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Beethoven: A Conversation with Laura Tunbridge

Beethoven: A Conversation with Laura Tunbridge

15 October 2021 — Composers, Concert, Interview, Orchestra

Could you imagine a worse 250th birthday? A quarter of a millennium after his birth in 1770, most of the musical world embarked on a hu…

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11 women composers: from the 9th century to present day

11 women composers: from the 9th century to present day

08 March 2021 — Composers, Concert, Interview, Orchestra

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day on 8 March 2021, we’re taking a look at the works of women composers throughout the…

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Errollyn Wallen

Errollyn Wallen

30 October 2020 — Composers, Orchestra, Education, Black History Month

Classical music has a long and detailed history, which regularly includes works by some of the greatest composers ever to have lived, from B…

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Florence Price

Florence Price

23 October 2020 — Composers, Orchestra, Education, Black History Month

Florence Price Classical music has a long and detailed history, which regularly includes works by some of the greatest composers ever to hav…

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Scott Joplin and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Scott Joplin and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

16 October 2020 — Composers, Education, Black History Month

Classical music has a long and detailed history, which regularly includes works by some of the greatest composers ever to have lived, from B…

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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Ignatius Sancho

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Ignatius Sancho

09 October 2020 — Composers, Education, Black History Month

Classical music has a long and detailed history, which regularly includes works by some of the greatest composers ever to have lived, from B…

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Getting to Know… the Orchestra

Getting to Know… the Orchestra

30 September 2020 — Orchestra, Education

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.

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Oxford Piano Festival 2020

Oxford Piano Festival 2020

18 August 2020 — Piano Festival

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…

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A Conversation with Yoheved Kaplinsky

A Conversation with Yoheved Kaplinsky

07 August 2020 — Interview, Piano Festival

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…

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OP at Home Music Education Series

OP at Home Music Education Series

14 July 2020 — Orchestra, Education, Primary Education

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…

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A Conversation with Mats Lidström

A Conversation with Mats Lidström

26 June 2020 — Composers, Interview, Orchestra

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…

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Pastoral for the Planet

Pastoral for the Planet

05 June 2020 — Composers, Orchestra

As 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, we programmed the year-long Oxford Beethoven Festival, a comprehensive celebr…

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