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This guide lists events at a glance, showing what’s on each month. See the highlights of What’s On for Oxford, featuring the best of things to do in Oxford – Live Music and Gigs, Family Events, Art & Culture, Food & Drink and much more. Oxford fundraisers and charity events.

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Keble Early Music Festival: Choral Evensong

Katya Davisson Keble College Chapel, Oxford, Oxford

Sung by Keble Chapel Choir, including Nicolas Gombert’s monumental Magnificat Tertii Toni.

Free

FRETWORK – Gibbons 400

Katya Davisson Keble College Chapel, Oxford, Oxford

In the 400th anniversary year of Orlando Gibbons’s death, the UK’s premiere Viol Consort present a programme in celebration of the great composer, to include the composer’s greatest chamber Fantasias and verse anthems performed by members of Keble Chapel Choir.

£10 – £35

Sounds of the City

Katya Davisson Keble College Chapel, Oxford, Oxford

From lively market square and raucous tavern, to serene chapel, Keble’s Graduate Choral Assistants present a musical jaunt through the early modern city in a programme of 16th and 17th century vocal music from across Europe.

Free admission, retiring collection.

STILE ANTICO – The Prince of Music – Palestrina in the Eternal City

Katya Davisson Keble College Chapel, Oxford, Oxford

Stile Antico marks its twentieth season by honouring the undisputed master of the style which gives the group its name: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose quincentenary falls in 2025. Palestrina’s stellar career was inextricably entwined with the Papacy and the great churches of Rome for which he composed. This programme explores the music he would […]

£10 – £35

THE BASILINDA CONSORT – Arise my Love

Katya Davisson Keble College Chapel, Oxford, Oxford

Oxford’s newest early music consort presents a programme drawing on new research relating to music from convents established expressly for English Catholic women across France, the Low Countries, and Portugal, through the 17th and early 18th centuries.

£7 – £25

Compline by Candlelight

Katya Davisson Keble College Chapel, Oxford, Oxford

Plainchant and polyphony sung by Keble Chapel Choir.

Free

BACH AND SONS – Organ Recital

Katya Davisson Keble College Chapel, Oxford, Oxford

Emeritus Organist of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom celebrates the musical lineage of the Bach family in a programme of music by the great Johann Sebastian and two of his sons.

Free admission, retiring collection

Monteverdi’s Laboratory

Katya Davisson Keble College Chapel, Oxford, Oxford

Featuring hand-picked student singers from across the university, coached by soprano Miriam Allan and harpsichordist Christopher Bucknall, this programme explores the astonishing laboratory of Monteverdi’s mind and explores the evolution of vocal music from renaissance polyphony to the dramatic music which evolved into opera as we know it today.

£5 – £10

THE RISE OF CREMONA – Virgil and the Violin

Katya Davisson Keble College Chapel, Oxford, Oxford

Benjamin Hebbert, one of the world’s leading violin experts, explores the rise of Cremona as the centre for instrument-making through the work of Andrea Amati during the latter half of the 16th century. The lecture will focus on Amati’s earliest violin (1564) now held at the Ashmolean as well as a presentation (with live performance) […]

£10

Keble Early Music Festival: Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’

Keble College Chapel Keble College Chapel, Parks Rd, Oxford, Oxford

In the climax of this year’s festival, Keble Chapel Choir are joined by the Instruments of Time and Truth and a stellar cast of young soloists in Purcell’s feted take on Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, in a semi-staged production by Nicholas Heath, directed by Christian Wilson.

£10 – £40
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