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Main Festival Events
Wednesday 21 February
1pm
ANTIQUUM DOCUMENTUM
Oxford’s newest early music choir presents a programme of Tudor music, featuring works from the Eton Choirbook
KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL Admission free
6pm CHORAL EVENSONG
Sung by The Choir of Keble College, including Victoria’s 8-part Magnificat Primi Toni
8pm THE BINCHOIS CONSORT
Guillaume Dufay 550
Andrew Kirkman and the multi-award winning Binchois Consort mark the 550th anniversary of Guillaume Dufay
KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL Tickets: £35/£25/£10 students
Thursday 22 February
1pm
THE BATE COLLECTIVE
A showcase by Oxford University’s historical performance ensemble
KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL Admission free
8pm
DIVINE UTTERANCE: French Penitential Masterpieces
Lucy Cox, Victoria Meteyard (sopranos), Susanne Heinrich (basse de viole), Edward Higginbottom (director)
François Couperin, Magnificat à 2
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Récit de flûtes (1710)
Richard Delalande, Miserere mei
Pierre Dumage, trio (1708)
François Couperin, Troisième Leçon de ténèbres à 2
KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL Tickets: £15/students free
Friday 23 February
1pm
THE ART OF INNUENDO
Keble’s Graduate Choral Assistants present a programme of lute song and madrigals exploring themes of seduction and eroticism
KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL Admission free
4pm
THE PURSUIT OF MUSICK
Nicholas Kenyon in conversation with Andrew Parrott about his life in music and 50 years of the Taverner Choir, Consort & Players
O’REILLY THEATRE, KEBLE COLLEGE Tickets: £10/£5 students
7.30pm
PLAYING SAMUEL PEPYS
Andrew Parrott is joined by friends, including Jakob Lindberg (lute), Richard Boothby (viol), Emily Van Evera (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor) and Silas Wollston (keyboards) for a musical voyage through the diaries of Samuel Pepys, interspersed with music by Matthew Locke, John Blow, Henry Purcell and more.
KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL Tickets: £35/£25/£10 students
Saturday 24 February
11am
AN ENDURING ENIGMA
An introduction to Bach’s most popular keyboard work. Robert Quinney in conversation with Stephen Farr
O’REILLY THEATRE, KEBLE COLLEGE
12 noon
J S BACH’S GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
Stephen Farr (harpsichord)
Composed for the ‘refreshment of the spirit’, Bach’s iconic ‘Goldberg’ Variations (BWV 988) performed on harpsichord by celebrated keyboardist Stephen Farr
O’REILLY THEATRE, KEBLE COLLEGE Tickets: £20/£7 students
7.30pm
HANDEL’S ACIS & GALATEA
Handel’s pastoral in a semi-staged production by Nicholas Heath, featuring The Choir of Keble College, Instruments of Time & Truth and soloists Anna Dennis (soprano), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) and Neal Davies (bass-baritone), directed from the harpsichord by Christian Wilson
KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL Tickets: £40/£30/£10 students
Workshops
Friday 16 February
2pm-5pm
BAROQUE STRING WORKSHOP WITH IT&T
An open baroque performance workshop for secondary-school aged students grades 6+ led by Oxford-based period instrument ensemble Instruments of Time & Truth in partnership with the Oxfordshire County Music Service. Baroque bows will be provided.
www.timeandtruth.co.uk/kemfworkshop2024
KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL Admission free
Saturday 17 February
10:30am-5.30pm
ANTICIPATING EASTER – VICTIMAE PASCHALI SETTINGS
A day-long workshop for voices and instruments (A=440) directed by Edward Higginbottom, in association with Thames Valley Early Music Forum
KEBLE COLLEGE CHAPEL £16 TVEMF members/£20 non-members from tvemf.org.uk/future-events
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