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St Stephen’s House, a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford

Location and accessSt John the Evangelist church is on Iffley Road, between Marston Street and James Street and opposite the University Sports Ground. The no 3 bus from the city centre stops directly outside and the Oxford-London coaches stop in St Clements is just a ten minute walk away.

On-site parking is available for Blue Badge holders and, for some events, audience parking is available. There are public car parks nearby.

TicketsFor our own and many other events tickets are available through the SJE Arts website or The Oxford Playhouse. Some promoters/groups use other ticket outlets and festivals may have their own sites. Please always check for ticketing information on the SJE Arts website: www.sje-oxford.org/events

RefreshmentsOn site licensed bar. All profits go to the church Organ Restoration Appeal.

Further informationFor full details of all events please see the website www.sje-oxford.org. For enquiries either email [email protected] or call SJE Arts on 01865 613507.

Photography: Amalia Bastos, Lars Borges, Marco Borggreve, Maite Colás, Benjamin Ealovega, Vera Greiner, Kaupo Kikkas, Josep Molina, Roberto Mora, Bernhard Musil, Francois Sechet, Oscar Vazquez

WelcomeThis season, you will find all of our regular performers plus some very special new ones. A one-off opportunity to bring Pierre-Laurent Aimard to Oxford decided us to start the next SJE International Piano Series this October, running through 2018–2019. The Series will comprise 9 concerts and, once again, there will be the opportunity to purchase a heavily discounted season ticket.

The SJE Arts Next Generation Series continues, with a performance in February 2019 by the delightful and talented BBC Young Musician finalist, saxophonist Jess Gillam. Before that, in October, we are hosting more Oxford Lieder Festival events than ever, and towards Christmas many of our regular fixtures return: The Sixteen, Maddy Prior and a performance of The Messiah.

And be sure not to miss the Buck & Billie concert on 7 November, featuring Billie Holiday interpreter Julia Biel with the Buck Clayton Legacy Band. A must for all jazz and nostalgia lovers.

We are always very grateful for sponsorship, especially for the Next Generation Series. If you are interested please contact me about the possibilities, for instance a special reception for your guests to complement the concert.

Michèle Smith, Artistic Director

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Saturday 15 September 2018, 7.30 pm

Intermezzo Chamber ChoirDubra: Hail, Queen of Heaven Ešenvalds: Rivers of Light Whitacre: Sainte-Chapelle Plus works by Victoria, Shaw, Skempton, Hawes and others

A divine concert of contemporary choir music with a connection to ‘heaven and angels’. Features Rihards Dubra’s powerful masterpiece Hail, Queen of Heaven, exciting works by Ēriks Ešenvalds and Patrick Hawes, and concludes with Eric Whitacre’s tale of a girl who kneels in the 13th-century Sainte-Chapelle to pray… and hears the angels in the stained glass singing back to her.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £9, £6 concessions from www.oxfordintermezzo.co.uk

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Saturday 29 September, 7.30 pm

Viv McLean, piano and Orchestra of St John’sArensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky Op. 35a Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 Interval Finzi: Eclogue for Piano and Strings Op. 10 Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings Op. 48

For the first time in the Series, a piano concerto bringing together two of our favourite performers: pianist Viv McLean and the Orchestra of St John’s. Their programme includes Finzi’s Eclogue and the Viennese Mozart piano concerto No. 12, described by the composer to his father as ‘a happy medium between what is too easy and too difficult… very brilliant to the ear’.

A splendid grand finale to the 5th anniversary of the International Piano Series.

Tickets: £37, £27, £17, £15, under 25s £10 off

Sponsored by Michèle Smith and Marco Zerbini

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12–27 October 2018

Oxford Lieder Festival The Grand Tour: A European Journey in SongSunday 14 October, 8.00 pm Robert Holl and Graham Johnson

Thursday 18 October from 5.30 pm An Evening in Spain

Sunday 21 October, 8.00 pm Christoph Prégardien and Ulrich Eisenlohr

Monday 22 October, 8.00 pm Dame Sarah Connolly and Eugene Asti

Wednesday 24 October, 8.00 pm Véronique Gens and Susan Manoff

Saturday 27 October, 7.30 pm Tara Erraught, Ashley Riches, Sholto Kynoch

Festive Suppers across the cloister in St Stephen’s House Dining Room Available on all dates apart from 18 October, £13 pp. Advance booking is essential.

