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There's still time to sign up for the Choral & Organ Scholarships open day on Saturday 26 April Exeter College Choir, Oxford Keble College Choir Magdalen College Choir Merton College Choir New College Choir Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Oxford Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford Choir of St Edmund Hall Somerville College Choir Worcester College Chapel

📢 Book your tickets below and join me tomorrow to explore the life and music of the remarkable Pauline Viardot! ✨ 🗓️ Friday 25 April 2025, 6-6.45 PM 📍 Trinity College, Levine Building 🎟️Book here: oxfordsong.org/events/pauline… Oxford Song (formerly Oxford Lieder) Faculty of Music University of Oxford

Join us on Tuesday to hear from Professor Steve Waksman (Music, Humanities and Media at Huddersfield). In his presentation, he will offer an overview of some of the primary materials and questions that have motivated his Leverhulme-funded project on the history and cultural impact of amplification technologies.

On Thursday, join EMPRes & electronic music composer & visual artist Leafcutter John for an immersive performance. Alongside this are works composed, presented & curated by Music & TheRuskinSchool students, responding to Modern Art Oxford exhibition of Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself

Somehow Trinity term has already snuck up upon us, but rejoice, for that means the 📯Oxford Medieval Studies Booklet📯 is ready for viewing! Find it in its full glory along with some other announcements in this week's Medieval Matters: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/04/28/med…

The RPS Young Classical Writers Prize calls on young people to put pen to paper and express their musical passions and opinions. Open to UK-based writers aged 16-25, applications are now open until Friday 29 August. You can find out more and enter via: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/rps-you…

We recently held our annual Composers Workshop - a chance for ten Oxford music students to hear their pieces played by the OPO, conducted by Prof John Traill. Each composer had 25 minutes to work with the orchestra and get real-time feedback from players! Congratulations all👏

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Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music at Boston University. He joins us Tuesday 27 May to talk on 'The Greatest American Rock Band' as part of our Graduate Research Colloquia. All welcome. music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-05-27…

Hans Keller's 'Group Functioning of a string quartet' will be considered at Thursday's Colloquium, in relation to distributed cognition/creativity and improvisation, intimacy, models for unity and disintegration, and how a quartet might be infiltrated by external creative forces.

This term the OSiMTA Seminar has been curated by Giles Masters and explores 'Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play'. Mark your diaries to join us on Tuesday 3 June! music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-06-03…

Don't forget that this week's Graduate Research Colloquium is on Thursday, in a change to the regular pattern. You can pick up a copy of the relevant reading from the front desk in the music library.

🎶Calling all aspiring composers and musicians!🎶 Join us for an inspiring afternoon with Christopher Norton — internationally renowned composer, arranger & educator as he discusses his musical life and answers your questions! Wednesday 14 May 14:00-15:30 LRA, Faculty of Music

We're looking forward to this concert tomorrow, in particular hearing our students Tom Kirby and Oliver Simpson perform Mozart Oboe Quartet in F major and Schubert String Quintet in C major with the Castalian Quartet!

Composition students Leandro Landolina and Nicholas Samuel have both written pieces which will be performed by Castalian Quartet tomorrow, following collaborative workshop sessions. We can't wait to hear the final results!

Huge congratulations to undergraduate student François Cloete who is the joint award winner of this year's Society for Music Analysis TAGS award: an award for an outstanding paper delivered at the annual SMA Theory and Analysis Graduate Student Conference. music.ox.ac.uk/article/underg…

Duke Ellington said that there are only two kinds of music: good and bad.  Professor Jeremy Yudkin believes that the difference lies in the honesty of the music making. Come along on Tuesday to explore the concept of 'greatness'!

On Tuesday 10 June, Dr Esther Cavett and Javier Rivas present at the Graduate Research Colloquia, exploring current conversations on the potential for participatory music-making to promote sustainable human coexistence. music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-06-10…

Great to see alumnus Bradley Hoover new book has been released! Filled with fascinating figures, it focuses on the striking similarities between Wagner's early aesthetic writings and François Delsarte's 'Cours d'esthétique appliquée'. Free Access until Wednesday 11 June.