“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)

Following several successes this year, we're thrilled that Starlings Sessions will be treating us to a fully-fledged set at one of our favourite hang-outs, the socially conscious brewery Tap Social Movement.

The music will span everything from soulful, beautiful acapella ballads to raucous rousing bangers. It is a joyful tapestry of languages and musical traditions with threads running through that unite us across cultures.

Afterwards, DJ Bossaphonik will continue the party until late!

Starling Sessions

Think local, folk global! Starling Sessions is a global folk community orchestra, exploring traditional music from around the world through the people of Oxford. Each member of the band brings a song with them to share and together they create a musical mosaic of Oxford. Like the common starling, which makes its home anywhere and has a knack for learning the songs of other birds around it, they learn to sing the songs that have made their home in Oxford.

DJ Bossaphonik

DJ Dan Ofer is the founder and organiser of Oxford's legendary world-jazz dance music event, Bossaphonik, which this year celebrates its 20th Anniversary. In this time it has run monthly in a number of venues and has hosted around 130 superb live bands. Dan is resident DJ at Bossaphonik and his repertoire blends high energy live-based eclectic music including jazz funk - Afrobeat - soukous - Latin jazz - Brazilica - cumbia - Balkan beats - Arabian fusion - soul jazz - electro swing - nu jazz bizniz.

Uplifting, energising and inspiring sounds for the dancefloor!

Presented by OCM, Tandem Collective and Tap Social Movement.

Starling Sessions is funded by Oxfordshire Community Foundation, Swan Mountain Trust, Stanton Ballard Trust, Asylum Welcome, and Oxford City Council, with support from Oxford Refugee Health Initiative and Old Fire Station. This gig is a fundraiser to support the Starling Sessions, and your ticket purchase will help the project to continue. There will also be opportunities to support Starling Sessions on the night by buying some of their cool merch and/or making a donation.

Photo credit: Mark Hemmings

Wolfson College Music Society presents DAVID EARL

Programme –
Mozart - Piano Sonata in C minor K457
Schubert - Piano Sonata in A minor D845
Schumann - Faschingsschwank aus Wien Opus 26
David Earl - Metta Bhavana

5pm Sunday 2 June 2024

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD

Free Admission. Donations welcome.
All donations from the concert will go to The Thames Valley Wildflower Meadow Restoration Project (Long Mead Foundation)

Wolfson College Music Society presents Asaka Quartet

Programme -
Schubert - Quartettsatz
Beethoven - Opus 18, No. 2 in G major
Danish String Quartet - Unst Boat Song
Brahms - String Quartet No. 1 in C minor

5pm Sunday 5 May 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).