Tickets: £40, £30, £20, £10 from www.oxfordlieder.co.uk, tel 01865 591276 (Mon-Fri 12–5pm)

Thursday 11 October 2018, 8.00 pm

Pierre-Laurent AimardJohann Sebastian Bach: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Winner of the prestigious 2017 International Ernest von Siemens Music Prize in recognition of a life devoted to the service of music, Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs each season with the world’s most significant orchestras. He has been involved in ground-breaking residencies in New York, Vienna and Paris, served for 7 years as Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival and is currently Artist- in-Residence at London’s Southbank Centre. We are delighted to have him open our 2018–2019 Piano Series.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard will perform The Goldberg Variations, Bach’s keyboard masterpiece of thirty variations on a main theme. The composer’s own epithet ‘For Music Lovers, to Refresh their Spirits’ seems entirely appropriate.

Ends 9.00pm. No interval, the bar will be open before the concert.

Tickets: £28, £22, £18, £15, under 25s £5 (side aisles only). 6th Series season tickets at 50% discount: £154–£68, under 25s £109–£23

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Saturday 3 November 2018, 7.30 pm

String PortraitsCorona Strings Leader, Catherine Leech Conductor, Janet Lincé

Grieg: Holberg Suite Delius: Two Aquarelles Britten: Two portraits Grace Williams: Sea Sketches López-Chávarri: Acuarelas Valencianas

Art and Music: Oxford Arts Society exhibits paintings to reflect this programme of art-inspired music. The works include Grace Williams’s Sea Sketches of 1944, which portray the seas off her native Wales in all their different moods; two contrasting sets of Aquarelles and Benjamin Britten’s early work Two Portraits are complemented by Grieg’s ever-popular set of Baroque-style dances composed in honour of Ludvig Holberg.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £20 (£17); £15 (£12); £5 full-time-students and under 18s

Thursday 4 October 2018, 7.30 pm

Oxford Chamber Music FestivalOCMF under artistic director and violinist Priya Mitchell continues to generate musical electricity like few other Festivals.

For an intensive week, some of Europe’s most vital collaborative musicians work day-and-night preparing themed concerts. Sparks fly as players galvanise lost masterpieces in the spirit of improvisation. Join us for Schubert’s life affirming Trout Quintet and other works – surprising and inspiring – with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Chi-Chi Nwanoku, Pieter Wispelwey and Festival Musicians.

See www.ocmf.net for more details

Tickets: £35, £25, £15 from www.ticketsoxford.com, tel. 01865 305305.

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Alda Dizdari, violin, with Tom Blach, pianoDebussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Minor Enescu: Sonata No.3 in A Minor, Op.25 Elgar: Sonata for Violin and Piano Op.82 Ravel: Tzigane

The brilliant Albanian born British violinist Alda Dizdari and pianist Tom Blach return to Oxford with a programme that explores music from the first half of the 20th century by composers with whom Alda has a deep connection and understanding. From the colours of Debussy to the passion and drama of Enescu’s third violin sonata, the beauty of Elgar’s violin sonata and the virtuosity of Ravel’s Tzigane, this programme is a musical journey not to be missed. Alda brings her unique intensity, passion and insight to the music.

