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SEPTEMBER 2019–JUNE 2020

St Stephen’s House, a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford

Location and accessSt John the Evangelist church is on Iffley Road, between Marston Street and James Street and opposite the University Sports Ground. No. 3 bus from central Oxford stops directly outside the church; Oxford Bus Company’s PickMeUp service will transport you from a location near your home (for details see pickmeup.oxfordbus.co.uk) and for London-Oxford travel, the coach stop at St Clement’s is just 10 minutes’ walk away.

TicketsTickets for SJE Arts events are on sale through Tickets Oxford at Oxford Playhouse. Outside promoters/groups performing at SJE Arts may use different agencies. For each event featured on the SJE Arts website, the ‘Buy Tickets’ tab will link you through to the appropriate outlet.

RefreshmentsOn site licensed bar. All profits go to the church restoration fund.

Further informationFor full details of all events please see the website www.sje-oxford.org. For enquiries either email [email protected] or call SJE Arts on 01865 613507.

Photography: Amalia Bastos, Marco Borggreve, Sim Canetty-Clarke, Janice Carissa, Robin Clewley, Benjamin Ealovega, Bernd Eberle, Lino Lategan McGregor, Ira Polyarna, Simon Jay Price, Raphaelle Photography, Martin Mydtskov Rønne. Illustration, page 4: Patricia Drew. Prints pictured on page 18 (clockwise from top right): Alex Williams, Uniz Chuey, Chris Otley, Catriona Brodribb.

WelcomeThis year’s SJE International Piano Series will be our 7th and it starts 4th October with the young British-Turkish pianist Lara Melda Ömeroğlu who won the BBC Young Musician competition in 2010 aged 16. Ten concerts in total, some old favourites and some new faces, hailing from ten different countries and, once again, there is the opportunity to purchase a heavily discounted season ticket.

The SJE Arts Next Generation Series continues into its 4th year, with an opening performance 11th February 2019 by the Royal College of Music Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir and Jess Gillam will be back on 6th March.

As well as our own concerts, we have many more to offer you: Scandinavian and other artists brought to us by Music at Oxford, seven days’ of Oxford Lieder Festival concerts; recitals in the Oxford Philharmonic Beethoven Festival; Oxford Contemporary Music; Oxford May Music and not forgetting our many regulars such as The Sixteen, Commotio, Oxford Bach Choir, Instruments of Time and Truth and Corona Strings. Up to date details are on our website www.sje-oxford.org and tickets for most events can be purchased through Tickets Oxford and the Oxford Playhouse.

We are always very grateful for sponsorship, especially for the Next Generation Series. If you are interested please contact me about the possibilities, including for making the event personal – for instance a special reception for your guests to complement the concert.

Michèle Smith, Director, SJE Arts

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Thursday 26 September 2019, 7.30 pm

KOTTOS Oxford debutProgramme includes: Vivaldi: La Folia Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56 Piazzolla: Fuga y misterio Grieg: Norwegian Dance in D minor, Op. 35 Vaughan Williams: 6 Studies in English Folk Song

KOTTOS’ electrifying and eclectic performances are not to be missed. Players of recorders, accordion, cello and guitar, their vibrant arrangements – often of dances and folk songs by well-known composers – have met with critical acclaim, and their launch album was awarded Danish Radio’s classical station’s Listeners’ Prize. 2019 has already seen the group accompanying Danish Queen Margrethe on a state visit to Argentina and completing a successful 10-day concert tour in China; now Music at Oxford is delighted to welcome them!

Ends: c. 9.15 pm

Tickets: £42, £28, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off.

