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Thierry Escaich, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Zane Dalal: Mozart and Handel
Oriel College 700 Years
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Soumik Datta: Melodies in Slow Motion
A powerful evening of music, sound design and storytelling from acclaimed sarod virtuoso Soumik Datta
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Chahat Mahmood Ali Qawwal
An immersive evening of Qawwali with Chahat Mahmood Ali Qawwal
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Tabla workshop with Shahbaz Hussain
Discover the fascinating world of the tabla with renowned tabla player Shabhaz Hussain.
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Desi Dancefloor: Family-friendly rave with DJ Indy
A two-hour set of Bhangra, Bollywood and contemporary South Asian sounds.
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Dance workshop with Pooja Rajguru
Come and learn some new dance moves - includes Bollywood and Gujarati folk dance.
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Tabla for Two: Kalyaan-ish
An exploration of Indian classical music and Western jazz traditions
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Talk: Indian Dance Traditions in Relation to Power
A talk with researcher, writer, and dancer Dr Ranjini Nair
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Film: Natarang
A screening of the 2010 Indian Marathi-language drama.
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Family Christmas Concert
Relaxed, fun and informal, our family-friendly daytime celebration of the festive season is back.
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Christmas at Christ Church 1
Revel in the glorious sounds of the Cathedral Choir of Christ Church, enjoy seasonal readings and join in with audience carols, all in wonderfully atmospheric surroundings.
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Christmas at Christ Church 2
Revel in the glorious sounds of the Cathedral Choir of Christ Church, enjoy seasonal readings and join in with audience carols, all in wonderfully atmospheric surroundings.
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A new direction for Music at Oxford
Earlier this year we announced a period of creative reflection for Music at Oxford, allowing us the opportunity to consider how we best serve Oxfordshire’s communities and audiences. Today we announce the result of that period, with Music at Oxford transitioning to a model of festival programming, instead of year-round seasons of events. The first […]
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2026: A year of creative reflection
The eagle eyed amongst you will have noted that we haven’t launched our customary Spring/Summer season yet, which would ordinarily be on sale by now. That’s because we’re taking the year ahead as a period of creative reflection. We’ve had a wonderful Autumn Season – including the hugely popular Arvo Pärt Festival and the Roopa […]
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Ambassador of Estonia announced as Patron of 90 Years of Arvo Pärt
With our week-long celebration of the music of Arvo Pärt taking place next week, we’re extremely pleased to announce Estonia’s Ambassador to the UK, H.E. Sven Sakkov as the Festival’s patron, underlining the importance of Arvo Pärt’s music to Estonian culture. Rebecca Dawson, our Artistic and Executive Director, said “Throughout the planning of Arvo Pärt at 90 we’ve […]
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Christ Church 500 Music Festival
We’re delighted to announce that we’re partnering with Christ Church Cathedral to provide box office services for their forthcoming Christ Church 500 Music Festival. Events include Haydn’s The Creation with The English Concert, Phantasm Viol Concet, music by John Taverner and many other events featuring music and musicians associated with Christ Church College. Tickets can […]
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New autumn season on sale, featuring Pärt at 90
Our Autumn-Winter season of events has just gone on sale, a major feature of which is a festival celebrating the music of composer Arvo Pärt, a composer whose work connects with today’s audiences like few others. 90 Years of Arvo Pärt: A Reflection starts on 11 November, and follows on from the huge success of […]
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Music at Oxford to move into the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
St Hilda’s College is delighted to announce that Music at Oxford (MaO) will be relocating to its Jacqueline du Pré Music Building (JdP) from 2 May 2025. This marks an exciting step in strengthening collaborations between Oxford’s leading music organisations and academic institutions. The move comes at a particularly significant moment for the College, as […]
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‘Let’s Build a Town!’ and the importance of play
Giles Masters of Magdalen College, Oxford tells us more about Let’s Build a Town!. “Red light! Green light! Motorway!” Four eight-year-olds are telling me how you play a game called ‘Cars’. (Initially, there’s some debate about whether the name is actually ‘Beans’, but on reflection we decide this is unlikely.) Folded into a tiny red […]
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Building a Town Together
Most of you will know us as an organisation that puts on concerts. What you might not know is that we also have a huge amount of activity going on away from the concert hall under the umbrella of our Learning and Participation programme. We’re currently in the midst of a major project, Let’s Build […]
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Music at Oxford’s Christmas Quiz
To keep your brain cells ticking during the haze of mulled wine and carols we’ve created a little Christmas quiz, and thanks to our friends in the city you could win some spectacular prizes if you enter! It’s simple – we’ve written a short story celebrating our city of Oxford, and some of the beautiful […]
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Introducing ‘French Colours’, our new organ recital series
Some of the world’s greatest organists come to Oxford over the next year, as part of a brand-new organ recital series, ‘French Colours’, that we’re presenting in association with our colleagues at Exeter College. The three concerts of the International Organ Series will showcase appealing and at times absolutely electrifying music, with wider appeal than […]
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Music at Oxford’s Summer Playlist
Our season may be over but the Music at Oxford team are certainly not putting their feet up – we’re busy planning the autumn season and beyond, which will launch to the public on 12 August (and to Friends and Patrons earlier – we encourage you to join them to get priority booking). To accompany […]
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What a Season! Looking back on our 40th birthday year.