‘Playing the music of George Enescu only three players, for me, have got absolutely to the heart of it: George Enescu himself, Yehudi Menuhin, and Alda Dizdari.’ Sir Noel Malcolm, author of George Enescu, His Life and Music

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £25, £15, £12, £5 under 25s


Deeds Not Words Scordatura Women’s Music CollectiveLouise Farrenc: Nonet Op. 38 Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet No 13 Quartetto Corto Florence Price: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Amy Bryce: Title tbc (world premiere)

To mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act and the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, Scordatura Women’s Music Collective presents a programme of music by women on the theme of protest and resistance. The concert features the world premiere of Amy Bryce’s setting of Suffragette prison testimonies, as well as Louise Farrenc’s Nonet, the piece she used to force the Paris Conservatoire to grant her equal pay.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £12, £6 concessions from scordaturawmc.com

Wednesday 7 November 2018, 7.30 pm (doors 7.00 pm)

Buck & Billie The Buck Clayton Legacy Band and Julia BielNew York 1937, Billie Holiday and trumpeter Buck Clayton team up in a recording studio and one of the great musical partnerships starts. Over the next twenty-two years Buck and Billie play and record together.

Julia Biel, vocalist and a brilliant Billie Holiday interpreter, joins the Buck Clayton Legacy Band to explore this musical treasure trove. Favourites like Good Morning Heartache are there, and also numbers that Billie only recorded with big band or orchestra.

Bassist and broadcaster, Alyn Shipton and saxophonist Matthias Seuffert co-lead the band with Ian Smith, trumpet, Adrian Fry, trombone, Alan Barnes, reeds, Jonathan Vinten, piano and Bobby Worth, drums.

Ends 9.30 pm

Tickets: £20 centre, £15 side aisle (some restricted view) www.wegottickets.com/event/429515

Friday 23 November 2018, 7.30 pm

Oxford Bach Choir Parry: Songs of FarewellConductor: Benjamin Nicholas Stephen Clarke Organ; Athena Hawksley-Walker Violin; Tom Herring Baritone; Francesca Millar Soprano

Our concert marks both the centenary of the Armistice and the death of Hubert Parry, who had a close association with OBC over many years. Parry’s Songs of Farewell was composed during the First World War, with OBC giving the world premiere as a com-plete cycle. The concert also includes music reflecting on the war by Stanford, Ireland, Vaughan Williams and Elgar, as well as The Wind on the Downs from Jonathan Dove’s 2014 cantata For an Unknown Soldier, recently recorded by OBC. The music will be interspersed with readings appropriate to the theme of war and remembrance.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £30, £20, £12 from tickets.oxfordbachchoir.org, tel 01865 980220, (cards and PayPal payment accepted). Also available in person from Oxford Playhouse

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Saturday 1 December 2018, 7.30 pm

Sansara O Radiant DawnProgramme to include: Wier: Drop down, ye Heavens, from above Byrd: Vigilate MacMillan: O Radiant Dawn Britten: Hymn to the Virgin Josquin: O virgo virginum Praetorius: Magnificat with interpolated carols Fayrfax: Missa tecum principium: Gloria Tallis: Videte miraculum

Conjuring an aura of mystery and excitement, Sansara explores the anticipation of Christmas, the programme an inter-weaving of works by Masters of the Renaissance and 20th and 21st century composers. Celebrate the season of advent and be transported by the charm and talent of this exceptional ensemble.

‘The a cappella sound of the future’ Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £17, £15, £5 under 25s

Friday 7 December 2018, 6.30 pm (drinks and mince pies from 6 pm)

Summer Fields Christmas ConcertA chance for all to come and enjoy a celebration of music and readings for the festive season, presented by pupils and staff of Summer Fields pre-prep and prep… with some audience participation!

Children welcome.