Friday 4 October 2019, 7.30 pm

Lara MeldaChopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 Nocturnes, Op. 9 nos. 1, 2 & 3 Rachmaninov: Étude tableaux Op. 33 nos. 7 & 8 Prokofiev: from Romeo and Juliet Op. 75, nos. 5–8 Interval Lyadov: Barcarolle in F Sharp minor, Op. 44 Rachmaninov: Preludes Op. 23 nos. 4 & 5 Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

Winner of the BBC Young Musician competition 2010 and still in her mid-20s, British-Turkish pianist Lara Melda has already performed with conductors such as Kirill Karabits and Nicholas Collon and made her Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall debuts. Praised particularly for her Chopin interpretations, Lara’s programme for tonight also explores the Russian repertoire, including a barcarolle by the Romantic Lyadov, a master of polished piano gems, and four pieces portraying contrasting passions from Prokofiev’s superb Romeo and Juliet suite.

Ends: 9.15 pm

Tickets: £30, £26, £17; under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at near 50% discount.

7TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES

11–26 October 2019

Oxford Lieder Festival Tales of Beyond: Magic, Myths and MortalsSunday 13 October, 5.00 pm: Ivana Gavrić Sunday 13 October, 7.30 pm: Christoph Prégardien and Sholto Kynoch Saturday 19 October, 5.15 pm and 10.00 pm: Imogen Cooper Saturday 19 October, 7.30 pm: Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn Monday 21 October, 8.00 pm: Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn Wednesday 23 October, 8.00 pm: Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn Thursday 24 October, 8.00 pm: Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton Friday 25 October, 7.45 pm: Dorothea Röschmann and Malcolm Martineau Friday 25 October, 10.00 pm: Gweneth Ann Rand and Simon Lepper Saturday 26 October, 7.30 pm: Louise Alder, Nikolay Borchev and Sholto Kynoch

Festival Suppers in St Stephen’s House Dining Room on all dates except 24 October, £15/£13pp. Advance booking is essential.

Tickets: £42–£10, see www.oxfordlieder.co.uk for specific event.

Roderick Williams

2–27 October 2019 Open Wednesday to Sunday 10.00 am–5.00 pm

Oxford Art Society Open Exhibition and Young Artists Competition 2019The Oxford Art Society was formed in 1891 and holds annual Members and Open Exhibitions. Non-members are encouraged to submit work to the Annual Open Exhibition for selection. It is from this exhibition that new members are invited to join the Society.

The exhibition will fill the SJE Arts Cloister Gallery with paintings, prints, sculpture and ceramics.

Entrance is free and most of the artworks will be for sale.

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Sunday 10 November 2019, 4.00 pm

Alexander Taras De Sina, piano recitalBach/Busoni: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 Bach: WTK II. G minor, BWV 885 Boulez: 12 Notations Beethoven: Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, ‘Appassionata’ Interval Verdi/Liszt: Paraphrase de concert on Rigoletto Wagner/Liszt: Transcription of Isoldes Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde Liszt: Après une lecture du Dante, Fantasia quasi sonata

Praised for his elegant and philosophical aesthetic, pianist Alexander Taras De Sina holds a unique place in the rising generation of classical soloists, acclaimed as “a master of orig-inal interpretation…”. In his Oxford debut and in honour of Remembrance Sunday, De Sina presents a programme exploring themes of love, loss, and longing. In conjunction with recitation of his own poetry inspired by the works, he curates a journey through our darkest anguish towards redemption in the striving of our human spirit itself.

Ends: 6.00 pm

Tickets: £15, £13, £10, under 25s £5.


Thursday 14 November 2019, 7.30 pm

Weimar Republic Centenary: from Richard Strauss to Kurt WeillSarah Gabriel: soprano and actor Iain Farrington: piano

The centenary of the Weimar Republic marks Germany’s first democratic but flawed constitution, arguably one of the most liberal and progressive ever penned. However, its weaknesses also aided Hitler in his rise to power in 1933.

In the Berlin of the time, artists in underground nightclubs satirised and dissected the political maelstrom in the streets above and captured the febrile human condition of the moment. Placing well-known songs and music by composers such as Weill, Hollaender and Schulhoff into context alongside Lieder by Richard Strauss and contemporaneous readings and images, Sarah Gabriel and Iain Farrington conjure up a remarkably fertile period in German music.

