Jacqueline du Pre Music Building

06/12/2024

Thank you to everyone who has supported us by attending any of our concerts this term!

We start again on Thursday 16th January 2025 with the January New Music Weekend II.

Following the immense success of our first January New Music Weekend last year, we are proud to present a festival of improvised work bringing together jazz (Zoe Rahman), free improvisation (Oxford Improvisers), experimental music (Red Lipstick), electronic music (Zack de Lelio and Jonathan Packham) and contemporary dance (Martha Tribe).

There is an event listing for each event - click the 'more information' link on each title below for more details. You can purchase a ticket for each event or, if you are planning to come to everything, you can buy a discounted weekend pass: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/january-new-music-weekend-ii

Thursday 16 January, 5.30pm
Contemporary Dance
Martha Tribe: a discussion of choreographic practice
More information: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/contemporary-dance

Friday 17 January, 6pm
Dance Encounters I
More information: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/dance-encounters-i

Friday 17 January, 8pm
Oxford Improvisers
is thin ice is nice
More information: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/oxford-improvisers

Saturday 18 January, 1pm-10pm
Radio JdP
a day of LIVE radio performance
More information: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/radio-jdp

Sunday 19 January, 11.30am
Electronic Music
Jonathan Packham: ghost (world premiere)
More information: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/electronic-music

Sunday 19 January, 2pm
Jazz: Zoe Rahman Masterclass
More information: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/jazz-zoe-rahman-masterclass

Sunday 19 January, 7pm
Jazz: Zoe Rahman solo piano recital
More information: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/jazz-zoe-rahman-solo-piano-recital

JdP Events Schedule: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events-schedule

JdP Brochure:https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/asset/jdp-brochure-24-25-share-quality.pdf

29/11/2024

TONIGHT!

It is our final concert of the term this evening! Tickets are still available and will be on sale on the door from 6pm. Here is the programme:

Schumann Carnival Op.9 - opening
Beethoven Sonata N.21 in C major Op.53 Waldstein 1st mvt Allegro on brio
Scarlatti Sonata in C
Schumann Carnival Op.9
Papillons, Promenade, Pause, and Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins
Zappa Black Page
Arden Zappaesque (Audio)
Bach Goldberg Variations Variation N.14 (Sarabande)
Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44 2nd mvt In modo d’una marcia, un poco largamente

Interval

Brahms Intermezzo Op.119 N.1 in B minor, Adagio
Ligeti Three Movements for Two Pianos, 3rd mvt
Arden Bayo’s Way (Audio Clip)
Beethoven Sonata N.21 Op.53 2nd mvt Adagio molto
Arden Pavane In Honour Of The Bodhisattva Wondersound from Three
Inventions in Solitude
Arden Lotus Symphony (Audio)
Arden A Song from Hell (Video)
Bartok from Microkosmos for Two Pianos ‘Bulgarian Rhythm’, and ‘Ostinato’

More info here: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/maki-sekiya-piano

28/11/2024

There’s still time to book tickets for our final concert of the term!

Maki Sekiya (piano) - Tête-à-Tête with Composers Series I: Jeremy Arden

28/11/2024

Please note that today’s Lunchtime Recital: Concert Blues has been delayed and will now start at 1.30pm rather than 1.15pm.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused!

27/11/2024

Coming up:

Maki Sekiya (piano)
Tête-à-Tête with Composers Series I: Jeremy Arden

29 November 2024, 7.30pm
£25 gallery / £20 stalls / £5 students

Piano Works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schumann, Gershwin, Bach, Brahms, Schillinger and Jeremy Arden

We are delighted to host Oxford-based pianist Maki Sekiya’s new Tête-à-Tête with Composers series in the coming years. Maki, who is affiliated with Green Templeton College, is an insightful and beguiling interpreter of the classical and romantic piano repertoire, with a specific interest in contemporary music. In each of her Tête-à-Tête programmes, Maki invites a composer to present their own works for piano alongside the music that most inspired them, to form a kind of pianistic ‘Private Passions’ recital. The first of these concerts focusses on the work of composer Jeremy Arden, who celebrates his 60th birthday this year. Schillinger’s music features in the programme and Jeremy has kindly offered to give a pre-concert talk focussing on the Schillinger System of Musical Composition at 6.30pm, something that should be of great interest to composers and theorists alike.

pre-concert talk, 6.30pm: The Musical Theories of Joseph Schillinger (Jeremy Arden)

Maki Sekiya (piano) - Tête-à-Tête with Composers Series I: Jeremy Arden
https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/maki-sekiya-piano

25/11/2024

We have an exciting week of concerts this week:

TODAY: New Music: Brickworks

TUESDAY: The Lord of Misrule: A Medieval Christmas Concert

FRIDAY: Maki Sekiya (piano) - Tête-à-Tête with Composers Series I: Jeremy Arden

Tickets for this evening are £5 on the door!

22/11/2024

TONIGHT!

Asha Parkinson: Kalpadruma Ensemble

Tickets will be on sale on the door from 6.30pm!

21/11/2024

TOMORROW!

Asha Parkinson: Kalpadruma Ensemble

Tickets are still available to book!

It’s going to be an exciting concert - our first jazz concert of the season featuring St Hilda’s Asha Parkinson!