Tickets: £10, under 16s £5, under 2s free

Saturday 8 December 2018, 7.30 pm

Commotio Choral Music for Advent and ChristmasWarlock, Howells, O’Regan, McDowall, Tabakova

Commotio returns to SJE for their annual Advent and Christmas concert featuring seasonal choral works from the 20th and 21st centuries. The core repertoire will be unfamiliar works by familiar names, included Herbert Howells’ Walking in the Snow and Peter Warlock’s A Cornish Christmas Carol and Benneth Nadelik ha’n Bledhan Nowedh, alongside recent works by Tarik O’Regan, Cecilia McDowall and British-Bulgarian com-poser Dobrinka Tabakova.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £12, £10 (60+) £8 (students) from www.commotio.org

Friday 14 December 2018, 7.45 pm

The Sixteen at Christmas The Little ChildTo include: Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est Byrd: This day Christ was born and Lullaby my sweet little babe RR Bennett: Susanni McDowall: Now may we singen Walton: All this time Traditional carols and plainsong

The Sixteen’s 2018 Christmas programme includes a feast of carols and seasonal choral music. Favourite traditional versions, stunningly beautiful Tudor and Renaissance works and modern settings are combined in a ravishing and satisfying evening of music. The perfect way to start your Christmas celebrations.

Ends 9.30 pm

Tickets: A £42, B £34, C £28, D £24, chancel £20, unsighted £12. Under 25s £8 side aisle, £2 unsighted

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Thursday 20 December 2018, 7.30 pm

Handel MessiahSoprano, Camilla Harris Mezzo-soprano, Felicity Turner Tenor, Rhys Batt Bass, Robert Clark Conductor, David Crown

The winds of Oxford Sinfonia and superb vOx chamber choir come together for perennial Christmas favourite, Handel’s Messiah, in John Lubbock’s wonderful new ar-rangement. They are joined by four young star soloists and conducted by David Crown. An unmissable highlight of the Christmas period.

Ends 9.30 pm

Tickets: £25, £20, £15, £12 from www.oxfordsinfonia.co.uk/event/handel-messiah-at-sje-arts. Box office [email protected] or 07775 904626

Friday 21 December 2018, 7.30 pm

Carols & Capers Maddy Prior and the Carnival BandA celebratory show of Christmas music on renaissance and modern instruments. Maddy and the Carnival Band put their inimitable stamp on familiar and not-so-familiar festive fare with a refreshingly cavalier attitude and plenty of humour. A Christmas Party to remember!

‘I love working with the chaps,’ Maddy muses, ‘it’s just so different and they’re so off the wall… When we go out at Christmas, it’s all streamers, balloons and lunacy.’

Ends 9.30 pm

Tickets: £25 unreserved

Friday 18 January 2019, 7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova, violin, and Cédric Tiberghien, pianoBeethoven: Violin Sonata Op.12 No.3 Janáček: Violin Sonata Interval Takemitsu: Violin-piano work Bartók: Violin Sonata No.2, Sz.76

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien first met as members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. The unique partnership which formed was noted by The Times in a review concluding: ‘Both of these players have the potential to conquer the world’. The pair have since performed throughout Europe, in North America, Australia and Asia and are regular guests at Wigmore Hall. Their programme tonight includes a piece by one of the most influential figures in Japanese 20th century music and also Béla Bartók’s last completed work, a violin sonata commissioned by Sir Yehudi Menuhin.

Ends 9.15 pm


Friday 1 February 2019, 7.30 pm

Amandine Beyer, violin Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepianoWolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonatas for violin and fortepiano No.19 in E flat major, K 302; No.20 in C major, K 303; No.23 in D major, K 306 Interval Variations for violin and piano in G minor on Hélas, j’ai perdu mon amant, K 360 Sonata for violin and fortepiano No.32 in B flat major, K 454

Two recognised interpreters of the Baroque form an inspirational partnership. Kristian Bezuidenhout is hailed as one of today’s most exciting keyboard artists, equally at home on the fortepiano, harpsichord and modern piano; Amandine Beyer has become a reference point for performance of Baroque violin repertoire. Tonight the duo will be focusing their attention on Mozart, we look forward to an evening of music as authentic as it is delightful.

