Bulletin Board
Our latest news & articles
38 Articles

A Conversation with Yoheved Kaplinsky
Due to return to the Oxford Piano Festival this year for her fourth time as a faculty member, we spoke to pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky about he…
Read More
OP at Home Music Education Series
In June 2020 we decided to release a new video series for Primary School children called ‘OP at Home,’ created by our musicians during lockd…
Read More
A Conversation with Mats Lidström
Mats Lidström is Solo Cello of the OPO, and a distinguished composer and teacher. Ahead of our now cancelled 28 June concert, which would ha…
Read More
Pastoral for the Planet
As 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, we programmed the year-long Oxford Beethoven Festival, a comprehensive celebr…
Read More
OPO Players’ Music Recommendations
We asked some of our musicians what they are currently listening to. Check out their answers below, and maybe you will get some musical insp…
Read More
OPO Schools Project in collaboration with the Dragon School
We were delighted to hold another of our regular ‘orchestral’ open days for local primary schools – this time for wind and brass – in collab…
Read More
A Conversation with Grace-Evangeline Mason
Grace-Evangeline Mason’s To Breathe Now was one of two pieces chosen through our 2019 Composers’ Workshop to be programmed into an OPO conce…
Read More
Beethoven & his Colleagues Recital Series
Beethoven was the first composer who enjoyed rock star status. Bach, Mozart, and Haydn may have been looked upon as giants, but Beethoven wa…
Read More
Oxford Beethoven Festival: Launch Week
We launched our Oxford Beethoven Festival last week, starting our year-long celebration of the composer’s 250th anniversary. From performanc…
Read More
OPO Hospitals Project – Nov & Dec 2019
A large part of our outreach work includes our hospitals series, in which OPO musicians visit hospitals in Oxford in a project offering part…
Read More
OPO Horn Masterclass with Pip Eastop
As part of our Residency Programme at the University of Oxford, we offer free workshops and masterclasses for students in a variety of disci…
Read More
OPO Perform at NATO HQ
We were honoured to be invited by the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, to perform at the stunning new NATO headquarters in Bruss…
Read More