‘Awake to Wonder’ – an evening of lively conversation with William Blake and +Rowan Williams. Artist, Adrian Brooks, will be projecting his latest artwork on the walls of Dorchester Abbey. The six canvases based on the work of William Blake, along with words from Blake and music composed by Tim Cook, each provoke profound questions [...]
A Celebration of the Dance. Waltzes, Marches and favourites Galore! Our ever-popular New Year Concert returns. A concert to set the feet tapping, the hands clapping with its joyous dance music, dispelling all thoughts of winter’s cold.
A musical rite of the holiday season, the Baroque-era oratorio still awes listeners more than 250 years after the composer’s death.
Ding, dong, merrily on high! OSJ Voices will raise the roof in this festive evening of wide-ranging music celebrating Christmas.
More Details coming soon and ticket information for this wonderful fundraising evening in support of The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund
The Brandenburg Concertos are unique Baroque masterpieces, each concerto a showcase of distinct instrumentation and inventive style. Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor (BWV 1060R) stands as one of the great collaborations, not only between the two solo instruments but also between history and scholarship. His "Double" Concerto is arguably [...]
Ginestera Dances from Estancia no 2 and 4 Darius Milhaud's La création du monde (The Creation of the World) is a groundbreaking 1923 ballet blending African creation myths with the vibrant sounds of American jazz, featuring bitonal harmonies, syncopated rhythms and bluesy melodies. George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is a landmark American work, blending jazz [...]
A spirited homage to Zoltán Kodály's childhood memories, Dances of Galánta (1933) is a vibrant orchestral showpiece based on 18th-century Hungarian folk music. The Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor of 1887, was an olive branch offered to his estranged friend, the great violinist Joseph Joachim, with the cello part written [...]
Lili Boulanger's D'un matin de printemps is a brief, nuanced piece combining joyful high spirits with poignant introspection. Rejecting the flashy, empty virtuosity popular at the time, Schumann envisioned a new type of piano concerto - one where the piano and orchestra engage in a passionate, equal dialogue. Composed in just five weeks in late [...]
The St Birinus Festival brings together outstanding musicians, scholars, and communities for a celebration of sacred music in the beautiful setting of Dorchester-on-Thames. Over four days, experience concerts, liturgies, workshops, and talks that explore the rich heritage of Catholic musical tradition. Please note the Festival Events take place across multiple sites - Dorchester-on-Thames Village hall, [...]