Ends: c. 9.30 pm


Sunday 15 December 2019, 7.30 pm

A Ceremony of Carols vOx Chamber ChoirDavid Crown: conductor Jenny Broome: harp

Written on his return home across the Atlantic from exile in the States in 1942, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols was set for children’s chorus, receiving its Wigmore Hall premiere in December 1943. That year Britten also made a setting for SATB in which he skillfully manages to retain the sense of childhood innocence created in the original setting. This choral masterpiece will form part of an evening of seasonal music given by this leading Oxford a cappella group.

Ends: 9.45 pm

Tickets: £20, £15.

Saturday 30 November 2019, 7.30 pm

Opus 48 Unaccompanied Choral MasterpiecesDirector: David Crown

Verdi: from Four Sacred Pieces Tippett: Spirituals from A Child of Our Time Howells: Requiem Duruflé: Four Motets Vaughan Williams: Shakespeare songs Pärt: Magnificat

Following a critically acclaimed first year, Oxfordshire’s newest choral society and their Music Director David Crown launch their second season with a concert of stunning unaccompanied choral masterpieces.

From the haunting spirituals taken from Tippett’s A Child of Our Time to Howells’ delicate and mesmeric Requiem, alongside beautiful music by Arvo Pärt, Verdi, Duruflé and Vaughan Williams, this will truly be an evening to remember.

Ends: 9.45 pm

Tickets: £20, £10 concessions.

Saturday 7 December 2019, 7.30 pm

Commotio Choral Music for Advent and ChristmasWorks by Britten, Inness, Maxwell Davies, McDowall, Rose, Tippett

Commotio returns to SJE for their annual Advent and Christmas concert which features seasonal choral works all written in the past 90 years. The centrepiece of the programme is Christ’s Nativity written by a 17-year old Benjamin Britten in 1931. Commotio will also perform rarely heard works by Peter Inness, Peter Maxwell Davies, Bernard Rose and Michael Tippett, as well as recent works by Cecilia McDowall.

Ends: 9.15 pm

Tickets: £12, concessions £10 and £8.

Thursday 19 December 2019, 7.45 pm

The Sixteen at ChristmasProgramme to include William Walton: Make we joy now in this fest Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the apple tree Gustav Holst: This have I done for my true love Praetorius/arr. Sandstrom: Lo, how a rose e’er blooming Cecilia Mcdowall: Of a Rose Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (harpist, Frances Kelly) Medieval and traditional carols

We are delighted to welcome back Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. This year’s programme includes Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols – a masterful and idiomatic work that continues to be a staple of the choral canon and is an example of Britten’s genius. The remainder of the programme combines the traditional medieval carol tunes upon which so much Christmas music has been based, contrasted with more modern delights including Warlock’s Corpus Christi and Walton’s festive Make we joy now in this fest.

Ends: 9.30 pm

Tickets: £49, £45, £35, £28, £25, £14. Pre-concert dinner £20 (limited availability).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 7.30 pm

Beethoven Jonathan Biss, pianoPiano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28, ‘Pastoral’ Piano Sonata No. 20 in G minor, Op. 49 no. 2 Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 no. 3 Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101

If Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier was the Old Testament of the piano repertoire, in the 19th century Beethoven’s piano sonatas took their place as its New Testament. This concert forms the first in a full survey of the sonatas from different pianists in recital throughout 2020. Here Jonathan Biss, most perceptive of American pianists, offers us five sonatas including the meditative ‘Pastoral’, the straight- talking Sonata No. 20 and the emotionally charged Sonata No. 27.

Ends: 9.30 pm

Tickets: £25, £20, £15, £10, students from £5.



