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 Contents
3 Welcome & Booking Information
4-5 Michaelmas Term Concerts (Nov-Dec)
6-8 Hilary Term Concerts (Jan-Mar)
9-10 Trinity Term Concerts (Apr-Jun)
11 Join the JdP Music Circle
12-13 JdP Livestream
14-15 College Music & Lectures
16-17 DANSOX Events
18-22 Family and Community Events
23 Hiring the JdP

About the JdP

The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building is the first concert hall to be built in Oxford since
the Holywell Music Room was constructed in 1748. 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. The building was designed by architects van Heyningen and Haward and
it boasts excellent acoustics thanks to internationally-acclaimed firm Arup. The result is an
elegant and modern auditorium whose intimate environment is the perfect venue for chamber
music. There are four practice rooms, an electroacoustic studio and the 200-seat Edward
Boyle Auditorium with a Steinway D piano. St Hilda’s College is committed to sustaining and
developing the JdP as a centre for learning, teaching and performance for the benefit of all.

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Introduction
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the JdP’s concert series this year. An undoubted
highlight will be Steven Isserlis’ and Alasdair Beatson’s concert on 1st December, the latest fruit
of a continuing association between Steven, our patron, and the JdP. Since the JdP acoustic is so
well-suited for piano music, we are profiling the great national piano traditions of six countries—
France, Germany, Poland, Spain, America and Russia—in six concerts spread across the year.
2018 marks the 100th anniversary both of Debussy’s death, and of the declaration of Polish
independence. The former is marked by Bernard D’Ascoli’s fascinating ‘Debussy in Perspective’
programme (Franck, Ravel, Chopin, Debussy), whereas the Poland-based English pianist, Jonathan
Powell, presents a programme of Chopin and Szymanowski at the beginning of Hilary Term. Two
further programmes feature the experimental pianism of Ives, Crawford Seeger and Nancarrow
(America, 10th November 2018) and of Roslavets, Lourie and Volkonsky (Russia, 17th May 2019).

We are delighted to invite back the internationally-renowned lutenist,

Elizabeth Kenny, to the JdP for the first of a series of concerts with her
group, Theatre of the Ayre. Her programme of 17th century revolutionary
English vocal music created during the Interregnum throws interesting
light on a period of great political turmoil. Finally, the JdP is particularly
excited to host two performances of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s pulsating
jazz/classical fusion masterwork, ‘Blood on the Floor’ in an ambitious
collaboration between the OU Jazz Orchestra and the OU Sinfonietta.
Martyn Harry Artistic Director

Booking Tickets
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in the listing. A direct booking link for each concert is given on the
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 Michaelmas Term Concerts

American Pioneers:
Ives, Crawford Seeger, and
Marco Donnarumma & the complete Nancarrow
Luke Nickel Jonathan Powell (piano)
Thursday 8th November | 1:15–6pm
FREE and open to all Saturday 10th November | 7:30pm
£5 students | £13 stalls | £18 gallery

We kick off the season with two extraordinary composers:

Marco Donnarumma for a performance of his works and Pianist Jonathan Powell presents three American
a lecture on robotics, biotechnology and electroacous- greats, all musical outsiders and pioneers.
tic music, and Luke Nickel who will present a lecture on
notation, re-performance, loss of fidelity and memory. ‘The stuff is fantastic... You’ve got to hear it. It’ll kill you.’
—Frank Zappa on Nancarrow.

1:15PM–2PM: Marco Donnarumma performance IVES: Sonata No. 2 ‘Concord’ (1911-15)

2:30PM–3:30PM: Marco Donnarumma lecture CRAWFORD SEEGER: Nine Preludes (1924-28)

Study in Mixed Accents (1930)
5PM–6PM Luke Nickel lecture
NANCARROW: Prelude and Blues (1935)
Three Two-Part Studies (1940s)
Sonatina (1941)
Tango? (1983)
Three Canons for Ursula (1989)

