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Tchaikovsky Five
05 Nov 2026 – 19:30
Marios Papadopoulos conducts his first concert of the season and brings with him one of the most riveting pieces in the history of the symphony.
Learn MoreMozart, Debussy and Roussel
14 Nov 2026 – 19:30
Soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra come to the Holywell Music Room for flute-led chamber music that celebrates heritage while also reflecting on loss.
Learn MoreMonteverdi Vespers of 1610
21 Nov 2026 – 19:30
In the galleries of the Sheldonian Theatre, Marios Papadopoulos marshals the most majestic and timeless of sacred works.
Learn MoreOPO In Rome: Monteverdi Vespers
23 Nov 2026 – 21:00
Join the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in Rome, as they perform the most majestic and timeless of sacred works.
Learn MoreDvořák Nine
02 Dec 2026 – 19:30
Marios Papadopoulos conducts Dvořák’s letter from America, alongside Maximilian Hornung performing Shor’s Cello Concerto No. 3.
Learn MoreChristmas Oratorio
08 Dec 2026 – 19:00
‘There is no more life-giving, joy-enhancing experience in Bach’s music than a great performance of the Christmas Oratorio’ wrote the composer’s biographer Sir Nicholas Kenyon.
Learn MoreLeonidas Kavakos
12 Dec 2026 – 19:00
Kavakos directs the most intimate and adventurous of Mozart’s violin concertos from the violin before laying down his instrument for Brahms’s culminating work as an orchestral composer.
Learn MoreYuja Wang
14 Dec 2026 – 19:00
Taking on the fierce, uncompromising Bartok Piano Concerto No. 1 is the Beijing-born virtuoso Yuja Wang, whose fearless command of the instrument make her an ideal interpreter.
Learn MoreChamber Music at Merton
17 Jan 2027 – 15:00
Benjamin Britten and Sergei Prokofiev were both exiled in America when they wrote the works performed at this concert in the TS Eliot Theatre.
Learn MoreEroica Symphony
21 Jan 2027 – 19:30
In the first of the concerts marking Beethoven’s anniversary, Marios conducts the symphony that expanded the ambition and scale of orchestral music almost overnight.
Learn MoreFUNomusica Family Concert: The Musical Paintbox
31 – 31 Jan 2027
Welcome to The Musical Paintbox, a concert where colours come to life through music.
Learn MorePastoral Symphony
05 Feb 2027 – 19:30
Marios Papadopoulos combines Beethoven’s most conciliatory piano concerto with his most idyllic symphony.
Learn MoreSounding Beethoven: Holywell Workshop Day
06 Feb 2027 – 11:00
A weekend of talks, discussions and concerts curated by Professor Laura Tunbridge and Sir Nicholas Kenyon.
Learn MoreSounding Beethoven: Rautio Piano Trio
06 Feb 2027 – 19:30
‘You could hardly do better than the ever-imaginative Rautio Piano Trio’, wrote Gramophone in October 2026.
Learn MoreSounding Beethoven: Bate Collection Workshop Day
07 Feb 2027 – 10:00
A weekend of talks, discussions and concerts curated by Professor Laura Tunbridge and Sir Nicholas Kenyon.
Learn MoreSounding Beethoven: ‘Archduke’ Trio and Septet
07 Feb 2027 – 16:00
As the culmination of this Sounding Beethoven weekend, two of his most celebrated chamber works are heard in contrasting sound worlds.
Learn MoreMartha Argerich & Maxim Vengerov
09 Feb 2027 – 19:30
Martha Argerich and Maxim Vengerov are undoubtably two of the most celebrated musicians of our time.
Learn MoreMartha Argerich plays Ravel
12 – 14 Feb 2027 – 19:00
The legendary Martha Argerich is the soloist in Ravel’s electrifyingly slick and slinky piano concerto after Annie Dutoit narrates the greatest musical menagerie of them all.
Learn MoreMaxim Vengerov plays Beethoven
13 Feb 2027 – 19:00
Legend among violinists, Maxim Vengerov returns for this performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.
Learn MoreOPO on Tour: Philharmonie Berlin
16 Feb 2027 – 20:00
As part of the Oxford Beethoven Festival 2027, the Oxford Philharmonic will embark on a major tour across Europe.
Learn MoreOPO on Tour: Is Sanat Centre Istanbul
17 Feb 2027 – 20:30
As part of the Oxford Beethoven Festival 2027, the Oxford Philharmonic will embark on a major tour across Europe.
