📢 Kafka events this term!
⏰ 8 May, 5.30pm - Kafka’s Dreams: A Fragile Legacy (Isolde Schiffermüller)
📍 Taylorian, Oxford or online
⏰4 June, 4pm - The Silent Songs of Josefine (Can Bilir) 🎼
📍 Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Book your free place now: tinyurl.com/497z58aj
#franzkafka
On Friday 1 May, our Lunchtime Recital celebrates the winners of the Brownlee and Hildyard Instrument Prizes. The concert features performances on instruments and bows generously gifted and loaned by Brownlee and Hildyard families.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-05-...
‘Stereotypes of rap-making as gang activity, amplified by moral panics in the media, become a vector for fuelling racial disparities in the justice system.’
Professor Naomi Waltham-Smith from @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social warns against the use of music as criminal evidence.
Find out more ⬇️
LIVExEMPRES brings together experimental music, performance, sound art & film at @modernartoxford.bsky.social on Wednesday 29 April. The multi-room event runs from 6-10pm, presenting performances & installations by @theruskin.bsky.social artists & Faculty musicians www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-04-...
The three ensembles from the Jazz Scheme will be performing in a masterclass with David D'Angelo, Senior Lecturer of Jazz at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia, on Monday 27 April. All are welcome to come along and watch.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/260427...
The Oxford Festival of the Arts kicks off this month and some of our students will be performing on Wednesday evening in 'The Musical Salon'; a mixed recital of works for the chamber music ensemble. Free entry!
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-04-...
On Tuesday, musicians from Oxford University Orchestra, conducted by John Traill, will workshop four new pieces written by Music students. Professor Martyn Harry will convene the workshop, offering insights into writing new orchestral music.
Observers welcome!
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-04-...
Introducing Dr. Frankie Perry, who is working on the intellectual content and data modelling of our catalogue. She is also Digital Music Collections Specialist @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Bio: tinyurl.com/bdekv7uf
@oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
@tmusicology.bsky.social
@rbcmusicology.bsky.social
Compilation of images including headshots of Leo Geyer and Toby Anderson, the album cover of Moonrise, and the orchestra of BBC Wales.
Some great news from our composers! Read more on our website:
✍ Toby Anderson selected for Britten Sinfonia Magnum Opus
🎼 Elliot Wigham selected for BBC NOW Composition: Wales 2026
🎥 Leo Geyer restores Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera score
🌙 Christopher Churcher releases debut album Moonrise
There are still two weeks remaining to submit an application for the Associate Professor of Music role!
The Faculty is seeking a musicologist with a proven record of scholarship and research in art music of the twentieth century.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We're recruiting! The University of Oxford, with Christ Church, seeks to appoint an Associate Professor of Music from 1 October 2026. The role includes a Tutorial Fellowship at Christ Church, membership of its Governing Body, and trusteeship of the college.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
What does it means when we say someone has great stage presence, charisma, flair and musicality? Giles Underwood will be untangling this question with our students from 3.30pm on Friday. Observers welcome!
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht, Louisa Hunter-Bradley and Katie McKeogh are the presenters in the final All Souls Seminar of term. Join us online on Thursday for 'No two books are the same: Interactions with early printed music and the people behind them'.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...
All are welcome to join us in the Recital Hall at 5pm on Wednesday for this discussion with Katherine Spencer and Alison Balsom, chaired by Dr Maria Razumovskaya.
More details at www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...
Thanks to The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust, our students have benefitted from coaching and side-by-side opportunities with the Adler Quartet this year. Join us in the Holywell Music Room on Wednesday lunchtime to celebrate the fruits of this collaboration!
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/260311...
Giles Underwood, Director of Music at University College will be leading a stage presence workshop with our students on Friday 13 March. All are welcome to come along to observe and learn from the session at 3.30pm in the Schwarzman Centre Recital Hall.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...
On Friday evening, three ensembles from the University Jazz Scheme will be performing music from Wayne Shorter’s seminal ‘Speak No Evil’ album; the output of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers; and original music by jazz flautist Gareth Lockrane.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...
On Wednesday 11 March, clarinettist Katherine Spencer and trumpeter Alison Balsom, two musicians known for their impact on historically-informed performance practices, will discuss how their lives have been shaped by being custodians of their instruments.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...
Friday's lunchtime recital is the last in the series for this term. Join us for music by Frédéric Chopin, Grażyna Bacewicz, Clémence de Grandval, and Alyssa Morris, as well as Carnival of the Animals for four-hands by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Free entry!
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/260306...
Jessica Holmes is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen. At Thursday's public seminar, in the Schwarzman Centre Cinema, she will be speaking on 'Billie Eilish, Princess Nokia, and the Musical Vernacular of Depression'.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...
On Wednesday 11 March we are celebrating the collaboration between the Adler Quartet and our students. Over the course of the year our student musicians have been coached by the quartet, and will perform alongside them at this special lunchtime recital.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/260311...
Take a musical moment to pause, recharge, and unwind at the end of the working day. All are welcome to join us at 5pm on Tuesday for this rush hour concert in the Recital Hall, featuring side-by-side performances with our students, violinist Daniel Roberts, and Dr Maria Razumovskaya.
We're looking forward to having violinist Daniel Roberts working with our students next week! Come along on Tuesday lunchtime to observe him in action alongside Director of Performance Dr Maria Razumovskaya in a workshop exploring chamber musicianship.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/260303...
On Friday 6 March, the Oxford University Jazz Scheme holds its first public performance with internationally-renowned jazz flautist and composer Gareth Lockrane. Supported by the Music Faculty, this event takes place in the Schwarzman Centre Recital Hall.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...
Our penultimate Lunchtime Recital of term features a piano trio, and a violin and piano duo. Join us at 1.15pm on Friday for music by Franz Lehár, Charles Villiers Stanford, Franz Schubert, and Frank Bridge.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-02-...
At Thursday's seminar, Professor Andrew Kirkman delivers a talk titled 'Made to measure or prêt à chanter? The court of Wilhelm IV and the later Alamire manuscripts'. He will be joined by discussants Professor Thomas Schmidt and Dr Zoe Saunders.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-02-...
At 3pm on Thursday, Professor Nomi Dave will deliver a public seminar in the Schwarzman Centre Cinema, titled 'Fictions of Legal Hearing'. All are welcome to attend this lecture, which explores un-hearing, refusals to listen, and institutional mishearing.
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-02-...
Our next event this coming Friday, 27 Feb, on music and health humanities. We will explore ways in which music engages with health, illness, and wellbeing (it will include live music on piano).
More details at the link below
@torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
