2015/2016 Concert Season
Oxford’s m o s t i n t i ma t e mu s i c ve nue .
Photography by Amalia Bastos
Welcome
Message from the Artistic Director
The JdP’s new season continues to explore the full range of the classical music
repertoire; from the innovative and cutting-edge to the profound and deeply-felt. The
twentieth anniversary celebrations of the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building culminate
in February 2016 with two concerts by Steven Isserlis presenting the complete Bach
Cello Suites, along with shorter solo cello works by György Kurtág. Although Steven
has been widely celebrated for his recordings of the Bach Suites, we understand that
he has never before programmed these works as a sequence together in concerts
before, which makes this February weekend all the more special.
Noting that his interpretations of Bach’s music reflect the spiritual influence of Pablo
Casals, Gramophone writes that “for [Steven Isserlis] the Suites suggest a meditative
cycle on the life of Christ, rather like Biber’s Mystery Sonatas. When you know that
he is thinking of the Agony in the Garden during the darkly questioning Second Suite,
the Crucifixion in the wearily troubled Fifth or the Resurrection in the joyous Sixth,
it adds immense power and interest to his performances”.
The works for solo cello of the great Hungarian composer, György Kurtág, form
an interesting foil to Isserlis’s Bach. Born on 19 February 1926, Kurtág studied with
Messiaen in Paris but – unlike his Hungarian compatriate and friend, Ligeti, chose to
remain in Budapest after the arrival of Soviet tanks in 1956. Here he became known
not so much as a composer but as a professor of piano and chamber music.This sense
of isolation prompted a unique re-evaluation of how to compose and, above all, how
to notate music in a way that empowers performers. Bach was an important model
for Kurtág’s emerging compositional practice: both composers build whole pieces
out of the trajectories implied by the simplest (and most affecting) of starting ideas.
Three concerts explore different forms of pianism: the incredible dexterity and crystalline playing of Nick van Bloss in Beethoven’s
Diabelli Variations; the warm sonority and humanity of Bernard d’Ascoli in a programme of ballades by Brahms, Liszt and Chopin;
and a remarkable programme of Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Prokofiev played by our featured artist, Jonathan Powell, whose playing
exemplifies the warm, full-bodied approach passed down by the great Russian piano teachers.
Our M@SH contemporary music programme this year also makes a special feature of performer virtuosity. The recital by Chris
Redgate, one of the world’s greatest living oboists, concludes with Holliger’s highly-demanding Cardiophonie, where the player takes
his tempo from the amplified sounds of his speeding-up heartbeat; and Jonathan Powell returns in April for a concert of Michael
Finnissy’s Verdi Transcriptions, truly a tour-de-force of the contemporary piano repertoire.
Finally, the JdP’s programme of concerts for children and the local community continues to go from strength to strength, something
made possible by the support of Louisa Service. We welcome back Turtle Key Opera, the results of an extraordinary collaborative
project involving students of the music faculty and people with dementia. Our Christmas pantomime this year is Supermarket Scrooge,
featuring the inventive puppetry of Wild Boor Ideas and the catchy songs of Oxford-based composer, Hannah Rhodes.
Martyn Harry
Artistic Director
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Contents
2015/2016 Season
JdP Concert Series
OTHER EVENTS
6Michaelmas Term Concerts
12Lunchtime Recitals
30 October 2015: Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola) & Maciej Grzybowski (piano)
14 November 2015: Nick van Bloss (piano) - Beethoven, Franck
27 November 2015: Chris Redgate (oboe) - new works for oboe and electronics
9-10 December 2015: Sara Trickey (violin), Daniel & Joseph Tong (piano)
FREE concerts at 1:15pm on Thursdays
during term time. All welcome.