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Debussy in Perspective:
Bernard d’Ascoli (piano)
Steven Isserlis &
Friday 23rd November | 7:30pm
£8 students | £22 stalls | £26 gallery
Alasdair Beatson
Saturday 1st December | 7:30pm
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Debussy‘s death,
£10 students | £27 stalls | £32 gallery
Bernard D’Ascoli presents two of the French composer’s
masterpieces for piano, ‘L’Isle Joyeuse‘ (1904) and the
second book of ‘Images’ (1907). They are prefaced by key Steven Isserlis returns to the JdP with a group of three
works from the composers who arguably influenced sonatas, each of which manages to fuse elements
him most, Chopin and César Franck, and contrasted of lyricism and of formal dynamism—Bach’s First
with the music of his greatest rival, Maurice Ravel. Gamba Sonata, Beethoven’s popular A major Cello
Sonata and Steven’s own transcription of the
Schumann Third Violin Sonata. The recital concludes
FRANCK:
Prelude, Choral and Fugue with well-loved shorter pieces by Fauré and Schumann.

CHOPIN:
Six Studies
BACH: Gamba Sonata No. 1
RAVEL:
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 3
DEBUSSY:
Cloches à travers les feuilles
FAURÉ Romance, Elegy
Poissons d’or
L‘Isle joyeuse
SCHUMANN: Violin Sonata No. 3 (arr. Isserlis)
Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
Romances

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 Hilary Term Concerts
Chopin, Schumann, Szymanowski
Jonathan Powell (piano)
Saturday 12th January | 7:30pm | £5 students | £18 stalls | £23 gallery
Chopin, Schumann, Szymanowski: For this programme, SCHUMANN: Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26
Powell has chosen two staples of 19th-century repertoire to
complement a survey of the piano music of Chopin’s compa- CHOPIN: Sonata No. 3 Op. 58
triot Karol Szymanowski.
SZYMANOWSKI: Variations Op. 3, Sonata No. 2,
Pre-concert talk by Adrian Thomas at 6:30pm. Metopes Op. 29, Masques Op. 34,
Mazurkas Op. 62

Opera: The Beginning of an Idea

Saturday 19th January | 8pm | £5 students | £10 stalls | £13 gallery

Since 2005, students of the Opera and Music Theatre course

directed by Professor Martyn Harry have created a number of
cutting-edge productions of works by Berio, Wishart, Kagel
and Cage, as well as the memorable world premieres of Chris
Garrard’s A Handmaid’s Tale in 2013 and Toby Young’s Witch
in 2017. This year, a new opera by Joel Baldwin (St Hilda’s) has
been written to showcase some of the brightest contemporary
opera talent Oxford has to offer.

Pre-concert talk with the opera’s creators at 6:30pm.

MASH Marathon
Friday 1st February | 6:30pm | £5 on the door

Every year the JdP’s new music marathon presents an evening-long festival concert of
experimental music, live electronics, contemporary classical instrumental music and video.
This year’s concert features Ensemble Isis, works by Michael Zev Gordon, and a collection of
new pieces by Jonathan Packham, Nicholas Moroz and many more!

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 Bach, Beethoven,
Schumann
Nick van Bloss (piano)

Schubert’s Winterreise Friday 22nd February | 7:30pm

£8 students | £22 stalls | £26 gallery
Simon Wallfisch (baritone)
Edward Rushton (piano) One of the few pianists who can been compared to
Glenn Gould for his brilliant passagework and rhythmic
dynamism, Nick van Bloss presents one of the towering
Friday 15th February | 7:30pm masterpieces of Romantic pianism, Schumann’s ‘Études
Symphoniques’ alongside two of the sounding models
£5 students | £10 stalls | £13 gallery that undoubtedly influenced him: the early piano works
of Beethoven and the keyboard suites of Bach.