Last Saturday we welcomed the Southbank Sinfonia to a packed out Sheldonian Theatre for the final concert of our 40th Anniversary season. And what a season it’s been. We’ve looked at nature as a source of inspiration across all different styles of music from orchestral and chamber through to jazz, electronica and folk. We’ve visited […]
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Sell out Concerts
In February we were delighted to have 2 sell out concerts at the Sheldonian Theatre. On Wednesday 7th February, Andreas Scholl and Tamar Halperin returned to Music at Oxford after 20 years to perform a beautiful recital including music by Purcell, Handel, Dowland and Bach alongside compositions by Tamar Halperin herself. Such was the enjoyment […]
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Continuing our 40th Anniversary Season!
We are proud to announce our next run of concerts, featuring world-class musicians and award-winning programmes. These concerts continue the themes of ‘Natural World’ and ‘Oxford Roots’, the latter of which has a special significance as we celebrate our 40th anniversary. The dynamism of youth is also at the forefront, as we welcome Southbank Sinfonia, […]
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New Trustees Appointment
We’re delighted to announce the appointment of four new trustees to the Music at Oxford board: Claire Booth, Des Oliver, Rob Skilton and Judith Unwin OBE. To those familiar with the musical world, Claire and Des will be recognisable names as a singer and composer respectively. Rob and Judith also, unsurprisingly, have a keen musical […]
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Our first community workshop
Our Learning and Participation Manager has created Music at Oxford’s first meditation workshop which is open to everyone. On the 4 May, before the Tashi Lhunpo Monks perform at the Oxford Town Hall, you can join violinist and workshop leader Inês Delgado for an immersive Music Meditation session. The famous 19th century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said […]
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Arvo Pärt wins Polar Music Prize
We were thrilled to see that Arvo Pärt was one of this year’s recipients of the prestigious and renowned Polar Music Prize. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize of Music’, the Polar Music Prize is regarded as Sweden’s foremost musical honour. It was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, the late manager of Swedish […]
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Learning and participation in our ARVO PÄRT…and a Littlemore festival
During our ARVO PÄRT…and a Littlemore festival in November I had the privilege of taking part in some completely unique events. Some of these projects have taken nearly a year to plan and organise, so to get to be involved on the day was really special for me! Intertwined with our world-class festival concerts I […]
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Improvements to our box office system
We are working to improve our box office system and to do that, we will need to disable online sales for a short period of time. Consequently you will not be able to book tickets or perform any other transaction through our website between 8.30am until around 10.30am on Wednesday 26 October. We have chosen […]
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ARVO PÄRT…and a Littlemore: festival brochure
Click on the image below to look at our festival brochure to see the full line-up of events. The festival is brimming with concerts, talks, films… and a little more. You will find embedded links within the brochure so if you want to buy tickets to an event, click on the title and you will […]
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Arvo Pärt…and a Littlemore: A Festival Update
Friday 18 – Friday 25 November 2022 A MUSIC AT OXFORD FESTIVAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ESTONIAN EMBASSY, ARVO PÄRT CENTRE, AND TORCH Arvo Pärt’s musical influence has been international, far exceeding the reach we might expect of a contemporary composer. His large and varied compositional output reached its apotheosis in the harnessing of his […]
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New job opportunities with Music at Oxford – CLOSED
These two job opportunities are now closed. PR SPECIALIST Music at Oxford seeks expressions of interest from PR specialists for our forthcoming festival centred on the music of Arvo Pärt. The festival dates are 18th – 26th November 2022, and it will take place across a number of Oxford venues. Supported by the Estonian Embassy, […]
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Arvo Pärt Festival: 18-25 November 2022
We are pleased to announce that Music at Oxford is working with the Estonian Embassy in London to present a festival that will showcase the life and music of Arvo Pärt. The festival will feature many musical performances alongside film, lectures and more. Pärt’s music will be put in a wider context as the festival […]