8 Hilary Term Concerts
16 January 2016: Jonathan Powell (piano) - Rachmaninoff, Scriabin
29 January 2016: MASH MARATHON - new composition, improvisation and film
12-13 February 2016: Steven Isserlis (cello) - the complete Bach cello suites
26 February 2016: ANIMA - new music with live animation
5 March 2016: Piatti Quartet - Schubert, Bartók, Beethoven
10 Trinity Term Concerts
30 April 2016: Jonathan Powell (piano) - Michael Finnissy’s Verdi Transcriptions
13 May 2016: Bernard d’Ascoli (piano): Chopin, Brahms, Liszt
27 May 2016: Villiers Quartet - New Works Competition
13 DANSOX
Events by Dance Scholarship Oxford, the
forum for dance scholarship in Europe.
14Family Concerts
Our regular children’s Cushion Concerts
and special musical events for families.
14Christmas Production
Wild Boor Ideas return for this year’s
family Christmas show Supermarket Scrooge.
15Moving Music & Turtle Song
Musical events and concerts for people
with dementia, their friends and family.
More INFORMATION
11 Booking Tickets
How to purchase tickets for the JdP Concert Series and family events.
16 Festivals at the JdP
Oxford Lieder Festival 2015 and Oxford Philomusica Piano Festival 2016.
17 Room Bookings
Hiring the auditorium, foyer, studio and piano practice rooms.
18 About the JdP
More information about the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building and its facilities.
For more information, please visit: www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp
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ContentS
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Jonathan Powell
Piatti Quartet
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Nick van Bloss
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Bernard d’Ascoli
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Society for Dance Research
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New Music & Film
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Supermarket Scrooge
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Villiers Quartet
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Steven Isserlis
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JdP Series: Michaelmas
Friday 30 October 2015, 7:30pm
Saturday 14 November 2015, 7:30pm
Krzysztof chorzelski viola
Maciej Grzybowski piano
Nick van Bloss piano
Tickets: £10 gallery, £7.50 stalls, £5 student
Tickets: £20 gallery, £15 stalls, £5 student
André Tchaikowsky
Sonata for Viola and Piano (UK premiere)
Benjamin Britten
Lachrymae
Pawel Szymanski
Sonata for Viola and Piano (UK premiere)
Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Viola and Piano op.121 No. 2
Krzysztof Chorzelski, world-renowned violist of the Belcea
Quartet, and pianist Maciej Grzybowski present two important
additions to the viola’s repertoire. The first is a recently discovered early masterpiece by a maverick Polish pianist-composer
André Tchaikowsky (1935-1982), who spent a large part of his
life in Oxford. The second new work, recently given its world
premiere in Warsaw by Krzysztof and Maciej (its dedicatees), is
by the leading Polish composer Pawel Szymanski. The duo will
also perform classic works by Brahms and Britten to complete
a highly-virtuosic programme that makes a special feature of the
viola’s unique sound and identity.
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Beethvoen
Diabelli Variations
Beethvoen
Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2 No. 3
Franck
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
The pre-eminent pianist Nick van Bloss returns to the JdP for the third consecutive
year after his mesmerising performances here of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and
Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata. This time, the young British pianist will perform
the remarkable 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli Op. 120: Beethoven’s considered response (“in turn jocular, abrasive and serene”) to Bach’s variation set. The
second half will change the focus to Beethoven’s daring early C major Piano Sonata
and César Franck’s masterpiece, Prelude, Chorale and Fugue. Nick recorded the Variations along with the Appassionata Sonata on his recent Beethoven release, which has
received widespread critical acclaim. Remy Franck (Pizzicato journal) awarded Nick
the Supersonic Award for the record, stating that “Nick van Bloss’s playing is fluid,
extremely transparent, non-sentimental, yet always gripping by its rhythmic force.”
Nick’s new CD will be released later this month with works by Schumann including
Kreisleriana, which he also performed here at the JdP last season.