Learn MoreOPO on Tour: Isarphilharmonie Munich
18 Feb 2027 – 20:00
As part of the Oxford Beethoven Festival 2027, the Oxford Philharmonic will embark on a major tour across Europe.
Learn MoreOPO on Tour: Megaron Athens
20 Feb 2027 – 20:00
As part of the Oxford Beethoven Festival 2027, the Oxford Philharmonic will embark on a major tour across Europe.
Learn MoreTchaikovsky Four
04 Mar 2027 – 19:30
Young rising talent once again takes to the stage, as prize-winning violinist Jinzhu Li, joins the OPO in a performance of our Alexey Shor’s Violin Concerto No. 5.
Learn MoreBoris Giltburg
05 Mar 2027 – 19:30
Boris Giltburg comes to the Holywell Music Room to traverse three of the composer’s best-loved ‘named’ piano sonatas.
Learn MoreMarios Papadopoulos
11 Mar 2027 – 19:30
Our survey of Beethoven’s most penetrating piano sonatas continues at the Sheldonian Theatre as Marios Papadopoulos plays sonatas from 1814-21.
Learn MoreSt John Passion
25 Mar 2027 – 19:00
The decade’s breakthrough baroque conductor Peter Whelan joins the OPO to lead this performance of Bach’s great work of suffering, redemption and hope.
Learn MoreMendelssohn Scottish Symphony
08 Apr 2027 – 19:30
The ‘truly outstanding’ pianist Vadym Kholodenko performs Schumann’s concerto, between the most bracing symphony by Schumann’s close friend Mendelssohn and fellow-Ukrainian Myroslav Skoryk’s ever-poignant Elegie.
Learn MoreOPO String Quartet
17 Apr 2027 – 19:30
This concert showcases elements from String Quartet Nos 4, 6 and 7, performed by four of the Orchestra’s rising stars.
Learn MoreSibelius Seven
22 Apr 2027 – 19:30
Profound statements from the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius frame this concert, from the mixture of anger and stoicism that characterise his cry for independence against Russian occupation.
Learn MoreRichard Goode
24 Apr 2027 – 19:30
A rare chance to hear doyen of American pianists Richard Goode in recital at the historic Holywell Music Room.
Learn MoreChoral Symphony
06 May 2027 – 19:00
With soloists including Sir Bryn Terfel, Marios Papadopoulos conducts this epic symphony at the Sheldonian Theatre before a transfer to Carnegie Hall.
Learn MoreEncounters with Gershwin
13 May 2027 – 19:30
Following the sold-out success of this concert at Zankel Hall in New York, come and hear the Orchestra’s musicians like you’ve never heard them before!
Learn MoreCarducci Quartet
15 May 2027 – 19:30
The Carducci Quartet comes to the Holywell Music Room with its specially-selected instruments for three linchpins of the String Quartet cycle.
Learn MoreUpstairs at Ronnie’s
17 – 17 May 2027
As part of a new classical series hosted by James Pearson and Lizzie Ball, the Ronnie Scott’s Classical All Stars present the soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic.
Learn MoreElena Bashkirova plays Mozart
24 – 25 May 2027 – 19:00
A pianist with Mozart in her soul, Elena Bashkirova, performs his most joyous double concerto alongside Music Director Marios Papadopoulos.
Learn MoreAlim Beisembayev
28 May 2027 – 16:00
Alim Beisembayev’s recital explores Beethoven’s piano compositions at the turn of the century.
Learn MoreFUNomusica Family Concert: Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
30 May 2027 – 15:00
King Alasdair, the ruler of the Magical Kingdom of Far, Far Away, is in town with his merry minstrels, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.
Learn MoreSteven Isserlis
03 Jun 2027 – 19:00
This performance will undoubtedly show the technical mastery of the great British cellist Steven Isserlis through composers Alexey Shor and Shostakovich.
Learn MoreLukáš Vondráček
05 Jun 2027 – 19:00
Following his electrifying debut at the BBC Proms in the summer, Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček comes to the Holywell Music Room.
Learn MoreGershwin and Bernstein
17 Jun 2027 – 19:30
In the 20th century, Bernstein and Gershwin proved that classical music could be revitalised when embracing popular styles, an idea showcased in this performance.
Learn MoreViolin and Cello Sonatas I
24 Jun 2027 – 19:30
Beethoven’s violin sonatas trace his whole life, while his cello sonatas reinvented a once perfunctory instrument as a vehicle for intense expression.
Learn MoreKirill Gerstein
02 Jul 2027 – 19:30
The ‘simply ravishing’ (Abendzeitung) Kirill Gerstein charts Beethoven’s initial steps towards a more dynamic, personal style.
