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Orchestra of St John’s Concerts and events 2019 www.osj.org.uk
John Lubbock OBE conductor E admin@osj.org.uk
Cayenna Ponchione associate conductor T 07775 904626
Orchestra of St John’s
OSJ Voices OSJ Ashmolean Voices
OSJ PROMS AT THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 2019
Thursday 14 February Wednesday 15 May Wednesday 9 October
OSJ Ashmolean Voices OSJ Strings Johanna Roehrig violin
Hannah Davey vocals, Derek Solo Voice Orchestra of St John’s
Paravicini keyboard Cayenna Ponchione conductor ‘English Pastoral’
‘Music for Valentines Day’ ‘In our hands’ Vaughan Williams Lark
Butterworth: On the Banks of Ascending
Wednesday 20 March Green Willow Delius On hearing the last
Margarita Balanas cello Toby Young: (Premiere of a Cuckoo in spring
Orchestra of St Johns setting of Tony Isaac's poem) Finzi
Milhaud Suite d’apres Corrette In Our Hands Sarasate Carmen Fantasy
Saint Saens cello concerto no 1 Grace Williams: Sea Sketches
Faure Elegy Britten Folk Songs set Wednesday 13 November
Faure Pelleas et Mellisande Ilona Domnich soprano
Saturday 1 June Orchestra of St John’s
Tuesday 9 April John Heley cello Debussy Children’s corner
Jan Schmolck and Howard OSJ Ashmolean Voices Mussorgsky Nursery songs
Moody violin and harpsichord OSJ Strings Tchaikovsky Children’s
‘Baroque masterpieces’ Purcell Chaconne songs
Bach Sonatas 3 and 6 for Matthias Monn cello concerto Rachmaninov Vocalise
harpsichord and violin, Handel Dixit Dominus Schumann Kinderszenen
Movements from Sonata no 1
and Partita no 1 for solo violin, Sunday 15 December
Preludes, Fugues and OSJ Ashmolean Voices
improvisations for harpsichord Christmas carols
CONCERTS START AT 7.30pm
SJE ARTS, OXFORD OTHER VENUES
Saturday 20 April Saturday 8 June
SJEArts, Iffley Road, Oxford NEW HOUSE, HANNEY at the Invitation of Robert and
Schubert Stabat Mater Caroline Jackson
Bach cantata 82 Beethoven three late piano sonatas
Verdi Stabat mater Maki Sekiya piano
OSJ Ashmolean Voices, In aid of our community projects.
John Lubbock, OSJ
TICKETS WWW.OSJ.ORG.UKJohn Lubbock OBE conductor E admin@osj.org.uk
Cayenna Ponchione associate conductor T 07775 904626
Orchestra of St John’s
OSJ Voices OSJ Ashmolean Voices
‘MY MUSIC’ 2019
A concert series in which famous people discuss the music that has meant the most to
them in their lives. OSJ plays arrangements of their chosen pieces. Lunchtimes at 1pm at
the WIGMORE HALL, LONDON
Sir Vince Cable Tchaikovsky String Beethoven 6 slow movement
Politician serenade Ella Fitzgerald It was one of
Thursday 28 February An aria from La Boheme those things
Bach: An Ella FitzGerald song Vivaldi Four seasons
Brandenberg concerto No 3 Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
Double violin concerto Mary Archer Grover Washington junior Just
Am abend …Marche dich Chair, Science Museum the two of us
from St Matthew Passion Tuesday 21 May
Mozart: Helen Grime Into the Sir Roy Strong
Piano concerto No 20 in D Faded Air Historian and Gardener
minor Bach – from The Art of Tuesday 26 November
Zauberflote (the bass solos Fugue Elgar Theme, WN and
of Sarastro) Onaway, Awake Beloved! Dorabella from Enigma
Tenor solo aria from Variations
Stanley Johnson Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast Ivor Novello 'We'll gather
Journalist by Samuel Taylor lilacs' from Perchance to
Friday 22 March Coleridge Butterworth Dream.
