Composer Toby Young has been involved in the Displaced Voices project very early on. Ahead of the concerts and events taking place in Oxford on 18 January and in London on 19 January he talks about his experience in a...
- January 10, 2019
Friday 18 January Somerville College Oxford Saturday 19 January Kings Place London joined by Play for Progress Download Displaced Voices leaflet Jan 2019 These concerts are the culmination of OSJ’s three-month community engagement project with the Oxford Spires Academy. Four...
- December 23, 2018
Another strand of Displaced Voices – Cayenna Ponchione and Toby Young have joined young refugees and other students at Oxford Spires Academy encouraging them to develop their ideas and work on music to accompany their poetry. This culminates in three...
- October 24, 2018
As part of our developing relationship with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, we are delighted that the students have started taking online lessons with OSJ musicians. Currently the students take lessons with OSJ Principal Trumpet Paul Archibald, Associate Conductor...
- October 24, 2018
See Nicola Lisle’s article in the Oxford Times of 6 September 2018: “It’s been a wonderful journey,” John Lubbock says as he looks back on a remarkable 50 years as conductor of the Orchestra of St John’s. John founded the...
- September 7, 2018
The wonderfully talented Cayenna Ponchione has just left for a week in Kabul, where she can work on the ground to help bring the Afghan Women’s Orchestra to Oxford next March. She is staying with Peymana Assad (Councillor for Harrow,...
- July 27, 2018
