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Thank you for reaching our target for ‘The Big Give 2025’

Thank you for reaching our target for ‘The Big Give 2025’ We accessed a total of £18,000 including matched funding. This will go towards our Music for Autism and Serenading community programmes As part of our Serenading initiative, OSJ musicians…

Review of concert for The Music Therapy Charity

Our annual fundraising concert on November 20th 2025 as a huge success in raising the profile of The Music Therapy Charity. Held at St John’s Waterloo, with the St John’s Orchestra, conducted by John Lubbock, one of our Vice Presidents…

OXINABOX REVIEW: ‘Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is a truly exciting pianist and her performance with OSJ at Dorchester Abbey made it abundantly clear why’

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason and the OSJ Orchestra were locked in perfect synergy, the opening of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, Allegramente, sparkling with jazz-inflected vitality, while the central Adagio assai was rendered with such poignant beauty that the audience at Dorchester Abbey on Saturday night sat in rapt silence….

‘It didn’t feel difficult to find my own voice’ OXINABOX talk to famous pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, playing at Dorchester Abbey with OSJ this Saturday

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason was drawn to the piano from a very young age. Growing up in the musically vibrant Kanneh-Mason household alongside her six brothers and sisters, it was hectic, fun and always full of music. And yet despite their meteoric success, the Kanneh-Masons have…

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