Ends 9.15 pm


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Sunday 10 February 2019, 6.00 pm

London Firebird OrchestraMozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte, K. 620 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Piano, Marc Corbett-Weaver Conductor, George Jackson

Following a sensational sell-out début at the Church of St John-the-Evangelist in 2017, London Firebird Orchestra – one of London’s finest orchestra’s of the younger generation – returns with a magnificent programme of dramatic classics. Mozart’s spellbindingly energetic Overture to The Magic Flute and Beethoven’s mighty Fifth Symphony are cou-pled with Tchaikovsky’s romantically, ever-popular, Piano Concerto no. 1. The orchestra is joined by British pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver, recently described by Musical Opinion Magazine as ‘an interpretive artist fully immersed in the subtleties and considerable technical demands of each composer’s writing.’

Ends 7.45 pm


Sponsored by the Morris-Venables Charitable Foundation

Sunday 3 February 2019, 5.00 pm

Timothy Ridout, viola, with Frank Dupree, pianoBridge: Pensiero and Allegro appassionato Britten: Lachrymae for viola and piano, Op. 48 York Bowen: Viola Sonata No.1 in C minor, Op.18

When Timothy Ridout took first prize at the 2016 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the first British winner in the contest’s history, his career took off. Last season saw solo appearances with orchestras in Germany and London, a debut in Tokyo and chamber music engagements around Europe.

With gifted young German pianist Frank Dupree, he is performing work by Frank Bridge and Benjamin Britten, both viola players, and York Bowen, pianist and a regular accompanist of Lionel Tertis.

Ends 6.00 pm

Tickets: £15, £5 under 25s. Series season tickets available

Saturday 16 February 2019, 7.30 pm

Jess Gillam, saxophoneIturralde: Pequena Czarda Britten: Temporal Variations Ravel: Pièce en forme de Haberna Wiedoeft: Valse Vanité Nyman: ‘If’ from ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ Milhaud: Scaramouche Interval Marcello: Concerto for Oboe in C Minor Williams: Escapades for Alto Saxophone Bartók: Romanian Dances Harle: Rant

Following her stunning performance in BBC Young Musician 2016, Jess’s career has been nothing short of stellar: a recording contract with Decca Classics, appearances at the Albert Hall in the BBC Proms, concerto and solo recital engagements in London and around the country and, in June 2018, her international debut with the Gothenburg Symphony. Amidst all this, Jess continues her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she holds an ABRSM scholarship. We are thrilled to have her coming to SJE Arts.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £15, £5 under 25s. Series season tickets available

Saturday 23 February 2019, 7.30 pm

Choros Alpha and OmegaConductor, Janet Lincé

Copland: In the beginning Whitacre: When David heard Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons and Negro Spirituals arranged by Hogan, Jennings and Washburn

Copland’s amazing In the Beginning, his setting of the Creation story, heads this programme of choral masterpieces portraying the beginning and ending of life. Arvo Pärt’s unique work, Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen provides a powerful contrast with Whitacre’s deeply moving When David heard while the concert ends with the choir’s hallmark rendition of some beautiful Spirituals.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £15, £12, £5 full-time students and under 18s from ticketsoxford.com

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Friday 1 March and Saturday 2 March 2019

The Empowered Women TrilogyThe Telling brings you three intimate ‘concert-theatre’ pieces to mark International Women’s Day 2019, transporting you back in time through plaintive ballads, lively dance music and dramatic narrative. We celebrate the lives of three extraordinary women who defy the strictures of their age and whose stories are both of their time but also startlingly contemporary.

The Telling Jan Chappell actor Clare Norburn soprano Ariane Prussner mezzo, percussion Joy Smith harp, percussion Giles Lewin Vielle Fatima Lahham recorders Lighting design Natalie Rowland & Pitch Black Lighting

Friday 1 March 20196.30 pm–7.20 pm Hildegard of Bingen with Fiona Maddocks, classical music critic The Observer. Tickets: £7

8.00 pm–9.15 pm Vision: The imagined testimony of Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard’s personal narrative alongside performances of her mesmeric chant. Tickets: £32, £25, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off