Handel Art Thou Troubled? The Lads in their Byrd Pavane and galliard
Opening of Brahms Violin Hundreds William Walton Two pieces
Concerto Freddie’s song On the from Henry V
Largo from Dvorak New Street Where You Live, Puccini ‘Mi chiamino Mimi'’
World Symphony from My Fair Lady from La Boheme
Rondo from Mozart Horn The Holy City
Concerto no 4 Alan Titchmarsh
I was glad CH Parry Kevin Whately TV presenter and gardener
Brahms Variation on a Actor Thursday 12 December
theme by Haydn Tuesday 17 September Mozart Queen of the Night
Atlas from Julia Gray's album Smetana Moldau from Ma aria - Magic Flute
The Robber Bride Vlast Vaughan Williams The Lark
Howell’s King David Ascending
Sir Trevor McDonald Northumbrian folk song Beethoven Symphony no 6
Journalist and broadcaster Pastoral
Tuesday 30 April Nicholas Parsons Mozart Soave sia il Vento -
Elgar String Serenade Actor Cosi fan Tutti
Barber Adagio for strings Tuesday 29 October Tchaikovsky Rose Adagio -
Sleeping BeautyJohn Lubbock OBE conductor E admin@osj.org.uk
Cayenna Ponchione associate conductor T 07775 904626
Orchestra of St John’s
OSJ Voices OSJ Ashmolean Voices
DORCHESTER ABBEY
Patron Rick Rowse
Good Friday 19 April 6pm Saturday 23 November 7.30
Schubert Stabat Mater Mascagni Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana
Bach cantata 82 Rachmaninov piano concerto no 2
Verdi Stabat mater soloist Maki Sekiya
OSJ Voices, John Lubbock Rosauro marimba concerto
Orchestra of St John’s soloist Gregor Thomson
Verdi Prelude from Traviata
Saturday 21 September 7.30 Bizet Suite from Carmen
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture John Lubbock, Orchestra of St John’s
Bruckner five Motets
Brahms violin concerto soloist Jan Sat 14 December 7.30
Schmolck Christmas Carols with CLEAR SKY
OSJ Ashmolean Voices OSJ Ashmolean Voices
Saturday 12 October 7.30
Saturday 21 December 7.30
Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle
Tenor Xavier Hetherington, Alto Ellie Handel‘s Messiah
Edmunds, Bass Fraser Scott Orchestra of St John’s, OSJ Voices
Soprano Ilona Domnich
OSJ Voices, John Lubbock Tuesday 31 December 7pm
Catherine Edwards piano, Howard Moody New Years Eve Strauss Gala
harmonium Strauss songs and waltzes
ST JOHNS SMITH SQUARE, WESTMINSTER
Friday 6 December 7.30 Tuesday 31 December 2pm
Handel’s Messiah New Years Eve Strauss Gala
Orchestra of St John’s Strauss songs and waltzes
OSJ Voices, John Lubbock OSJ, John Lubbock
‘MY MUSIC’ in OXFORD FESTIVALOF THE ARTS
Prue Leith Gershwin Summertime Faure Requiem Pie Jesu
Author and TV Elgar cello concerto slow Ella Fitzgerald Cry me river
movt Haydn Cello concerto 3rd
celebrity Ella Fitzgerald Skylark movt
Thursday 4 July 8pm Dory Previn Beware of
Mozart Eine kleine 1st movt young girlsJohn Lubbock OBE conductor E admin@osj.org.uk
Cayenna Ponchione associate conductor T 07775 904626
Orchestra of St John’s
OSJ Voices OSJ Ashmolean Voices
OSJ IN THE COMMUNITY
‘Displaced Voices’
Music and poetry by local children and refugees October 2018 - January 2019
Workshops at Oxford Spires Academy and Immigration Removal Centres. Panel
discussion at Somerville College, concerts at Somerville and Kings Place, London.
Panel discussion: Reception:
Friday 18 January 5.30pm Friday 18 January 6.30pm
Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville Open House Oxford, 36 Little
College Clarendon Street
Oxford Poetry Library will present a brief
The third in a series of lively panel showcase of poetic voices, reading their
discussions at Somerville College work on the subject of displacement,
exploring the issues facing refugees in the migration and home. This will feature
UK hosted by the college’s principal, Jan short performances from Yousif
Royall. With a focus on refugees’ lived Qasmiyeh, Nancy Campbell, Mukahang
experiences in finding places and voices in Limbu, Shara Lessley, and Muradi Bakir,
their communities, the panel will include sharing their stories of movement in
Revd Jo Moffett-Levy (Open Door Oxford), landscapes as far-flung as arctic Greenland
Caroline Beatty (City of Sanctuary UK), and and the Syrian civil war, exploring how
Prof Samantha Dieckmann (Music, homes can be left, moved, and
University of Oxford). made. Open House Oxford is a public
talking shop on housing and
homelessness.
This project has been made possible by generous support from Arts Council England, The
Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, the University of Oxford’s Community Grants
Fund, the Derrill Allatt Foundation, Doris Field Charitable Trust, Sir Christopher and Lady
Wendy Ball, and Robin and Jeanne Stainer.John Lubbock OBE conductor E admin@osj.org.uk
Cayenna Ponchione associate conductor T 07775 904626
Orchestra of St John’s
OSJ Voices OSJ Ashmolean Voices
OSJ IN THE COMMUNITY
‘Displaced Voices’ Ftoun Abou Kerech (premiere)
Dimitry Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony,
Music and poetry by local children and
Op. 110a
refugees
Displaced Voices Spoken Word with Orchestra
Concerts: Halema Malak: My Grandpa and Dad
Friday 18 January 7.30pm Timileyin Amusan: English and England
Somerville College Oxford Merzia Qahramany: Last Year’s Dreams and
Ghazal: Silence
Saturday 19 January 7.30pm
Ftoun Abou Kerech: My Country is Bleeding,
Kings Place London Joined by Play for My Country is Wounded
Progress
Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings
These concerts are the culmination of OSJ’s
three-month community engagement
Oxford Spires Academy students
project with the Oxford Spires Academy.