JdP Series: Michaelmas
Friday 27 November 2015
7:30pm
Chris Redgate oboe
Paul Archbold electronics
Tickets: £8/£5 on the door
Nigel McBride uncompromisingness
with which dogma is held (world premiere)
Paul Archbold
Zechstein (world premiere)
Edwin Roxburgh
‘…at the still point of the turning world…’
Heinz Holliger Cardiophonie
Two classic works for oboe and electronics are programmed alongside two new works for solo oboe to create a programme which is edgy, virtuosic, confrontational and even theatrical. McBride’s new work “plays with aspects of memory and perception via some of the most transcendentally virtuosic music ever
written for oboe” while Archbold’s Zechstein is a tranquil work exploiting the vast range of multiphonics possible on the new Howarth-Redgate oboe. The programme concludes with Holliger’s highly-virtuosic Cardiophonie, where the oboist takes his tempo from the amplified sounds of his own breath and heartbeat.
Sara Trickey violin
Daniel & Joseph Tong
piano
Tickets: £15 gallery, £10 stalls, £5 students
Wednesday 9 December, 7pm
Thursday 10 December, 7pm
Janáček Violin Sonata
Sibelius ‘The Trees’ Op. 75
Ravel
La Valse (piano duet)
Poulenc
Sonata for piano duo
Rachmaninov
Extracts from Études Tableaux
Elgar
Violin Sonata in E minor
Schubert
Variations in A-flat for piano duet, D813
Mozart
Violin Sonata in E minor, K304
Schubert
‘Wanderer’ Fantasy, D760
Mozart
Violin Sonata in E-flat, K481
Schubert
Fantasy in F minor, D940 (piano duet)
Pianists Dan and Joe Tong, and violinist Sara Trickey present a programme of contrasting works
composed during the First World War, ranging
from Janáček’s searing Violin Sonata to the nostalgia of Ravel and Elgar. En route they take in the
Parisian chic of the teenaged Poulenc, Sibelius in
contemplation of nature, and Rachmaninov’s intense, impassioned Etudes Tableaux.
Dan, Joe and Sara move back a century to perform two Mozart violin sonatas, one sombre, the
other serene, and two of Schubert’s keyboard
masterpieces: the barnstorming ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy, and the poignant F minor Fantasy for piano
duet, a quintessential work of his final year. They
will also be performing two pieces at the lunchtime concert at 1:15pm that afternoon.
Wigmore’s World Study Sessions
On Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore leads study sessions on the music to be performed at the evening concerts. Discussion and non-technical
analysis of the music, with the players providing instant demonstration, will be complemented by
biographical and cultural background. For more information visit www.wigmoresworld.co.uk
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JdP Series: Hilary
12 & 13 February 2016
The Complete
Bach Cello Suites
Steven Isserlis
In this remarkable pair of concerts held
on consecutive days, Steven Isserlis performs all six of Bach’s cello suites, separated by short works by the Hungarian
composer, György Kurtág. Taking his
cue from Bela Bartók’s Microcosmos and
Webern’s miniature forms, Kurtág’s music
achieves an immediacy and expressive intensity rare in contemporary music. This
is the first time that the great British cellist and JdP Patron has presented a survey of the six Bach cello suites in concert
form so early booking is strongly advised.
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Friday 12 February 2016, 7pm
Saturday 13 February 2016, 7pm
CONCERT 1
CONCERT 2
Bach Suite No. 1 in G major
Kurtág Hommage a John Cage
Kurtág Gerard de Nerval
Bach Suite No. 5 in C minor
Kurtág Az hit
Kurtág Jelek 1 & 2
Bach Suite No. 4 in E-flat major
&
Tickets: £25 gallery, £20 stalls, £10 student
Bach Suite No. 3 in C major
Kurtág Souvenir de Balatonboglár
Kurtág In Memoriam Ferenc Wilhelm
Bach Suite No. 2 in D minor
Kurtág Schatten
Kurtág In Memoriam Gyorgy Kroó
Bach Suite No. 6 in D major
Save 25% when booking for both concerts
JdP Series: Hilary
Saturday 16 January 2016
7:30pm
Jonathan Powell
piano
15-16 Season
Featured
Artist
Rachmaninoff
Études-Tableaux, Op. 39
Scriabin
Poèmes
Prokofiev
Sonata No. 8, Op. 84
Tickets: £15 gallery, £10 stalls, £5 student
Jonathan Powell has long been associated with Russian repertoire (his first appearance at the JdP featured all of Scriabin’s piano sonatas), and this
programme presents three contrasting and gigantic personalities. Rachmaninoff’s second, and to many, greatest set of études was the last work he completed before leaving Russia, never to return. They are at turns haunting, lyrical, complex and jubilant. The Poèmes by his contemporary Scriabin could
hardly be more different, yet still reflect the mystical and apocalyptic obsessions of the time. Prokofiev’s 8th Sonata, written some three decades later,
is perhaps his richest essay in the genre and offers many rewards to performer and audience alike.