Friday 24 January 2020, 7.30 pm

Vadym KholodenkoMozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor K 457 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 10 in A major D 664 Saariaho: Ballade Interval Scriabin: Selection of Preludes Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36

Vadym Kholodenko’s winning performances at the 2013 Cliburn competition brought a cheering audience to its feet. He has since performed with major orchestras throughout North America, Europe and Japan and last season’s recital highlights included appearancs at Salle Gaveau, Paris, Vienna Konzerthaus and his Wigmore Hall debut.

Kholodenko’s programme for tonight is built around three sonatas: a rare example of Mozart in a minor key; Schubert’s joyful and lyrical ‘Little’ sonata and, to close, the majestic Piano Sonata No. 2 by Rachmaninov.

Ends: 9.15 pm


Tuesday 4 February 2020, 7.30 pm

Eric LuChopin: Three Mazurkas, Op. 59 Schubert: Allegretto in C minor, D 915 Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 118 Interval Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28

When Eric Lu performed Chopin’s Sonata No.2 in the semi-final of Leeds International Piano Competition 2018, the Independent remarked: ‘it took one’s breath away with its measured grandeur’. Eric Lu won the competition and, at the age of only 21, stepped confidently on to the world stage.

Tonight, Eric Lu’s principle focus is on Chopin and the 24 Preludes. Each one a miniature masterpiece, this set challenged all the preconceptions of the era about preludes being mere introductory works. We welcome Eric back to SJE and anticipate a thrilling evening.

Ends: 9.15 pm



Tuesday 11 February 2020, 7.30 pm

RCM Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir in works by Bach, Father and SonJ.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.1 BWV1046 J.S. Bach: Motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 C.P.E. Bach: Symphony No.1 in D major H663 Wq183 Interval J.S. Bach: Ascension Oratorio BWV11

The Royal College of Music Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir present a concert celebrating two masters of the baroque – J.S. Bach and his favourite and most successful son C.P.E. Bach, in a programme of vocal and instrumental music.

The concert opens with Bach’s first Brandenburg Concerto, the largest and most dramatic of the six, and ends with his bright and joyous Ascension Oratorio, showcasing the RCM baroque trumpets and wind players. In addition, the Chamber Choir perform one of Bach’s most ambitious motets, and the orchestra tackle a symphony by the great master’s son that is full of grace and excitement.

Ends: 9.15 pm

Tickets: £15.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 7.30 pm

Alexei VolodinMedtner: Fairy Tales (selection of 8) Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 Interval Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28

Internationally renowned Russian pianist Alexei Volodin brings us an all-Russian programme. Magic pervades the opening with a selection from Medtner’s evocative miniatures, collectively titled Fairy Tales. Prokofiev’s short and energetic 3rd Sonata follows.

Taking the entire second half and bringing the concert to a dramatic close, is Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No. 1. This colossal work of shifting colours and contrasting moods poses an incredible challenge to the pianist and is seldom performed. It will be a rare treat to hear it.

Ends: 9.15 pm




Friday 7 February 2020, 7.30 pm

Engegård Quartet Oxford DebutMozart: String Quartet No.15 in D minor Sibelius: Voces Intimæ, Op. 56 Grieg: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27

Formed under the midnight sun in 2006, the Engegård Quartet has rapidly become one of Norway’s most sought after ensembles. Their bold, fresh interpretations of the classical repertoire combined with a deep attachment to their Scandinavian roots has attracted international acclaim; the quartet’s debut CD was praised as ‘breath-taking’ in The Strad.

For their first ever performance in Oxford, they combine Mozart’s much-loved quartet in D minor with works by Grieg and Sibelius. Anyone familiar with orchestral works by these two composers will quickly find idiomatic motifs in these quartets – they are symphonic structures in charming miniature.

Ends: c. 9.30 pm


4TH SJE ARTS NEXT GENERATION SERIES

Wednesday 4 March 2020, 7.30 pm

Inon BarnatanJ.S. Bach arr. Busoni/Petri: Choral Preludes Mendelssohn: Songs without Words (selection) Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 Adès: Paraphrase on Powder Her Face Interval Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 15 in B-flat major, D 960

‘One of the most admired pianists of his generation’ (New York Times), Inon Barnatan is celebrated for his poetic sensibility, musical intelligence, and consummate artistry. He has a career that takes him around the world and a repertoire similarly broad, ranging from Bach to the contemporary.

