Keble Early Music Festival 2025
TUESDAY 25
6pm CHORAL EVENSONG
Sung by Keble Chapel Choir
7.30pm FRETWORK
Gibbons 400
The world’s leading consort of viols celebrates Orlando Gibbons in the 400th anniversary year of his death
£35/£25/£10 students
WEDNESDAY 26
1pm SOUNDS OF THE CITY
Keble’s Graduate Choral Assistants entertain with 16th and 17th century vocal music from across Europe
Free admission (retiring collection)
7.30pm STILE ANTICO
The Prince of Music – Palestrina in the Eternal City
Stile Antico marks its 20th season by honouring Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s quincentenary
£35/£25/£10 students
THURSDAY 27
1pm THE BATE COLLECTIVE
Oxford University students perform on historic instruments from the Bate Collection
Free admission (retiring collection)
7.30pm THE BASILINDA CONSORT
Arise my Love
Convent music from 17th and 19th century France, Portugal and the Low Countries performed by Oxford’s newest early music consort
£25/£20/£7 students
9pm COMPLINE BY CANDLELIGHT
Sung by Keble Chapel Choir
FRIDAY 28
1pm BACH & SONS
Emeritus Organist of New College Edward Higginbottom celebrates the musical lineage of the Bach family
Free admission (retiring collection)
5pm MONTEVERDI’S LABORATORY
Featuring hand-picked student singers coached by soprano Miriam Allan and harpsichordist Christopher Bucknall, with Instruments of Time & Truth
£10/£5 students
7.30pm HELEN CHARLSTON & FRIENDS
I Love and I Must
Fly alongside Purcell, Strozzi, Charpentier and Monteverdi in the pursuit of love with multi-award-winning Helen Charlston, harpsichordist Julian Perkins, bass viol Jonathan Manson and theorbist Bill Carter
£35/£25/£10 students
SATURDAY 1
12 noon THE RISE OF CREMONA
Virgil and the Violin
Benjamin Hebbert, one of the world’s leading violin experts, explores the work of Andrea Amati, and demonstrates the earliest Amati violin in private ownership (1572)
£10/£5 students
7.30pm PURCELL’S ‘THE FAIRY QUEEN’
Keble Chapel Choir are joined by Instruments of Time & Truth and a stellar cast of young soloists in a semi-staged production by Nicholas Heath, directed by Christian Wilson
£40/£30/£10 students
Tickets from www.ticketsoxford.com
Full details at https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/kemf
