January New Music Weekend II

Name: January New Music Weekend II
Start: 2025-01-16T21:30:00+0000
End: 2025-01-19T21:30:00+0000

Presented in association with DANSOX

16 January 2025 21:30

Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

Weekend pass £15 - £45

Following the immense success of our first January New Music Weekend last year, we are proud to present a festival of improvised work bringing together jazz (Zoe Rahman), free improvisation (Oxford Improvisers), experimental music (Red Lipstick), electronic music (Zack de Lelio and Jonathan Packham) and contemporary dance (Martha Tribe).

There is an event listing for each event - click the 'more information' link on each title below for more details:

Thursday 16 January, 5.30pm
Contemporary Dance
Martha Tribe: a discussion of choreographic practice
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Friday 17 January, 6pm
Dance Encounters I
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Friday 17 January, 8pm
Oxford Improvisers
is thin ice is nice
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Saturday 18 January, 1pm-10pm
Radio JdP
a day of LIVE radio performance
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Sunday 19 January, 11.30am
Electronic Music
Jonathan Packham: ghost (world premiere)
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Sunday 19 January, 2pm
Jazz: Zoe Rahman Masterclass
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Sunday 19 January, 7pm
Jazz: Zoe Rahman solo piano recital
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Rémy Ballot and OUO Solo Players - Bruckner: String Quintet, Mathilde Kralik: Nonet

08 November

Following their successful chamber ensemble programme of Mozart and Strauss last January, violinist and conductor Rémy Ballot is joined by a chamber ensemble drawn from members of OUO to give a concert that presents Bruckner’s resplendent String Quintet alongside the work of his student, Mathilde Kralik. Kralik’s Nonet is scored for the rare combination of clarinet, bassoon, two horns, string quartet and piano.

Music, Indigeneity and the Right to Listen

11 November to 13 November

A journey through three Listening Circles and The North American Indigenous Songbook

Migration, Performance & Policy seminar

12 November

From Iranian Classical Music to Bad Bunny: Resistance and Global Cultures in France, Canada and the US

All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music: Davitt Moroney (University of California, Berkeley)

12 November

Solo violin masterclass with Rémy Ballot

13 November

The Oxford University Orchestra is delighted to welcome distinguished violinist and conductor Rémy Ballot for a solo violin masterclass in Balliol College Chapel.

Faculty of Music Lunchtime Recital Series

13 November

Rilke’s Poetry