUDENT RECITAL 13 L the next 3 years. The exploration begins early in October with distinguished guest performers giving talks, L NOVEMBER 19 ST PETER’S CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT 13 O NOVEMBER 19 OXFORD PHILHARMONIC YOUNG ARTISTS' PLATFORM EMMA LISNEY 13 C
masterclasses, and shared conversations, followed by a concert of Bach's chamber music works. NOVEMBER 19 OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITIES WIND ORCHESTRAS 12 We also welcome back the Villiers Quartet for the new year, and offer the first Oxford performance D NOVEMBER 21 NEW COLLEGE: ROBERT QUINNEY ORGAN RECITAL 11 N
A NOVEMBER 21 SJE ARTS: JAVIER PERIANES CONCERT 11 given by the Prince Regent's Band.
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An exceptional opportunity is offered by The Impossible Gentlemen and Gwilym Simcock; they will give a public masterclass N NOVEMBER 23 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PHILHARMONIA CONCERT 12 E for our jazz performers. Natalie Clein will also be working with her Oxford students, and new music features high on the D NOVEMBER 24 MUSIC FACULTY FREE STUDENT RECITAL 13
U NOVEMBER 24 WADHAM COLLEGE: PETER SHEPPARD SKÆRVED AND DANIEL-BEN PIENAAR CONCERT 10 agenda once more, with guest composers Robin Holloway and Rachel Portman. T
S NOVEMBER 25 OXFORD UNIVERSITY STRING ENSEMBLE CONCERT 12 As always, academic work is at the heart of what we do. So join the Tuesday research colloquia, the ethnomusicology NOVEMBER 30 OXFORD UNIVERSITY SINFONIETTA CONCERT 12 DECEMBER 1 OXFORD UNIVERSITY CHORUS CONCERT 12 lectures, the Medieval and Renaissance seminars or the Composer Speaks series to explore music of all times and places in DECEMBER 1 MUSIC FACULTY FREE STUDENT RECITAL 13 the company of the Faculty's renowned staff or visiting international scholars. DECEMBER 7 OXFORD PHILHARMONIC YOUNG ARTISTS' PLATFORM 13 JANUARY 21 ST STEPHEN’S HOUSE: SEAN SHIBE CLASICAL GUITAR 11 The Faculty's numerous research projects are all offering public events in the next few months from the Balzan workshop and FEBRUARY 2 WADHAM COLLEGE MUSIC SOCIETY 10 concert given by Trio Khimaira to the Transforming 19th-century Historically Informed Performance wind concert in 2017; FEBRUARY 18 ST PETER'S CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT 13 there is also the Spectralisms conference, the first of its kind featuring the London Sinfonietta in concert. MARCH 5 ST STEPHEN’S HOUSE: SAVITRI GRIER (VIOLIN) AND RICHARD UTTLEY (PIANO) 11 MARCH 6 ORIEL COLLEGE: SARAH CONNOLLY CONCERT 11 Finally the newest addition to this programme is the free lunchtime recitals held during term time in the Faculty on OCTOBER 27 ENSEMBLE ISIS CONCERT: ROBIN HOLLOWAY - TWO COMPOSER HOMAGES 14 C Thursdays, showcasing our students' talents to the public of Oxford. I OCTOBER 28 ENSEMBLE ISIS OXFORD LIEDER CONCERT 14 S
We hope you join us to one or more of these events. U NOVEMBER 10 OXFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA EUGENE BIRMAN PREMIERE 14
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E NOVEMBER 28 RICHARD CASEY SOLO PIANO COMPOSITION WORKSHOP 14 N NOVEMBER 30 ENSEMBLE ISIS SOLO WITH ELECTRONICS COMPOSITION WORKSHOP 14 OCTOBER 8 BACH PROJECT CELLO MASTERCLASS: DAVID WATKIN 5 Michael Burden, Chair, Board of the Faculty of Music S E
& OCTOBER 8 BACH PROJECT MASTERCLASS: MAGGIE COLE AND KATI DEBRETZENI 5
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L OCTOBER 29 CONDUCTING WORKSHOP: OCI JOHN TRAILL & CAYENNA PONCHIONE 15
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These premises are accessible to those with mobility difficulties, visual impairments, and A MARCH 4 CONDUCTING WORKSHOP 15 W hearing impairments. M MARCH 7 ORIEL COLLEGE VISITING MUSICIAN: SARAH CONNOLLY MASTERCLASS 11 OCTOBER 18 GALLERY RECITAL: MIKE BARDSLEY ON THE GOERMANS HARPSICHORD 16 The Holywell Music Room is in Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3SB. OCTOBER 24-28 HALF TERM ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN 16
E NOVEMBER 13 BATE CONCERT: IMPROVISO, DIRECTED BY FATIMA LAHHAM 17 Further information about the Faculty of Music is available on our website: www.music.ox.ac.uk T NOVEMBER 15 GALLERY RECITAL: MIKE BARDSLEY ON THE TISSERAN HARPSICHORD 16 A
B NOVEMBER 19 THEREMIN WORKSHOP: LYDIA KAVINA 16 Find us on our Facebook page ‘Music Faculty Events, University of Oxford’ NOVEMBER 19 FAMILY FUN DAY 16 Director of Performance: Natalie Clein NOVEMBER 29 BATE CONCERT: PRINCE REGENT’S BAND 8