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An exciting education project
On Wednesday 23rd March, New Marston Primary School will be hosting the Fidelio Trio and Felicity Smith (our new Community Engagement and Concerts Co-ordinator) for a music assembly. We are really excited about the opportunity to share some of the Fidelio’s repertoire with Key Stage 2 (years 3 – 6) – year 3 are provided […]
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Exploring Oxford’s Music Venues – Our new podcast series!
In the first season back after the year that never was, we take the time to celebrate the venues that we know and love around the city with our new podcast series. Including interviews with those who know the venues the best, we delve in amongst the arches and auditoriums of these fabulous and iconic […]
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Welcome to the new Music at Oxford
Welcome to the new-look Music at Oxford! Whilst we haven’t been able to put on concerts, we have been busy behind the scenes to ensure we come back stronger.
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Spring 2021 Update
We have made it to Spring and the season of renewal once more! The feeling of renewal is one we share at Music at Oxford, and we want to let you know what we have been doing over these past few months and prepare you for our soon-to-be-announced, new season of events!
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Early Music Day 2021
In case you missed it, the 21st March was Early Music Day where musicians all over the world come together to appreciate and celebrate the joys of early music.
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It is with great sadness that we report the death of Yvonne Pye, Music at Oxford’s Life President. She died peacefully on Saturday 23rd January while staying with family.
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New Year Uplifting Playlist
I think it goes without saying that we are all glad to say goodbye to 2020! For us at Music at Oxford, the new year brings with it a glimmer of hope to a time when we might all start enjoying live music again, we just need to get over the latest lockdown first.
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Our Online recommendations for Christmas 2020
As most of us are looking at a rather different Christmas to our normal family- and friend-filled affairs, we want to help make sure it’s still full of sublime music and moments of joy.
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Music at Oxford Survey 2020
We are conducting a survey to try and understand how we can better position ourselves to serve our community and audiences.
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L’enfant et les sortilèges – VOPERA
VOPERA or The Virtual Opera Project teamed up with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Concordia Foundation to bring us this ingenious lockdown version of Maurice Ravel’s wonderful children’s opera, L’enfant et les sortilèges.
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Brecon Baroque Festival
The Brecon Baroque Festival has moved online to present a programme of events centred around J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations from 23-25 October.
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Oxford Lieder Festival 2020
The Oxford Lieder Festival is a fantastic local festival that celebrates the world of song and this year, it’s going online!
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Arvo Pärt at 85
We live in complex and often confusing times, and the music of Arvo Pärt invites us to take a step back, and to see beauty in the tiniest object.
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Suspended animation – An August Update
As we all know, it has been a particularly tough time for all arts and cultural institutions over the last few months.
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Learning Resources for kids – Aurora Orchestra
We highlight the learning resource, Join with Jessie, developed by the Aurora Orchestra.
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Learning resources for all – London Symphony Orchestra
Over the next few weeks we will mix up our Sofa Series with a few posts about the online learning resources that many musical groups have created during lockdown and in some cases, as part of their usual output.
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About
Our ‘About’ pages include information relating to the founding of Music at Oxford, our aims, the team, and our policies.
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Venues
We’ve been curating and presenting concerts in Oxford for over 40 years using a number of venues across the Oxford city region. Find out about the venues we use here.
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