Learn MoreFifth Symphony
08 Oct 2027 – 19:30
The Wall Street Journal has described pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard as ‘a brilliant musician and an extraordinary visionary.’
Learn MoreIngrid Fliter
09 Oct 2027 – 19:30
Ingrid Fliter comes to the Oxford Union for this recital opening with the composer’s rarely-performed tribute to the Baroque.
Learn MoreFourth Symphony
15 Oct 2027 – 19:30
Before his iconic Fifth and Ninth symphonies came Beethoven’s Fourth – a work driven not so much by political argument as by a sense of joy and delight in music itself.
Learn MoreViolin and Cello Sonatas II
28 Oct 2027 – 19:30
Beethoven’s first violin sonata dates from the pivotal period of his arrival in Vienna.
Learn MoreViolin and Cello Sonatas III
30 Oct 2027 – 19:30
In 1815, Beethoven was on the cusp of his celebrated late style and this was the year of his first sonata for cello and piano.
Learn MoreVadym Kholodenko
06 Nov 2027 – 19:30
The ‘utterly charming’ (New York Classical Review) Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko comes to the Holywell Music Room for this recital.
Learn MoreSecond Symphony
09 Nov 2027 – 19:30
The composer’s Symphony No. 2 launches amid dark clouds but obliterates them with resilience, humour and pure joie de vivre.
Learn MoreTakács Quartet
12 Nov 2027 – 19:30
The legendary Takács Quartet comes to Oxford for an examination of Beethoven’s quartet writing, its influences and its consequences.
Learn MoreEmperor Concerto
26 Nov 2027 – 19:30
Beethoven’s final work for piano and orchestra is a ‘grand concerto’ that would explode the scale of the genre and prove a model for composers from Brahms to Liszt and beyond.
Learn MoreSunwook Kim
27 Nov 2027 – 19:30
Youngest winner of the Leeds Piano Competition for four decades, Sunwook Kim has established himself as a pianist to be reckoned with.
Learn MoreKristian Bezuidenhout
09 Dec 2027 – 19:30
Kristian Bezuidenhout has transformed our understanding of Beethoven’s piano writing by using the sorts of instruments the composer knew.
Learn MoreTchaikovsky Five
Nov 05 2026 – 19:30
Marios Papadopoulos conducts his first concert of the season and brings with him one of the most riveting pieces in the history of the symphony.
Learn MoreMozart, Debussy and Roussel
Nov 14 2026 – 19:30
Soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra come to the Holywell Music Room for flute-led chamber music that celebrates heritage while also reflecting on loss.
Learn MoreMonteverdi Vespers of 1610
Nov 21 2026 – 19:30
In the galleries of the Sheldonian Theatre, Marios Papadopoulos marshals the most majestic and timeless of sacred works.
Learn MoreOPO In Rome: Monteverdi Vespers
Nov 23 2026 – 21:00
Join the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in Rome, as they perform the most majestic and timeless of sacred works.
Learn MoreDvořák Nine
Dec 02 2026 – 19:30
Marios Papadopoulos conducts Dvořák’s letter from America, alongside Maximilian Hornung performing Shor’s Cello Concerto No. 3.
Learn MoreChristmas Oratorio
Dec 08 2026 – 19:00
‘There is no more life-giving, joy-enhancing experience in Bach’s music than a great performance of the Christmas Oratorio’ wrote the composer’s biographer Sir Nicholas Kenyon.
Learn MoreLeonidas Kavakos
Dec 12 2026 – 19:00
Kavakos directs the most intimate and adventurous of Mozart’s violin concertos from the violin before laying down his instrument for Brahms’s culminating work as an orchestral composer.
Learn MoreYuja Wang
Dec 14 2026 – 19:00
Taking on the fierce, uncompromising Bartok Piano Concerto No. 1 is the Beijing-born virtuoso Yuja Wang, whose fearless command of the instrument make her an ideal interpreter.
Learn MoreChamber Music at Merton
Jan 17 2027 – 15:00
Benjamin Britten and Sergei Prokofiev were both exiled in America when they wrote the works performed at this concert in the TS Eliot Theatre.
Learn MoreEroica Symphony
Jan 21 2027 – 19:30
In the first of the concerts marking Beethoven’s anniversary, Marios conducts the symphony that expanded the ambition and scale of orchestral music almost overnight.
Learn MoreFUNomusica Family Concert: The Musical Paintbox
Jan 31 2027 – 15:00
Welcome to The Musical Paintbox, a concert where colours come to life through music.