OCTOBER 8 BACH PROJECT: DAVID WATKIN 4 Concerts and Events Manager: Aloïse Fiala-Murphy ˆ OCTOBER 8 BACH PROJECT: KATI DEBRETZENI 4 OCTOBER 11 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: LAUREN REDHEAD 24 Events Office: Liz Green and Neta Rudich OCTOBER 18 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: MARTYN HARRY 24 OCTOBER 19 SEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND SOUND STUDIES: INGRID MONSON 23 Design and production: white space | www.white-space.net OCTOBER 20 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: MARGARET BENT 22 OCTOBER 24 SEMINAR IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND SOUND STUDIES: TIMOTHY TAYLOR 23 Cover: Portrait of J S Bach, aged 61, by E. G. Haussmann, 1748 S OCTOBER 25 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: JULIAN HORTON 24 R
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N OCTOBER 31 COMPOSER SPEAKS: RACHEL PORTMAN 18 I NOVEMBER 1 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: URMILA BHIRDIKAR 24 The weeks indicated next to the dates relate to the University term. M E NOVEMBER 4-6 BALZAN MUSICOLOGY WORKSHOP 20 S NOVEMBER 8 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: HELEN DEEMING 24 NOVEMBER 10 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: BONNIE BLACKBURN 22 www.music.ox.ac.uk OxfordMusicFaculty @MusicFac_Events NOVEMBER 15 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: SEBASTIAN WEDLER 24 NOVEMBER 17 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: FELIX DIERGARTEN 22 NOVEMBER 22 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: DEREK B. SCOTT 24 If you would like to be added to our mailing list please email [email protected] with your details . NOVEMBER 29 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM: CAYENNA PONCHIONE 24 DECEMBER 1 SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC: DAVID CATALUNYA 22 CONCERTS | Bach Project
Bach Project: A beginning 11am – 12pm Lecture recital by Violinist Kati Debretzeni Saturday 8 October (0th Week) The question of speed in dance movements of J.S.Bach's unaccompanied works for Holywell Music Room violin – a performer's approach Director of Performance Natalie Clein gathers her expert friends to 1.00 - 2.30pm Chamber Music Masterclass begin exploring the music of with Harpsichordist Maggie Cole and Violinist Kati Debretzeni JS Bach. She introduces the Bach Project in her words: 2.30 - 4pm Cello masterclass with Cellist David Watkin “I have long wished to have an open and 5.15 – 6pm Talk in-depth exploration of Bach and the cello; a talk on the iconic Suites for solo cello some of the issues that by cellist David Watkin continually come up when performing Bach 6.15 – 7pm In Conversation as I feel there are no easy Natalie Clein, David Watkin, Maggie Cole, Kati Debretzeni answers and multiple approaches. I am Concert bringing in several 8pm musicians – David Watkin, Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major B Maggie Cole and Kati Tickets Debretzeni – and hope to WV1007 15’ Concert alone Natalie Clein, cello Music engage both students and the students! £15/£10 Students £5 general public in the debate. One Sonata in G major E-mail Individual event £6 of the joys of a life in music is the BWV 1019 18’ [email protected] continual searching and wish for a to claim your Whole day pass £40 Kati Debretzeni, violin free tickets concessions £25 deeper understanding of a score and Maggie Cole, harpsichord its context and this day is a chance to do students £15 such deep sea diving!” Art of Fugue www.ticketsoxford.com BWV 1080 Contrapunctus 18 – 8’ 01865 305 305 Instruments of Time and Truth In person at the Oxford Playhouse or on the door Harpsichord Concerto No.4 in A major, BWV 1055 – 14’ Maggie Cole, harpsichord solo with Instruments of Time and Truth
HILARY TERM 2017 Bach Project: Three minds in counterpoint Tickets The Goldberg variations arranged for string trio £15/£10 Friday 27 January (2nd Week) Students £5 8pm www.ticketsox - Holywell Music Room ford.com 01865 305 305 Concert In person at the Oxford Playhouse or on the door Bach Goldberg variations (Arr. Dmitry Sitkovetsky) Henning Kraggerud, violin Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola Natalie Clein, cello
4 BACH PROJECT BACH PROJECT 5 CONCERTS | Villiers Quartet
Radcliffe Chamber Music Residency 2015-18 The Villiers Quartet are in their second year of the Radcliffe chamber music residency at the Faculty of Music presented in association with Music at Oxford. Following a successful couple of residencies in the fabulous Holywell Music Room last year, they offer a rich variety of music in their four public performances over the 16-17 season. They also work with students at the Faculty in composition workshops and coaching sessions.