BEETHOVEN:
Variations Op. 34
“A multi-talented musician of incredible versatility”
(BBC Radio 3), Simon Wallfisch is one of Britain’s most Sonata Op. 31, No. 3
sought-after baritones, both on the opera and concert
stage. He returns to the JdP to perform Schubert’s song
BACH: French Suite No. 6
cycle, Winterreise, alongside pianist Edward Rushton.
SCHUMANN:
Études Symphoniques

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 Hilary Term Concerts

Theatre of the Ayre Mark-Anthony Turnage’s

A Quiet Revolution: ‘Blood on the Floor’
English Vocal Music during OU Sinfonietta and
the Interregnum OU Jazz Orchestra
Saturday 2nd March | 7:30pm 5th and 6th March | 8pm
£5 students | £15 stalls | £20 gallery £8 students | £13 stalls | £16 gallery

Elizabeth Kenny (lute and theorbo) and her ‘crack- Mark-Anthony Turnage’s ‘Blood on the Floor’, pre-
squad of top instrumentalists’—Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), miered in 1996, is a raw and moving work fuelled by the
Matthew Brook (bass baritone) and Alison McGillivray pain of loss. It takes its name from the striking paint-
(bass viol and lyra viol)—perform an inspirational ing by Francis Bacon. The composer skillfully melds his
programme of seventeenth-century music of quiet jazz and contemporary voices into what is considered
revolution. his ‘magnum “fusion” opus’ (Gramophone). Come and
hear some of Oxford’s best musicians, conducted by
Pre-concert talk with Elizabeth Kenny at 6:30pm. Tom Fetherstonhaugh, in a groundbreaking project
by two of the university’s leading student orchestras.

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Trinity Term Concerts
Spain Past and Present: Jonathan Powell (piano)
Spain Past and Present: this programme combines mas-
terpieces of Spanish repertoire from the early twentieth Saturday 27th April | 7:30pm
century with contemporary works from the peninsula. £5 students | £13 stalls | £18 gallery

GRANADOS: Goyescas
MIKEL URQUIZA: Contrapluma (2016)
GABRIEL ERKOREKA: Ballades 1 and 2 (2017, 18)
ALBENIZ: Azulejos and Navarra
GUERRERO: Op. 1, Manual (1976)

Seasons for Change: Maria Razumovskaya (piano)

Seasons for Change: The evocative miniatures that make
up Tchaikovsky‘s The Seasons represent a bridge, perhaps Friday 17th May | 7:30pm
existing only in the imagination, to an ‘old Russia‘—one un- £5 students | £12 stalls | £16 gallery
touched by the social unrest, inequality and violence that
spilled over into civil war and revolution.

TCHAIKOVSKY: The Seasons

ROSLAVETS: Preludes
LOURIE: Forms en l’air
VOLKONSKY: Musica stricta

ANIMA: New Music with Animation

Friday 31st May | 7:30pm | £5 on the door
The ANIMA ensemble conducted by Chris Roe presents a night of live music with film,
performing scores made by students from the Ruskin School of Art in close collab-
oration with student composers from the Music Faculty of the University of Oxford.

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 A Mini-Festival: Saturday 8th June

Alexander
GOEHR & HARRY Martyn

1:15pm LunchtimeRecital 7:30pm Villiers Quartet

with Jonathan Powell with Ib Haussman
£3 students | £7 stalls | £10 gallery £5 students | £13 stalls | £18 gallery
30% discount when booking for both events Pre-concert talk at 6:30pm

GOEHR Nonomiya Op. 27 (1973) GOEHR String Quartet No. 5 (2019)

HARRY: Bletchley Bedford Sandy (2014-19) HARRY: Borderline (2019)
GOEHR: ...In Real Time Op. 50 (1988) GOEHR: Clarinet Quintet (2007)

These two concerts interleave piano works and string quartets by one of Britain’s greatest living composers, Alexander Goehr, with
the music of one of his former students, Martyn Harry, who is professor of composition at Oxford University’s Faculty of Music and the
lecturer of music here at St Hilda’s College. The second concert juxtaposes two new works composed for the Villiers Quartet, including
Goehr’s Fifth Quartet, which was commissioned by the Swaledale Festival.

Our festival surveys Goehr’s music from different parts of his career, tracing his journey from one of the UK’s leading representatives
of the avant-garde to a composer whose work suggests a strong critical engagement with the music of the past. There are rare oppor-
tunities to hear live performances of the large-scale piano cycle ‘…In Real Time’, whose sonority and temporal structure is a fascinating
development of Messaien’s music, and the Clarinet Quintet, which is based on a mass by Josquin.

