Derek Paravicini and Christine Cairns perform and lead sing-along. All are welcome, particularly people living with dementia, their family, friends and carers.

Sounding Space invites you to travel through space and time with music from medieval to modern. Inspired by the planets and visualised by projections, ensemble Sirinu lead a journey through Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science. Mixing Dunstable, Dowland, Handel and Herschel with Scelsi, Finnissy and Ligeti, the performance culminates in the world première of Einsteins Tafel, a new music-theatre commission from Martyn Harry.

Sirinu performs early, world and new music and has commissioned new pieces for early and unusual instruments. It has toured internationally for the British Council and recorded for Chandos and Hyperion. The musicians are all multi-instrumentalists, playing instruments ranging from medieval to modern, folk, and from traditions all around the world. The have recently recorded an album of chamber pieces by Howard Skempton,The Man Hurdy-Gurdy & Me, on the Métier/Divine Arts label, due for release in 2018.

Sirinu are:
Sara Stowe - soprano, harpsichord
Isabelle Carré - flutes
Matthew Spring - lute, theorbo, viol, hurdy-gurdy
Chris Brannick - percussion, harpsichord, guitar

‘A tour de force of sound, colour, movement and dance…energetic and virtuosic…this exhausting and extrovert concert was not only extremely original and convincing, but also great fun’
Early Music News

Three promenade performances
5.00-6.00pm, 6.45 -7.45 pm, 8.30-9.30pm
Tickets £10

The Bingo Bongo Spoken Word Cabaret brings you the most eclectic, electric and original spoken word cabaret to be found in town. We scour the country for artists that inspire and delight us; the ones we would happily travel 500 miles to see, and bring them all together for one sumptuous rib-tickling, fist-punching, booty-shaking night at Oxford’s illustrious indie music venue, The Jericho Tavern.

Hosted by poetry power couple, the inimitable ‘completely spell-binding’ Tina Sederholm, and the ‘cause for concern’ that is Neil Spokes, this November we present for your delectation, three extraordinary guests...

Elvis McGonagall
Standup poet, armchair revolutionary and World Slam Champion.
Elvis has appeared on The One Show, The Culture Show and many other tv shows with the word ‘show’ in the title. A Radio 4 regular on Saturday Live, The Wondermentalist Cabaret and Arthur Smith’s Balham Bash, he even has his own Radio 4 sitcom, Elvis McGonagall takes a look on the Bright Side. Performing everywhere from the Edinburgh Fringe to The Glamour Bar in Shanghai, he is one the most prolific and well-known spoken word performers country today.
His new collection Viva Loch Lomond! collects together the greatest hits of an acclaimed performance career, covering everything from Scottish independence to William Wallace’s taste for cheese.

The Antipoet
Comedy hits poetry over the head with a double bass, a triangle and lashings of guyliner.
This comedic beat poetry duo are one of the most original acts on the circuit, these masters of mayhem have delighting and alarming audiences at festivals and clubs for the last ten years. A wry blend of anarchocynisism and comic observation, they never fail to get the crowd on their feet.

Emily Harrison
Medicated feminist poet. Sexually confident, socially awkward. Voted Best Spoken Word Performer 2016 at The Saboteur Awards, Emily performs regularly in London and across the UK, combining precise writing and bold performance. Astute and at times painfully humorous, her first full-length collection with Burning Eye Books confronts a search for love against the stark yet humanising backdrop of the psychiatric institution.

Supported by Apples and Snakes, ‘England’s leading performance poetry organisation’ www.applesandsnakes.org

P.S. There may or may not be poetry bingo. I know. We spoil you.

The JdP’s LHN Series presents three concerts curated by Nicholas Moroz (St Hilda’s), in partnership with the London based new music group Explore Ensemble, focussing on works with live electronics. This first edition sees Explore Ensemble present the music of Patricia Alessandrini, whose new work ‘Tracer la lune d’un doigt’ involves robotics, microprocessors, and transducers. This comes alongside the virtuosic music of Steven Daverson and Enno Poppe, plus an early spectral work by Fausto Romitelli.

Enno Poppe - Gelöschte Lieder
Steven Daverson - Firelife
Patricia Alessandrini - Tracer la lune d’un doigt
Fausto Romitelli - La sabbia del tempo

Liveness, Hybridity and Noise is a new series of talks, concerts and workshops convened by Professor Martyn Harry focusing on experimentalism and contemporary classical music, with most events live-streamed by the JdP. Three times a term invited composers will give lectures at the JdP, St Hilda’s College on a range of topics pertaining to composition, creative collaboration and live electronics that will provide the basis for a vibrant scholarly and interdisciplinary dialogue between composers, performers, academics and audiences.

All our LHN events will be livestreamed for free on our website.

J S Bach: Gloria
Brahms: Der Englische Gruss
Bruch: In der Christnach
CPE Bach: Magnificat

Prizewinners at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, the Piatti Quartet have long been associated with the JdP. In this concert, they programme two great string quartets that respectively anticipated and recalled the music of Beethoven: Haydn’s ‘The Bird’ and Brahms’s monumental C minor Quartet.

Programme:

Haydn - Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3
Jacques Cohen - From Behind Glass (world premiere)
Britten - Three Divertimenti
Brahms - Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1

Livestreamed on our website from 7.30pm

A JdP Music Circle drinks reception will take place during the interval of this performance. Find out more about the JdP Music Circle on our website.

An exquisite night celebrating the music of Sandy Denny.

Come back to your folk roots and let the Fotheringays demonstrate why this genre of music is still so truly loved.

The musical achievements and professional experiences of the band combined is too long to list and spans 40+ years, you couldn’t find folk who know more about folk.

The line-up for tonight is PJ Wright, Sally Barker, Anna Ryder and Mat Davies.
https://www.fotheringay.com/

Katrina Davies will join the boys as together they form the fabulous 15 String Trio.
http://www.fifteenstringtrio.com/

Welcome to the Listening Room! Some of the best local emerging bands/artists are hand-picked every season for a night of indie, folk-y music

Join us on Saturday 4th November:

Jess Hall grew up near the coastline of North Devon and started writing songs about the quirks of love and life just before moving to the starkly landlocked Oxford eight years ago. Since that time she has established herself on the local scene with her simple stunning clarity of voice and images of coastal love and loss.

Jess will be accompanied on the night by Barney Morse-Brown (also known as Duotone), cellist with multi-platinum artist Birdy, BBC Folk Award winners the Imagined Village, Chris Wood and Jackie Oates.

"Jess Hall's voice - limpid and elegant, as pure as clear cut crystal, variously playful, pretty and almost hymnal - as wonderous and natural as the Devon beaches that provide so much of her musical inspiration." - Nightshift

Anne-Marie Sanderson's voice is evocative of birds in flight - soaring, gliding, swooping - and it finds its home among the tall trees of her deft guitar work. Describing Sanderson's distinctive indie-folk music in these terms is apt; she is an artist who casts a careful eye and attentive ear to the natural environment, alternating between wide-eyed wonder and wry observation. As well as drawing from a host of musical influences, some of Sanderson's songs pay homage to literary greats, and she is currently recording a collection of songs inspired by authors including Robert Macfarlane, Barbara Kingsolver, and Doris Lessing.