Concert HILARY TERM 2017 Sunday 20 November (7th Week) Lunchtime Concert 7.30pm Wednesday 1 February (3rd Week) Holywell Music Room 1pm Henry Purcell Fantasias Holywell Music Room Finn Shields Neuvoton Carl Nielsen At the Bier of a Young Artist Dmitri Shostakovich Quartet no. 3 in F major, Op. 73 Robert Saxton Fantazia for String Quartet Tickets £10 (students £5) Jean Sibelius Quartet in D Minor, Concert Op. 56 "Voces Friday 3 February (3rd Week) Intimae" 7.30pm Holywell Music Room Tickets £15 (students £5) Schubert Quartettsatz Lunchtime Concert Schoenberg Quartet No. 2, Op. Wednesday 23 November (7th Week) 10 with Music 1pm Alumna Julia Holywell Music Room Sitkovetsky, soprano Jean Sibelius Adagio in D minor Webern Langsamer Satz Kui Dong “Spring” Brahms Quartet in C minor, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Op. 51, No. 1 Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 Tickets £15 (students £5) Tickets £10 (students £5)
Tickets for all events on Music this page students! E-mail www.musicatoxford.com [email protected] 01865 244806 to claim your free tickets On the door
6 VILLIERS QUARTET VILLIERS QUARTET 7 CONCERTS | Prince Regent’s Band
Bate Concert
Tuesday 29 November (8th Week) 7.30pm Holywell Music Room Richard Fomison: contralto saxhorn and cornets Programme to include works by Verdi, Meyerbeer, Donizetti, Grétry, Fauconnier, Berlioz, Richard Thomas: contralto and tenor saxhorns and cornets Arne, Kent, Handel and compositions by the Distin Family Anneke Scott: tenor saxhorn and ventil horn Phil Dale: baritone saxhorn “The virtuosity of The Prince Regent’s Band is there for all to hear. In “The Celebrated Distin Family” Jeff Miller: contrabass saxhorn PRB have successfully achieved a harmonious soundscape on historical cornets and saxhorns – eloquently demonstrating the beauty and versatility of the smooth, mellow tones of these The Celebrated Distin Family original instruments.” (Andrew Lamb, The Bate Collection, Oxford) The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments has invited the Prince Regent’s Band for a concert celebrating the Distin Family and exploring nineteenth century music for brass instruments. The Distin Family was one of the earliest and most famous of brass ensembles. After travelling to Paris in 1844 where they discovered a new valved brass instrument by Adolphe Sax in a concert organised by Hector Berlioz, the family quickly acquired a full set of five of the new instruments which they claimed to be the first to call "sax horns". Tickets £12/£6 These instruments are today the instruments that make up the modern brass band. www.ticketsoxford.com The Distins were resourceful arranging and rearranging popular works of the time, including 01865 305 305 many works from the genres of opera, ballad and folk song. Their programmes often advertised In person at the Oxford works by composers such as Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Meyerbeer, Handel and Beethoven. Playhouse or on the door
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Wadham College Thursday 15 December Merton College HILARY TERM 2017 Thursday 3 November 7.30pm Saturday 29 October (3rd Week) Saturday 21 January (1st Week) (4th Week) Sheldonian Theatre 4.30pm 7.30pm 8pm J S Bach, Christmas Oratorio, Pts 1-3 Oxford Lieder Festival BBC New Generation Artist Sean Shibe (classical Holywell Music Room Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Requiem: Mozart and Schumann guitar) Dowland, Arnold, Berkeley, Walton, Britten Wadham College Music Society The Choir of New College, Oxford Rosalind Coad (Soprano) St Stephen’s House, accessed via SJE Arts Music for cello and piano Madeleine Ridd Robert Quinney conductor Rozanna Madylus (Mezzo-Soprano) Admission £35-£15 Open to the public Josep-Ramon Olivé (Baritone) and Melanie Jones Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist Benjamin Nicholas (Conductor) Free admission with retiring collection Tickets £42 £30 £20 £10 www.oxfordphil.com Sunday 5 March (8th Week) Merton College Chapel 5pm 01865 305 305 Tickets £12 (Nave), £5 (restricted view) Thursday 24 November (7th Week) Savitri Grier (violin) and Richard Uttley (piano) www.oxfordlieder.co.uk or 01865 591 276 7.30pm Enesco and Brahms Holywell Music Room Merton College St Stephen’s House, accessed via SJE Arts Concert of Mozart Violin Sonatas by Peter Saturday 12 November (5th Week) Admission £15 Open to the public Sheppard Skærved (violin) and Daniel-Ben 7.30pm Pienaar (piano) Organ Concert by Olivier Latry 9 - 12 November (5th Week) Tickets £12/£8 on the door Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale 'Ad nos, 7.30pm ad salutarem undam' Oakshott Room, Lincoln College Thursday 2 February Widor Andante sostenuto (from the Symphonie 'I love you, you're perfect, now change' - a 8pm gothique) musical revue performed by Lincoln College Holywell Music Room Vierne Organ Symphony No. 4 in G minor - final Free admission – Open to the public Wadham College Music Society movement Music for percussion and piano Debussy La Cathédrale engloutie (transcription: Oriel College George Barton and Siwan Rhys Léon Roques) Monday 21 November Free admission with retiring collection Dupré Prelude and fugue in G minor, op. 7 (7th Week) Latry Improvisation Start time tbc New College Merton College Chapel Sarah Connolly Singing Masterclass 17, 18, and 19 November Tickets £15, £10 (students) from the Oxford Oriel College (6th Week) St Hugh's College Playhouse 01865 305305 www.ticketsoxford.com Free Admission - Open to the public 8.30pm Sunday 16 October (2nd Week) St Stephen’s House New College Antechapel 6.30pm Monday 6 March (8th Week) Ensemble Peregrina Friday 21 October (2nd Week) 7pm New Chamber Opera 7.30pm
