Graduate Open Day 2025

The Faculty of Music is excited to host its first online Graduate Open Day, live from our new home in the Schwarzman Centre, on November 28th! Join us to find out more about our graduate courses, meet our Director of Graduate Studies and Master's Convenor, and chat to some of our current students.

As this is an online-only event, registration is essential. Please use this form to register your interest.

If you have any questions please email academic.admin@music.ox.ac.uk. We look forward to meeting you!

 

Schedule

9:00 - An Introduction to the Faculty

Professor Martyn Harry (Master's Convenor)

Professor Sarah Hill (Director of Graduate Studies)

9:30 - Information on our DPhil Programme

Professor Sarah Hill

9:30 - Information on our MSt & MPhil Programme

Professor Martyn Harry

10:00 Masters - Composition/Performance session

Professor Martyn Harry / Dr Maria Razumovskaya

10:30 - Current Student Q&A 

Q&A with our Graduate students. A chance to discuss life at Oxford and answer questions.

Joanna MacGregor Masterclass

Contrapunctus: Charles & Isabel - The Royal Wedding of 1526

Oxford’s renowned early-music consort Contrapunctus recreates the musical world surrounding one of the great royal marriages of the Renaissance: the wedding of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, and Isabella of Portugal in Seville in 1526.

Composition workshop with Oxford International Song Festival

Abolition Song and its Legacies

This is the final event of a two‑year research project, bringing together music, scholarship and contemporary reflection. Alongside performances, the hour‑long programme features contributions from the project’s researchers, offering insight into the historical and musical contexts behind the work.

Migration, Performance & Policy seminar

From Underground Rap to Tribute Song: Politics and Labour Migration in Nepal and the Philippines.

Children’s Music-Making in the Institution