His programme for tonight includes Mendelssohn’s lyrical Songs without Words, Thomas Adès piano transcription of scenes from his darkly comic opera, and to end, the transcendental Piano Sonata in B-flat that Schubert composed shortly before his death.

Ends: 9.15 pm




Thursday 26 March 2020, 7.30 pm

Angela HewittJ.S. Bach: Four Duets, BWV 802–805 Eighteen Little Preludes BWV 924, 930, 925-928, 933–43, 999 Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944 Interval French Overture in B minor, BWV 831 Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971

In 2016 Angela Hewitt embarked on her Bach Odyssey, a four-year mission to present all major keyboard works of J.S. Bach in venues around the world. This May she gives the final performance, Odyssey XII, in New York.

Tonight her programme includes Eighteen Little Preludes, pieces Bach wrote for teaching his son, and two experiments in the reproduction of orchestral formats for the keyboard: the impressive, eleven movement Overture in the French style and the lively Italian Concerto. An evening with much to look forward to from the hands of a master.

Ends: 9.15 pm

Tickets: £39, £32, £25, £18; under 25s £29, £22, £15, £8. Series season tickets available at near 50% discount.


Friday 6 March 2020, 7.30 pm

Jess Gillam, saxophone, with Zeynep Özsuca, pianoTo include: Anna Clyne: new piece for sax and electronics Graham Fitkin: Gate Gavin Bryars: Harlesden Works by Weill and Nyman John Harle: Rant!

First-ever saxophonist to reach the BBC Young Musician final, first ever saxophonist to sign with Decca Classics, presenter at BBC Proms 2019 and host of her own show on BBC Radio 3 – Jess Gillam is truly irrepressible!

Along with show-stealing BBC Proms performances, Jess has appeared at the BAFTAS and picked up a Classical Brit Award. 2019 highlights included the Lucerne Festival, with Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris and her American debut playing in New York and Washington D.C.

Jess is joined by her regular accompanist, talented pianist Zeynep Özsuca.

Ends: 9.15 pm



Saturday 21 March 2020, 7.30 pm

Stephen HoughBach arr. Busoni: Chaconne Busoni: Berceuse Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op.35 Interval Hough: Piano Sonata No. 4 ‘Vida Breve’ Liszt: Funerailles, from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S 173 Liszt: Bagatelle sans tonalite, S 216a Liszt: Mephisto-Waltz no. 1, S 514

Stephen Hough explores the theme of death. Bach wrote the Chaconne in memory of his first wife, while Busoni’s Berceuse acquired the subtitle ‘the man’s lullaby at his mother’s coffin’. Sonata No. 2 by Chopin has the Funeral March slow movement and Hough’s own Sonata reflects on the transience of life. Of the three Liszt works, Funérailles commemorates friends killed in the Hungarian uprising and the Mephisto waltz conjures the devil himself. A programme with much on which to reflect.

Ends: 9.15 pm

Tickets: £35, £28, £21, £17; under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at near 50% discount.

Friday 3 April 2020, 7.30 pm

Ink on a Pin The RiversThe Rivers presents a programme of stunning acapella arrangements of contemporary artists such as Joni Mitchell, Massive Attack, London Grammar, Radiohead, Imogen Heap, as well as original arrangements.

An Oxford-based vocal group of experienced singers, The Rivers have been performing a wide repertoire of acapella music since 2016. Following their 2019 Autumn tour they return to Oxford and promise an evening of rich arrangements of soulful, groove-driven songs. Support act to be confirmed.

Ends: 9.40 pm

Tickets: £14, concessions £8.