Henry Purcell Dido and Aneas Beginning with the visionary 'Sybil of the Rhine', Holywell Music Room SJE Arts International^ Piano Series 2016 Hildegard of Bingen, the singers of Ensemble Conductor: James Orrell Imogen Cooper (piano) Janácek, Schumann Sarah Connolly Concert Director: Michael Burden Peregrina will present an innovative tour, ranging and Albéniz (Oriel College Visiting Musician) Tickets £12/£7 concessions across Europe, of medieval music from women's St Stephen’s House, accessed via SJE Arts More information to follow www.ticketsource.co.uk/newchamberopera monasteries for women saints. Admission £35-£15 from the Oxford Playhouse This event is supported by Barden and Flavia Gale 01865 305305 www.ticketsoxford.com Tuesday 7 March (8th Week) Mondays 10 & 24 October, 21 in honour of Eloise Susanna Gale Start time tbc November (Weeks 1, 3, 7) Tickets £10 contact [email protected] Monday 21 November (7th Week) Oriel College 9pm .ac.uk Students free 7.30pm Sarah Connolly Singing Masterclass New College Chapel SJE Arts International Piano Series 2016 See Oriel College website for details nearer Robert Quinney (Organist, New College) Javier Perianes (piano) Schubert, Debussy the time Recital series and De Falla Free Admission - Open to the public Free admission – open to the public St Stephen’s House, accessed via SJE Arts Admission £20-£10 from the Oxford Playhouse 01865 305305 www.ticketsoxford.com 10 COLLEGE MUSIC COLLEGE MUSIC 11 STUDENT MUSIC
St Peter's Chamber Orchestra Oxford University Music Society exists to support and develop the Conductor: John Warner performance and appreciation of music within the University. Details of other Saturday 22 October (2nd Week) performances in Oxford, by OUMS ensembles and other ensembles, can be found at http://oums.org/events and on the individual ensembles’ websites, listed at 8pm http://oums.org/ensembles St Peter's College Chapel Shostakovich Chamber Symphony in C Oxford University Orchestra Oxford University String Ensemble minor, Op. 110a Sunday 6 November (5th Week) Friday 25 November (7th Week) Elgar Sospiri 7.30pm 7.30pm R. Strauss Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings Student Recital Series Sheldonian Theatre University Church of St Mary the Virgin Morgen! Thursday lunchtimes Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Hermann Psycho Suite 1-1.30pm Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Saturday 19 November (6th Week) Debussy Danses Sacrée et Profane 8pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Violin: Carolin Widmann We are delighted to introduce our new Mahler Adagietto from Symphony St Peter's College Chapel Conductor: Daniel Harding recital series, given by our students, and No.5 Butterworth Two English Idylls Tickets: £30/£15 (floor, semi-circle, lower gallery, free for all to attend. Williams Munich: A prayer for peace behind orchestra), £15/£7 (upper gallery) Copland Clarinet Concerto The students will mainly be performing – advance only / ouo.oums.org Leighton Concerto for strings Dvorak Symphony No. 9, 'From pieces for their upcoming examinations. Harp: Imogen Emmett the New World' Oxford University Wind Orchestra Come and join us on 20, 27 October, Conductor: Aaron King Saturday 18 February 3, 10, 17, 24 November and 1 December Varsity with Cambridge University Wind Orchestra 8pm Saturday 19 November (6th Week) Tickets: £10/£5 – on the door and advance / Each recital will last no longer than 30 Sheldonian Theatre minutes. Feel free to bring your lunch! 8pm ouse.oums.org Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor University Church of St Mary the Virgin Information nearer the time from Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk for £5/£10 www.music.ox.ac.uk, 01865 276125 or Hart Cartoon Oxford University Sinfonietta (student/adult) or on the door for £6/12 email [email protected] Bate A Hymn to the Beauty Wednesday 30 November (8th Week) [email protected] Free admission that was 7.30pm facebook.com/SPChamberOrchestra/ Williams arr. De Meij – Holywell Music Room Star Wars Saga Young Artist Platform Haydn Symphony No.31 Saturday 19 November (6th Week) Wednesday 7 December (9th Week) Ellerby Paris Sketches Barber Violin Concerto 6.30pm 6.30pm Williams arr. Smith – Harry Potter Poulenc Sinfonietta Sheldonian Theatre Sheldonian Theatre Symphonic Suite Violin: Emma Lisney Pre-concert Recital Pre-concert Recital Conductor: Chloe Rooke Violin: Emma Lisney A chance to hear talented young musicians in Conductor: Freddie Meyers Tickets: £10/£5 – on the door, £8/£4 A chance to hear Music