Workshops & Masterclasses

About our Workshops & Masterclasses

Each season, we enrich our concert programme offering with a series of outstanding workshops and masterclasses in venues across Oxford, free to attend. Our own musicians host many of these, from chamber music workshops for string and wind ensembles to conducting workshops with our Music Director, Marios Papadopoulos, all in addition to individual instrument masterclasses held by soloists in the Orchestra.

The Orchestra performs regularly with some of the most highly regarded musicians of our time, many of whom also hold masterclasses during their visit to Oxford. Previous guests have included Maxim Vengerov, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lang Lang.

Our annual composers’ workshop also provides a selection of young Oxford composers with the rare and invaluable opportunity to have their compositions performed and workshopped by an ensemble of Oxford Philharmonic musicians. Works selected from this workshop will also be programmed to receive their world premiere performance as part of the Orchestra’s next concert season.

How to get involved

All our workshops and masterclasses are open to University of Oxford students to participate in and the public to attend, completely free.

If you’d like to perform in one of our upcoming workshops and masterclasses, please email Will at [email protected].

If you’re a composer and would like to have your piece performed during the Composers’ Workshop, please email Nicky at [email protected]. 

If you’d prefer to come along to observe, entry is completely free but you will need to register to enter. You can reserve free tickets from our events page.