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

Friday 18 January 2019, 7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova, violin, and Cédric Tiberghien, pianoBeethoven: Sonata for violin and piano in E flat major, Op. 12, no.3 Janáček: Violin Sonata Interval Cage: Six Melodies for violin and Keyboard Schumann: Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 121, no.2

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien first met as members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. The unique partnership which formed was noted by The Times in a review concluding: ‘Both of these players have the potential to conquer the world’. The pair have since performed throughout Europe, in North America, Australia and Asia and are regular guests at Wigmore Hall. Their programme tonight includes John Cage’s Six Melodies, composed shortly after his ground-breaking String Quartet.

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Tickets: £35, £25, £20, £15, under 25s £5 (side aisles only). 6th Series season tickets available at a discount

6TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES

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 Organ Restoration Appeal.

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: Oscar Vazquez, Kaupo Kikkas, Penny Rudling, Phil Rigby, Josep Molina, Amalia Bastos, Roberto Mora, Vera Greiner, Benjamin Ealovega, Nick Rutter, Claude Darman, Bernhard Musil.

WelcomeWe are hosting 38 events at SJE Arts between January and June 2019, some of them are multiple offerings such as our collaboration with Music at Oxford over two days in March; The Empowered Women Trilogy and includes music, theatre and talks. On 2–6th May the entire May Music Festival a mix of music, art and lectures is based in the church and cloister.

Our own SJE International Piano Series, now in its 6th year, brings a cornucopia of wonderful musicians starting with the brilliant duo Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien. The concerts range from solo performances, duos to full orchestra. It is still possible to buy a heavily discounted season ticket to see all 8 performances.

Our 3rd Next Generation Series includes the effervescent Jess Gillam, who was one of the three superb BBC young Musician finalists in 2016; the winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason played for us in 2017. Look out for discounts for buying tickets to more than one concert.

In between you will find many of our regulars Choros, Commotio, OSJ, Oxford Bach Choir (Come and Sing with Brian Kay) and several one-off specials.

Full details are always on our website but if you sign up for our monthly newsletter you will also be kept up to date with late bookings and special offers.

We are always very grateful for sponsorship, especially for the Next Generation series. If you are interested please contact me about the possibilities.

Michèle Smith, Artistic Director

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Friday 1 February 2019, 7.30 pm

Amandine Beyer, violin Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepianoWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonatas for violin and fortepiano no.19 in E flat major, K.302, no.20 in C major, K.303; no.23 in D major, K.306 Interval Variations for violin and piano in G minor on Hélas, j’ai perdu mon amant, K 360 Sonata for violin and fortepiano no.32 in B flat major, K.454

Two recognised interpreters of the Baroque form an inspirational partnership. Kristian Bezuidenhout is hailed as one of today’s most exciting keyboard artists, equally at home on the fortepiano, harpsichord and modern piano; Amandine Beyer has become a reference point for performance of Baroque violin repertoire. Tonight the duo will be focusing their attention on Mozart, we look forward to an evening of music as authentic as it is delightful.

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Sunday 10 February 2019, 6.00 pm

London Firebird OrchestraMozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte, K. 620 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Piano, Marc Corbett-Weaver Conductor, George Jackson

Following a sensational sell-out début at the Church of St John-the-Evangelist in 2017, London Firebird Orchestra – one of London’s finest orchestra’s of the younger generation – returns with a magnificent programme of dramatic classics. Mozart’s spellbindingly energetic Overture to The Magic Flute and Beethoven’s mighty Fifth Symphony are coupled with Tchaikovsky’s romantic, ever-popular, Piano Concerto no.1. The orchestra is joined by British pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver, recently described by Musical Opinion Magazine as ‘an interpretive artist fully immersed in the subtleties and considerable technical demands of each composer’s writing.’

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Tickets: £35, £25, £20, £15, under 25s £5 (side aisles only). 6th Series season tickets at 50% discount: £154–£68, under 25s £109–£23

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Sunday 3 February 2019, 5.00 pm

Timothy Ridout, viola, with Frank Dupree, pianoBridge: Pensiero and Allegro appassionato Britten: Lachrymae for viola and piano, Op. 48 York Bowen: Viola Sonata no.1 in C minor, Op.18

When Timothy Ridout took first prize at the 2016 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the first British winner in the contest’s history, his career took off. Last season saw solo appearances with orchestras in Germany and London, a debut in Tokyo and chamber music engagements around Europe.

With gifted young German pianist Frank Dupree, he is performing work by Frank Bridge and Benjamin Britten, both viola players, and York Bowen, pianist and a regular accompanist of Lionel Tertis.

