Past Events

COUNTESS OF MUNSTER MUSICAL TRUST

6 November 2024, 7:30pm

Zoë Tweed (horn) accompanied by Mark Rogers (piano). Generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.

Programme includes Astor Piazzolla's Ave Maria, Charles Koechlin's Horn Sonata, and more.

Zoë was awarded her first trial at 20 years old with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for their Principal Horn position, and became the youngest member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in December 2023. Zoë has recorded music for film, TV, and for singer-songwriter albums. She also writes and arranges music for solo horn and piano, wind quintet, brass quartet and quintet. In 2024, Zoë joined the brass faculty at the Royal College of Music as a Horn professor.

Mark Rogers is an American pianist specialising in vocal and chamber music. He has been a Young Artist at the International Lied Festival Zeist, Leeds Lieder Festival, and the Ludlow English Song Weekend. Previously, he was the accompanist for BBC Choir of the year Les Sirenes, and is a staff pianist at Oxenfoord summer school. He will be on the Oxford Song Young Artist scheme for the next two years.

OXFORD INTERNATIONAL SONG FESTIVAL

21, 22, 23, 25 October 2024, 10:00am - 5:00pm
Anne Le Bozec, Christian Immler, Stéphane Degout & Joan Rodgers

The Mastercourse offers a fantastic opportunity for the eight outstanding duos of the festival's Young Artist Programme to immerse themselves in song and learn from the very best international tutors and performers. This year’s course is led by Anne Le Bozec, Professor of Vocal Accompaniment at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and one of the most renowned collaborative pianists of her generation.

OXFORD INTERNATIONAL SONG FESTIVAL

16 October 2024, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Philip Ross Bullock (Speaker), Siân Dicker (Soprano) & Lucy Colquhoun (Pianist)

‘Here, all the streams of Europe converged.’ In this illustrated lecture-recital, Philip Ross Bullock takes inspiration from Stefan Zweig’s memoir, The World of Yesterday, to trace the many languages and cultures that made up turn-of-the-century Vienna. As the capital of the Hapsburg Empire, Vienna was home to publishing houses that issued translations from a wide range of languages and cultures, as well as musicians who spoke – and sang – languages as diverse as Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Romanian and Yiddish. Their tale is as central to Vienna’s cultural identity as that of its German-speakers.

OXFORD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Thursday 26th September, 1-2pm

Handel Violin Sonata in D major, HWV371
Tetiana Lutsyk, Dirk Mommertz
Vaughan Williams Six studies in English folksong
Reto Bieri, Dirk Mommertz (with Sally Bayley)
Rebecca Clarke Viola Sonata
Marc Sabbah, Polina Leschenko

The inaugural Early Music Series showcased a series of solo recitals and ensembles from across the Renaissance and Baroque periods. 

• 9th May: A Handel on Jazz Trio 
• 16th May: Bellot Ensemble
• 23rd May: The Portrait Players, Les Femmes Illustres
• 30th May: Katarzyna Kowalik, French Collection

12th June 2024, 6 - 7pm

María Del Mar Umbert Kimura gives a piano recital at the New Space.

Bach’s Partita n.6 and Alicia de Larrocha’s Pecados de Juventud

- Toccata (Bach)
- Invitación (Alicia de Larrocha)
- Allemande (Bach)
- Minuet Triste (Alicia de Larrocha)
- Air (Bach)
- Ofrena (Alicia de Larrocha)
- Sarabande (Bach)
- Aiguablava (Alicia de Larrocha) 
- Gigue (Bach)

The inaugural DYMF Recital, awarded to pianist Alfred Fardell, took place at The New Space on 7th June. The DYMF Recital Awards are generously supported by the Davison Young Musician Foundation.

6th June 2024, 3 - 4pm

In this free performance-lecture, Craig Vear demonstrated and explained his practice-based research project Solaris.