Whereas our perception of time is arguably a key concern for Goehr, Martyn Harry’s works employ maps to represent physical space
in music, reflecting on ideas taken from landscape studies and social geography. ‘Bletchley Bedford Sandy’ is the second of his large-
scale cycle of piano pieces, ‘48’, and is dedicated to Alexander Goehr, drawing its inspiration from the names of the nine stations on
the now-defunct ‘Varsity Line’ that ran from Oxford to Cambridge before its closure in 1967. Harry’s powerful new ‘Borderline’ for string
quartet presents a topological representation of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland in sound.

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and the local community in widening access to music with its Cushion
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 College Music & Lectures
St. Hilda’s Lunchtime Recitals
Every Thursday during term-time | 1:15pm
Michaelmas: 11 Oct – 29 Nov | Hilary: 17 Jan – 7 Mar | Trinity 2 May – 20 June

Curated by St Hilda’s Director of College Music, Dr Jonathan Williams, this

popular recital series has showcased some of St Hilda’s and the university’s
most talented young musicians for over a decade. These 30-minute concerts
are free and open all. See jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk for full programme details.
Please join us for free tea and coffee in the foyer before each concert.

The Lady English Lecture

The Future of Equality: Global Perspectives
Wednesday 7th November | 5:30pm
The Lady English Lecture Series has since 2013 been exploring different aspects of equality. As our 125th Anniversary Year
draws to a close, we will be hosting a panel discussion on ‘The Future of Equality: Global Perspectives’. Helping us to assess
the global challenges to equality and consider possible solutions, our distinguished panellists are Professor Ian Goldin of
the Oxford Martin School, director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change, Professor
Sudhir Anand, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Oxford and Research Director of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard
University, and Lucy Lake, CEO of Camfed (Campaign for the Education of Women).

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DANSOX Events
DANSOX provides a major forum for dance scholarship in Europe. It promotes dialogue between prominent
academic disciplines and the worlds of dance theory and practice through a series of workshops and functions.
Many of these events, funded by TORCH and other sponsors, are held at the JdP and are directed by Professor Susan
Jones (Fellow in English of St Hilda’s College and former soloist with The Scottish Ballet). DANSOX explores the ways
in which the role of choreographic practice reveals its essential contribution to innovations across academic fields,
theatre and performance. Its patrons are Dame Monica Mason (former director of The Royal Ballet) and Sheila
Forbes CBE (former Principal of St Hilda’s College).

Kenneth MacMillan:
Making Dance Beyond the Boundaries
Saturday 16th March | 10am to 6pm
A one-day conference on the life and work of the great twentieth-century
choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan (1929-1992), who commented on his own
ballets, ‘I wanted dance to express something ouside its experience’. MacMillan
stands among the great innovators of his time in theatre, film, art, and music,
and pushed the limits of potential subject matter and its treatment in dance and
ballet. He daringly expressed extremes of human emotion, mood, political issue
and conflict. Join us for discussion of his work, the challenges of preserving the
record, explore little known early work, his literary and musical choices, design, and
choreographic method. Guest speakers include: the artist and widow of Sir Kenneth,
Lady MacMillan; the former Principal and Director of the Royal Ballet, Dame Monica
Mason; the music expert, Natalie Wheen; and choreologist, Anna Trevien. Dancers,
artists, and filmmakers who worked with Kenneth will join the conversation.
Film of his work to be shown. See the website for more details: jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk

Exploring Dance Scholarship

with Alastair Macaulay (chief dance critic, New York Times)
7th–9th July
Lectures, workshops and seminars each day. More information and details about this
conference will be available online shortly at jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/events/dansox.

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 Sunday Cushion Concerts
10am & 11am for under 5s, 12pm for over 5s | £5 per person, £16 family ticket (under 1s free)
Our monthly Cushion Cushion Concerts introduce children to the wonder and excite-
ment of music. Led by Aliye, these fun and interactive family concerts feature a different
instrument each week. Bring along your own cushions and be inspired!

Dates for 2018/19

Sunday 21 October 2018 | Lieder Cushion Concert
Sunday 04 November 2018 | Trumpet
Sunday 13 January 2019 | Tabla and Tambour
Sunday 10 February 2019 | Double Bass
Sunday 03 March 2019 | Robert Mayer Family Concert
Sunday 28 April 2019 | Harp

Future dates and instruments to be confirmed. Please

check jdp.sthildas.ox.ac.uk for more information.
Book now via ticketsoxford.com, or call 01865 305 305.