Asha Parkinson’s wonderful Kalpadruma Ensemble is a filmic global 14-piece studio orchestra bringing together jazz quintet, string quartet, woodwind, voice and the distinctive sound of the qanun playing powerfully melodic, rhythmically sophisticated, often groove-based material. Asha’s vibrant, ...

20/11/2024

There's still time to book tickets for Asha Parkinson: Kalpadruma Ensemble this Friday!

Asha Parkinson’s wonderful Kalpadruma Ensemble is a filmic global 14-piece studio orchestra bringing together jazz quintet, string quartet, woodwind, voice and the distinctive sound of the qanun playing powerfully melodic, rhythmically sophisticated, often groove-based material.

£35 gallery / £28 stalls / £7 students tickets available online or on the door on the evening of the concert!
https://www.ticketsoxford.com/events/asha-parkinson-kalpadruma-ensemble

18/11/2024

Coming Up:

Asha Parkinson: Kalpadruma Ensemble
The 'Possession' Album
22 November 2024 / 7:30-9:30pm
£35 gallery / £28 stalls / £7 students

Book here: https://st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/asha-parkinson-kalpadruma-ensemble

JdP Brochure:https://st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/asset/jdp-brochure-24-25-share-quality.pdf

18/11/2024

This Friday we have a very exciting concert featuring Asha Parkinson

Details below:

Asha Parkinson: Kalpadruma Ensemble
The 'Possession' Album
22 November 2024 / 7:30-9:30pm
£35 gallery / £28 stalls / £7 students

Asha Parkinson’s wonderful Kalpadruma Ensemble is a filmic global 14-piece studio orchestra bringing together jazz quintet, string quartet, woodwind, voice and the distinctive sound of the qanun playing powerfully melodic, rhythmically sophisticated, often groove-based material. Asha’s vibrant, genrebusting second album, Possession, blurs the boundaries between Jazz, Contemporary Classical, Flamenco, Mediterranean and Arab musics to find its own unique, deeply resonant voice. Subjects range from obsessive love to urban trance to mystical inspiration to devotion and beyond.

Book here: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/asha-parkinson-kalpadruma-ensemble

15/11/2024

Sadly the recital of piano music by Kornauth, Szymanowski, Blumenfeld, Berg, Sibelius, Albeniz and Suk in the JdP this evening has had to be cancelled.

09/11/2024

Tickets will be available on the door from 2.30pm today for Russian Film Day!

£25 full price / £7 students - tickets give you access to the whole day.

See the full schedule here: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/russian-film-day

First event is at 3pm!

This is a rare showing of Protazanov’s silent film, based on a 1923 novella by Aleksey N. Tolstoy and accompanied by a live musical score created by Oxford-based film composer, Juliet Merchant. The extraordinary imagery of this film and its science fiction content resonates strongly with film noir...

08/11/2024

We have a very exciting week ahead!

Tomorrow, Saturday 9th November, we have a Russian Film Day happening at the JdP. Tickets will give you access to all four events of the day or you can just drop in to whichever you want to see. Click here to see the full schedule for the day: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/russian-film-day

Tickets are still available to book online, or you can get them on the door.

Next week, we have two piano recitals by different artists: Gottlieb Wallisch (piano)and Jonathan Powell (piano) Gottlieb Wallisch’s recital commemorates the 150th anniversary of Schoenberg’s birth as well as the work of his student Egon Wellesz, who died in Oxford 50 years ago. Jonathan will give a recital of piano music by Kornauth, Szymanowski, Blumenfeld, Berg, Sibelius, Albeniz and Suk. You can find more details and book tickets for both concerts by visiting our events listing page here: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events-schedule

We have an exciting term of concerts ahead. Have a look on our website, or download our brochure to see more information!
You can view our full brochure here:https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/asset/jdp-brochure-24-25-share-quality.pdf

If you want a physical copy, they can be found at various public brochure stands around the Oxfordshire area, or you can pick one up from the JdP the next time you are in the building!

We have an exciting season ahead, you can view all events in the brochure and book tickets via our website: https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events-schedule

Best wishes,

The JdP Team

07/11/2024

We are very excited for our Russian Film Day this weekend!

There’s still time to book - get your tickets here:

This is a rare showing of Protazanov’s silent film, based on a 1923 novella by Aleksey N. Tolstoy and accompanied by a live musical score created by Oxford-based film composer, Juliet Merchant. The extraordinary imagery of this film and its science fiction content resonates strongly with film noir...

05/11/2024

TONIGHT:

Medieval Music for the Changing Seasons

Tickets will be available on the door for both events!
Two performances of the same programme: 4.30pm & 7pm

Sara Stowe (soprano, organ), Lynda Sayce (lute, medieval flute) and Matthew Spring (lute, hurdy-gurdy) present a concert of 14th and 15th century music from England, France, Italy and Germany, with compositions expressing the seasons' changes by Neidhart von Reuental, Jehan Vaillant, Francesco Landini, Anon., Oswald von Wolkenstein and a new work by Christopher Fox.

VENUE: The Chapel, 38 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LW

05/11/2024

Coming Up:

Russian Film Day
https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/russian-film-day

25/10/2024

We have two exciting events happening next week, one early music and one new music!

Tickets are still available online for both.

Click on the events below for more information and to book tickets!

Intesa Viols & Voice: Caccini, Strozzi, Monteverdi, Handel, Armenian Folk music

Tansy Davies: Grind Show; Small Black Stone; Soul Canoe