OSJ’s mission is “to serve our communities by promoting concerts of unrivalled artistic excellence“. Working with the most extraordinary musicians we aim to make the emotion, drama and culture of live classical music available to everyone.
2018 SEASON TICKET FOR ALL EIGHT OSJ ASHMOLEAN PROMS AVAILABLE FOR £80
A string quartet (performers from the evening concert) will give a relaxed concert for people with disabilities, at 12 noon in the Headley Lecture Theatre of the Ashmolean Museum, before the March, June and November Ashmolean Prom concerts.
Chamber music masterpieces with Royal Academy of Music prizewinning students
Brahms sextet in B flat (Behn Quartet plus Dominika Rembowska and Annabelle Oomens)
Mozart viola quintet in g minor (Behn Quartet plus Dominica Rembowska)
Schubert Quartetsatz (Kirkman Quartet)
Vivaldi Seasons
Faure Cantique de Jean Racine
Mozart Laudate Dominum
Handel Organ concerto
Handel’s Messiah in its original scoring
Eline Vandenheede soprano
Charlotte Tetley mezzo
John Findon tenor
Christian Valle bass-baritone
OSJ Voices
Orchestra of St John’s
John Lubbock conductor
Christmas Motets and other carols with OSJ Ashmolean Voices at Fawley court, near Henley
“A thoroughly modern 300 seat concert hall”
A QUINTESSENTIALLY BRITISH STATELY HOME DESIGNED BY SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN AND LANDSCAPED BY CAPABILITY BROWN
Conductor John Lubbock
Christmas Motets and other carols with the OSJ Ashmolean Voices
‘Christmas Carols Plus’ with The Ex Swingle Singers, conducted by John Lubbock.
Christmas motets and carols. Bach instrumental music.
Derek Paravicini Jazz Quartet. An evening of jazz standards.
Strauss Gala at St John’s Smith Square, 2pm
Wonderful waltzes and polkas mostly by Johann Strauss Junior. Plus well-known tunes from Strauss and Lehar. SJSS at 2pm.
Wonderful waltzes and polkas mostly by Johann Strauss Junior. Plus well-known tunes from Strauss and Lehar. Dorchester Abbey at 7pm.
Famous people discuss music that has meant the most to them in their lives. OSJ plays their choice of pieces. Sir Trevor McDonald journalist is interviewed by Paul Blezard about his life and musical influences.
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Membership benefits include a 20% discount on all Oxford and Dorchester concerts and advance notification of concerts.
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This is a beautiful recording of Handel’s Messiah in a re-orchestration by John Lubbock for Wind Orchestra, Soloists and Choir. Performed by OSJ at St John’s Smith Square in London on 5th March 2016.
Available as DVD or double CD, it features Nardus Williams (soprano), Roderic Morris (countertenor), Christopher Turner (tenor), Bozidar Smiljanic (bass) and OSJ Voices with Jeremy Jackman (chorus master), John Lubbock (conductor).
Concerts leaflet 2017
Ashmolean Concerts October to December 2017
Listen to our Artistic Director, John Lubbock, talking on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live programme about the origins of OSJ and his mission to take classical music out into the community.
