St. Giles Church is a vibrant, welcoming

community that embraces a wide

variety of activities – talks, concerts,

bell-ringers, a boys’ choir, a famous candlelit

Carol service and services to suit everyone:

Holy Communion, Evensong, Mid-week

Eucharist, Evening Prayer, Taizé Service.

For details of service times please go to

www.st-giles-church.org  or see the notice

boards outside the church. Whatever your

faith, you are warmly welcome!

Friday 25 - Sunday 27 January | 2013A sparkling festival of jazz and the music of

Benjamin Britten to celebrate his Centenary Year

 Jacqui DankworthDavid Gordon Trio

Pete Oxley /Nicholas MeierSt. Giles Choristers

St Giles salutes Britten!Encore!

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Jazz at St Giles is supported by generous donors including:

Scott and Valerie Bullock; Jean

Darke; Roy and Jane Darke; Chris

and Sao Foy; Dana Josephson;

David Longrigg; Richard and Faye

Pring; Dr. Peggie Rimmer; Tom and

Elena Snow; Roger W Turner;

Paul Wadesley

and numerous other generous donors

who wish to remain anonymousOXFORD ELECTRO-ACOUSTICAL

EAST WEST PROVISIONS

Jazz at St.GilesENCORE!!St Giles salutes Britten!Join us for a celebration ‘mini

festival’ celebrating the centenary

year of Benjamin Britten (1913-2013).

Consisting of four wonderful

concerts and including

internationally-famed musicians,

proceeds from the festival will

go towards St. Giles church and

its work with the homeless and

dispossessed.

Tickets for all concerts are

available on the door, or can

be booked online at

www.jazzatstgiles.com.

For further information contact

Jean Darke on 01865 514 575 or

 jeandarke@btinternet.com.

For information on the Britten

Centenary Year, please visit

‘Britten in Oxford.com’ and

‘Britten 100.com’

 

P&A Press

 

27 January | 3.30pm

St. Giles ChoristersBritten’s songs for children

‘Friday Afternoons ’The boys of St Giles’ all-male choir (the only one

in the city outside of the University colleges)

sing brilliantly at all choir-accompanied

services. The boys train under their choral

director Nicholas Prozzillo accompanied by

organist Andrew Patterson, through the ‘Choir

Academy’, from which they receive both vocal

and theoretical music training. They also benefit

from learning the confidence-building Alexander

Technique. Inevitably the Academy is always

looking for funding for training, purchase of

music, events, etc., and we plan soon to launch

a ‘Sponsor a Choirboy ’ scheme. Whereas funds

raised from the other three concerts in this mini

‘festival’ will go, as usual, towards the church’s

work with the homeless, today’s revenue will be

passed straight to choir funds.

Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions, children free)

Following on the heels of the hugely

successful ‘Jazz at St. Giles Autumn Series’, St.

Giles now joins the worldwide celebrations of

composer Benjamin Britten’s Centenary year.

This wonderful ‘festival’ of jazz and Britten

tributes is encapsulated in a joyous weekend

of music making by renowned jazz musicians

and the Choristers of St. Giles.

 

25 January | 7.30pm

Jacqui DankworthOutstanding and world-renowned singer

 Jacqui Dankworth – daughter of Dame Cleo Laine

and the late Sir John Dankworth – sings Britten’s

 jazz cabaret songs as well as compositions

by John Dankworth, George Gershwin and

Cole Porter. Jacqui is accompanied by the

equally distinguished jazz pianist and classical

harpsichordist, David Gordon. Together as an

acclaimed duo they have toured extensively in

the UK and abroad. Jacqui also performs with

her much-lauded quartet ‘Butterfly’ and has an

extensive recorded catalogue.

Tickets: £20 (£15 concessions)

 

26 January | 12pm

The Oxley-MeierGuitar DuoPete Oxley, (who began his musical career

in Paris before returning to the UK in 1997,

where he opened the famous Spin jazz club

in Oxford), plays guitar with a mind-blowing

brilliance that leaves you breathless at his

technique. Equally at home with both the

classical and jazz repertoire, he has now

released 10 critically acclaimed CD’s featuring

his original compositions. Nicholas Meier’s

unique style is a blend of Metheny-esque jazz

and Turkish-inspired world music. Nick has

toured extensively with his band the Meier

Group, winning ‘best band’ prize at the recent

Juan-les-Pins jazz festival. Recent albums

feature a wonderful heady mixture of Flamenco,

 jazz, Latin and Middle Eastern music. Together

the duo will perform jazz from their newly

released CD, plus their own tributes to Britten.

Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions)

26 January | 7.30pm

David Gordon TrioBack by public demand!! The David Gordon

Trio’s inaugural concert of our Autumn Series

left the audience clamouring for more. WithPaul Cavaciuti (drums) and Jonty Fisher 

(bass), jazz pianist David Gordon rides

rough-shod over the boundaries between jazz,

acoustic groove and classical music, blazing a

rare trail through the jazz world with an innate

sense of melody and rhythmic drive. Also a

renowned harpsichordist, David has performed

at the BBC Proms, Carnegie Hall, and the

Musikverein, Vienna, and has an extensive

recorded repertoire, both classical and jazz.

Tickets: £18 (£13 concessions)