Saturday 25 April 2020, 7.30 pm

Francesco PiemontesiSchubert: Piano Sonata No. 12 in G major, D 894 Interval Schubert-Liszt: 12 Lieder from Franz Schubert (selection) Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178r

Francesco Piemontesi is renowned for refined musicianship allied to a flawless technique. A former pupil of Alfred Brendel, he credits Brendel with teaching him to ‘love the detail of things’.

Highlights of Piemontesi’s last season included recitals at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, and Lincoln Centre, New York, and the launch of a major Schubert cycle at the 2018 Schubertiade. Renowned for a special affinity with music of the Classical and Romantic periods, his programme, focusing on two of the greatest Romantics, promises a wonderful experience.

Ends: 9.15 pm



Saturday 9 May 2020, 7.30 pm

Let us Garlands BringRoderick Williams: Baritone Corona Strings (Leader, Catherine Leech) Janet Lincé: Conductor

Gerald Finzi: Let us garlands bring Dag Wirén: Serenade Roderick Williams: New commission (World Premiere) John Ireland: Concertino Pastorale

Corona Strings with internationally acclaimed baritone Roderick Williams bring you a concert on the theme of love and loss. The programme features Dag Wirén’s joyous Ser-enade in contrast with the profoundly moving Concertino Pastorale by John Ireland. The highlight of the evening will be a newly commissioned work composed and premiered by Roderick Williams as soloist and the evening culminates in the title work, Gerald Finzi’s exquisite song cycle Let us garlands bring in the version for baritone and string orchestra.

Ends: 9.15 pm

Tickets: £25, £18, concessions £21, £14.

Saturday 16 May 2020, 7.30 pm

A Celestial BanquetInstruments of Time & Truth with Oxford Consort of Voices (dir. Edward Higginbottom)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Missa Assumpta est Maria Interlaced with Sonatas by Henry Purcell

Oxford’s own period instrument ensemble presents a feast of rich and virtuosic music from the Michelin stars of late 17th-century France and England. Instruments of Time & Truth, described on BBC Record Review as ‘an absolutely superb band of instrumental soloists’, was founded in 2014 to provide a platform for international performers resident in and around Oxford, many of whom hold Principal positions with groups such as the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Ends: 10.00 pm

Tickets: £42, £32, £24, £20 and £15, under 25s half price on all bands.

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Wednesday 3 June 2020, 6.00 pm

Les Voix HumainesSansara choir Tom Herring: Artistic Director Liam Byrne: Viola da Gamba

Programme to include Marin Marais: Les Voix Humaines Nico Muhly: Malmesbury Motets (for choir and solo viola da gamba) John Bennet: Weep O mine eyes Liam Connery: Piangere, Affogare

Inspired by the solo viol piece of the same title by Marin Marais, Les Voix Humaines is a collaboration between award-winning vocal ensemble SANSARA and renowned viola da gamba player Liam Byrne. The combination of voice and viol is central to early music from across Europe: this project seeks to investigate the relationship by commissioning new work for choir and solo viol, drawing on the Fifteenth Century notion that the viol was the instrument closest to replicating the subtleties of the human voice.

Ends: 7.45 pm

Tickets: £18, £15, under 25s £5.

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Wednesday 20, Friday 22 and Sunday 24 May 2020

Beethoven 2020 Phoenix Piano TrioWednesday 20 May 2020, 7.30 pm–9.45 pm Beethoven: Trio in E flat, Op.1 no.1 Trio in C minor, Op.1 no.3 Trio in G, Op.1 no.2

Friday 22 May 2020, 7.30 pm–9.15 pm Beethoven: Allegretto in B, WoO.39 Trio in D, ‘Ghost’, Op.70 no.1 Trio movement in E flat, Hesse 48 Trio in E flat, Op.70 no.2

Sunday 24 May 2020, 7.30 pm–9.30 pm Beethoven: Variations on a theme of Dittersdorf, Op.44 Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu, Op.121a Trio in B flat, ‘Archduke’, Op.97

The Phoenix Piano Trio is established as one of today’s leading ensembles, bringing together three individually renowned players. In Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year, they explore the composer’s genre-defining masterpieces. This three-concert series begins with the first works to which, in 1795, Beethoven allocated an opus number: a major statement for the young composer in Vienna. In the middle concert, we hear the highly contrasting Trios of Op.70; with the famous ‘Ghost’ Trio that may owe something to the Witches in Beethoven’s unrealised sketches for an opera of Macbeth. The series concludes with the sublime ‘Archduke’ Trio of 1811.

