Past Events
Music at Oxford has been bringing internationally renowned artists to Oxford for 40 years. Each year our concert series features a wide range of artists and composers, covering everything from the renaissance to now, and embracing classical, jazz, folk and non-Western genres. Our hub for past events showcases all the concerts we have had since our 2009-10 season, so if you would like to know which Beethoven violin sonata Tasmin Little played in March 2016 or in which year the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder performed a programme of Strauss and Mahler in the Sheldonian Theatre, you will be able find the answers here. If you would like information about any concerts prior to our 2009-2010 season, please contact us by email: info@musicatoxford.com.
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The City Choir of Washington
The City Choir of WashingtonAt the heart of this sumptuous choral programme is Fauré’s transcendent Requiem, flanked by shorter works which include TCCW’s own commission of Sir John Tavener’s Tolstoy’s Creed. We are pleased to welcome this pre-eminent US choir to Oxford, under the direction of one of America’s major choral conductors. Approaching its 10th anniversary, TCCW is comprised of 120 […]
Read MoreRoyal Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra
Royal Academy of Music Chamber OrchestraVIOLIN JULIE SVECENA VIOLA YUGO INOUE The Royal Academy of Music collaborates with many eminent international partners, such as the Juilliard School in New York. This concert celebrates the Academy’s friendship with Japan and, in particular, its close links with Tokyo Geidai. A joint orchestra from both institutions will be performing in London, Oxford and Tokyo under […]
Read MoreElgar: The Apostles
Merton College ChoirSOPRANO SOPHIE BEVAN MEZZO SOPRANO VIRGINIE VERREZ TENOR DAVID BUTT PHILLIP BASS MARCUS FARNSWORTH BASS ASHLEY RICHES BASS JULIAN EMPETT A rare opportunity to hear this magnificent work, given as part of the celebration of the tenth birthday of Merton College’s phenomenally successful choir. Believed by many, including his close friend and publisher Jaeger, to contain […]
Read MoreHandel’s Attic
Used throughout the Baroque and Classical eras as a private tool for composing, practice and meditation, the clavichord remained in regular use into the nineteenth century. The last thirty years have witnessed a quiet musical revolution: the clavichord is no longer the Cinderella of the keyboard world. Join the conductor and keyboardist Julian Perkins to […]
Read MoreDorothy Parker Takes a Trip
A musical and dramatic foray into the verbally lacerating, gilded but wasted, ardently political world of Dorothy Parker and her era in letters, essays and poems, with live music and songs by George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Hoagy Carmichael and others. Dorothy Parker Takes a Trip was commissioned by and premiered […]
Read MoreThe Silent Pianist Speaks
Neil Brand, musician, writer and broadcaster (BBC’s The Film Programme, Sound of Cinema, Music that made the Movies) welcomes us to the world of early cinema. The Silent Pianist Speaks is one of the most unique and memorable shows you will see, celebrating the great filmmakers of the Silent Era and the magic of the […]
Read MoreBagatelles after Beethoven
Once a year Presteigne Festival brings one of its projects to MaO as part of a UK wide tour. The tour enables the festival’s highly-respected work, the commissioning of music to sit alongside existing repertoire, to go be shared across the UK. In our 2016-17 season we welcomed Clare Hammond and James Turnbull who gave […]
Read MoreRachel Podger
Brecon BaroqueMusic at Oxford is delighted to welcome Rachel Podger back to another series, this time accompanied by her own acclaimed ensemble, Brecon Baroque. Vibrant, dynamic performances are the hallmark of Brecon Baroque, and over the last decade they have delighted many audiences thanks to their tours of Europe and Japan. Rachel and Brecon Baroque’s debut CD, Bach Violin […]
Read MoreFretwork: The World Encompassed
FretworkWhen Drake set sail from Plymouth in 1577, he took with him four viol players who had little clue that this would be such an epic journey. They played music to accompany Drake’s worship and sang hymns to the viols; they entertained him while he ate and he also used their playing to impress the […]
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Villiers QuartetThe culmination of the Villiers’ residency in Oxford, thanks to the Faculty of Music with support from the Radcliffe Trust, forms this glorious concert of two much-loved works interspersed with a lesser-known quartet by Hubert Parry. Mendelssohn’s op. 80 – with its dramatic opening movement and searing Adagio – was composed as an homage to […]
Read MoreErik Satie: Memoirs of a Pear-Shaped Life
Erik Satie was a complex, eccentric and lonely man. Devised and written by Meurig Bowen, Memoirs of a pear-shaped life showcases the full, startling breadth of the composer’s piano output and interweaves Satie’s diaries and reflections on his riotously varied, chaotically creative and intermittently dysfunctional life. The music includes many of Satie’s most enduring keyboard […]
Read MoreOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Benedetti & Alsop
Orchestra of the Age of EnlightenmentA musician always confounding expectations, violinist Nicola Benedetti makes her debut with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment this evening. She’s joined by conductor Marin Alsop for a programme of Beethoven performed with pure unvarnished musicality. OAE’s brilliant musicians follow up on their last Oxford performance, an exhilarating Beethoven evening with Sir Roger Norrington, […]
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THE VILLIERS QUARTETMusic at Oxford invites you to join us in witnessing the Villiers Quartet’s final year of residency at the Faculty of Music. They have programmed two engaging evening concerts for our 2017-18 season. Their November evening concert opens with Haydn’s famous Fifths quartet, so called because a motif based around falling fifths dominates the opening […]
Read MoreI Fagiolini
I FagioliniIn 1640 Monteverdi published a collection of his other church music that hadn’t been contained in the ‘1610 Vespers’ so familiar today. From this later, no less sonorous or virtuosic collection, I Fagiolini and the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble offer a Vespers for a Venetian event with which we know Monteverdi to have been […]
Read MoreOAE: Der Rosenkavalier
Orchestra of the Age of EnlightenmentThis season Music at Oxford is excited to be collaborating with the Oxford Lieder Festival. This evening is one of two spectacular concerts focusing on the last of the Romantics. Experience Der Rosenkavalier as a silent film accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Strauss’ peerless opera Der Rosenkavalier, set in Vienna, premiered in […]
Read MoreOAE: Concert
Orchestra of the Age of EnlightenmentThis season Music at Oxford is excited to be working in collaboration with the Oxford Lieder Festival on two spectacular events. This concert is the opening night of the 2017 Oxford Lieder Festival, which focuses this year on Mahler and fin-de-siècle Vienna. The programme features two of Mahler’s seminal works in captivating arrangements for chamber orchestra, […]
Read MoreETO: Dardanus
English Touring OperaDardanus – Rameau’s ravishing, romantic tale of love and war – is English Touring Opera’s first foray into the exotic world of French baroque opera. It is also the premiere in the UK of the revised 1744 version, which is widely considered to be the composer’s masterpiece. Jupiter’s son Dardanus is in love with Iphise, […]
Read More2017-18 Brochure
This season responded to audience feedback requesting more opera and opened with the UK premiere of the 1744 version of a rarely heard opera, Rameau’s Dardanus. The season also celebrated Monteverdi’s 450th anniversary with a concert of his “other” Vespers by I Fagiolini and included a fabulous performance by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by the world-renowned conductor, Marin Alsop, with violinist Nicola Benedetti as soloist in Beethoven’s violin concerto.
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