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|

Presented by Wild Boor Ideas

Writer: Emma Boor

Music: Hannah Rhodes
Directed by Euton Daley

Adapted from Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie the Witch by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul.
Text © Valerie Thomas 1987, illustrations © Korky Paul 1987, by permission of Oxford University Press.
Christmas Pantomime:
Winnie and Wilbur’s Christmas Adventure!
Join Winnie and Wilbur on their Crazy Christmas Caper—it’s a real
seasonal cracker! For 2-7 years old and their families.
‘The team have magically captured the silliness, the humour and all the
fun I have when drawing Winnie and Wilbur. ‘Blithering Broomsticks!’ as
Winnie would say.” Korky Paul (Winnie’s illustrator and co-author).

Saturday 15 Dec: 11am/2pm/4pm Adapted from Winnie and

Wilbur: Winnie the Witch by
Sunday 16 Dec: 11am/2pm/4pm Valerie Thomas and Korky

Friday 21st Dec: 11am/2pm Paul text © Valerie Thomas

1987, illustrations © Korky
£8 child | £9 adult Paul 1987, by permission of
Oxford University Press.

Saturday 22 Dec: 11am/2pm/4pm There will be one specially

devised relaxed performance
Sunday 23 Dec: 11am/2pm/4pm for audiences with SEN on

£9 child | £10 adult

Thursday 20th Dec: 2pm with
BSL (£8 child / carer’s free).
This can only be booked
directly with James Adcock
Book now via Tickets Oxford: (01865 286660) or email
01865 305 305/ticketsoxford.com [email protected].

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 Moving Music Concerts
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. These concerts help to unlock memory and
encourage movement through the power of music.
Concerts are held approximately every three months,
supported by Patsy Wood Trust, Royal Grammar School,
High Wycombe and Andrew and Jo Lea.
Reflections! Holding up the looking glass to Oxford

Monday 8th October 2018

11.30am-12.30pm with refreshments from 11am
2pm-3pm with refreshments from 1:30pm

£5 including refreshments (carers free)

A song cycle created by the Turtle Song project in

collaboration with Royal College of Music & University of
Oxford music students, partnered with English Touring
Opera & YoungDementia UK. The concert will combine
a performance of the song cycle with sing-along songs
for all. All are welcome, particularly people living with
dementia along with their family, friends and carers.
There will be more Moving Music concerts throughout
the year. Please contact Danielle on 01865 251305 or
email [email protected] to book or to find
out more about Moving Music.

Turtle Song
Turtle Song is a singing and song-writing initiative for people with
memory problems and all forms of dementia, and for their carers.
It is an opportunity to compose and sing your own songs, working
together with professional musicians, workshop leaders and music
students to deliver a high-quality, challenging and enjoyable expe-
rience.

It will run once a week on Fridays from 3rd May to 28th June 2019.
For more information, please contact [email protected]
or call Charlotte on 020 8964 5060

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Hiring the JdP
The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building’s state-of-the-art auditorium with a 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 visit:
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Bryan Duke Foyer Edward Boyle Auditorium

Salmon & Lee Practice Rooms Mackinnon Practice Room Stevenson Practice Room

The Salmon Room contains a The Mackinnon Room contains a The Stevenson Room is larger than
Yamaha U3 upright piano and brand new Yamaha U3 SH piano, the upstairs practice spaces and has
is the ideal space for individual which enables students and a newly-restored Steinway A grand
practice or teaching. The Lee teachers to play the piano silently, piano. It is designed to be a practice
Room contains two upright pianos, record their playing or use the built- facility for professional pianists, small
which suits piano teaching, duo in electronic samples. This room is chamber groups and advanced pi-
work and normal practice sessions. also acoustically-treated, making ano teaching. It is also used as a
All rooms have piano stools, chairs, it an ideal practice space for all green room for concerts and events.
and music stands. instruments.

£6.60 per hour £7.50 per hour £9.00 per hour

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