Tickets for each concert: £42, £28, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off.

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Friday 29 May 2020, 7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova, violin, and Cédric Tiberghien, pianoAn All Mendelssohn Journey

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien first met as members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme in 2005. Along with individual careers, the duo has gone on to perform throughout Europe and North America, has toured Australia and Asia and been a regular guest of Wigmore Hall.

In January 2019 Alina and Cédric made a memorable first appearance in the SJE Arts Piano Series performing Beethoven, Janáček and Schumann. Tonight, they focus entirely on Felix Mendelssohn.

Ends: 9.15 pm

Tickets: £39, £32, £25, £18; under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at near 50% discount.


Saturday 20 June 2020, 7.30 pm

Stabat Mater Oxford Bach ChoirScarlatti: Stabat Mater Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor J.S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm

The OBC’s summer concert showcases three great works whose composers tried to recreate the old polyphonic style perfected by the likes of Palestrina. Each ended up saying something quite new and special in their own way. Thus J.S. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, in the eighteenth century, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, recently back from the trenches of the First World War, looked backwards, but each created something new and utterly characteristic. These pieces will sound especially fine in the magnificent acoustic of St. John the Evangelist.

Ends: 9.00 pm

Tickets: £35, £25, £15.

8–25 June 2020

Oxford Printmakers’ Midsummer ShowOxford Printmakers returns to SJE Arts after a very successful 40th anniversary exhibition in 2018, and a previous show in 2016. Their new exhibition Midsummer Show presents another colourful and lively body of work featuring techniques including lithography, etching, woodcut, screen- printing, collagraphy & monoprinting.

Oxford Printmakers, with its hundred strong membership, has notched up over four decades of printing, exhibiting and teaching, operating from their East Oxford workshop In Tyndale Road. The workshop will also be open during Artweeks 2020.

Entry free, works on sale.

www.oxfordprintmakers.co.uk

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 7.30 pm

Steven OsborneSchubert: Andante in A major, D604 Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 14 in A major, D959 Interval Rachmaninov: Fragments Nunc Dimittis from Vespers arr. Rachmaninov, Op. 37, no. 5 Oriental sketch Moments Musicaux, Op. 16

Scottish pianist Steven Osborne’s insightful and idiomatic interpretations show immense musical depth. His numerous awards include Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year 2013 and two Gramophone Awards.

Steven begins with work by Schubert including the penultimate piano sonata, written in the last months of Schubert’s life and reflecting his mental state. Following the interval, Steven turns to Russia and to Rachmaninov, a repertoire for which he has won critical acclaim with his release of Rachmaninov’s Études Tableaux (Hyperion 2018). We welcome him back to SJE most warmly.

Ends: 9.15 pm

Tickets: £35, £28, £21, £17, under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available at near 50% discount.

