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Florence Price
Florence Price Classical music has a long and detailed history, which regularly includes works by some of the greatest composers ever to hav…
Read MoreScott Joplin and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Classical music has a long and detailed history, which regularly includes works by some of the greatest composers ever to have lived, from B…
Read MoreJoseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Ignatius Sancho
Classical music has a long and detailed history, which regularly includes works by some of the greatest composers ever to have lived, from B…
Read MoreGetting to Know… the Orchestra
A friendly guide to the sections of the orchestra (with special guests!) We may be a little biased, but we think classical music is awesome.
Read MoreOxford Piano Festival 2020
We brought our annual Piano Festival online this year from 3-7 August, with a jam-packed week of recitals, masterclasses, Q&A’s and more…
Read MoreA 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 MoreOP 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 MoreA 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 MorePastoral 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 MoreOPO 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 MoreOPO 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 MoreA 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…
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