Oxford Improvisers welcome two international duos in combination, making a unique quartet. As well as interacting with each other, the two duos will interact with members of Oxford Improvisers in fresh and exciting collaborations.

Mia Zabelka – Violin and Electronics
Tracy Lisk – Drums
Lars Bröndum – Live Electronics
Walter Wright – Board Weevil, Contact Mic, Objects

See experienced exponents of free musical improvisation, devising music in the moment. Improvisation as a way of being present in the world.

We operate a Pay-what-you-wish policy. No need to book. Just turn up!

We are very excited to announce the continuation of our cushion concert series for the 23/24 season. Led by Becca Marriott (opera singer), our monthly cushion concerts will introduce different styles of music and different instruments to children and their families. Come along to all eight concerts or just drop in for a few!

Remember to bring your cushions to sit on and your best singing voice, dancing feet and clapping hands!

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MUSIC AT MATRIX presents The Carpathians - a big band playing a fusion of swing, jazz, jive and some contemporary music. They will introduce their instruments and perform a set that should appeal to all.

Recommended age: 7+ years (or those who can listen for the hour)

Tea and cakes to follow

Here’s a selection of some of the pieces to be performed:
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
I Wanna Be Like You
Big Spender
Skyfall

Tickets:
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Settings of poetry by Jesse Graves

Chris Ferebee is a composer who founded the ensemble ‘Floyd’s Row’ when still a doctoral student here at St Hilda’s College. His haunting music combines elements of improvisation, minimalism, folk and early music. ‘Nightjar Songs’ explores the contemporary South through the paradox of a living past; ghosts and memories stand alongside birds, mountains, and the heat of the sun in exploring the idea of a ‘homeplace.’

Dr. Jesse Graves is a poet from Sharp’s Chapel, Tennessee, a community his ancestors settled in the 1780’s. He is poet-in-residence and a professor of English at East Tennessee State University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in creative writing. Prior to taking up his post at ETSU, he studied at the University of Tennessee and Cornell University.

Prior to the performance to each setting, each poem will be read by the poet himself

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Wolfson College Music Society presents Standards & Monk

A Jazz concert with Alex Ho (piano), Mark Kavuma (trumpet), and Tommy Remon (guitar), with a selection of standards from the Great American Songbook and compositions by Thelonious Monk.

5pm Sunday 9 June 2024

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD
£15 | £10 Wolfson Members | Students Free
Tickets available on the door of the event (cash only).

Clarinet – David Veran (Lincoln College)
Violins – Liv Geddes & Juliet Bridgman (St Hilda’s)
Viola – Liza Verzhbitskaya (St Hilda’s)
Cello – Deniz Yoruk-Mikhailov (University College)

Now in its 15th year, this popular recital series showcases some of the most talented young musicians from St Hilda’s and across the University.

Curated by St Hilda’s Director of College Music, Dr Jonathan Williams, these 30-minute concerts are free to attend, and all are welcome – no booking is necessary.

If you can’t attend live you can watch the concert online, and for a time afterwards, on the JdP Youtube channel.

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Philip Theodorou (St Hilda’s)

Now in its 15th year, this popular recital series showcases some of the most talented young musicians from St Hilda’s and across the University.

Curated by St Hilda’s Director of College Music, Dr Jonathan Williams, these 30-minute concerts are free to attend, and all are welcome – no booking is necessary.

If you can’t attend live you can watch the concert online, and for a time afterwards, on the JdP Youtube channel.

BEETHOVEN: Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

This late afternoon performance is the conclusion of the Villiers Quartet’s Late Beethoven Series which has run over the last two years at the JdP and the Andrew Wiles Building. This hour-long event will start with an extended talk in which the Grosse Fuge is discussed in relation to the other quartets in the series and with respect to Beethoven’s Late Style.

Our concert is associated with a whole Villiers Quartet Study Day on the Große Fuge, in which players and observers from around the country discuss the piece and take part in an early afternoon ‘playalong’ preceded by a coaching session. If you are interested in taking part in this Study Day, please email villiersquartet@gmail.com.

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Linking in with this year’s Kafka centenary celebrations in Oxford, Kaleidoscope’s richly expressive programme explores themes of metamorphosis and transformation through two of the most thrilling chamber works in the repertoire.

Francesca Chiejina (soprano), Elena Urioste (violin), Savitri Grier (violin), Juan-Miguel Hernandez (viola), Edgar Francis (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Tony Rymer (cello), Philip Nelson (Double Bass)

Alexander Zemlinsky – Maiblumen blühten überall for soprano and string sextet
Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen (arr. Rudolf Leopold for string septet)
INTERVAL
Alma Mahler – Four Songs (arr. Tom Poster for soprano and string sextet)
Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht for string sextet, Op. 4 Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht is an impassioned depiction of a couple whose lives are transfigured as they walk through the night, while Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (in its string septet version) is a heart-rending reaction against the destruction of European culture and heritage in the Second World War.

Fast-rising star soprano Francesca Chiejina joins for some exquisite music for voice and strings: Zemlinsky conjures shimmering textures in Maiblumen blühten überall, while four of Alma Mahler’s songs are heard here in sumptuous chamber arrangements by Tom Poster.

This is an evening of emotional extremes, of feverish and ecstatic passions; we can’t wait to share the journey with you.

PRE CONCERT TALK

Join us from 6pm – 6.45pm for a FREE pre-concert talk ‘Kafka and Music’ with Carolin Duttlinger. You will be offered the option to add a ticket to your basket when you purchase your ticket for ‘Transfigured’. Tickets for the talk will also be available on the door

Carolin is Professor of German at the University of Oxford and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre. An international Kafka expert, she has published four books on the author. She is currently leading a major new research project, ‘Kafka’s Transformative Communities’, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and which brings together academics and creative practitioners from a range of artforms and media.

Oliver Simpson, cello (St Hilda’s Music Scholar) with Nicholas Simpson
Poulenc – ‘Sérénade’ from Chansons Gaillardes, FP 42 (arr. M. Gendron)
Martinu – Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H.290

Ariana Pethard, piano (St Hilda’s)
Rachmaninov – Prelude in G major, op. 32/5
Mendelssohn – Rondo Capriccioso, op. 14

Now in its 15th year, this popular recital series showcases some of the most talented young musicians from St Hilda’s and across the University.

Curated by St Hilda’s Director of College Music, Dr Jonathan Williams, these 30-minute concerts are free to attend, and all are welcome – no booking is necessary.

If you can’t attend live you can watch the concert online, and for a time afterwards, on the JdP Youtube channel.