University of Oxford
Faculty of Music
University of Oxford
Search

A discussion with Katherine Spencer and Alison Balsom

Historically-Informed Performance Practices

Bate Collection
11 March 2026 17:00
Recital Hall, The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, OX2 6GG
button book here

Free entry - registration required.

Bate Collection

We are delighted to be welcoming two trailblazing musicians known for their impact on historically-informed performance practices. Katherine Spencer from Orchestra of the Age Enlightenment is joined by trumpeter Alison Balsom for a discussion and show-and-tell about how their lives were and are shaped by being custodians of their instruments; people, events and things that inspired them through challenges, and the ground-breaking work that arose from all this. This event will be chaired by the Director of Performance, Dr Maria Razumovskaya.

The Chamber Concerts: Beethoven with the Neruda Quartet II

11 November 2026
2026 Tillett Debut Artists the Neruda Quartet perform string quartets by Haydn and Beethoven.

Music, Indigeneity and the Right to Listen

11 November 2026 to 13 November 2026
A journey through three Listening Circles and The North American Indigenous Songbook

Migration, Performance & Policy seminar

12 November 2026
From Iranian Classical Music to Bad Bunny: Resistance and Global Cultures in France, Canada and the US

All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music: Davitt Moroney (University of California, Berkeley)

12 November 2026

OUO & Rémy Ballot - Bruckner's 4th & Wagner

12 November 2026
OUO joins forces with Conductor Rémy Ballot at the Sheldonian Theatre for a majestic programme of Wagner Meistersinger Overture and Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (‘Romantic’).

Solo violin masterclass with Rémy Ballot

13 November 2026
The Oxford University Orchestra is delighted to welcome distinguished violinist and conductor Rémy Ballot for a solo violin masterclass in Balliol College Chapel.