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Tickets and more information at www.sje-oxford.orgAll profit from ticket sales goes towards the SJE restoration fund, see the website for more details

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Sunday 15 September 2019, 5.00 pmAmici della Voce octet and Chelys Consort of Viols

Thursday 26 September 2019, 7.30 pmKOTTOS: Oxford Debut

Saturday 28 September 2019, 4.00 pmCommotio 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert

Friday 4 October 2019, 7.30 pmLara Melda, piano

2–27 October 2019Oxford Art Society Open Exhibition and Young Artists Competition

Saturday 5 October 2019, doors 7.30 pmGrace Petrie Tour

Tuesday 8 October 2019, 7.45 pmScandi Noir: Tord Gustavesen Trio

13–26 October 2019Oxford Lieder Festival events at SJE Arts

9–11 November 2019Sobell House Exhibition

Saturday 9 November 2019, doors 7.30 pmThe Delines plus support

Sunday 10 November 2019, 4.00 pmAlexander Taras De Sina, piano

Thursday 14 November 2019, 7.30 pm‘Weimar Republic Centenary: from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill’

Friday 15 November 2019, 7.30 pmMagdalen College School: ‘Music at Magdalen’

Wednesday 20 November 2019Yazz Ahmed Polyhymnia Tour

Saturday 30 November 2019, 7.30 pmOpus 48: ‘Unaccompanied Choral Masterpieces’

Wednesday 4 December 2019, 7.30 pmAdderbury Chamber Ensemble Candlelit Concert

Saturday 7 December 2019, 7.30 pmCommotio: ‘Choral Music for Advent and Christmas’

Sunday 8 December 2019, 4.00 pm & 7.00 pmOxford Youth Choirs & Oxford Girls’ Choir

Saturday 14 December 2019, 2.00 pm & 7.00 pmOxford City Singers Christmas Concert

Sunday 15 December 19, 7.30 pmvOx Chamber Choir: ‘A Ceremony of Carols’

Thursday 19 December 2019, 7.45 pmThe Sixteen at Christmas

Friday 20 December 2019, doors 7.00 pmSteve Hogarth: ‘H Natural’

Saturday 11 January 2020, 7.30 pmEast Oxford Community Choir: Berlioz: ‘Enfance du Christ’

Thursday 23 January 2020, 7.30 pmJonathan Biss, piano

Friday 24 January 2020, 7.30 pmVadim Kholodenko, piano

Tuesday 4 February 2020, 7.30 pmEric Lu, piano

Friday 7 February 2020, 7.30 pmEngegård Quartet: Oxford Debut

Saturday 8 February 2020, 7.30 pmOxfordshire Concerto Competition

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 7.30 pmRoyal College of Music Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir

Thursday 27 February 2020, 7.30 pmAlexei Volodin, piano

Wednesday 4 March 2020, 7.30 pmInon Barnatan, piano

Friday 6 March 2020, 7.30 pmJess Gillam, saxophone, with Zeynep Özsuca, piano

Friday 13 March 2020, 7.30 pmMagdalen College School: ‘Music at Magdalen’

Saturday 21 March 2020, 7.30 pmStephen Hough, piano

Thursday 26 March 2020, 7.30 pmAngela Hewitt, piano

Sunday 29 March 2020Oxford Girls’ Opera performances

Friday 3 April 2020, 7.30 pmThe Rivers: ‘Ink on a Pin’

Saturday 25 April 2020, 7.30 pmFrancesco Piemontesi, piano

30 April–3 May 2020Oxford May Music Festival

Saturday 9 May 2020, 7.30 pmCorona Strings with Roderick Williams, baritone

Saturday 16 May 2020, 7.30 pmInstruments of Time & Truth with Oxford Consort of Voices

20, 22 & 24 May 2020, 7.30 pmPhoenix Piano Trio: Beethoven 2020

Saturday 23 May 2020, 7.30 pmEast Oxford Community Choir with Grenoble choir, Haydn: ‘Creation’

Friday 29 May 2020, 7.30 pmAlina Ibragimova, violin, and Cédric Tiberghien, piano

Wednesday 3 June 2020, 6.00 pmSansara Choir and Liam Byrne, Viola da Gamba

8–25 June 2020Oxford Printmakers’ Midsummer Show

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 7.30 pmSteven Osborne, piano

Saturday 13 June 2020, 7.30 pmCommotio

Saturday 20 June 2020, 7.30 pmOxford Bach Choir: ‘Stabat Mater’

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