Saturday 2 March 20193.00 pm–4.40 pm Unsung Heroine: The Secret Life of Troubadour Countess Beatriz de Dia With words and music, The Telling and actor Jan Chappell imagine the story of the redoubtable Beatriz, a feisty woman troubadour, caught between her loveless marriage and a passionate affair with a fellow troubadour. Tickets: £20, £12, £8, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off

6.30 pm–7.20 pm Bearded Women Saints Dr Mark Philpott clears away misconceptions and provides explanations of a popular cult. Tickets: £7

8.00 pm–9.40 pm Into The Melting Pot The lives and music of Christian, Jewish and Arabic women in medieval Spain. It is the eve of the expulsion of the Jews, in Seville at twilight a Jewish woman lights the lamps and starts up her spinning wheel. Tickets: £32, £25, £18, £15, students £5 off, under 18s 50% off

Monday 11 March 2019, 7.30 pm

Javier PerianesChopin: Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1; Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2; Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 Interval Albeniz: Iberia (selection) de Falla: Cuatro piezas españolas and Suite El sombrero de tres picos

Elected ‘Artist of the Year’ 2019 by the International Classical Artist Awards in recognition of a career that spans five continents, Spanish pianist Javier Perianes has become a must-have name in concert halls around the world.

Recent highlights include international tours with Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saar-brücken Kaiserslautern and Orquesta Nacional de España and debuts with Philharmonia Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Los Angeles Philharmonic and at Theatre Champs Elysées, Paris.

In 2016, Javier Perianes gave us a memorable performance at SJE Arts. We welcome him back most warmly.

Ends 9.15 pm


Saturday March 16 2019, 7.30 pm

Commotio with Joseph Spooner, cello Francis Pott: World Premiere of Work for Choir and CelloCommotio performs alongside British cellist Joseph Spooner in a world premiere of a work for choir and cello by Francis Pott, commissioned by Eric Bruskin. The work sets text from the Mass for the Dead, from Ecclesiastes, Wisdom of Solomon, Psalm 150, and poets Thomas Blackburn, Kahlil Gibran, Alun Lewis and Wendell Berry.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £12/£10 (60+)/£8 (Students) from www.commotio.org6TH SJE ARTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES


Wednesday 27 March 2019, 7.30 pm

Zee ZeeJ.S. Bach: Partita no. 5 in G major, BWV 829 R. Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Scenes from Vienna), Op. 26 Interval Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin and La Valse

An imaginative and electrifying performer, Zee Zee stands out among the young generation of pianists, her creative maturity described by the Los Angeles Times as ‘a powerful, passionate and compelling representation of pure artistry’.

Trained in her native China and the United States, Zee Zee has performed with leading orchestras, given recitals at venues such as Lincoln Center New York, Kennedy Center Washington D.C. and Wigmore Hall London. The 2016–17 season saw her as Artist in Residence with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.

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Saturday 6 April 2019, 7.30 pm

Federico ColliScarlatti: 6 Sonatas J.S. Bach arr. Busoni: Chaconne Interval J.S. Bach: Partita No. 4

Federico Colli is recognised internationally for imaginative interpretations and impeccable technique. Since winning Salzburg Mozart Competition in 2011 and Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012, he has appeared with some of the world’s great orchestras. Of his London debut, performing Rachmaninov No.3 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Times commented: ‘played with formidable delicacy by Federico Colli, with limpid tone and calligraphic phrasing. Colli takes care to seduce before sweeping the listener off his or her feet.’

Tonight, we look forward to a selection of Scarlatti sonatas and to works by J.S. Bach, including Busoni’s dazzling arrangement of Chaconne.

