Oxford Chamber Music Society

16/05/2026

Not t sure what to do on a cold Sunday afternoon? Join is tomorrow at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford at 3pm for a fantastic afternoon of chamber music with the Trio Gaspard Programme
Olli Mustonen – ‘Introduzione e Allegro alla Polacca’ (2022)
Haydn – Piano Trio No.39 in G major, Hob. XV/25, ‘Gypsy Rondo’
Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Roh-Rau (New Commission)
Arno Badadjanian - Piano Trio in F sharp minor
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Schubert – Piano Trio No.2 in E♭ major, Op.100, D.929

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09/05/2026

Don’t miss Trio Gaspard on Sunday 17 May 2026 at 3pm at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford.

Founded in 2010, the members of Trio Gaspard are each prize-winning artists in their own right, as well as having received many awards as an ensemble. The trio have performed in major venues throughout Europe and are established mentors to a new generation of young artists. They are not only acknowledged masters of the standard repertoire but also champions of neglected work. Their particular passion is for the music of Haydn, all of whose 46 trios they are in the process of recording. To accompany the project they have commissioned six new works, two of which they perform at this concert.

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15/04/2026

We welcome as our penultimate artists of the season the internationally acclaimed Quatuor Modigliani, who visit us as part of an itinerary that has so far taken in America, the Far East and an extensive tour of Europe. Their programme opens with music by the doyen of living composers, the Hungarian-born centenarian György Kurtág, whose 'microludes' (1977) present a dozen miniatures, each creating a sound world of its own. Haydn's F major work, opus 77 no.2, is his final completed quartet in which the ageing composer's powers show no sign of waning. Brahms strived for decades to produce a quartet that satisfied his exacting standards. In the first of his opus 51 pair (in C minor) the intense drama of the outer movements embraces a Romanze and Intermezzo that reveal a far more intimate nature.

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Sunday 19 April at 3.00pm
in the Holywell Music Room

12/04/2026

The Quatuor Modigliani, one of the most sought-after quatuors in the world is back in Oxford on Sunday the 19th of April at 3pm after their sell-out concert at the Sheldonian in 2023. Founded in 2003, they have established a remarkable reputation for the quality of their musicianship in performance, gaining many plaudits. A review in Süddeutsche Zeitung places them as ‘One of today’s best quartets in the world…Balance, transparency, symphonic comprehension, confident style, their performance reached a very high and inspiring level’. The quartet has also released 15 recordings, many of which have received international critical acclaim.
This will be an afternoon of sparkling chamber music, much to be anticipated.
Amaury Coeytaux (violin), Loïc Rio (violin), Laurent Marfaing (viola), François Kieffer (cello)
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06/02/2026

The forecast for Sunday is RAIN, so why not joining us for a warm afternoon of chamber music on Sunday at 3pm at the Holywell Music Room with the Coull Quartet. They will open their concert with Haydn’’s sparkling Op.74, No.1 quartet which is full of harmonic surprises and ending in a brilliant, energetic romp. The repressive background to Shostakovich’s musical career in the Soviet Union is well-known. Its effect on the composition of his majestic 4th quartet is evident in his choice of folk idioms, especially Jewish ones. It was a way for him to write politically acceptable yet deep and significant music. Today’s concert is completed by Dvořák’s 9th quartet, a piece also containing fragments of lively Eastern European folk dances yet one that is infused with wistfulness…We can’t wait for Sunday…

The Coull Quartet is extremely grateful to Paul Barritt for standing in as second violin for this concert, following the recent untimely death of Philip Gallaway. Philip had been the Quartet’s second violin for 51 years.
Roger Coull (violin), Paul Barritt (violin), Jonathan Barritt (viola), Nicholas Roberts (cello)

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03/02/2026

Join us Sunday the 8th at 3pm at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford for an afternoon with the Coull Quartet playing Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvořák.
Since the mid-1980s the Coull Quartet has made over 30 recordings featuring a wide selection of the repertoire closest to their hearts, from the complete Mendelssohn and Schubert quartets to 20th century and contemporary British chamber music. Their CD of quartets by Maw and Britten on the Somm label received universal acclaim; in addition to being featured in ‘Editor’s Choice’ in The Gramophone, it was also described as the ‘Benchmark Recording’ by BBC Music Magazine.

The Coull Quartet is extremely grateful to Paul Barritt for standing in as second violin for this concert, following the recent untimely death of Philip Gallaway. Philip had been the Quartet’s second violin for 51 years.
Roger Coull (violin), Paul Barritt (violin), Jonathan Barritt (viola), Nicholas Roberts (cello)

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07/01/2026

Are you tired of the cold? How about a an afternoon of warm music? OCMS opens 2026 with a trio of three highly accomplished musicians, Ben Goldscheider, Anna Tilbrook, and James Gilchrist in an exploration of music for horn, tenor and piano. Songs and instrumental works by Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann feature in the first half of their programme; Britten's inspired collaboration with outstanding musicians of his own generation, Denis Brain and Peter Pears, is the focus of the second half. Canticle III 'Still falls the rain' is a setting of Edith Sitwell's dark vision of Christ's Passion as a metaphor for the 1940 Blitz. The Serenade, op.31, originally for tenor, horn and string orchestra (here replaced by piano) is an inspired sequence of poems by various authors depicting nightfall and sleep.
Sunday 13/01 3pm Holywell Music Room, Oxford.

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07/01/2026

06/12/2025

£5 chamber music concert tickets for the 8 to 25. Tomorrow 3pm Holywell music room , Oxford. Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/jdoevvodmnpv or at the door

06/12/2025

cold and damp? How about spending your Sunday afternoon in the warm Holywell Music Room in Oxford, from 3pm enjoying a great chamber music programme by the Eusebius Quartet:
Schubert – Quartettsatz in C minor, D703
Mozart – Quartet No.19 in C major, K465, ‘Dissonance’
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Erich Korngold – String Quartet No.1 in A major, Op.16

Beatrice Philips (violin), Alessandro Ruisi (violin), Ting Ru Lai (viola),�Hannah Sloane (cello)

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