This was a special evening of music-making by Oxford’s leading amateur orchestra, Oxford Sinfonia. Securely and sensitively conducted by Robert Weaver, these talented local musicians came together to fill the […]
We played our 40th Anniversary concert to a full St Mary’s Church on 23 Sep. The special occasion was conducted by Joe Davies, who arranged Tallis’ Spem in Alium for […]
We accompanied the East Oxford Community Choir in their performance of the Elgar’s epic, The Apostles on 1 June. What a fabulous concert! Conductor James Longstaffe said, I wanted to […]
What an exciting concert we had last Saturday Jan 27th! It was one of those that left the orchestra members buzzing. And the feedback from the audience of almost 300 […]
The best of Russia meets Oxford’s top amateur orchestra – add in a divine virtuoso violinist, and the result is stratospheric! It was a brave all-Russian programme in today’s cancel […]
John Dunston of the Daily Info reviewed our performance of Messiah with vOx this Dec…. ‘The orchestra and chorus were inexhaustible. Despite some judicious and sensible cuts, this is still […]
What a treat for our June concert. We were conducted by the fabulous Chloe Rooke, whose engagement with the orchestra and enthusiasm are unbelievable and made the Brahms symphony very […]
French horn blasts and a distinct piccolo It’s a fair way from a chilly, damp winter evening on Oxford’s High Street to perhaps a spring morning at St Mark’s Basilica, […]
When my old college friend George Caird told me that he was planning to perform my piece Heroic Strokes of the Bow with an amateur orchestra, my initial thought was “is that wise?” Recently […]
Listen here to Copland Appalachian Spring, from an Oxford Sinfonia concert in April 2017 conducted by Cayenna Ponchione