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Tickets: £15, £5 under 25s. 15% discount on combined ticket for 3rd and 16th February Next Generation Series concerts

3RD SJE ARTS NEXT GENERATION SERIES

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Friday 8 February 2019, 7.30 pm

Solarek Piano Trio and Anna Beer Breaking the SilenceMarina Solarek, violin Miriam Lowbury, cello Diana Brekalo, piano

Lili Boulanger: D’un Matin De Printemps Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trio Interval Germaine Tailleferre: Trio pour piano, violon et violoncello Amy Beach: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 150

An opportunity not only to hear the music of four superb, and still under-performed, composers but also to hear their powerful stories of creativity against the odds. Three of the works provide startlingly different responses to the Great War: Boulanger dazzlingly evokes spring; Tailleferre, the sole female member of Les Six, offers ‘ravishing Gallic beauty’, whilst Clarke’s powerfully dramatic Trio appears haunted by war. To end: a late work from American Amy Beach, written in the months before the Second World War. Beach’s unashamedly romantic Piano Trio is a fittingly passionate close to this celebration of four remarkable composers.

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Tickets: £15

Thursday 14 February 2019, 7.00 pm

Salute to Love Elena Urioste, violin, and Tom Poster, pianoStrauss: Violin Sonata Clara Schumann: Romance Dvořák arr. Kreisler: Songs My Mother Taught Me Gershwin arr. Heifetz: Porgy and Bess Elgar: Salut d’amour and Great American Songbook favourites arranged by Tom Poster

To celebrate the release of their new duo album, Estrellita, on BIS Records, City of Oxford Orchestra is delighted to present Artist in Residence, Tom Poster and brilliant violinist, Elena Urioste, for this beautiful Valentine Concert. Given that the CD was recorded in the wonderful acoustic of St. John the Evangelist, it is very special and entirely fitting to have the premiere in the venue.

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Tickets: £25, £15

Saturday 23 February 2019, 7.30 pm

Choros Alpha and OmegaConductor, Janet Lincé

Copland: In the beginning Whitacre: When David heard Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons and Negro Spirituals arranged by Hogan, Jennings and Washburn

Copland’s amazing In the Beginning, his setting of the Creation story, heads this programme of choral masterpieces portraying the beginning and ending of life. Arvo Pärt’s unique work, Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen provides a powerful contrast with Whitacre’s deeply moving When David heard while the concert ends with the choir’s hallmark rendition of some beautiful Spirituals.

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Tickets: £15, £12, £5 full-time students and under 18s from ticketsoxford.com


Saturday 16 February 2019, 7.30 pm

Jess Gillam, saxophoneIturralde: Pequena Czarda Britten: Temporal Variations Ravel: Pièce en forme de Haberna Wiedoeft: Valse Vanité Nyman: ‘If’ from ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ Milhaud: Scaramouche Interval Marcello: Concerto for Oboe in C Minor Williams: Escapades for Alto Saxophone Bartók: Romanian Dances Harle: Rant

Following her stunning performance in BBC Young Musician 2016, Jess’s career has been nothing short of stellar: a recording contract with Decca Classics, appearances at the Albert Hall in the BBC Proms, concerto and solo recital engagements in London and around the country and, in June 2018, her international debut with the Gothenburg Symphony. Amidst all this, Jess continues her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she holds an ABRSM scholarship. We are thrilled to have her coming to SJE Arts.

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Tickets: £15, £5 under 25s. 15% discount on combined ticket for 3rd and 16th February Next Generation Series concerts

3RD SJE ARTS NEXT GENERATION SERIES Friday 1 March and Saturday 2 March 2019

The Empowered Women TrilogyThe Telling brings you three intimate ‘concert-theatre’ pieces to mark International Women’s Day 2019, transporting you back in time through plaintive ballads, lively dance music and dramatic narrative. We celebrate the lives of three extraordinary women who defy the strictures of their age and whose stories are both of their time but also startlingly contemporary.