student and 2016 recital (name to be announced). – advance / ouwo.oums.org Tickets: £12/£6 – on the door, £10/£5 advance / Oxfordshire Concerto Competition winner Free admission. ousinf.oums.org ahead of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra 7.30pm Oxford University Philharmonia evening concert. Free admission. Brahms Academic Festival Wednesday 23 November (7th Week) Oxford University Chorus 7.30pm Overture, Op. 80 8pm Thursday 1 December (8th Week) Beethoven Leonora Overture No. 3, Lidstrom Rigoletto Fantasy for Cello Sheldonian Theatre Op. 72b and Orchestra 8pm Sibelius The Oceanides Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D Hanson Symphony No.2, Romantic Sheldonian Theatre minor, Op. 40 major, Op. 73 Haydn The Creation Symphony No. 3 in A Mats Lidström cello, Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor Sibelius Symphony No.2 in D major minor, Op. 56, ‘Scottish’ Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Joe Davies Conductor: Matthew Reese Peter Donohoe piano, Marios Papadopoulos Tickets £50 £35 £25 £15 (students from £5) Tickets: £12/£6 – on the door, £10/£5 Tickets: £8/£5 students – on the door and advance / conductor, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra – advance / ouphil.oums.org ouchorus.oums.org Tickets £42 £30 £20 £10 (students from £5)
12 STUDENT MUSIC STUDENT MUSIC 13 Co-convenors: Professor Martyn Harry and Professor Saxton. Musical Director: Dr John Traill. All events are NEW MUSIC open to the public and free to attend. Most take place WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES in the Faculty of Music unless otherwise stated
The Composer Speaks: Oxford Lieder Festival : Conducting Workshops Robin Holloway – Two Composer The Schumann Project – with the Oxford Conducting Institute Homages Late Style & Legacy study day Director: Dr John Traill Thursday 27 October (3rd Week) Friday 28 October, 3.15pm Conducting Associate: Cayenna Ponchione 5.15pm Holywell Music Room The Oxford Conducting Institute provide a series of workshops and short courses for Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Laura Tunbridge leads a conductors. Events range in focus, from professional training, work in education and Ensemble ISIS, Conductor – John Traill fascinating study day on with non-professional orchestras, to outreach, enterprise, and career development. Led Soloist – Maki Sekyia, piano Schumann's later works by Dr John Traill and Cayenna Ponchione, these workshops are tailored to the participants and suitable Guest Composer – Robin Holloway and on his legacy. for all conductors (beginner to advanced). In this lecture-recital, Robin Ensemble ISIS perform Holloway discusses with Robert Robin Holloway's Michaelmas Term Seminar: Tuesday 25 October (3rd Week) 2-4pm Saxton the significance of 'composer Fantasy-Pieces on the homages' for his work with reference Heine Liederkreis of Workshop: Saturday 29 October (3rd Week) 2-5pm to two contrasting works. Ensemble Schumann, with pianist Repertoire: Mendelssohn String Symphony no.10 in B minor ISIS will perform Holloway's Five Haydn Maki Sekiya, which Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Miniatures (1999), and the composer will incorporates a performance of Hilary Term analyse his seminal work, Fantasy-Pieces (on the Op. 24 Liederkreis with tenor Seminar: Tuesday 28 February (7th Week) 2-4pm the Heine 'Liederkreis' of Schumann) Op. 16 James Gilchrist. Introduced by the composer. Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music (1971), in advance of the work's complete Tickets for the study day £20/£5 (under 35’s) performance under the auspices of the Oxford www.oxfordlieder.co.uk 01865 591 276 Workshop: Saturday 4 March (7th Week) 9.30am-12.30pm Lieder Festival's Schumann Project the following Centre for Music, Bayards Hill, Waynflete Road, Oxford, OX3 8GA day. Free entry Workshop with the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra Repertoire: Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Overture Admission £5 (students free) Composition Workshops Ensemble Room Jazz Masterclass with The Impossible Gentlemen Free entry featuring Gwilym Simcock Thursday 10 November Monday 21 (7th Week)1.30-3.30pm Wednesday 13 October (1st Week) 2-4.30pm 7.30pm Thursday 24 November (7th Week) Denis Arnold Hall Sheldonian Theatre 11.30am-1.30pm ‘A rare and fabulous group of talents’. The Times Maxim Vengerov violin String Quartet with the Villiers Quartet The group is comprised of world-leading musicians, featuring a USA based Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra rhythm section of Adam Nussbaum and Steve Rodby plus three British Marios Papadopoulos conductor Monday 28 November musicians – Gwilym Simcock, Mike Walker and Iain Dixon. This is a rare (8th Week) opportunity for students to develop their improvisation skills and The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Artist in Residence, Maxim Vengerov 2-5pm playing with others. Open to all, but there will be limited spaces for students wishing to perform. Admission £5 (students free) students performs the premiere of DPhil composer Solo Piano with Richard Casey Email Eugene Birman's Violin Concerto which was [email protected] Wednesday 30 November to sign-up for the chosen during the 2015 Composers' Natalie Clein Performance Masterclass masterclasses (8th Week ) Workshop. Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Tuesday 1 November (4th Week) 11-1pm his Eighth Symphony also feature in the 1.30-4.30pm evening’s programme. Denis Arnold Hall Solo Instrument with Piano with The Faculty's Director of Performance and internationally loved cellist Natalie Clein offers her Tickets: £50 £35 £25 £15 (students from £5) Ensemble ISIS players insights and works with the most talented student performers. www.oxfordphil.com 01865 305 305 Solo Instrument with electronics Admission £5 (students free)