Ends 9.15 pm


Saturday 20 April 2019, 7.30 pm–9.30 pm

Schubert, Verdi and Bach Orchestra of St Johns and OSJ Ashmolean VoicesBaritone, Julien van Mellaerts Soprano, mezzo and bass soloists Conductor, John Lubbock

Schubert: Stabat Mater in F minor Bach: Cantata 82 Ich habe genug Verdi: Stabat Mater

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £25, £20, £15, £12 from www.osj.org.uk/event/bach-at-sje-arts/ or tel 07775 904626

Friday 26 April 2019, 7.30 pm

Anna TsybulevaBrahms: Op. 76: No. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in C major Op. 2 No. 3 Interval Beethoven: Bagatelle Op. 126 Brahms: Sonata No. 3 Op. 5

Since winning the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2015, Anna Tsybuleva has performed in recital across Europe and in the Far East and with orchestras including St Petersburg Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, the Hallé and, exactly one year ago, at the Sheldonian Theatre under the baton of Yuri Temirkanov. In 2016 she made her festival debut at Chipping Campden when the Director, Paul Lewis, asked her to play in his stead. Lewis was to describe her Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 as ‘a near-perfect balance of strutting exuberance and quiet poetry’.

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Saturday 11 May 2019, 9.30 am–5.00 pm

Feel the Spirit! Come and Sing Workshop with Brian KayJoin Oxford Bach Choir and Brian Kay for a jazz-themed workshop on Rutter’s Feel the Spirit and George Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets.

Details: www.oxfordbachchoir.org

Thursday 27 June 2019, 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Kenny, luteSJE Arts in collaboration with Oxford Festival of the Arts

Alessandro Piccinini: Toccata; Romanesca con partite variate; Partiti variate sopra la Folia aria Romanesca Robert de Visée: Suite in D minor Hieronymus Kapsberger: Toccata; Passacaglia; Capona; Canario; Coloscione James Macmillan: Motet from Since It Was the Day of Preparation Benjamin Oliver: Extending from the Inside Nico Muhly new commission

Elizabeth Kenny’s playing elicits such descriptions as ‘incandescent’ Music and Vision, ‘radical’ The Independent, and ‘indecently beautiful’ Toronto Post. We look forward to a fascinating programme bringing together work from the 17th and 21st centuries and including a new commission by dynamic American composer, Nico Muhly.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £25, £20, £15, under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available

Friday 10 May 2019, 7.30 pm

Cédric TiberghienMozart: Fantasy in C minor K 475 E-flat major, K 302 Chopin: Ballade no. 1 in G minor, Op. 23; Ballade no. 2 in F major, Op. 38; Ballade no. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47; Ballade no. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 Interval J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903 Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16

French pianist Cédric Tiberghien is particularly praised for his versatility: wide-ranging repertoire, interesting programming and dynamic chamber music partnerships. We have already enjoyed him this season with duo partner Alina Abragimova, tonight he returns as soloist, a role for which he also has a busy international career. Critical reviews are dazzling, The Telegraph commenting ‘He seems to have the poise and poetry of Chopin in his blood’. We look forward to his performance of Chopin Ballades tonight, and to much more.

Ends 9.15 pm




Saturday 29 June 2019, 7.30 pm

Sean Shibe and Mahan EsfahaniSJE Arts in collaboration with Oxford Festival of the Arts

Programme to include Vivaldi and J.S. Bach Trio Sonatas, and Boccherini

With dazzling technique and a refusal to bend to tradition, Mahan Esfahani has transformed the image of the harpsichord. Now Sean Shibe is doing the same for classical guitar, rejecting cliché and challenging preconceptions. To have the two perform together will be a rare treat.

Ends 9.15 pm

Tickets: £25, £20, £15, under 25s £10 reduction. Series season tickets available



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Saturday 15 September 2018, 7.30 pmIntermezzo Chamber Choir

29 September–14 October 2018Oxford Art Society Open exhibition

Saturday 29 September 2018, 7.30 pmSJE Arts International Piano Series 2018Viv McLean, piano & Orchestra of St John’s

Thursday 4 October 2018, 7.30 pmOxford Chamber Music Festival

Thursday 11 October 2018, 8.00 pm6th SJE Arts International Piano SeriesPierre-Laurent Aimard

14–27 October 2018Oxford Lieder Festival events at SJE Arts

Saturday 3 November 2018, 7.30 pmCorona StringsString Portraits

Wednesday 7 November 2018, 7.30 pmBuck & Billie with Julia Biel The Buck Clayton Legacy Band