The Telling Clare Norburn soprano Ariane Prussner mezzo, percussion Joy Smith harp, percussion Giles Lewin Vielle Fatima Lahham recorders Lighting design Natalie Rowland & Pitch Black Lighting

Friday 1 March 20196.30 pm–7.20 pm Hildegard of Bingen with Fiona Maddocks, classical music critic The Observer. Tickets: £7

8.00 pm–9.15 pm Vision: The imagined testimony of Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard’s personal narrative alongside performances of her mesmeric chant. Tickets: £32, £25, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off

Saturday 2 March 20193.00 pm–4.40 pm Unsung Heroine: The Secret Life of Troubadour Countess Beatriz de Dia With words and music, The Telling and actor imagine the story of the redoubtable Beatriz, a feisty woman troubadour, caught between her loveless marriage and a passionate affair with a fellow troubadour. Tickets: £20, £12, £8, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off

6.30 pm–7.20 pm Bearded Women Saints Dr Mark Philpott clears away misconceptions and provides explanations of a popular cult. Tickets: £7

8.00 pm–9.40 pm Into The Melting Pot The lives and music of Christian, Jewish and Arabic women in medieval Spain. It is the eve of the expulsion of the Jews, in Seville at twilight a Jewish woman lights the lamps and starts up her spinning wheel. Tickets: £32, £25, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off

Monday 11 March 2019, 7.30 pm

Eric LuWinner of the First prize at the Leeds 2018 International Piano Competition

Mozart: Rondo in A major K511 Brahms: Klavierstucke Op.118 Handel: Chaconne HWV 435 Chopin: Piano Sonata No.2

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Saturday March 16 2019, 7.30 pm

Commotio with Joseph Spooner, celloFrancis Pott: At First Light (World Premiere) Ivor Gurney: Since I believe in God the Father Almighty Anthony Miller: Benedic, aima mea, Dominum George Lloyd: Psalm 130

Commotio performs alongside British cellist Joseph Spooner in a world premiere of a work for choir and cello by Francis Pott, commissioned by Eric Bruskin. The work sets text from the Mass for the Dead, from Ecclesiastes, Wisdom of Solomon, Psalm 150, and poets Thomas Blackburn, Kahlil Gibran, Alun Lewis and Wendell Berry.

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Tickets: £12/£10 (60+)/£8 (Students) from www.commotio.org



Wednesday 27 March 2019, 7.30 pm

Zee ZeeJ.S. Bach: Partita no. 5 in G major, BWV 829 R. Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Scenes from Vienna), Op. 26 Interval Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin and La Valse

An imaginative and electrifying performer, Zee Zee stands out among the young generation of pianists, her creative maturity described by the Los Angeles Times as ‘a powerful, passionate and compelling representation of pure artistry’.

Trained in her native China and the United States, Zee Zee has performed with leading orchestras, given recitals at venues such as Lincoln Center New York, Kennedy Center Washington D.C. and Wigmore Hall London. The 2016–17 season saw her as Artist in Residence with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.

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6TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIESFriday 22 March 2019, 7.30 pm

Alda Dizdari, violin, with Tom Blach, pianoBeethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Major no.10 Op.96 Interval Schubert: Rondo Brilliant in B minor D.895 Szymanovsky: Mythes for Violin and Piano Op.30 Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano

Following her stunning performance in November 2018, the Albanian born British violinist, Alda Dizdari, and pianist, Tom Blach, return to SJE Arts for another memorable evening of music. Alda’s programme will indulge her audience in a rich mixture of sonorities, styles and expressions, chosen to highlight technique and her incredible ability to communicate emotions, colours and poetry.

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Tickets: £25, £20, £15, students £5

Saturday 20 April 2019, 7.30 pm–9.30 pm

Schubert, Verdi and Bach Orchestra of St Johns and OSJ Ashmolean VoicesBaritone, Julien van Mellaerts Soprano, mezzo and bass soloists Conductor, John Lubbock

Schubert: Stabat Mater in F minor Bach: Cantata 82 Ich habe genug Verdi: Stabat Mater

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Tickets: £25, £20, £15, £12 from www.osj.org.uk/event/bach-at-sje-arts/ or tel 07775 904626

Friday 26 April 2019, 7.30 pm

Alexander UllmanHaydn: Andante and variations in F minor Beethoven: Sonata no. 23 in F minor ‘Appassionata’ Interval Beethoven, arr. Liszt: Symphony no.1 in C major Schubert: Hungarian Melody in B minor Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody no.10 in E Major

Winner of the 2017 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, Alexander Ullman has impressed audiences and critics worldwide with his deep understanding of the scores he interprets, his elegant touch and crystalline phrasing.

Alexander has worked with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy and Markus Stenz and performed at venues inluding Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kennedy Center Washington DC and Seoul Arts Center. This season sees his debut with the Moscow State Symphony, Barcelona Symphony and Beijing’s NCPA Orchestra, and in recital across Europe, in South America and the Far East.

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Thursday 2 May–Monday 6 May 2019

The 12th annual Oxford May Music Festival at St John the EvangelistOxford May Music continues its tradition of combining world-famous scientists with concerts from world-leading musicians.

We are once again joined by Estonian photographer Kaupo Kikkas who will showcase his incredible photographs inspired by his idols Ansel Adams and Arvo Pärt.

