Spanish Nights
Guest conductor from Spain Antonio Méndez leads the orchestra with guitarist Plínio Fernandes for company.
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Piano Masterclass with Christoph Eschenbach
We are delighted to be welcoming internationally renowned ‘pianist of style and breadth’ (Gramophone), Christoph Eschenbach, to lead the Oxford Philharmonic’s second masterclass of the new year.
Nicola Benedetti
Iconic violinist Nicola Benedetti joins the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Marios Papadopoulos in an evening of Elgar.
Mahler One
Mahler’s symphonies are his spiritual autobiographies, laying out his experiences and suffering for all to hear. His strikingly confident Symphony No. 1 of 1889 is cast in two parts: first the optimism and energy of youth; then the crisis of rejection and death. Yet Mahler’s symphony powers towards an exultant…
Ian Fountain Masterclass
The remarkably talented participants of the Oxford Piano Festival receive masterclasses from some of the world’s leading authorities on piano. The repertoire list for the masterclasses will be available to view from 20 July 2024 on our website.
Handel Messiah
Join Marios Papadopoulos and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir for a Yuletide celebration of celestial joy and human togetherness.
Evgeny Kissin
Under the greatest pressure, Shostakovich delivered his most supreme masterpiece. Condemned by the Soviet powers after his satirical opera Lady Macbeth, Shostakovich was ordered to write a symphony rejoicing in Stalin’s reign of terror. The result was a score poetic, sardonic and climactic that ends with a forced smile that…
Dvořák Eight
In his Symphony No. 8, Antonín Dvořák captured his delight to be alive − his sheer enchantment in the face of existence. Surely the most blissful symphony the Czech composer wrote, it is a work overflowing with joyous fanfares and the beauty of the natural…
Brahms and Tchaikovsky
Members of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra come together for an exhilarating evening of supersized chamber music, guaranteed to set the pulse racing.
Beethoven Seven
Marios Papadopoulos takes the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra through the momentous symphonic dance that is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, a work whose pounding, marching and pirouetting permanently realigned western music’s fundamental relationship between rhythm and harmony. Another of our own musicians, Concertmaster Carmine Lauri, is the soloist in the most lyrical…