Learn MorePastoral Symphony
Feb 05 2027 – 19:30
Marios Papadopoulos combines Beethoven’s most conciliatory piano concerto with his most idyllic symphony.
Learn MoreSounding Beethoven: Holywell Workshop Day
Feb 06 2027 – 11:00
A weekend of talks, discussions and concerts curated by Professor Laura Tunbridge and Sir Nicholas Kenyon.
Learn MoreSounding Beethoven: Rautio Piano Trio
Feb 06 2027 – 19:30
‘You could hardly do better than the ever-imaginative Rautio Piano Trio’, wrote Gramophone in October 2026.
Learn MoreSounding Beethoven: Bate Collection Workshop Day
Feb 07 2027 – 10:00
A weekend of talks, discussions and concerts curated by Professor Laura Tunbridge and Sir Nicholas Kenyon.
Learn MoreSounding Beethoven: ‘Archduke’ Trio and Septet
Feb 07 2027 – 16:00
As the culmination of this Sounding Beethoven weekend, two of his most celebrated chamber works are heard in contrasting sound worlds.
Learn MoreMartha Argerich & Maxim Vengerov
Feb 09 2027 – 19:30
Martha Argerich and Maxim Vengerov are undoubtably two of the most celebrated musicians of our time.
Learn MoreMartha Argerich plays Ravel
Feb 12 2027 – 19:00
The legendary Martha Argerich is the soloist in Ravel’s electrifyingly slick and slinky piano concerto after Annie Dutoit narrates the greatest musical menagerie of them all.
Learn MoreMaxim Vengerov plays Beethoven
Feb 13 2027 – 19:00
Legend among violinists, Maxim Vengerov returns for this performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.
Learn MoreOPO on Tour: Philharmonie Berlin
Feb 16 2027 – 20:00
As part of the Oxford Beethoven Festival 2027, the Oxford Philharmonic will embark on a major tour across Europe.
Learn MoreOPO on Tour: Is Sanat Centre Istanbul
Feb 17 2027 – 20:30
As part of the Oxford Beethoven Festival 2027, the Oxford Philharmonic will embark on a major tour across Europe.
Learn MoreOPO on Tour: Isarphilharmonie Munich
Feb 18 2027 – 20:00
As part of the Oxford Beethoven Festival 2027, the Oxford Philharmonic will embark on a major tour across Europe.
Learn MoreOPO on Tour: Megaron Athens
Feb 20 2027 – 20:00
As part of the Oxford Beethoven Festival 2027, the Oxford Philharmonic will embark on a major tour across Europe.
Learn MoreTchaikovsky Four
Mar 04 2027 – 19:30
Young rising talent once again takes to the stage, as prize-winning violinist Jinzhu Li, joins the OPO in a performance of our Alexey Shor’s Violin Concerto No. 5.
Learn MoreBoris Giltburg
Mar 05 2027 – 19:30
Boris Giltburg comes to the Holywell Music Room to traverse three of the composer’s best-loved ‘named’ piano sonatas.
Learn MoreMarios Papadopoulos
Mar 11 2027 – 19:30
Our survey of Beethoven’s most penetrating piano sonatas continues at the Sheldonian Theatre as Marios Papadopoulos plays sonatas from 1814-21.
Learn MoreSt John Passion
Mar 25 2027 – 19:00
The decade’s breakthrough baroque conductor Peter Whelan joins the OPO to lead this performance of Bach’s great work of suffering, redemption and hope.
Learn MoreMendelssohn Scottish Symphony
Apr 08 2027 – 19:30
The ‘truly outstanding’ pianist Vadym Kholodenko performs Schumann’s concerto, between the most bracing symphony by Schumann’s close friend Mendelssohn and fellow-Ukrainian Myroslav Skoryk’s ever-poignant Elegie.
Learn MoreOPO String Quartet
Apr 17 2027 – 19:30
This concert showcases elements from String Quartet Nos 4, 6 and 7, performed by four of the Orchestra’s rising stars.
Learn MoreSibelius Seven
Apr 22 2027 – 19:30
Profound statements from the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius frame this concert, from the mixture of anger and stoicism that characterise his cry for independence against Russian occupation.
Learn MoreRichard Goode
Apr 24 2027 – 19:30
A rare chance to hear doyen of American pianists Richard Goode in recital at the historic Holywell Music Room.
