Indulge in the power and passion of opera, with timeless classics and lesser-known gems all performed by twelve rising stars.
Featuring the Act I finale from Puccini's La Boheme, and the Seguidilla from Bizet's Carmen, this evocative evening also includes music from Mozart, Handel, Gounod, Delibes and many more with the full orchestral backing of the Orchestra of St John's.
Music from the Wedding, the Coronation and the 50th Jubilee to include Handel Zadok the priest, Parry I was glad, Vaughan Williams, Wesley and Purcell
Our final concert of the spring transports the listener through the turning of the year with Vivaldi’s timeless, Four Seasons. Vivaldi’s music will be enhanced by a world premiere of composer-in-residence Toby Young’s four motets on ‘The Seasons’. Performed on the 25th of June at SJE Arts Oxford, this concert also features J.S. Bach’s Chaconne for solo violin performed alongside the chorales on which it is based. This exciting new performance practice will give the listener a new insight into the mind of one of our greatest composers.
This concert is in partnership with Oxford Festival of the Arts
Our celebrity narrator, the great Johnny Ball, children's TV presenter (Play School) and father of DJ Zoe Ball, guides us through ‘a symphonic fairy tale’ that explores the mysteries of folklore and the wilderness, shedding new light on well-known pieces by Prokofiev and Saint-Saens, timeless folk-songs by Canteloube, and Rachmaninov’s enchanting Vocalise.
NOTE 6pm START
OSJ Voices and the Orchestra of St John’s join forces with musicians from the Ukraine in a poignant evening of beautiful music-making to raise vital funds. With masterworks by Ukrainian composers, and featuring Prayer for Ukraine by Silvestrov, Ukraine’s best-known living composer. Tickets for this concert now only available from Eventbrite.
Prize-winning pianist Rupert Egerton-Smith will perform Rachmaninov’s virtuosic rhapsody in this concert of baroque pieces reimagined by the great Romantic masters. Alongside Brahms’ take on Haydn and Beethoven’s version of Mozart’s famous duet from Don Giovanni, the concert features
Dvorak’s Symphonic Variations, based on his own song, The Fiddler, originally written for Male Voice Choir.