OSJ strings
Four refugee and migrant students from
Charlottte Tetley mezzo soprano
the Academy have worked with composer
Conductor Cayenna Ponchione
Toby Young and OSJ’s associate conductor,
Cayenna Ponchione, to create orchestral
‘backing tracks’ to spoken word
performances of their own poems. The
The Kings Place performance will also feature
project builds on the award-winning
special guests, violinist/singer-songwriter,
poetry programme at the school developed
Alice Zawadski, and the young musicians of
by author Kate Clanchy. Three additional
Play for Progress. PFP delivers therapeutic
poems from Clanchy’s edited volume of the
and educational music programmes for young
students’ poems: England: Poems from a
people impacted by conflict, to help them
School (Picador), have been set by
avoid isolation and engage with, learn
professional composers for voice and
through, and explore their capabilities in
orchestra.
music.
For information and tickets please visit:
Displaced Voices Song Set
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/
Sadie Harrison My Hazara People text by
classical/displaced-voices/
Shukria Rezaei
Shirley Thompson Papa text by Mukahang
Limbu (premiere)
Toby Young Doves of Damascus text by
Tickets www.osj.org.ukJohn Lubbock OBE conductor E admin@osj.org.uk
Cayenna Ponchione associate conductor T 07775 904626
Orchestra of St John’s
OSJ Voices OSJ Ashmolean Voices
OSJ IN THE COMMUNITY
Music for Autism
Musicians from the orchestra led by John
Lubbock provide 50-60 concerts in
special schools in Oxfordshire and the
south of England throughout the year. Feb to July 2019
New Marston Primary Oxford February 12
Carwarden House Community School Camberley February 12
Yewstock School Sturminster Newton February 27
Mabel Prichard School (Upper) Littlemore March 1
Priors Court School Newbury March 5
Norman Gate School Andover March 19
Icknield School Andover March 19
Jigsaw school Cranleigh April 1
Sherbourne Fields School Coventry April 9
Colnbrook School Watford May 22, 2019
Billing Brook Special School Northampton May 23, 2019
Endeavour Academy Headington June 5, 2019
Hill House School Lymington June 10, 2019
Heltwate Special Needs School Peterborough June 13, 2019
John Watson School Oxford June 14, 2019
Freemantles School Woking June 20, 2019
Booker Park Community School Aylesbury July 3, 2019
Sherbourne Fields School Coventry July 10, 2019
Kennel Lane School Bracknell July 12, 2019
Jigsaw school Cranleigh July 18, 2019John Lubbock OBE conductor E admin@osj.org.uk
Cayenna Ponchione associate conductor T 07775 904626
Orchestra of St John’s
OSJ Voices OSJ Ashmolean Voices
OSJ IN THE COMMUNITY
Afghan Women’s Orchestra in Oxford and London
Part of a long term commitment to helping the students of the National Institute of
Music in Kabul
Timetable Formal concerts/events:
12th March Arrive in London from Sweden
– go directly to Oxford Wednesday 13 March Traditional
Afghan instruments demonstration at
13th March Rehearsals & masterclasses. Holywell Music Room, Oxford. Tickets
Evening presentation and demonstration from Music Faculty
of traditional Afghan instruments/music
in Oxford with John Baily and Veronica Thursday 14 March Schools concerts at
Doubleday (public event in the historic Welsy Memorial Church.
Holywell Music Room)
Thursday 14 March Panel discussion at
14th March Schools concerts followed by Somerville Tickets some. ox.ac.uk
Panel Discussion at Somerville College on
women’s education in Afghanistan (public Friday 15 March Concert and
event) fundraising event at British Museum for
Afghan Embassy, London Tickets
15th March Concert and fundraising event britishmuseum org
at British Museum
Saturday 16 March Concert at Harrow
16th March Rehearsals with Oxfordshire Arts Centre. Tickets harrowarts.org
county youth orchestra. Evening concert
at Harrow Arts Centre Sunday 17 March Sheldonian Theatre
Oxford at 5pm Tickets osj.org.uk
17th March Rehearsals and concert in the
Sheldonian Theatre Oxford (public Monday 18 March Lancaster House,
concert) London (invitation only)
18th March Lancaster House concert "Demonstrating OSJ’s renewed commitment
(invitation only) to increasing individual and community
wellbeing through arts participation via
world-class musical performances and
19th March Sight seeing in London
associated engagement projects,
collaborative activities and research
20th March Return to Kabul initiatives."
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