Bach: Mass in B Minor
May
10
7:00 PM19:00

Bach: Mass in B Minor

This concert continues the acclaimed collaboration between the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford and the world famous Academy of Ancient Music, a combination of the finest choral singing and an orchestra with a worldwide reputation for excellence in baroque and classical music. 

Julia Doyle   soprano
Esther Lay   mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting   tenor
Ashley Riches   bass-baritone

Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music

Owen Rees   director

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Mar
2
8:00 PM20:00

Fire Songs

Fire and flames have long captured the imagination of writers and composers. Queen’s Choir here presents a programme of dramatic twentieth-century choral works encompassing the ‘immortal fire’ of Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia, the ‘flame of fire’ evoked in John Rutter’s extraordinary Hymn to the Creator of Light, and John Tavener’s majestic evocation of William Blake’s Tyger, ‘burning bright’. The centrepiece is Morten Lauridsen’s Madrigali - Six ‘Fire Songs’, settings of sixteenth-century madrigal texts on the theme of ardent love.

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Dec
15
7:30 PM19:30

Carols from Queen's

The ever-popular Carols from Queen's returns this year! A staple in the Oxford musical calendar, The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford presents a varied programme of glorious Christmas music combining old favourites with more recent arrangements. The concert reflects the shifting moods of the period from Advent to Epiphany, inviting personal reflection on the transformation of darkness into light of the Incarnation.

A glass of mulled wine or soft drink served in Queen’s beautiful Baroque Hall is included within the ticket price.

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Dec
1
7:00 PM19:00

Handel: Messiah - Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford & Academy of Ancient Music

Queen’s Choir is delighted to announce the return of our now annual performance of Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music this December!

This piece follows the story of Christ’s life from the prophecies of the Old Testament through to his birth, passion and resurrection, and final conquest of sin, and lies at the heart of Christmas musical festivities. This story will be brought to life in the Sheldonian Theatre through the finest choral and orchestral performance of the Baroque standard, enriched by a lineup of exceptional soloists and under the stellar direction of Owen Rees.

Previous performances of Messiah in this collaboration have sold out months before the event and early booking is advised.

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GERMANY TOUR 2023: Stiftskirche, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Aug
31
7:30 PM19:30

GERMANY TOUR 2023: Stiftskirche, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

The Choir makes the trip north-west into the Palatinate to perform a pre-festival concert for the Neustadter Herbst festival in the stunning, gothic Stiftskirche, Neustadt.

19:30 31st August 2023

Stiftskirche, Am, Marktpl. 2, 67433 Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany

Ticketed entry (€19/€10)

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GERMANY TOUR 2023: Ludwigskirche, Munich
Aug
28
8:00 PM20:00

GERMANY TOUR 2023: Ludwigskirche, Munich

The iconic Ludwigskirche concludes the Munich leg of the Choir’s 2023 Germany tour. Don’t miss out on this fabulous concert, with programme containing Queens’ very own Howells and Leighton as well as organ solos played on the reverberent 20th-century instrument.

20:00 28th August 2023

Ludwigskirche, Ludwigstraße 22, 80539 München, Germany

Free entry

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GERMANY TOUR 2023: Theatinerkirche, Munich
Aug
26
6:30 PM18:30

GERMANY TOUR 2023: Theatinerkirche, Munich

Catch the opening concert of the Choir’s tour to Germany! With a rich and varied programme from Byrd to Bruckner, Monteverdi to MacMillan, this is not one to miss. In the euphonic setting of the Theatinerkirche, this concert will showcase Queen’s Choir at their very best.

18:30 26th August 2023

Theatinerkirche, Salvatorplatz 2A, 80333 München

Free entry

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Stanford Chamber Chorale
Jun
21
7:00 PM19:00

Stanford Chamber Chorale

The USA meets the UK in this special joint concert given by Stanford Universty Chamber Chorale and The Choir of Queen’s College.

This free concert will feature works by Monteverdi,Vaughan Williams, Hogan, Bruckner, Barber, Byrd, Leighton and Lili’uokalani.

Free entry so do come along!

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Music for a Summer's Evening
Jun
10
7:30 PM19:30

Music for a Summer's Evening

  • Chapel & Fellows' Garden of The Queen's College, Oxford (map)
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Enjoy the glorious setting of the Fellows’ Garden at Queen’s, where the choir will sing madrigals, part-songs, and close-harmony arrangements while you enjoy a glass of wine or a soft drink, included in the ticket price. 

