~ Cancelled owing to unforeseen circumstances ~ Please direct any enquiries to the Organiser ~ admin@osj.org.uk A theme of childhood opens our Spring season. Kodaly's gypsy-folk inspired dances reflect his boyhood home, whilst Ravel's playful Mother Goose Suite has enchanted generations. Soprano Hannah Davey performs Gorecki's heartrending contemplation of the love between mother [...]
An inclusive evening of inspirational music-making. Following its success last year, OSJ Music for Autism presents another inclusive concert, featuring two amazing pianists Derek Paravicini, Ashleigh Turley and other young musicians across the spectrum of neurodiversity With Poppy McGhee violin and Hannah Davey soprano. Born three and a half months prematurely, Derek is blind and has severe [...]
Seasons Greetings! Join Moving Music for relaxed concerts and a musical Christmas celebration with your favourite festive songs and carols. Expect uplifting singing, joy and laughter and some moments of peace in the beautiful setting of Dorchester Abbey. Duets and solos by Christopher Redgate (oboe & piano) and Celia Redgate (flute & violin) with [...]
Annual Carol Service and Installation of County Chaplain – St. John Ambulance, Oxfordshire This is a free Carol Service event and will have a fundraising collection for the work of the organiser St John's Ambulance.
Join soprano Rebecca Caine, accompanied by Nathan Martin, for a journey of self-discovery with help from writers including Bernstein, Bucchino, Guettel, La Chiusa, Sondheim, Weill and Yeston. Rebecca Caine is an international opera singer and actress who created the role of Cosette in Les Miserables for the RSC and was a celebrated Christine Daae in [...]
Johann Sebastian Bach’s epic B Minor Mass is Benson Choral Society’s next production in Dorchester Abbey on Saturday 25 November at 7.30 pm. Bach assembled this work towards the end of his life in 1748-9, incorporating music he had written for various occasions up to 30 years earlier, and it can be regarded as a [...]
Join the Churches Conservation Trust and the Friends of St Bartholomew’s on 4 December for a festive evening at Dorchester Abbey. Join us from 19:00 and take in the breathtaking surroundings of Dorchester Abbey and enjoy a glass of wine before listening to a performance from the Gregoriana choir. Directed by Julien Chilcott-Monk, [...]
‘Jo Harrop is a very fine jazz singer. When she sings, she moves me.’ Iggy Pop – BBC 6 Music ‘A rare mix of delicacy and boldness. Sheer perfection.’ The Guardian Bishop’s Court Farm in partnership with Hampstead Jazz Club proudly present A Jazzy Christmas Evening at Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, [...]
St Birinus Festival 3rd November 7pm William Byrd: Faith & Music in Elizabethan England A lecture-recital given by Professor Richard Rex and The Davey Consort directed by Ryan Wigglesworth. Saturday 4th 1pm Royal Academy of Music students will play the Mozart Wind & Piano Quintet K452 (joined by Ryan Wigglesworth), the Britten Phantasy [...]
Hft’s ‘Coming of Christmas’ returns to mediaeval Dorchester Abbey on Thursday 14 December, for a magical night of carols and seasonal songs, performed by choristers from all over the country! It will herald the 27th ‘Coming of Christmas’ event at the Abbey – a stunning, historic, Norman-era building which started life in the 12th Century. [...]