14 NEW MUSIC WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES 15 Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Faculty of Music, St Aldate’s, Oxford OX1 1DB THE BATE COLLECTION | www.bate.ox.ac.uk 01865 276139
The Bate Collection The Bate Collection Shop The Bate Collection celebrates the A veritable Aladdin’s cave of musical toys, history and development of musical beautiful cards, gifts and delights. instruments of the Western Classical tradition from the medieval period Visiting The Bate until the present day. The Collection Free admission. Open 2-5pm weekdays is made available for study and throughout the year. Weekend openings: judicious use by scholars, students, makers, and Saturday mornings 10 -12 (OU full term). players, so as to enhance and increase the knowledge of the history of music as well as the enjoyment of historical performance.
GALLERY RECITALS Bate Collection Gallery Free of charge – no advance booking necessary Tuesday 18 October (2nd Week) 2pm Mike Bardsley of the Friends of the Bate performs on the Goermans harpsichord, Paris 1750 Tuesday 15 November (6th Week) 2pm Mike Bardsley performs on the newly restored Tisseran harpsichord, London 1700 WORKSHOPS Theremin Workshop Saturday 19 November (7th Week) 10am-5pm Lecture Room A, Faculty of Music With Lydia Kavina Bookings in Advance via Bate Collection BATE CONCERTS Improviso, directed by Fatima Lahham presents EVENING CLASSES Learn Gamelan with the Oxford Gamelan Society European Connection Wednesday Evenings 6-9.30pm Commencing 12 October Sunday 13 November (6th Week) Oxford Gamelan Society meet at the Faculty of Music on Wednesday 6pm evenings during the University Term. This is a chance to learn to play on Holywell Music Room the Javanese Gamelan with other members of the group. Chamber ensemble Improviso presents an evening of music centred around European composers, instrument FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENTS makers, and performers in eighteenth-century London. Programme to include Corelli, Sammartini, Handel, and 24-28 October (half term week) and Telemann's Concerto for recorder and bassoon. 13-17 February (half term week) 2-5 pm Tickets £10/£6 available on the door Gallery activities including trails, colouring and word-searches Free of charge, no advance booking necessary Prince Regent’s Band FAMILY FUN DAYS Tuesday 29 November (8th Week) Saturday 19 November and Saturday 4 February 7.30pm 10am-2pm Holywell Music Room A day of family events featuring: A treasure trail, live musical See page 8 for full details. performances and demonstrations. Plus a chance to play some of the Tickets £12 (concs £6) instruments in the handling collection. Free of charge, no advance booking necessary
16 THE BATE COLLECTION THE BATE COLLECTION 17 SEMINARS | Composer Speaks CONCERTS | Spectralisms / The Harmonie in Beethoven’s Vienna
Composer Speaks Series Spectralisms Convenor: Prof Robert Saxton Conference 15-16 March 2017 Faculty of Music Rachel Portman Concert Wednesday 15 March 2017, 7.30pm Monday 31 October JdP Music Building, St Hilda’s College, Oxford (4th Week) 4-5.30pm Spectralism. Spectral music. One of the most significant developments of the past 50 years. A music made from the ‘spectrum of sound’, from the very substance of sound itself, a music Lecture Room A, Faculty of Music that opens new vistas of colour and time. Distinguished media composer and Oxford The Faculty of Music celebrates this exciting music with alumna Rachel Portman will distinguished visitor Tristan Murail (pioneer of French Tickets discuss and engage students spectralism in the 1970s) and celebrated new music specialists, Gallery £13, in discussion about her work the London Sinfonietta. A programme of music by Murail, Stalls £10, in film and TV. After the talk, Grisey, Saariaho and others also features introductions from Students £10/£5, students are invited to Murail and the players. The concert is a part of the international LIVESTREAM £5 attend a performance of one conference hosted by the Faculty (15– www.ticketsoxford.com of Rachel’s liturgical works by 16 March), the first in the UK devoted 01865 305 305 the Worcester College Chapel to an exploration of spectral music. Music Choir during Evensong. In person at the Oxford students! Playhouse or on the door Free entry Email [email protected] to claim your Concert free tickets Boxwood & Brass : Friday 17 