We are delighted to welcome Dame Ottoline Leyser, renowned botanist, who will tell us how plants decide what to do. Simon Boxall, environmentalist and broadcaster will address plastic pollution of the oceans. Tim Leighton will be blowing bubbles, detailing their impact on climate change, dolphins, spaceships and antibiotics, while Andrew King explores the brain’s reaction to music and hearing loss. Robin Grimes explains the importance of atomic-scale defects in materials with some amazing demonstrations.

Musical highlights include old favourites such as Schubert’s Octet and Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, with brilliant Australian clarinettist Paul Dean. Works new to the festival include pieces by Arvo Pärt, the wonderful Wolf-Ferrari Chamber Symphony; two string quartets, one by Shostakovich and Dvorak’s ‘American’ will be played by the Goldner String Quartet. Old friends Phronesis will be playing jazz. Vaughan Williams, Holst and Schubert will be sung by wonderful soprano Mary Bevan accompanied by Jack Liebeck, our Musical Director.


Saturday 6 April 2019, 7.30 pm

Federico ColliScarlatti: 6 Sonatas J.S. Bach arr. Busoni: Chaconne Interval J.S. Bach: Partita no.4

Federico Colli is recognised internationally for imaginative interpretations and impeccable technique. Since winning Salzburg Mozart Competition in 2011 and Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012, he has appeared with some of the world’s great orchestras. Of his London debut, performing Rachmaninov No.3 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Times commented: ‘played with formidable delicacy by Federico Colli, with limpid tone and calligraphic phrasing. Colli takes care to seduce before sweeping the listener off his or her feet.’

Tonight, we look forward to a selection of Scarlatti sonatas and to works by J.S. Bach, including Busoni’s dazzling arrangement of Chaconne.

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2ND – 6TH MAY 2019

JACK LIEBECK ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Saturday 11 May 2019, 9.30 am–5.00 pm

Feel the Spirit! Come and Sing Workshop with Brian KayJoin Oxford Bach Choir and Brian Kay for a jazz-themed workshop on Rutter’s Feel the Spirit and George Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets.

Details: www.oxfordbachchoir.org

Friday 10 May 2019, 7.30 pm

Cédric TiberghienMozart: Fantasy in C minor K 475 E-flat major, K 302 Chopin: Ballade no. 1 in G minor, Op. 23; Ballade no. 2 in F major, Op. 38; Ballade no. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47; Ballade no. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Interval J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16

French pianist Cédric Tiberghien is particularly praised for his versatility: wide-ranging repertoire, interesting programming and dynamic chamber music partnerships. We have already enjoyed him this season with duo partner Alina Abragimova, tonight he returns as soloist, a role for which he also has a busy international career. Critical reviews are dazzling, The Telegraph commenting ‘He seems to have the poise and poetry of Chopin in his blood’. We look forward to his performance of Chopin Ballades tonight, and to much more.

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Saturday 18 May 2019, 7.30 pm

Corona Strings Brilliant BywaysLeader, Catherine Leech Conductor, Janet Lincé

Arensky: Variations on theme of Tchaikovsky Suk: Meditation Vaughan Williams: Variants on Dives and Lazarus Britten: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Purcell: Chaconne

Themes and Variations are brought to perfection by the composers represented in this concert. The haunting melody of Suk’s Meditation is beautifully paired with the well-known theme in Arensky’s Variations, whilst the English works explore the delightful world of folk melody and dance alongside the sheer brilliance of Britten’s Frank Bridge Variations.

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Tickets: £20 (£17); £15 (£12); £5 under 25s. FREE FIRST TIME TICKET OFFER: www.coronastrings.co.uk

Saturday 25 May 2019, 7.30 pm

Instruments of Time and Truth The King Shall RejoiceHumfrey: Anthem Purcell: Fantasia on a ground (à 4) Humfrey: Anthem Purcell: Pavan and Chacony Humfrey: Anthem Interval Purcell: Trumpet Sonata in D Purcell: Hail, Bright Cecilia, Ode for St Cecilia’s Day (1692)

The King Shall Rejoice celebrates a moment in English history when the arts were re-embraced by monarch and people alike. At the restored Court of Charles II, music was welcomed back into the divine office, and in London town, theatre music took off. Pelham Humfrey was the first great composer furnishing elaborate sacred music for the royal chapel, and at the other end of the period, Purcell was the last, leaving an indeli-ble mark on the music heard out and about in town. In this concert we hear the best of Humfrey’s anthems and the best of Purcell’s odes.