The first half will be sung in the College’s beautiful baroque chapel, with the choir performing Kenneth Leighton’s Veris gratia. This is a stunning early work of the celebrated composer, written for The Eglesfield Musical Society during his time at Queen’s and first performed in 1950. Leighton’s settings of medieval poems are powerful and evocative depictions of our relationship to nature. With clear influences from the pastoral of Finzi and Vaughan-Williams, Leighton’s luxurious musical style provides the perfect setting for a summer’s evening at Queen’s.


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Bach: St Matthew Passion BWV 244 with Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Apr
6
7:00 PM19:00

Bach: St Matthew Passion BWV 244 with Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

Tickets: https://oxfordphil.com/event/st-matthew-passion-2/

Robert Murray Evangelist
Tristan Hambleton 
Christ
Keri Fuge 
soprano
Helen Charlston 
mezzo-soprano
Mark Wilde 
tenor
William Thomas 
bass
The Choir of The Queen’s College
The Boys of Radley College Choir
Owen Rees 
conductor

Bach’s great depiction of Jesus’s arrest and crucifixion, the St Matthew Passion, was unprecedented when it was first performed on Good Friday 1727. All that could have prepared the congregation at St Thomas’s Church in Leipzig was their own Lutheran belief in importance of reliving the suffering and transcendence of Christ. Bach’s music, though, speaks to the whole of humanity in its monumental depth and drama. The Orchestra is joined by Oxfordshire choirs and front-rank soloists for this Passiontide performance under The Queen’s College’s Owen Rees.

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Carols from Queen's
Dec
16
to Dec 18

Carols from Queen's

  • Chapel of The Queen's College Oxford, OX1 4AW United Kingdom (map)
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The ever-popular Carols from Queen's returns this year on the 16th and 18th December. A staple in the Oxford musical calendar, The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford presents a varied programme of glorious Christmas music combining old favourites with more recent arrangements. The concert reflects the shifting moods of the period from Advent to Epiphany, inviting personal reflection on the transformation of darkness into light of the Incarnation.

A glass of mulled wine or soft drink served in Queen’s beautiful Baroque Hall is included within the ticket price.

Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Owen Rees director

Friday 16th December 7.30pm
Sunday 18th December 2.30pm

Tickets: £25 main chapel (£5 students)

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Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music
Dec
2
7:00 PM19:00

Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music

Handel Messiah

Handel's Messiah lies at the very heart of Christmas musical festivities. The oratorio follows Christ's life from the prophecies of the Old Testament through to his birth, passion and resurrection, and the final conquest of sin with the promise of eternal life. Handel uses his consummate skill as an opera composer to inject vivid colour and intense drama into his score. First heard in 1741, it remains just as popular today as it did in Dublin nearly 300 years ago. Arias of mesmerising beauty and triumphant courage sit alongside virtuoso choruses of stunning power - including the famous 'Hallelujah Chorus'.

This concert continues the acclaimed collaboration between the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford and the world famous Academy of Ancient Music, a combination of the finest choral singing and an orchestra with a worldwide reputation for excellence in baroque and classical music.  Their last Messiah together in 2021, also with a star-studded lineup of soloists, sold-out months before the event and early booking is advised. 

Choir and orchestra are conducted by Owen Rees, Director of Music at The Queen's College, hailed as 'one of the most energetic and persuasive voices’ in this field.

Julia Doyle soprano
Esther Brazil mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting tenor
Tristan Hambleton bass-baritone

Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music

Owen Rees director

Tickets £40/£35/£30/£15 £5 (students)

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Oxford Lieder Festival 2022: Christopher Purves & Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Oct
17
7:15 PM19:15

Oxford Lieder Festival 2022: Christopher Purves & Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford

A drinking club with music, or a music club with drinking? The ‘Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Catch Club’ was founded in 1761; a more down to earth version of its elegant cousin, the Academy of Ancient Music. With scant regard for historical accuracy, we recreate the essence of these social occasions, with music by Purcell, Arne, Boyce and others, including those whose bawdy texts required anonymity.

The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford, directed by Owen Rees, is joined by the star baritone Christopher Purves for this concert. Freud's is an Oxford insitution: an amazing converted church with legendary cocktails! Food will be available throughout the evening, and the bar will be open between sets. An unmissable evening.

Christopher Purves (Baritone)

Rowan Pierce (Soprano)

Christopher Bucknall (Harpsichirdist)

Jonathan Byers (Cellist)

Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford (Ensemble)

Owen Rees (Conductor)

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Jun
4
7:30 PM19:30

Music for a Summer's Evening

  • Chapel & Fellows' Garden of The Queen's College, Oxford (map)
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What better way to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee than with the Choir of Queen’s College, Oxford? Enjoy the glorious setting of the Fellows’ Garden at Queen’s, where the choir will sing madrigals, part-songs, and close-harmony arrangements while you enjoy a glass of wine or a soft drink, included in the ticket price. 

