Benjamin Appl, Miah Persson, Dame Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha Headline Oxford International Song Festival 2023
By David SalazarThe Oxford International Song Festival has unveiled the schedule for its 2023 season.
Kicking off the festival will be “Quiet Music: A Draw-Along,” featuring mezzo-soprano Bethany Horak-Hallet, pianist Natalie Burch, and Julia Thaxton. The program includes works by Schubert, Clara Schumann, and Hildegard von Bingen, among others.
Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2023
Soprano Soraya Mafi will be joined by such artists as James Atkinson, Vahid Taremi, Farshad Saremi & Sholto Kynoch for “The Phoenix,” an event featuring a new song cycle by Iranian composer Mahdis Golzar Kashani.
Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2023
Dame Sarah Connolly joins forces with Dame Imogen Cooper for music by Schumann, Loewe, Mahler, and Duparc. The performance will also feature a showcase of Beethoven’s “An die ferne Geliebte” performed by Guy Elliott and Hamish Brown.
Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2023
There will be an homage to Yves Saint Laurent featuring James Way, Natalie Burch, and Samantha Rodulfo. The showcase features works by Mahler and Offenbach, among others.
Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2023
Mezzo Rowan Hellier will perform alongside pianist Jonathan Ware in works by Rita Strohl, Kurt Weill, and Ethel Smyth.
Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2023
Freya Holliman, Neil Balfour, and Joseph Ramadan perform French songs.
Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2023
Benjamin Appl and Sholto Kynoch perform works by Schumann, Wolf, Debussy, Poulenc, and Weill, among others, in “Forbidden Fruit.”
Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2023
Clara Orif and Nicholas Cronk perform works by Purcell and Charpentier.
Performance Date: Oct. 15, 2023
Theodore Platt and Keval Shah deliver songs of freedom and protest in “Poet of Freedom.”
Performance Date: Oct. 15, 2023
The Choir of The Queen’s College will perform choral works to celebrate the 400th anniversary of William Byrd and the Shakespeare First Folio held by The Queen’s College.
Performance Date: Oct. 15, 2023
Jess Dandy and Joanna Harries headline “SongPath.”
Performance Date: Oct. 16, 2023
Helen Charlston and Sholto Kynoch perform works by Schumann, Fanny, and Felix Mendelssohn, Loewe, and Josephine Lang. There will also be a world premiere of a work by Héloïse Werner.
Performance Date: Oct. 16, 2023
Oksana Lepska, Rustam Khanmurzin, and Philip Ross Bullock headline a concert celebrating the works of Rachmaninoff.
Performance Date: Oct. 16, 2023
Christopher Maltman will perform alongside Audrey Saint-Gill in a program of music related to such artists as Picasso, Chagall, and Michelangelo, among others. The program is entitled “The Painter’s Work.” This showcase also includes performances by Marina Tsaroucha and Frasier Hickland.
Performance Date: Oct. 16, 2023
Lotte Betts-Dean, Joanna MacGregor, and Samuel West appear in a concert featuring works by Satie, Cage, Schumann, and Schubert.
Performance Date: Oct. 17, 2023
Clara Barbier Serrano, Joanna Kacperek, Fiona Maddocks, and Richard Ovenden headline “A Human Document.”
Performance Date: Oct. 17, 2023
Christine Rice, Timothy Ridout, Julius Drake, Edward Kim, and Emily Hoh will present music by Brahms, Haydn, and Bridge, among others.
Performance Date: Oct. 17, 2023
Stephan Loges and Christoph Berner perform works by Mahler, Amy Beach, Charles Ives, and Ethel Smyth.
Performance Date: Oct. 18, 2023
Jonathan Eyers and Thomas Eeckhout will lead the Composition workshop, performing new works by six student composers.
Performance Date: Oct. 18, 2023
Laurence Kilsby and Ella O’Neill perform music by Brahms, Prokofiev, Rebecca Clarke, and Weill.
Performance Date: Oct. 18, 2023
Miah Persson and Malcolm Martineau perform works by Schumann, Stenhammar, Grieg, and Sibelius. The concert also includes performances by Felix Gygli and JongSun Woo.
Performance Date: Oct. 18, 2023
Samuel Hasselhorn and Markus Hadulla deliver a program of works by Brahms and Schubert.
Performance Date: Oct. 19, 2023
The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, Owen Rees, Henrike Lähnemann, The Choir of St Edmund Hall, and James Whitbourn deliver “Goostly Psalms” by Coverdale.
Performance Date: Oct. 19, 2023
Francesca Chiejina and Jocelyn Freeman perform works by Nigerian composers Laz Ekwueme and Ayo Bankole, among others.
