News & Features
Announcing our Summer Concerts for 2019
Announcing our upcoming concerts taking place over the course of the summer! May: Word of Thunder Cantatas for the Last Sundays in Trinity On 2nd November 1723, Bach was in Störmthal and performed Cantata 194 to dedicate their new organ. Full of extrovert colours,...
Bach’s Band: The Oboe
OBS offers people like me the platform to work intensively on solo singing in a supportive environment, and I believe it will have a fundamental impact on how a whole generation of young Oxford singers will develop
Choral Scholar Focus: Charlie Hodgkiss
Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training to date? I arrived at Keble College, Oxford to study Philosophy and Theology with a choral scholarship in 2015, having spent a year as a choral scholar at Truro Cathedral. In my final year studying at Keble, I took part...
Announcing our soloists for Easter Weekend
Announcing our soloists for the St John Passion and Easter Oratorio Our soloists for the St John Passion this year are Ben Johnson in the role of the Evangelist, Humphrey Thompson in the role of Christ, and Tom Lowen in the role of Pilate. They will be performing the...
The story behind Bach’s Leipzig audition
On 7th February 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach was called to audition for the role of Cantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig after the death of its incumbent, Johann Kuhnau, a year earlier. This role would lead to some of Bach’s finest compositions as he began his cantata...
Choral Scholar Focus: Steph Franklin
Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training to date? I’m a second-year music student at The Queen’s College, Oxford. I took a couple of gap years between school and university, and during that time I got involved in lots of choral singing, which was already a...
Bach’s Band: The Cello
OBS offers people like me the platform to work intensively on solo singing in a supportive environment, and I believe it will have a fundamental impact on how a whole generation of young Oxford singers will develop
Choral Scholar Focus: Miranda Ostler
Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training to date? I grew up in Hammersmith in London, and joined the Borough Choir as soon as I reached the minimum age. While I was growing up my mum was a professional singer, so as a toddler I went on tour with her with...
Choral Scholar Focus: Will Anderson
Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training to date? I owe a great deal of my early musical enthusiasm to my parents, and decided that I would follow my mum in taking up the viola when I was 9. The viola remained my primary instrument throughout much of my...
A Christmas Message from our Artistic Director
Today we are launching our 2018/19 programme as we transition into the second year of our twelve-year cycle performing all of J.S. Bach’s choral works.