The first half will be sung in the College’s beautiful baroque chapel, with repertoire that celebrates royalty. With music by Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Ireland and Berkeley from A Garland for the Queen (1953), first performed on the Eve of Coronation Day, as well as pieces written for other earlier Queens: Byrd's O Lord Make Thy Servant Elizabeth and Parry's I Was Glad.

Howells' Behold, O God our defender, premiered at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953 and a firm favourite with the choir, closes the half.

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May
21
6:00 PM18:00

Music for Restored Times

  • Chapel of The Queen's College, High Street, OX1 4AW Oxford (map)
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Come and hear some jewels of the English Restoration School repertoire, performed by the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford, and Instruments of Time & Truth. The concert features verse anthems by John Blow, Henry Cooke and Henry Purcell, as well as Pelham Humfrey, Matthew Locke and Michael Wise. Singers from across the choir will perform solo verses, which alternate with passages for full choir, much akin to the operation of the seventeenth-century Chapel Royal.

This concert stands as the culmination of a one-day event entitled Music, Creativity, and Culture in England, 1642-88 which is being organised by Samuel Teague, a tenor lay clerk in the choir. The event marks the 350th anniversary of the death of Captain Henry Cooke, on whom Sam’s doctoral study is focussed, and grants you a unique opportunity to hear repertoire that has potentially remained unheard in over 300 years.

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Mar
5
8:00 PM20:00

TAVERNER - MISSA GLORIA TIBI TRINITAS

Owen Rees leads early-music consort Contrapunctus alongside The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford in a performance of John Taverner’s masterwork, the Missa Gloria tibi trinitas, as well as a variety of the composer's motets. The groups' recording of this repertoire received a Diapason d’or in January 2020, and the accompanying review comments: ‘The alternation of top-flight soloists and a perfect choir here produces marvels … A triumph of the English choral tradition at its best.’

A virtuosic work, the Missa Gloria tibi trinitas is an example of the dramatic way in which large-scale Tudor polyphony exploited contrasts between passages for solo voices and the whole choral group. It has pride of place in the Forrest-Heyther partbooks (in the Bodleian Library, Oxford), and might well have been heard on Trinity Sunday in the chapel of Cardinal Wolsey’s palace at Hampton Court

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Carols from Queen's - matinée
Dec
19
2:30 PM14:30

Carols from Queen's - matinée

  • Chapel of The Queen's College Oxford, OX1 4AW United Kingdom (map)
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THIS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

All ticket holders should have received an email and a refund. Please contact choir@queens.ox.ac.uk for any queries regarding this.

Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Owen Rees director

A candlelit concert of carols old and new -  our annual Christmas celebration. Early booking advised as we sell out every year.

A glass of mulled wine or soft drink served in Queen’s beautiful Baroque Hall is included within the ticket price.

Tickets: £20 main chapel (£5 students), £5 ante-chapel

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Carols from Queen's - evening
Dec
17
7:30 PM19:30

Carols from Queen's - evening

  • Chapel of The Queen's College Oxford, OX1 4AW United Kingdom (map)
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THIS PERFORMANCE HAS NOW SOLD OUT. Our Director Owen Rees will be conducting a very similar programme of festive favourites and traditional carols with his professional vocal group Contrapunctus in Queen’s College Chapel on Sunday 12 December. Tickets are still available for that performance here.


Please CLICK HERE to be added to the waiting list for returns for ‘Carols from Queen’s’ on Friday 17th December (this will also show any return tickets which have become newly available for purchase).


Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Owen Rees director

A candlelit concert of carols old and new -  our annual Christmas celebration. Early booking advised as we sell out every year.

A glass of mulled wine or soft drink served in Queen’s beautiful Baroque Hall is included within the ticket price.

Tickets: £20 main chapel (£5 students) / £5 ante-chapel

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Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music
Dec
3
7:00 PM19:00

Handel Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music

Handel Messiah

Handel's great masterpiece narrates the story of Christ from nativity to resurrection and the triumph of life over death.