February (5th Week) 7.30pm Rachel Chaplin, Nicola Barbagli, Holywell Music Room classical oboe HILARY TERM Pre concert talk 6.45pm Emily Worthington, Fiona Mitchell, Judith Bingham Claire Holden, Principal Investigator of the classical clarinet Monday 6 February AHRC funded Transforming 19th-Century Anneke Scott, Kate Goldsmith, (4th Week) Historically Informed Performance project at natural horn 4-5.30pm the Faculty of Music discusses approaches to Robert Percival, Takako Kunugi, performing early 19th-century arrangements classical bassoon Lecture Room A, Faculty of Music with members of Boxwood and Brass. Judith Bingham is one of the UK's Jacqueline Dossor, leading composers, having had The Harmonie in Beethoven’s Vienna Double Bass works commissioned by many A rare chance to hear this extraordinary Boieldieu arr. anon: Overture Jean de leading organisations and festivals harmonie version of Beethoven’s symphony Paris (1812/1816) across the UK, including the BBC on instruments of the early 19th century, Triebensee Partita in Eb (c. 1805) exactly 200 years after it was issued by the Proms and the Three Choirs Beethoven arr. anon: Symphony No. 7 composer’s publisher. Leading specialists Festival. She was, for several years, Boxwood & Brass place this tour-de-force in (1812/1816) Composer-in-Association with the context alongside contemporary works for Tickets £15 / £10 (students £5) BBC Singers. She will present her wind ensemble. In person on the door work and ideas about writing for voices, to be followed by the performance of one of her works in Worcester College Chapel during Evensong. Free entry
18 COMPOSER SPEAKS SERIES SPECTRALISMS / THE HARMONIE IN BEETHOVEN’S VIENNA 19 SEMINARS | Balzan Musicology Workshop CONCERTS | Balzan Concert: Trio Khimaira
Bridging Musical Cultures? Concert The Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asian Regions in the History Saturday 5 November (4th Week) of Music 6pm Workshop Holywell Music Room 4-6 November 2016 Trio Khimaira –A concert offered on the occasion of Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music the Balzan Musicology Workshop Convenors (and Research Visitors of the Balzan Musicology Project, 2016): Trio Khimaira is made up of three extraordinary musicians – Ziad Gabriela Currie (University of Minnesota) Ben Youssef (oud), Luis Velasco-Pufleau (guitar) and Yanal Staiti (percussion). The trio bring an exhilarating range of influences to Lisa Nielson (Case Western Reserve University) bear on their playing together, and have developed a musical Avra Xepapadakou (University of Crete) language that lies at the boundary of written and oral, composed Speakers include: and improvised forms. Drawing on their different backgrounds, the John Franklin (University of Vermont), Andrew Hicks (Cornell University), Kostas Kardamis (Ionian group blend traditional Arabic genres, Latin American music, and University), Ciro Lo Muzio (Instituto Italiano di Studi Orientali), Pernilla Myrne (Gothenburg flamenco, producing an astonishing soundworld. For this concert, University), Walter Puchner (University of Athens), Donatella Restani (University of Bologna), Trio Khimaira focuses on eastern Mediterranean music. Dwight Reynolds (University of Santa Barbara), Owen Wright (SOAS University of London) “Immigration and exile are at the heart of our creativity: we came from nowhere and we became from everywhere. We do not deny our Friday 4 November heritage, we transform it. In doing so, we break down boundaries and 9.50-1pm Session A choose our own path”. Early Transcultural Musical Legacies from the Mediterranean to the Indus Ziad Ben Youssef – oud Luis Velasco-Pufleau – guitar 2.20 – 3.20pm Keynote 1 Yanal Staiti – percussion Owen Wright (SOAS) Special guest: Bridging the Ottoman-Safavid divide Éric Duboscq – bass 3.20-6.30pm Session B Music aesthetics in the medieval Islamicate world Saturday 5 November 10 – 11am Keynote 2 Walter Puchner (University of Athens) A typology of western music and theatre activity in Southeast Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region in premodern times (16th-19th centuries) 11am – 1.30pm Session C Greece: a cultural crossroads between East and West 3 – 4pm Keynote 3 Music Tickets Kevin Dawe (University of Kent) students! £10 / £8 Musical Instruments in the Eastern Mediterranean E-mail concessions and West Asian Region: [email protected] The Balzan Programme in Musicology to claim your www.ticketsoxford.com “Towards A Global History of Music” A Case Study of the Guitar in Turkey free ticket 01865 305 305 directed by Prof Reinhard Strohm 4.15-5pm Round table and general discussion. In person at the Oxford For more information contact Marie-Alice Frappat, Playhouse or on the door coordinator: [email protected] 6pm Concert Trio Khimaira - see opposite
20 BALZAN MUSICOLOGY WORKSHOP TRIO KHIMAIRA 21 SEMINARS | Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music SEMINARS | Seminar in Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies Professor Jason Stanyek, Convenor | St John’s College Barn (near where St Giles meets Banbury Rd), 5-6.30pm, Free. Open to the public, d rinks afterwards.
