
Stonevale Concerts
at
St. Giles

UPCOMING CONCERTS
Stonevale Concerts at St. Giles
Sunday
9 Mar 2025
4:00 pm
Voice, Clarinet & Piano Recital
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.
Friday
14 Mar 2025
7:00 pm
Abingdon School Scholars Concert
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.
Sunday
16 Mar 2025
4:00 pm
Nina Schumann - Music and Ilnesses
"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.
Sunday
6 Apr 2025
3:00 pm
Irena Radic - Piano Recital
An award-winning pianist and versatile chamber musician, Irena Radić is currently the Constant & Kit Lambert Junior Fellow 2024/25 at the Royal College of Music. She enjoys curating programmes that follow a narrative or theme, sharing a diverse range of music with her audiences - from renowned masterworks to lesser-known gems. Irena is a Musicians’ Company Young Artist and has also won prizes at the Bromsgrove International Musicians Competition, the Kendall Taylor Beethoven Competition and the Teresa Carreño Piano Competition. Recent highlights include a sell-out recital in Bath featuring Rachmaninoff’s 10 Preludes op.23, on the magnificent Steinway selected and used by the composer himself in the 1930s, for his own performances across the UK. Irena has performed in venues including the Royal Festival Hall, The Forge, Bolivar Hall, Routh Concert Hall and West Road Concert Hall.
Sunday
27 Apr 2025
3:00 pm
Pavlova Quintet
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.
Sunday
1 Jun 2025
3:00 pm
Piano Duo Recital with Aleksei Demchenko & Lynette Stulting
Join renowned pianists Aleksei Demchenko and Lynette Stulting for an unforgettable piano duo recital, to perform a captivating programme. The afternoon's repertoire features some dramatic but also stirring melodies by Grieg, Schumann, Saint-Saëns and Weber. Their seamless collaboration and technical brilliance will transport you through a range of emotions and musical landscapes.
Stonevale Concerts
Great Coxwell is a small English village in Oxfordshire just off the main A420 route between Oxford and Swindon.
Stonevale Concerts started in 2006 in the front room of our house here in Great Coxwell. It was supposed to be a one-off fundraising concert, but due to the success and popularity, we kept going with it, and we have now hosted over 150 concerts in total. Stonevale itself has two grand pianos (Steinway and Yamaha) especially for the two-piano concerts, as well as a dual-manual 8’ harpsichord for Baroque concerts. The venue has a seating capacity of 40 people.
Many successful musicians have performed at Stonevale, including Ben Schoeman, Mami Shikimori, Manus Noble, Emanuel Salvador, and Stephanie Childress.
Concerts have always been free but with a donation box to support the artists. After a successful recent concert in our wonderful 12th Century village church, St Giles, and with support from the vicar and her team, we are now also able to use this as a new venue for selected concerts on certain dates through the year.
St Giles Church has a Yamaha Mahogany C3 grand piano and the church can seat up to about 100 people. Whilst there are plans to modernize the facilities there, this will take some time and at present there are no toilets in the church itself.







Contact Us

Stonevale concerts organises classical music concerts in St Giles church and at Stonevale, a small concert room where professional and amateur musicians perform for the local community.
For concert enquiries or to join the mailing list to receive updates and details of forthcoming concerts list please email: stonevalemusic@gmail.com