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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...
  • December 27, 2025
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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...
  • December 9, 2025
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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....
  • November 21, 2025
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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...
  • November 12, 2025
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Alexander-Armstrong I am a massive Alexander Armstrong fan and listen to him presenting Classic FM at every opportunity, but I wanted to know more, and the chance to hear his ‘The Music In My Life’ at The Sheldonian accompanied by OSJ‘s extraordinary orchestra was too...
  • April 13, 2025
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You can’t get much more of a famous classic than Ravel’s Bolero. It must surely be up there with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – in terms of those four instantly recognisable and iconic notes. However, the Orchestra of St John’s made us wait for...
  • March 17, 2025
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