Saturday 5 March 2016,
7:30pm
Piatti Quartet
Tickets: £15 gallery, £10 stalls, £5 student
Schubert
Quartetsatz in C minor D. 703
Bartók
String Quartet No. 5
Beethoven
String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59 No. 1
Prizewinners at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and the runners-up for Oxford University’s string quartet in residence, the Piattis are no strangers to the JdP. They return this season with two of the most radical string quartet masterpieces of the Viennese classical
repertoire – Schubert’s exploratory and daring Quartettsatz, and the first of Beethoven’s Razumovsky Quartets, that set new standards of scale, complexity and ambition for the chamber music genre. The concert also features Bartók’s five-movement Fifth Quartet from 1934, with its two remarkable
slow movements in the composer’s characteristic ‘night music’ style, flanking a central scherzo in Bulgarian rhythms.
M@SH events this term
Friday 29 January 2016
6:30pm
Friday 26 February 2016,
7:30pm
M@SH Marathon
ANIMA
Tickets: £5 on the door
new music with animation
Tickets: £15 gallery, £10 stalls, £5 student
Inspired by the Bang on a Can contemporary
music festivals in America, the new music marathon features an extraordinary survey of experimental, minimal and electronic music created
by UK-based composers.
ANIMA presents a concert of film music alongside
projections of abstract animated films in a collaboration between St Anne’s and St Hilda’s composers
and video artists from the Ruskin School of Art.
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JdP Series: Trinity
Trinity Term
Saturday 30 April 2016, 7:30pm
Friday 13 May 2016, 7:30pm
Jonathan Powell piano
Bernard D’Ascoli piano
Tickets: £8/£5 on the door
Tickets: £20 gallery, £15 stalls, £5 student
Michael Finnissy
Verdi Transcriptions
Brahms
Four Ballades Op. 10
Liszt
Ballade No. 2 in B minor
Chopin
Four Ballades
Following the remarkable success of Michael Finnissy’s The History of
Photography in Sound performed here at the JdP by Ian Pace in 2014, tonight’s
concert features a definitive performance from JdP-featured-pianist
Jonathan Powell of the same composer’s extraordinary Verdi Transcriptions.
Composed over a period of thirty years and culminating in the powerful
final transfiguration of Verdi’s Requiem Aeternam, the Verdi Transcriptions is
one of Finnissy’s most powerful and satisfying works for solo piano.
The well-loved French pianist Bernard d’Ascoli first came to the attention
of British audiences in the early eighties for his prize-winning performance
at the Leeds International Piano Competition. Best known for his exquisite
and deeply-felt performances of the Romantic repertoire, he is particularly
famed for his interpretations of Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. Tonight’s
programme juxtaposes the four piano ballades of Chopin with Brahms’s
fascinating early 4 Ballades op. 10.
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JdP Series: Trinity
BOOKING Tickets
Friday 27 May 2016, 7pm
All tickets are available to purchase
online from Tickets Oxford’s website:
www.ticketsoxford.com
Tickets: £13 gallery, £8 stalls, £5 student
Three Composers,YOU decide.
