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Graduate Open Day 2025

view of the great hall at the stephen a schwarzman centre for the humanities
28 November 2025 09:00
Online

The Faculty of Music is excited to host its first online Graduate Open Day, live from our new home in the Schwarzman Centre, on November 28th! Join us to find out more about our graduate courses, meet our Director of Graduate Studies and Master's Convenor, and chat to some of our current students.

As this is an online-only event, registration is essential. Please use this form to register your interest.

If you have any questions please email academic.admin@music.ox.ac.uk. We look forward to meeting you!

 

Schedule

9:00 - An Introduction to the Faculty

Professor Martyn Harry (Master's Convenor)

Professor Sarah Hill (Director of Graduate Studies)

9:30 - Information on our DPhil Programme

Professor Sarah Hill

9:30 - Information on our MSt & MPhil Programme

Professor Martyn Harry

10:00 Masters - Composition/Performance session

Professor Martyn Harry / Dr Maria Razumovskaya

10:30 - Current Student Q&A 

Q&A with our Graduate students. A chance to discuss life at Oxford and answer questions.

<speaks> | Tomomi Adachi

26 October 2026
Adachi will talk about his wide-ranging practice spanning music, poetry and visual art. Topics will include human voice, composition, improvisation, performance technique (and its absence), site-specific work, technology and artificial intelligence. The talk may also include a short performance designed for the online format.

Brother Tree Sound

27 October 2026
A journey through British folk music.

The Chamber Concerts: Beethoven with the Neruda Quartet I

28 October 2026
2026 Tillett Debut Artists the Neruda Quartet perform string quartets by Mozart and Beethoven.

Phantom Melodies and Tangerine Trees: A voyage through the psychedelic musical experience

28 October 2026
Using musical illusions, perceptual experiments and examples from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tchaikovsky, Steve Reich and beyond, Prof. Milton Mermikides explores how music can evoke altered perceptions of time and self, the blending of senses and moments of transcendence, and why music relies on the very same perceptual mechanisms for its extraordinary power.

Migration, Performance & Policy seminar

29 October 2026
From Photos to Forensics: Borders and Fatalities in Calais, Italy, and the Mediterranean Sea

Book launch - ‘The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval Court Cultures’

29 October 2026
Presentations by editor Karl Kügle and authors Jane Gilbert, Christophe Masson, and Helen Swift