Saturday 10 November 2018, 7.30 pmAlda Dizdari, violin & Tom Blach, piano

Friday 16 November 2018, 7.30 pmMagdalen College School

Saturday 17 November 2018, 7.30 pmScordaturaDeeds not Words

Friday 23 November 2018, 7.30 pmOxford Bach ChoirParry: Songs of Farewell

Saturday 1 December 2018, 7.30 pmSJE Arts Next Generation Series 2018SansaraO Radiant Dawn

Friday 7 December 2018, 6.30 pmSummer Fields Christmas concert

Saturday 8 December 2018, 7.30 pmCommotioChoral Music for Advent and Christmas

Sunday 9 December 2018, 4 pm & 7 pmOxford Youth Choirs

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 7.00 pmMuscular Dystrophy UKOxford Community Spirit of Christmas

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 7.30 pmAdderbury Ensemble Candlelit concert

Friday 14 December 2018, 7.45 pmThe Sixteen at Christmas

Saturday 15 December 2018, 2 pm & 7 pmOxford City Singers

Tuesday 18 December 2018, doors 7.00 pmSteve HogarthChristmas Show

Thursday 20 December 2018, 7.30 pmHandel: The MessiahvOx Chamber Choir and Oxford Sinfonia

Friday 21 December 2018, 7.30 pmMaddy Prior & The Carnival BandCarols and Capers

Friday 18 January 2019, 7.30 pm6th SJE Arts International Piano SeriesAlina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien

Friday 1 February 2019, 7.30 pm6th SJE Arts International Piano SeriesAmandine Beyer & Kristian Bezuidenhout

Sunday 3 February 2019, 5.00 pm3rd SJE Arts Next Generation SeriesTimothy Ridout, Frank Dupree

Friday 8 February 2019, 7.30 pmTailleferre, Clarke, Boulanger, BeachSolarek Piano Trio with Anna Beer

Sunday 10 February 2019, 6.00 pm6th SJE Arts International Piano SeriesLondon Firebird Orchestra

Saturday 16 February 2019, 7.30 pm3rd SJE Arts Next Generation SeriesJess Gillam, saxophone

Saturday 23 February 2019, 7.30 pmChorosAlpha and Omega

Friday 1 & Saturday 2 March 2019The Empowered Women Trilogy

Monday 11 March 2019, 7.30 pm6th SJE Arts International Piano SeriesJavier Perianes

Thursday 14 March 2019, 7.30 pmMagdalen College School

Saturday 16 March 2019, 7.30 pmCommotio with Joseph Spooner, cello

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 7.30 pm6th SJE Arts International Piano SeriesZee Zee

Sunday 31 March 2019Oxford Girls’ Choir Opera

Friday 5 April 2019, doors 7.30 pmGlenn Tilbrook from Squeeze

Saturday 6 April 2019, 7.30 pm6th SJE Arts International Piano SeriesFederico Colli

Saturday 20 April 2019, 7.30 pmOSJ and OSJ Ashmolean Voices

Friday 26 April 2019, 7.30 pm6th SJE Arts International Piano SeriesAnna Tsybuleva

Saturday 27 April 2019, 7.30 pmIntermezzo Chamber Choir

1–6 May 2019Oxford May Music Festival

Friday 10 May 2019, 7.30 pm6th SJE Arts International Piano SeriesCédric Tiberghien

Saturday 11 May 2019, 9.30 amOxford Bach ChoirCome & Sing Workshop with Brian Kay

Saturday 25 May 2019, 7.30 pmInstruments of Time & Truth

Wednesday 19 June 2019Oxfordshire Schools’ Choirs

Saturday 22 June 2019, 7.30 pmCommotio

Thursday 27 June 2019, 7.30 pm3rd SJE Arts Next Generation SeriesElizabeth Kenny, lute

Saturday 29 June 2019, 7.30 pm3rd SJE Arts Next Generation SeriesSean Shibe & Mahan Esfahani

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