Join the Villiers Quartet in the thrilling finale of the international VQ New Works Competition for
composers. The VQ New Works Competition has become a landmark event for chamber music and
contemporary music fans alike. Three new works for string quartet will be performed live by the
Villiers Quartet, the Quartet-in-Residence at Oxford’s Faculty of Music. In the true spirit of public
participation, the audience will vote for the winner of the competition, and the results will be announced at the end of the concert. This exciting event will be webcast live and votes from online
audiences watching around the world will also help determine the outcome. The winner will receive
a prize of £1000 and their composition will be included in future concerts.
To purchase tickets over the phone
or in person, please contact the
Tickets Oxford box office at the
Oxford Playhouse:
01865 305 305
For more information, visit: www.villiersquartet.com
Oxford Playhouse
11-12 Beaumont Street
Oxford
OX1 2LW
More Information
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ww.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp
[email protected]
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1865 286 660
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Other Events: College
Lunchtime Recital Series
Dates for your diary
Thursday lunchtimes during term at 1:15pm
Michaelmas Term 2015: 15 October - 3 December
Hilary Term 2016: 21 January - 10 March
Trinity Term 2016: 28 April - 16 June
Admission is FREE and all are welcome
with complimentary tea and coffee provided
Curated by Dr Jonathan Williams, the Director of College Music at St
Hilda’s, the popular Lunchtime Recital Series offers weekly concerts
performed by members of College, students from across the University,
and professional musicians.
Michaelmas Term
Hilary Term
Trinity Term
1:15pm every Thursday:
1:15pm every Thursday:
1:15pm every Thursday:
Thursday 15 October*
Thursday 22 October
Thursday 29 October
Thursday 5 November
Thursday 12 November
Thursday 19 November
Thursday 26 November
Thursday 3 December
Thursday 21 January*
Thursday 28 January
Thursday 4 February
Thursday 11 February
Thursday 18 February
Thursday 25 February
Thursday 3 March
Thursday 10 March
Thursday 28 April*
Thursday 5 May
Thursday 12 May
Thursday 19 May
Thursday 26 May
Thursday 2 June
Thursday 9 June
Thursday 16 June
*Lunch provided for JdP Music Circle Patrons and Friends on these dates (see page 18).
For more information, please visit: www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp
St Hilda’s College Music and Drama
The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building is also home to a wide range of musical and theatrical productions by
students of St Hilda’s College and the wider University. The St Hilda’s Drama Society presents several
plays each year at the JdP. They will be performing And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
in November 2015 (16-18). The St Hilda’s Choir regularly performs both here and at the University
Church of St Mary the Virgin on the High Street. For more information about these events, please visit
the main St Hilda’s website:
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
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Other Events: Dance
DANSOX
Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) provides a major forum for dance scholarship in Europe, promoting dialogue
between prominent academic disciplines and the worlds of dance theory and practice. This programme of events funded
by TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), many of which are held at the JdP, gives access to these
enquiries and disseminates ideas through workshops, functions, and the website presence. DANSOX inaugurates an international exchange of interdisciplinary dance-related research with a major programme investigating a wide range of
enquiries into all forms of dance.These events explore the ways in which the role of choreographic practice reveals its essential contribution to innovations across academic fields, theatre and performance. The Patrons of DANSOX are Dame
Monica Mason (Royal Ballet Company) and Sheila Forbes CBE, who was Principal of St Hilda’s College (2007-2014).
DANSOX events at the JdP are directed by Professor Susan Jones, Fellow in English of St Hilda’s College (former
soloist with The Scottish Ballet). College collaborators include Professor Fiona Macintosh, University Lecturer in the
Reception of Greek and Roman Literature, Fellow of St Hilda’s College and Director of the Archive of Performances of
Greek and Roman Drama and Dr Helen Slaney, British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classics at St Hilda’s College.
Saturday 28 November 2015, 11am-6pm
Society for Dance Research/DANSOX presents a one-day symposium:
The Role of the Choreographer in the Stage and Screen Musical
Keynote Speaker: Professor Millie Taylor (University of Winchester, UK)
Discussion with distinguished choreographer to be confirmed.
