International Women's Day Concert with Phaedra Ensemble

Free entry. No registration required.

Retiring donations to the Faculty of Music are gratefully received.

 

The Faculty of Music at Oxford University celebrates women in film with an International Women's Day concert. We are delighted to welcome the exciting and innovative new music collective Phaedra Ensemble, who will be performing alongside Faculty of Music students in this recital.

Programme

Alexandra Hamilton Ayres Stair Echoes

Alexandra Hamilton Ayres Watercolour

Aftab Darvishi Daughters of Sol

Elisabeth Lutyens Requiescat *

Caroline Shaw Punctum

Rachel Portman Themes from Chocolat †

* with student soprano Emily Arlidge
† with student violinist Grace Shepherd

Phaedra Ensemble

Phaedra Ensemble creates music that exists in the spaces between classical, contemporary, and experimental genres, rethinking popular culture and collaborating across artistic boundaries.

Founded in 2014 by violinist and Artistic Director Phillip Granell, the group has evolved from a string quartet to a larger, flexible collective of like-minded performers, drawing from London's diverse contemporary and chamber music scene and collaborating with musicians and artists from diverse disciplines.

"Cross-genre collective Phaedra is part of a new breed of ensembles tearing up the rules of classical music and creating a trailblazing hotpot of sounds in their wake."

 M Magazine

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