Keble Early Music Festival 2025

Name: Keble Early Music Festival 2025
Start: 2025-02-25T18:00:00+0000
End: 2025-03-01T19:30:00+0000

25 February 2025 18:00

Keble College Chapel

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

OSJ Ensemble Launch Concert

29 October 2026

Jan Schmolck, violin, and Howard Moody, harpsichord and piano

Villiers Quartet with Alexander McNamee (piano) and Emily Chambers (double bass)

29 October 2026

Rebecca Clarke: Poem (Adagio) for String Quartet (1926) Haydn: String Quartet in Bb major, op. 76/iv, “Sunrise” (1797) William Alwyn: String Quartet No. 9, "Romeo & Juliet” (1931) Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, “Trout” (1819)

TYNDALE500 : Let there be Light

30 October 2026

Five hundred years ago, one book was smuggled, hunted and burnt. The words contained in this book changed the English language forever. This October, you can experience the drama for yourself.

Ensemble Isis | Andrew Hamilton

30 October 2026

Music by the Dublin-born composer, Andrew Hamilton, alongside new works by student composers.

International Piano Series: Yuko Sano

31 October 2026

Sunny Mozart, sparkling Scarlatti, Chopin strutting proudly, Schubert’s Theme and Variations, and the excitement of the UK premiere of Jacques Allen’s prize-winning composition.

Strings masterclass with Professor Matthew Jones

02 November 2026

An afternoon masterclass with Matthew Jones, Professor of Viola and Head of Chamber Music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, exploring repertoire, technique and the art of ensemble playing.