The surge of interest in the musical theatre in the landscape of British higher education has highlighted the significant gap in
research in this area of theatrical production.To explore new avenues of research, the Society for Dance Research in conjunction with Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) are holding a one-day event that will bring together academics and practitioners to consider how the choreographer has played a vital role in the development of this form of creative performance.
Call for papers or attendance, contact: [email protected] or [email protected]
March 2016 TBC
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
An event celebrating music, text, and choreography
Keynote speaker: Professor Stephanie Jordan (Roehampton) on Mark Morris’s famous ballet
With talks on Milton, Handel, Baroque Dance, and a live performance of music.
For more information, contact [email protected] or visit www.torch.ox.ac.uk/dansox
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Other Events: Family
Family Concerts & Community Music
2015 Cushion ConcertS:
Cushion Concerts
Fun family-friendly concerts introducing music played by different instruments.
Times: 10am & 11am for under 5s, 12pm for over 5s
Tickets: £5 per person or £16 for a family of four
6 December: FESTIVE FOLK
2016 dates and instruments to be confirmed soon. Please sign up to our mailing list
for the latest Cushion Concert news and
updates: www.st-hildas.oc.ac.uk/jdp
The JdP’s regular Sunday Cushion Concerts
introduce children and their families to different
instruments and styles of music. Each informal,
up-close concert lasts 45 minutes and is led by
Rozzy, with Mr Cello and specialist performers.
Bring your own cushions! Please secure your
places by booking in advance.
Tickets are available to purchase online
from Tickets Oxford’s website:
www.ticketsoxford.com
18-22 December
A Wild Boor Ideas production for the family, sponsored by the Robert Mayer Trust.
Tickets: £7 per person (babies under 1 go free)
N.B. 30+ group booking discount available on request
Supermarket Scrooge is the warm-hearted,
wacky tale about the true meaning of Christmas
and the challenge of the last-minute seasonal
food shop.
Meet Emily Scratchett, working for ‘Scroogeways’
Supermarket on Christmas Eve for paltry wages,
and her boss Wilhelmina Scrooge. Up to now
Wilhelmina has always discounted Emily’s loyalty
but soon learns to bag a friend for life! Sing
along with a feast of Christmas Dinner puppets
and fill up your Nectar Card of love in this new
pantomime brought to you by Emma Boor and
Hannah Rhodes, the team whose credits include
Winnie the Witch, Macamu and Cinderella Green
The Recycling Queen.
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4 October: GUITAR
22 November: KOTO
(babies under 1 go free)
Christmas Show: Supermarket Scrooge
20 September:TROMBONE
To purchase tickets over the phone or in
person, please contact the Tickets Oxford
box office at the Oxford Playhouse:
01865 305 305
Oxford Playhouse
11-12 Beaumont Street
Oxford
OX1 2LW
Christmas Show Times:
18 December: 2pm
19 December: 10:30am, 2pm
20 December: 10:30am, 2pm
21 December: 2pm
22 December: 2pm
For school/group (30+ people) booking
discounts, please contact the Manager:
[email protected]
Other Events: Community
Moving Music
Concerts for people with dementia and their family, friends and carers.
2015 Dates: Thursday 3 September & Wednesday 18 November
2016 dates and performers to be confirmed soon.
AM concert: 11:30am-12:30pm with refreshments from 11:00am
PM concert: 2pm-3pm with refreshments from 1:30pm
Tickets: £5 to include refreshments (carers FREE).
Please reserve your places in advance, and pay on the door.
This series of concerts is devised especially for people living with dementia, and their families, friends,
and carers, to enable them to enjoy a concert experience together and to help unlock memory and
movement through the power of music. Concerts are held approximately every three months, supported by Patsy Wood Trust and Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe.
