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Somerville Music Society

Vocal Recital

8/3/2014

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The last SMS recital of Hilary Term will be performed by Olivia Alice Martin (soprano), a music finalist from Oxford Brookes, and Samuel Swinnerton (piano).

Olivia will be singing arias and songs by Bach, Mozart, 
Schubert, Fauré and Sullivan. See the recitals page for full details.

The lunchtime recital series will resume on Friday 2nd May. Nick Machin, Somerville's Organ Scholar Elect, will be playing a recital of works for organ and piano. Details of all SMS recitals in Trinity Term will be announced in due course.

Stefan Schwarz
(SMS Recitals Coordinator)
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Elizabethan Lute Songs

2/3/2014

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The SMS recital in 7th week will be performed by Tom Hammond-Davies (countertenor), a lay clerk at New College and Director of Music at St Michael at the North Gate, and guitarist Giles Masters.

They will be performing a selection of lute songs by John Dowland and a contemporary work for countertenor and guitar by Michael Finnissy.

Stefan Schwarz
(SMS Recitals Coordinator)
Giles Masters (guitar) and Tom Hammond-Davies (countertenor)
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Vocal Recital

21/2/2014

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This Friday former choral scholar Simon Grange (now a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music) will be returning to Somerville to perform a recital of songs by Loewe, Zelter, Wolf and Britten. 

He will be accompanied by Guy Newbury (piano), Senior Lecturer in Music at Pembroke College. 

The full programme is available for download from the recitals page.

Stefan Schwarz
(SMS Recitals Coordinator)
Simon Grange (bass)
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A Night at the Musicals

19/2/2014

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This term's Choral Scholars' Recital will take a slightly different format: Somerville's choral scholars will perform songs and duets from favourite Broadway and West End musicals to raise money for the choir's summer tour to America (see the choir's crowdfunding page).

There will be a post-concert social with free wine and nibbles in Vaughan SCR. 

See the Facebook event page and the programme for further details.


Stefan Schwarz
(Choir Manager and SMS Recitals Coordinator)
Emily Winkler (soprano) and Ian Buchanan (tenor)
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Recital at Oxford Town Hall

17/2/2014

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On Wednesday Robert Smith will be playing a lunchtime recital on Oxford Town Hall's 1897 Father Willis organ. The programme will include music by Bach, Schumann, Reger, Mendelssohn, Gowers, Elgar and Williams.

Tickets are £4 and come with complimentary tea, coffee and biscuits. Please see the Facebook event page and Robert's website for more details.
Robert Smith (organist) at Oxford Town Hall
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Oxford Guitar Ensemble

9/2/2014

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This week's lunchtime recital will feature the Oxford Guitar Ensemble, a group that gave its first performance at Somerville Chapel in 2006. The concert will include works by Vivaldi, Bizet and Poulenc. See the recitals page to download the full programme.

Stefan Schwarz
(SMS Recitals Coordinator)
Oxford Guitar Ensemble
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Organ Recital

5/2/2014

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On Friday Jonathan Stamp (Birmingham Conservatoire), organ scholar at Birmingham Cathedral, will be playing a recital on Somerville Chapel's fine Harrison organ. He will be performing works by Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, Sweelinck, Boëllman and Vierne. See the recitals page for further details.

Stefan Schwarz
(SMS Recitals Coordinator)
Jonathan Stamp (organist)
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Open Concert

5/2/2014

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As our second contribution to Somerville's Arts Week, we're organising our first open concert of the term. Given the musical talent we have in college, this promises to be a brilliant evening.

SMS Open Concert
Friday 7th February 2014, 7pm, Flora Anderson Hall

Performers including:
James Aldred, Nasim Rebecca Asi, Charlie McLean, Susannah Fleiss, Petey Wellham, Oliver Johnston-Watt, Antony Beere

Charlotte McLean
(SMS President)
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Piano Recital

26/1/2014

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This Friday Luke Faulkner (University of Edinburgh), who performed in two highly successful SMS recitals last year, will be returning to Somerville: His new programme includes works by Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Chopin. A PDF file of the complete programme is available for download from the recitals page. 

Recordings of his performances of Rachmaninov's Prelude No. 7 in C minor and Prelude No. 8 in A flat major at Somerville Chapel can be seen on our YouTube channel.

Stefan Schwarz
(SMS Recitals Coordinator)
Luke Faulkner (piano)
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Live Recordings: Michaelmas Term 2013

24/12/2013

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A few highlights from last term's lunchtime recitals:

Orly Watson (piano) plays Tchaikovsky's Scherzo à la russe (op. 1/1):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsdYIWp3lVQ


Christopher Enston (organ) performs T. J. Morgan's Fantasia on the Welsh Hymn Tune Twrgwyn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_Y1OP-ydE

Stefan Schwarz
(Recitals Coordinator)
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