Ends 9.30 pm

Tickets: £38, £30, £24, £20 and £15; half price on all bands for under 18s and NUS


Friday 14 June 2019, 7.30 pm

Robert Max plays Bach’s Six Suites for Solo CelloJoin Robert Max for a unique voyage through Johann Sebastian Bach’s six cello suites, some of the most sublime music written for that instrument. Robert will be playing five of the suites on a Stradivarius cello dating from 1726 known as the Comte de Saveuse and the sixth suite on a five-stringed cello as requested by the composer.

Robert is well-known to Oxford audiences from his appearances at SJE Arts with the Barbican Piano Trio and as conductor of the Oxford Symphony Orchestra.

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Tickets: £20, under 25s £10

Saturday 15 June 2019, 7.30 pm

Dusk ’til Dawn: Nature in Music A Sequence of Music and SoundJubilate Chamber Choir Director, James Morley Potter

In this unique concert presentation, Jubilate Chamber Choir will trace a musical pilgrimage charting the progression of dusk to dawn. Music for compline, night, and morning will be interspersed with wildlife recordings from the British Library Sound Archive, in an evocative journey of sound.

The sequence includes music by Smith, Sullivan, Ives, Cooke, Ešenvalds, Whitacre, Sheppard, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Krause, Sigurbjörnsson, Willan, and Byrd.

Jubilate Chamber Choir is a mixed-voice choir formed in 1995 in Oxford. It performs a wide repertoire of choral music to a high standard and has performed in all the major Oxford venues.

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Tickets: £15, concessions £8

Friday 31 May, 7.30 pm and Saturday 1 June, 2.30 pm and 7.30 pm

Oxford Operatic Society Trials of LoveMeet Angela & Nick, two angels embroiled in an exciting board game entitled The Trials of Love. As the two play, the game comes to life and shares the story of four couples.

Featuring musical numbers from The Phantom of the Opera, La Traviata, West Side Story and The Merry Widow, The Trials of Love will take audiences on a journey to turbulent ends, featuring wonderful company numbers along the way!

Presented by OXOPS, Oxford’s award-winning Operatic Society. Charity number: 277306

Tickets: £18, £16, £10

Thursday 27 June 2019, 7.30 pm

Theorbo Fantasy: old and new music for the long-necked luteSJE Arts in collaboration with Oxford Festival of the Arts

Elizabeth Kenny, theorbo

Alessandro Piccinini: Toccata Cromatica; Partiti variate sopra la Folia; Ciaconna Hieronymus Kapsberger: Toccata; Passacaglia; Capona; Canario; Colascione James MacMillan: Motet from Since It Was the Day of Preparation Benjamin Oliver: Extending from the Inside Robert de Visée: Suite in C minor Nico Muhly: Berceuse with seven variations

Elizabeth Kenny is one of Europe’s leading lutenists, her playing described as ‘incandescent’ (Music and Vision), ‘radical’ (The Independent) and ‘indecently beautiful’ (Toronto Post). Her programme tonight places contemporary compositions alongside works of the 16th and 17th centuries and includes the UK premiere of Nico Muhly’s Berceuse, written for Liz in 2018.

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Tickets: £25, £20, £15, under 25s £10 reduction. Discounts available on combination tickets for 27, 29 and 30 June concerts


Saturday 29 June 2019, 7.30 pm

Sean Shibe and Mahan EsfahaniSJE Arts in collaboration with Oxford Festival of the Arts

Programme to include Vivaldi and J.S. Bach Trio Sonatas, and Boccherini

With dazzling technique and a refusal to bend to tradition, Mahan Esfahani has transformed the image of the harpsichord. Now Sean Shibe is doing the same for classical guitar, rejecting cliché and challenging preconceptions. To have the two perform together will be a rare treat.

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Sunday 30 June 2019, 7.30 pm

ORA Singers Music from RomeSJE Arts in collaboration with Oxford Festival of the Arts

Programme to include works by: Allegri, Anerio, Ingegneri, Marenzio, Palestrina, Julia Adolphe, Cheryl Frances Hoad, Edmund Finnis, Gabriel Jackson, James MacMillan and Roxanna Panufnik.

ORA Singers presents a programme inspired by Rome’s rich catalogue of Renaissance composers. The programme is book-ended by choral classics: the iconic Allegri Miserere, and the modern masterpiece that is MacMillan’s setting of the same text. Renaissance works sit side by side with stunning modern reflections and text settings. The evening includes two pieces commissioned especially by ORA: a setting of the Lord’s Prayer by American composer Julia Adolphe and a reflection on Anerio’s Christus Factus Est by former New College chorister and current Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, Edmund Finnis.

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