Rowan Pierce soprano
Esther Brazil mezzo-soprano
Ted Black tenor
Ashley Riches bass-baritone

Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music

Owen Rees director

Tickets £40/£35/£30/£15 £5 (students)

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Oxford Lieder Festival 2021: Jonathan Dove 'The Passing of the Year'
Oct
23
11:00 AM11:00

Oxford Lieder Festival 2021: Jonathan Dove 'The Passing of the Year'

Jonathan Dove is one of today’s most celebrated composers and we are delighted not only to present a concert entirely of his music, but also to welcome him as the pianist for this concert. He will be joined by the tenor Nicky Spence for a performance of his song cycle Out of Winter, which dwells on the passing of time and joy in nature. This is a perfect complement to his astonishingly powerful work for choir and piano, The Passing of the Year, in which he sets seven texts reflecting on the changing seasons. The Choir of The Queen’s College also include one his best-loved a cappella works, In Beauty May I Walk.

Jonathan Dove (Composer & Pianist)

Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford

Nicky Spence (Tenor)

Owen Rees (Conductor)

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Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
Sep
29
6:30 PM18:30

Monteverdi Vespers of 1610

  • University Church of St Mary the Virgin (map)
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Monteverdi's masterpiece performed by the combined forces of Contrapunctus, the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford and the Instruments of Time & Truth, directed by Owen Rees.

Contrapunctus
Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Instruments of Time & Truth

Owen Rees director

Further information https://www.martinrandall.com/divine-office

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Handel's London Rival: Choral Music by Giovanni Bononcini
Jun
19
7:00 PM19:00

Handel's London Rival: Choral Music by Giovanni Bononcini

The Choir of The Queen's College and the Academy of Ancient Music join forces to explore the choral works of Giovanni Bononcini. Bononcini was Handel's main rival in London, and the pair were known as Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee by their contemporaries! Given how glorious his works for choir and orchestra are, it is surprising that Bononcini has now fallen into obscurity. We seek to remedy this state of affairs with tonight's concert, and we're thrilled that several of the works will receive their first performance in modern times.

Rowan Pierce soprano
Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting tenor
Giles Underwood bass

Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music
Owen Rees
director

Programme

When Saul was king over us – Giovanni Bononcini

Ave maris stella – Bononcini

Laudate pueri – Bononcini

Te Deum in D – Bononcini

Booking information

Seating will be arranged by household, with social distancing between households. There are four seating areas to choose from: Central Stalls (£30pp) , Rear Stalls (£20pp), Side Aisles (£15pp - some seats in this area have a restricted view), and Behind the Stage (£5pp no view). To book for a household of two people, in the Central Stalls for example, just add one 'Central Stalls - Admits 2’ ticket (£60) to your basket.

Please only book tickets for your own household group. Tickets are available in households of up to four. If your household is larger than four, please add multiple household tickets to the same booking, in order to reach your required number of seats.

In order to comply with the requirements for 'Track & Trace’ you will need to supply a phone number during checkout.

There are two wheelchair spaces available. These can be booked within the ‘Household of 2’ ticket section, and include a free ticket for a companion.

Practical Information

The performance duration is 75 minutes and there will be no interval. All audience members must wear a face covering, unless they are exempt from doing so. If you are displaying symptoms of Covid-19 on the day of the concert, please do not attend, but contact us to arrange a full refund.

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Carols from Queen's Matinée - cancelled
Dec
20
2:30 PM14:30

Carols from Queen's Matinée - cancelled

  • Chapel of The Queen's College Oxford, OX1 4AW United Kingdom (map)
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Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Owen Rees director

A candlelit concert of carols old and new -  our annual Christmas celebration. Early booking advised: ticket sales are likely to be opened in August 2020.

A glass of mulled wine or soft drink served in Queen’s beautiful Baroque Hall is included within the ticket price.

We regret to inform you that our two ever popular ‘Carols from Queen’s’ concerts will not be held this year due to the pandemic. Please email choir@queens.ox.ac with contact details if you wish to be informed of future carol concerts or of any live-streamed concerts which may be organised over the coming months. Thank you for your understanding.

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Carols from Queen's - cancelled
Dec
18
7:30 PM19:30

Carols from Queen's - cancelled

  • Chapel of The Queen's College Oxford, OX1 4AW United Kingdom (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford
Owen Rees director

A candlelit concert of carols old and new -  our annual Christmas celebration. Early booking advised: ticket sales are likely to be opened in August 2020.

A glass of mulled wine or soft drink served in Queen’s beautiful Baroque Hall is included within the ticket price.

We regret to inform you that the two ever popular ‘Carols from Queen’s’ concerts will not be held this year due to the pandemic. Please email choir@queens.ox.ac with contact details if you wish to be informed of future carol concerts or of any live-streamed concerts which may be organised over the coming months. Thank you for your understanding.

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