What’s your favourite Musical - Les Mis? Hamilton?
Or your favourite Opera / Operetta - The Pearl Fishers? Cosi fan Tutte? Gilbert & Sullivan?

What about your favourite “Songs from the Shows” - Gershwin? Cole Porter? Lerner and Loewe?.

Come and immerse yourself in a smorgasbord of delights, when Wheatley Singers, directed by Kate Billimore, along with special guest soloists, plan to enthral you with familiar choruses, classic arias and a few surprise treats.

Some of the above. And plenty more.

This time Wheatley Singers are supporting The Newman Holiday Trust, so you can have a splendid time, enjoy a glass of wine and know that others will also benefit! What’s not to like??!

Piano recital with Alexander McNamee (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.

Tyburn Road
Ian Giles & Dave Townsend have been singing and playing together for more years than either will readily admit to. They are two of the most recognizable (and hairy) faces on the Oxfordshire folk scene, who bring to the stage a wealth of experience performing, touring and researching traditional songs & music. With voices, concertina and melodeon, they offer a delightful repertoire of unusual songs and tunes. Their comfortable and relaxed style of presentation makes the perfect setting for their commitment to the material and their consummate musicianship. Their first album Rogues & Rovers appeared in 2018.

https://www.wildgoose.co.uk/artists/ian-...

https://www.davetownsendmusic.com/

The Oakstone Trio
“After years of playing together on the Oxford session scene and in the folk clubs, the boys came together in 2022 for a gig at Oxford Folk Weekend.

Louis Thurman (melodeons, vocals), Mitch Keely (guitar, vocals), and Joshua Newman (fiddle, viola, vocals) combine a nuanced, improvisatory approach to tunes with energy and warmth, allowing seldom-heard melodies to escape old manuscripts and giving well-loved session tunes the space to find new directions. They pair new compositions with old tunes and solo ballads with harmony chorus songs.

They’ve worked with the Bodleian Library to deliver performances and workshops attached to their Playford exhibition The Dancing Master, and in other projects they have played sold-out gigs at festivals in Oxford, Kent, and at the Green Note in London; played the session stage at Beautiful Days Festival in 2021 and 2022; and supported Nancy Kerr and James Fagan.”

https://www.oakstonetrio.co.uk/

Mozart Marriage of Figaro overture
Schumann piano concerto
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Bizet L’Arlesienne Suite

Rupert Egerton-smith piano
Orchestra of St John’s

Mozart Marriage of Figaro overture
Schumann Piano concerto
Mozart Symphony No 41 ‘Jupiter’

Rupert Egerton-smith piano
Orchestra of St John’s

“A terrific blend of fascinating conversation with varied, wonderfully-performed music”

The Music in my Life: Paul Gambaccini is interviewed by Sue Cook (Crimewatch, Nationwide, Children in Need)
Famous people talk about their lives, share their opinions, and discuss the music that has meant the most to them in their lives. Each one has had a prominent career and is happy to express some strong opinions!

Known as “The Great Gambo and “The Professor of Pop”, Gambaccini was a BBC Radio 1 presenter for 16 years, including 11 years on a weekly show counting down the Billboard Top 30 songs. A regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s long-running arts programme Kaleidoscope, he was a long-time TV morning show correspondent for British television, and makes regular appearances on other British TV magazine shows.

Gambaccini was the host of the 12-part Classic FM series Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes, and chairs the Radio 4 music quiz Counterpoint. He was presenter of Pick of the Pops on BBC Radio 2 from 2016 to 2023 and America’s Greatest Hits on Greatest Hits Radio on Saturday afternoons since February 2020. He now presents the Paul Gambaccini Collection on Radio 2. He was inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame in 2005.

OSJ plays his chosen pieces live in the concert hall – often brand-new arrangements of an eclectic programme, to include excerpts from

MORNING from PEER GYNT SUITE Grieg
LARGO from XERXES Handel
SERENADE FOR STRINGS Tchaikovsky
NO – THE PROTECTING VEIL Tavener
TOM BOWLING Dibdin
STRING QUARTET No. 3 “MISHIMA” Glass
IMPROMPTU in A Flat, D 935/2 Schubert
IS MY TEAM PLOUGHING f/A SHROPSHIRE LAD Butterworth
BLUE DANUBE Strauss

Sponsored by CRITCHLEYS

Shostakovich Piano Trio no 2
Beethoven Archduke Trio

AMALFI TRIO
Andrew Blankfield piano
Claire Parkin violin
Emma Chamberlain cello

Film/Music Collaborations

Every year filmmakers from the Ruskin School of Art work with film composers from St Hilda’s College and the Music Faculty to create a series of art film ’shorts’ that may in some cases involve live performance. This year there will be eight collaborations involving Masters composers from the Music Faculty. This project is convened by Professor Martyn Harry.

https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music...

New compositions by Sebastian Zamet (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

https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music...

Join us for a summer celebration of glorious choral music spanning the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Saturday 15 June 2024 at 6.00 pm
(Doors/bar open at 5.30 pm. No interval. Bar reopens after concert.)

St Mary’s Church, Church Green, Witney, OX28 4AW

Organist: Francis Rumsey
Cellist: Jacqui Johnson
Directed by Terry McNamara

Programme:
Purcell: Te Deum Laudamus and Jubilate Deo in D
Wesley: Blessed Be the God & Father
Choruses from Mendelssohn’s Elijah
Parry: I Was Glad
Harwood: O How Glorious is the Kingdom
Tavener: Song for Athene
Jenkins: ‘Benedictus’ (from The Armed Man)