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Florence Price

Florence Price

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

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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OPO Players’ Music Recommendations

OPO Players’ Music Recommendations

26 May 2020 — Interview, Orchestra

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…

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OPO Schools Project in collaboration with the Dragon School

OPO Schools Project in collaboration with the Dragon School

27 April 2020 — Outreach, Education, Primary Education

We were delighted to hold another of our regular ‘orchestral’ open days for local primary schools – this time for wind and brass – in collab…

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A Conversation with Grace-Evangeline Mason

A Conversation with Grace-Evangeline Mason

02 April 2020 — Composers, Interview

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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