For details of forthcoming concerts, to reserve places, and to arrange access for transport please
phone 01865 286 660 or email the Education and Community Coordinator Danielle Battigelli:
[email protected]
Turtle Key Opera
Music programme for people with memory problems and people with all forms of
young onset dementia and for their companions (husbands/wives/carers).
Friday mornings in Hilary Term (January-March) 2016
Turtle Song is FREE to all participants.To sign up or for more information contact Turtle Key Arts
on 020 8964 5060 or email [email protected]
Turtle Song is an opportunity to compose and sing your own songs with professional musicians. The
group will meet weekly over a nine week period between October and December. The aims are to
enjoy singing together, to write a song cycle, to record the songs on CD and to give the brain and
body a bit of stimulating exercise.The sessions will be led by composer Jon Petter and director Carolyn von Stumm.They will be supported by students from the Music Faculty’s ‘Music in the Community’
FHS Course
This project is dedicated to the memory of Gillian King who inspired and took part in the first
Turtle Song project. With thanks for the donations in her name and to the Scouloudi Foundation.
Turtle Song is an English Touring Opera, Royal College of Music and Turtle Key Arts collaboration in
parternship with the JdP and YoungDementia UK.
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FESTIVALS
The Oxford Lieder Festival 2015 - Singing Words: Poets and their Songs
16-31 October 2015
The fourteenth Oxford Lieder Festival builds on the tremendous success of last year’s ‘The Schubert
Project’, once again bringing a glittering array of the world’s most exciting artists to Oxford in a diverse and enticing programme.This Festival will focus on the poets and poetry through which composers
have been inspired to set music, with programmes devoted to Goethe, Heine, Housman, Verlaine and
others. A lunchtime series features the complete songs of Gabriel Fauré, alongside ‘pop-up’ masterpiece concerts, chamber music, study events, masterclasses, talks, workshops and more. Artists include:
Sarah Connolly & Graham Johnson; Christoph Prégardien & Roger Vignoles; Wolfgang Holzmair &
Imogen Cooper; Elizabeth Watts & Julius Drake; Matthew Rose & Joseph Middleton; and many others.
Events at the JdP
Gabriel Fauré: A life through Song: Saturday 17 October, 11am-3pm & Sunday 18 October, 11am-3pm.
Tickets: £20 (including coffee on arrival)
A two-day lecture-recital given by Graham Johnson surveying the complete songs of Gabriel Fauré.
Hector Berlioz: A Study Day: Saturday 24 October, 11am-4pm.
Tickets: £20 (including coffee on arrival)
An exploration of this highly influential composer, writer and conductor. Speakers include David Cairns,
author of the definitive biography of Berlioz.
Oxford Lieder Mastercourse: Tuesday 27 October – Friday 30 October, 10am-5:30pm.
Tickets on the door: £3 one session / £5 day / £15 week (events at the JdP and Magdalen College School)
Nine advanced duos work intensively with Roger Vignoles, Robert Holl, Imogen Cooper and Ann Murray.
More Information
www.oxfordlieder.co.uk
[email protected]
01865 600 540
Oxford Piano Festival & Summer Academy 2016
30 July – 7 August 2016
Renowned world over as a remarkable convergence of pianistic talent, the Oxford Philomusica’s Piano
Festival offers exclusive training opportunities for around twenty talented young pianists selected by
audition with some of the world’s most celebrated artists and pedagogues.The 2016 Festival builds on
an already enviable history of welcoming some of the biggest household names to its Faculty, as yet
more legendary doyens of the piano world make the pilgrimage to Oxford this summer for orchestral
concerts, solo recitals and masterclasses, with appearances from artists including Paul Badura-Skoda,
Alexandre Tharaud and Marc-André Hamelin. Many masterclasses are based here at the JdP.
