White Horse Concerts

‘A Bard’s Tale’ takes the audience on a journey across time and continent, with music performed on guitar, Irish bouzouki, handpan and shruti box and voice, interspersed with readings of real letters that lend an emotional context to the music.

A concert of chamber music given by the distinguished international soprano Susan Gritton, accompanied by Victoria Medcalf on clarinet and Roy Stratford on the piano. Victoria and Roy are both members of the Torriano Ensemble, who performed a programme of music for piano and wind quintet as part of last year’s Stonevale Concerts.

This will be the second concert held by the Abingdon School Music Scholars, following a hugely successful concert at the same venue last year, and the Holywell Music Room earlier in the year.  The concert will consist of different instrumentalists, playing piano, bassoon, flute, violin and cello, as well as some chamber music.

"Resilience personified" - Since being diagnosed with breast cancer and focal dystonia in 2012 and Parkinson’s Disease in 2018, Nina Schumann has drawn on her status as one of South Africa’s foremost concert pianists to raise awareness about living with these conditions, while providing support and guidance to musicians navigating similar challenges.

Ben Schoeman will perform works from Ludwig van Beethoven, Ravel, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.

The Pavlova Wind Quintet has an impressively broad repertoire that includes music in several styles, from arrangements of light-hearted favourite tunes to the more substantial classics for wind quintet.
The aim of the group has been from the outset to explore the more unusual and exciting areas of the wind quintet repertoire. They delight in mixing the familiar and the unfamiliar, classical and ethnic, serene and virtuosic.
Over the years, the group has become one of the most enterprising and high-profile ensembles in Oxfordshire.

A programme exploring the intimate connection between poetry and music for string quartet. 

A programme exploring the intimate connection between poetry and music for string quartet. 

Programme tbc

French violin virtuoso François Pineau-Benois plays the Caprices by Paganini, whose amazing violin skills were believed to be a gift from the devil, in exchange of his soul. 

French violin virtuoso François Pineau-Benois will be playing the Caprices by Paganini, whose amazing violin skills were believed to be a gift from the devil, in exchange of his soul. 

Programme tbc

Programme tbc

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Mezzo-Soprano Jacobine van Laar and pianist Ilya Chetverikov - A program exploring operatic leading characters, based on literary and legendary figures.

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Programme tbc