Wednesday 19 October Thursdays 5-7pm (2nd Week) Wharton Room, All Souls College Ingrid Monson (Quincy Jones Professor of African Free admission – Open to all American Music, Harvard University) Convenor: Margaret Bent Jazz Utopias, Then and Now My paper addresses, freedom, The speaker’s presentation is followed by a full hour of discussion during which wine is served. liberation, and the creation of sound worlds and communities through music, in short the ethical imagination of the jazz tradition. I follow visions of freedom through the works of Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Carla Bley, Robert Glasper, Terence Blanchard and Kendrick Lamar. If mid-twentieth century jazz liberation was conceived in trialogue with the American Civil Rights Black Power, and Anti-Vietnam War Movements, today’s visions of freedom are emerging against the backdrop of Black Lives Matter, gender and sexuality, immigration, economic inequality, and global fear of Islam. The utopian thrust of the jazz imagination, as always, is tempered by the injustice of the world in which we live. How musicians draw on the icons and symbols of past, how they link domestic and international issues, and the future of aesthetic collaborations between Europe, the U.S. and the global south seem especially important right now. Monday 24 October (3rd Week) Timothy Taylor (Professor, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles) Taking the Gift Out and Putting It Back In: From Cultural Goods to Commodities This presentation considers how musicians and others create or increase the economic value of cultural commodities in the capitalist marketplace. There are two means: the first is supply-chain capitalism as theorized by Anna Tsing, in which value is created at various nodes of a supply chain through processes of translation and purification that appear to strip away the noncapitalist social relations and noneconomic forms of value that went Thursday 20 October (2nd Week) into the production of a particular cultural good. I argue that these capitalist supply chains that create what Tsing Margaret Bent (University of Oxford) calls inventory frequently necessitate this other means of the creation of value, processes of consecration and/or Motets in England in and around the Old Hall manuscript promotion (broadly understood as advertising, marketing, and branding) that reanimate cultural commodities with values that masquerade as Thursday 27 October (3rd Week) noneconomic forms of Pedro Memelsdorff (Utrecht University, Fondazione Giorgio Cini) value. In essence, this paper En remirant oy chanter: Intermediality in late-medieval song argues that, through supply- chain capitalism and Thursday 10 November (5th Week) processes of translation, capitalism appears to takes Bonnie Blackburn (University of Oxford) the gift out of the A Fifteenth-Century Rock Star: Pietrobono dal Chitarino and his Repertory commodity by alienating labor and masking social Thursday 17 November (6th Week) relations, but through Felix Diergarten (Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg) advertising, marketing, and Je ne fais toujours que penser: Analyzing Binchois’ songs branding inserts representations of Thursday 1 December (8th Week) unalienated labor and social David Catalunya (University of Würzburg) relations to make the commodity seem like a Polyphonic Music and Royal Liturgy in Thirteenth-Century Castile gift again.
22 SEMINARS IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC SEMINARS IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND SOUND STUDIES 23 SEMINARS | Research Colloquia
Tuesdays 5.15pm Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music Free admission –open to all The Music Research Colloquia series is organised by graduate students (this year, William Drummond and Emily X. X. Tan).The Colloquia feature leading figures as well as younger scholars presenting their research in papers on all kinds of music-related topics. The speakers come from Oxford and many different universities around the world. Presentations are followed by discussion and a drinks reception. Students, staff and the general public are warmly encouraged to attend.
Tuesday 11 October (1st Week) Tuesday 8 November (5th Week) Lauren Redhead (Canterbury Christ Church University) Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway) Atonality and Beauty The Lives and Afterlives of a Medieval Song Manuscript Tuesday 18 October (2nd Week) Tuesday 15 November (6th Week) Martyn Harry (University of Oxford) Sebastian Wedler (University of Oxford) My music within and without, and what exercises me Anton Webern's Tonally Moving Moods Tuesday 25 October (3rd Week) Tuesday 22 November (7th Week) Julian Horton (Durham University) Derek B. Scott (University of Leeds) The Finale of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony and the Cosmopolitan Musicology Problem of the Reversed Recapitulation Tuesday 29 November (8th Week) Tuesday 1 November (4th Week) Cayenna Ponchione (University of Oxford) Urmila Bhirdikar (Shiv Nadar University) Who's the boss?: Tracking influence and action in the Gender and Performance authorship of orchestral performance
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