Discover John Taverner

Tickets £5 - £15 (free for students)

Programme:
13:30: Registration and exhibition viewing
 14:00: Welcome
 14:15: Session One
    Magnus Williamson (Newcastle University) – Taverner of Boston
    Kerry McCarthy (Independent Scholar) – Taverner, Wolsey, and the art of musical patronage
    Andrew Hope (Independent Scholar) – Taverner and the Oxford ‘Lutherans’ in the 1520s
    Lay clerks of Christ Church Cathedral Choir directed by Peter Holder, selected works by John Taverner.
16:00: Break
16:30: Session Two
    David Maw (Christ Church, Oxford) – ‘not unlike a confused singing of birds’: Taverner’s instrumental legacy
    Nicholas Jones (Cardiff University) – Maxwell-Davies and Taverner
    David Skinner (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) in conversation with Kerry McCarthy – Performing Taverner
    Questions and answers with panel discussion.

Christ Church has been a home to musical excellence since its foundation. One of its earliest employees was John Taverner, appointed in 1526 as the first Informator choristarum (instructor of the choristers). He quickly established himself as a composer of national significance, and his music survived the strictures of the Reformation to be copied even a century after its composition. More recently, Taverner and his music inspired Peter Maxwell Davies in the composition of orchestral pieces and an opera. Find out about John Taverner: a panel of distinguished scholars give illustrated talks to introduce and discuss his life, his work, his legacy.

Registration includes refreshments (not lunch): £15; £5 concessions (for University of Oxford staff and alumni, and those over 65); free for students of any institution and those who are unemployed. Proof of eligibility must be presented with your ticket when you visit.

Registration and Session One will take place in the Upper Library.  Refreshments and Session Two will take place in the Research Centre, a short walk across the college.