Learn MoreChoral Symphony
May 06 2027 – 19:00
With soloists including Sir Bryn Terfel, Marios Papadopoulos conducts this epic symphony at the Sheldonian Theatre before a transfer to Carnegie Hall.
Learn MoreEncounters with Gershwin
May 13 2027 – 19:30
Following the sold-out success of this concert at Zankel Hall in New York, come and hear the Orchestra’s musicians like you’ve never heard them before!
Learn MoreCarducci Quartet
May 15 2027 – 19:30
The Carducci Quartet comes to the Holywell Music Room with its specially-selected instruments for three linchpins of the String Quartet cycle.
Learn MoreUpstairs at Ronnie’s
May 17 2027 – 18:20
As part of a new classical series hosted by James Pearson and Lizzie Ball, the Ronnie Scott’s Classical All Stars present the soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic.
Learn MoreElena Bashkirova plays Mozart
May 24 2027 – 19:00
A pianist with Mozart in her soul, Elena Bashkirova, performs his most joyous double concerto alongside Music Director Marios Papadopoulos.
Learn MoreAlim Beisembayev
May 28 2027 – 16:00
Alim Beisembayev’s recital explores Beethoven’s piano compositions at the turn of the century.
Learn MoreFUNomusica Family Concert: Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
May 30 2027 – 15:00
King Alasdair, the ruler of the Magical Kingdom of Far, Far Away, is in town with his merry minstrels, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.
Learn MoreSteven Isserlis
Jun 03 2027 – 19:00
This performance will undoubtedly show the technical mastery of the great British cellist Steven Isserlis through composers Alexey Shor and Shostakovich.
Learn MoreLukáš Vondráček
Jun 05 2027 – 19:00
Following his electrifying debut at the BBC Proms in the summer, Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček comes to the Holywell Music Room.
Learn MoreGershwin and Bernstein
Jun 17 2027 – 19:30
In the 20th century, Bernstein and Gershwin proved that classical music could be revitalised when embracing popular styles, an idea showcased in this performance.
Learn MoreViolin and Cello Sonatas I
Jun 24 2027 – 19:30
Beethoven’s violin sonatas trace his whole life, while his cello sonatas reinvented a once perfunctory instrument as a vehicle for intense expression.
Learn MoreKirill Gerstein
Jul 02 2027 – 19:30
The ‘simply ravishing’ (Abendzeitung) Kirill Gerstein charts Beethoven’s initial steps towards a more dynamic, personal style.
Learn MoreFifth Symphony
Oct 08 2027 – 19:30
The Wall Street Journal has described pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard as ‘a brilliant musician and an extraordinary visionary.’
Learn MoreIngrid Fliter
Oct 09 2027 – 19:30
Ingrid Fliter comes to the Oxford Union for this recital opening with the composer’s rarely-performed tribute to the Baroque.
Learn MoreFourth Symphony
Oct 15 2027 – 19:30
Before his iconic Fifth and Ninth symphonies came Beethoven’s Fourth – a work driven not so much by political argument as by a sense of joy and delight in music itself.
Learn MoreViolin and Cello Sonatas II
Oct 28 2027 – 19:30
Beethoven’s first violin sonata dates from the pivotal period of his arrival in Vienna.
Learn MoreViolin and Cello Sonatas III
Oct 30 2027 – 19:30
In 1815, Beethoven was on the cusp of his celebrated late style and this was the year of his first sonata for cello and piano.
Learn MoreVadym Kholodenko
Nov 06 2027 – 19:30
The ‘utterly charming’ (New York Classical Review) Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko comes to the Holywell Music Room for this recital.
Learn MoreSecond Symphony
Nov 09 2027 – 19:30
The composer’s Symphony No. 2 launches amid dark clouds but obliterates them with resilience, humour and pure joie de vivre.
Learn MoreTakács Quartet
Nov 12 2027 – 19:30
The legendary Takács Quartet comes to Oxford for an examination of Beethoven’s quartet writing, its influences and its consequences.
Learn MoreEmperor Concerto
Nov 26 2027 – 19:30
Beethoven’s final work for piano and orchestra is a ‘grand concerto’ that would explode the scale of the genre and prove a model for composers from Brahms to Liszt and beyond.
Learn MoreSunwook Kim
Nov 27 2027 – 19:30
Youngest winner of the Leeds Piano Competition for four decades, Sunwook Kim has established himself as a pianist to be reckoned with.
Learn MoreKristian Bezuidenhout
Dec 09 2027 – 19:30
Kristian Bezuidenhout has transformed our understanding of Beethoven’s piano writing by using the sorts of instruments the composer knew.
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