More Information
www.oxfordphil.com
[email protected]
01865 980 980
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Room BOOKINGS
Hiring the JdP and its Rooms
The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building’s state-of-the-art auditorium with Steinway D piano and world-class acoustics is available to hire for music festivals
and events along with the Bryan Duke Foyer, which is a bright and versatile space for entertaining guests or exhibiting works of art. The auditorium
seats up to 200 people and its raised stage provides all audience members with an excellent view. The hall is also available to hire for recordings and is
connected to our professional studio. To book the JdP or for more information about its rooms, please contact the Manager: [email protected]
Bryan Duke Foyer
Edward Boyle Auditorium
Salmon & Lee Practice Rooms
Pennycress & Mackinnon Rooms
Stevenson Room (grand piano room)
The Salmon Room contains a Yamaha U3 upright
piano and is the ideal space for individual practice
or teaching. The Lee Room contains two upright
pianos, which suits piano teaching, duo work and
normal practice sessions. Every practice room
has a piano, stool, chairs, and music stands.
The Pennycress Room contains a brand new
Yamaha U3 SH piano, which enables students/
teachers to play the piano silenty, record their
playing or use the built-in electronic samples.The
Mackinnon Room is a designated harpsichord
practice room but also has an upright piano.
The Stevenson Room is larger than the upstairs
practice spaces and has a newly-restored Steinway A grand piano. It is designed to be a practice
facility for professional pianists, small chamber
groups and advanced piano teaching. It is also
used as a green room for concerts and events.
£6.60 per hour
£7.50 per hour
£9.00 per hour
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Information
About the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
The JdP is the first purpose-built concert hall in Oxford since the construction of the Holywell Music Room around the time of Handel. Now owned
and run by St Hilda’s College, this unique hall was inspired by the wish to create a living memorial to the renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Designed by
architects van Heyningen and Haward, and boasting excellent acoustics by the internationally-acclaimed firm Arup, the result is an elegant and modern
auditorium whose intimate environment is the perfect venue for chamber music. The building has five practice rooms, an electroacoustic studio, and the
two-hundred seat Edward Boyle Auditorium with Steinway D piano. St Hilda’s College is committed to sustaining and developing the JdP as a centre for
the learning, teaching, performance, and experience of music at all levels, at all ages, and from all backgrounds.
1995-2015
celebrating 20years
Join the JdP Music Circle
Over the last twenty years, the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building (the JdP) has secured its position as one of the finest venues in the country for chamber
music, and as a hub of creativity contributing to the cultural life of both the university and Oxfordshire. This season alone, the JdP will host 15 evening
concerts in its professional concert series, 26 lunchtime concerts, over 50 other concerts and research events, three plays, a pantomime, monthly family
cushion concerts, regular concerts for people with dementia and numerous other student-led concerts, university workshops and community events.
We urgently need your help in maintaining this heavy use of instruments and facilities in the JdP. The Steinway D on stage is played by hundreds of student
and professional pianists each year and the Green Room’s Steinway A is the most important teaching and practice piano for students within college, as well
as providing a warm-up and rehearsal instrument for visiting artists. The studio is used for hundreds of recordings each year and is one of the very few
facilities of its kind within Oxfordshire for students and musicians in the University and the wider community. Twenty years on, we appeal to those who
care about access to music and musical education and wish to see the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building continuing its vital role at the heart of the music
scene for Oxfordshire and the community.
We invite you to join our Music Circle as a JdP Patron, Friend or Supporter and be with us for special occasions, supporting the work we do here. The JdP
Music Circle offers complimentary tickets to selected concerts, termly lunches, annual drinks receptions and exclusive offers to events here. To join the
Music Circle or for more information, please visit: www.jdp.website/support
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JdP Music Building
St Hilda’s College
Oxford, OX4 1DY
Phone: 01865 286 660
[email protected]
www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp
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The JdP Team:
Joel Baldwin
JdP Manager
Danielle Battigelli
Education & Community Coordinator
Professor Martyn Harry
Artistic Director
Dr Susan Jones
JdP Fellow
Dr Jonathan Williams
Director of College Music
Photography by Amalia Bastos
2015/2016 Concert Season
Oxford ’s m o s t i n t i ma t e mu s i c ve nue .
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