Performance Date: Oct. 19, 2023
Voice Trio performs in “Hildegard Transfigured.”
Performance Date: Oct. 19, 2023
Gweneth Ann Rand and Simon Lepper perform in “Colour Revolution.”
Performance Date: Oct. 20, 2023
The Choir of Keble College and Christopher Bucknall perform works by Parry and Sullivan.
Performance Date: Oct. 20, 2023
Juliane Banse and Alexander Krichel perform “Winterreise.”
Performance Date: Oct. 21, 2023
Graham Johnson, Martha Guth, and Stephan Loges perform works by Schubert.
Performance Date: Oct. 21, 2023
Karola Pavone and Boris Radulović perform works by Schubert in a program called “Eros & Psyche.”
Performance Date: Oct. 21, 2023
The Erlkings give their own rendering of “Die schöne Müllerin.”
Performance Date: Oct. 22, 2023
Siân Dicker and Natalie Burch headline “Images of Schubert.”
Performance Date: Oct. 22, 2023
Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson perform “Die schöne Müllerin.” The performance also features appearances by Dame Janet Suzman, Anna Cavaliero, and James Turnbull.
Performance Date: Oct. 22, 2023
Karla Grant, Angharad Rowlands, Jonathan Eyers, and Jia Ning Ng perform in “Transparencies.”
Performance Date: Oct. 22, 2023
Jennifer Ronyak, Karla Grant, Angharad Rowlands, Jonathan Eyers, and Jia Ning Ng headline “The Original Müllerin.”
Performance Date: Oct. 22, 2023
Catriona Morison and Malcolm Martineau perform works by Mahler, Strauss, and Korngold, among others.
Performance Date: Oct. 23, 2023
The Marcus Roberts Trio and soprano Anush Hovhannisyan perform from “The American Songbook.”
Performance Date: Oct. 23, 2023
Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside, Sofia Kirwan-Baez, and Alex Norton star in “Tell Me the Truth About Love,” which features works by Purcell, Caroline Shaw, Quilter, Fauré, and Fanny Mendelssohn.
Performance Date: Oct. 23, 2023
Thomas Oliemans, Malcolm Martineau, Annabel Kennedy, and Ana Manastireanu perform works by Wolf in “Devilishly Good Songs.”
Performance Date: Oct. 24, 2023
Harriet Burns, Alessandro Fisher, and Eugene Asti perform in a program entitled “The Mendelssohns.”
Performance Date: Oct. 24, 2023
Robin Tritschler & Christopher Glynn perform music by Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Parry, Walton, and Clarke, set to poems by William Blake.
Performance Date: Oct. 24, 2023
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and Simon Lepper perform music by Mahler and Strauss.
Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2023
Andrei Kymach and Llŷr Williams headline “Ukrainian Songs.”
Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2023
Runzhe Li and Mar Compte appear in “Michelangelo,” a program of music by Britten, Schubert, and Chinese composer Huang Tzu.
Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2023
Mercedes Gancedo and Sholto Kynoch perform music by Granados.
Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2023
Clarisse Dalles and Anne Le Bozec perform works by Nadia Boulanger, Henriette Puig-Roget, and Elsa Barraine.
Performance Date: Oct. 26, 2023
Castalian String Quartet and Julien Van Mellaerts perform Barber’s “Dover Beach” as well as music by Janácek and Mendelssohn.
Performance Date: Oct. 26, 2023
Hugh Cutting and Dylan Perez deliver the world premiere of Alex Ho’s “The Glass Eye.”
Performance Date: Oct. 26, 2023
Jacques Imbrailo and Alisdair Hogarth perform Schumann’s “Dichterliebe.”
Performance Date: Oct. 27, 2023
Mary Bevan and Anna Tilbrook perform music by Fauré and a new work by Roxanna Panufnik.
Performance Date: Oct. 27, 2023
Tangram will perform “Three Pebbles.”
Performance Date: Oct. 27, 2023
Olivia Vermeulen and Jan Philip Schulze headline “Hello Darkness.”
Performance Date: Oct. 27, 2023
Toby Spence, Isabelle Peters, Sholto Kynoch, I Fagiolini, and Robert Hollingworth perform a program that includes music by Schubert.
Performance Date: Oct. 28, 2023
There will be a Mastercourse Concert that provides a culmination for the numerous courses throughout the week.
Performance Date: Oct. 28, 2023
James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook perform with students from the Faculty of Music in a program entitled “Tableaux Vivants.”
Performance Date: Oct. 28, 2023
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