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Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence at University of Oxford

Castalian String Quartet

Presented by the Cultural Programme in association with the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford

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Thursday 30 January

Concert

Venue

Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, OX1 3SB

Tickets

£20 each, £10 for students and under 25s

Offer: Book both November and January concerts at the same time for £30 (Students & U25s book both for £15)

Ticket sales will close 3 hours before the event. There may be a limited number of tickets available on the door on a first come, first served basis

Performances

6.30pm Pre-concert talk (30 minutes)
7.30pm Concert (105 minutes inc. interval)

We are delighted to be working with Oxford University Faculty of Music to bring the Castalian String Quartet’s incredible performances to you through a series of chamber concerts and pre-show talks with members of the collective and Oxford University academics.

Formed in 2011, the Castalian String Quartet is taking the international chamber music scene by storm. They are the first Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence at the University of Oxford, thanks to The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust.

Sini Simonen (violin) / Daniel Roberts (violin) / Natalie Loughran (viola) / Steffan Morris (cello)

PROGRAMME
Hildegard von Bingen – Three Antiphons for string quartet
Haydn – String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20 No. 3
Kurtág – Six Moments Musicaux, Op. 44
Beethoven – String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3

PRE-CONCERT TALK
By Proffesor Laura Tunbridge, please see her biography by scrolling down.

Presented by The Cultural Programme in association with the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, where the Castalian String Quartet are The Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence. Made possible thanks to The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust.

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Book the 26 November concert and the 30 January concert together for a combined ticket price of £30 (or £15 for students and under-25s). T&Cs apply.

There are also a two celebration concerts on Friday 9 May with a special offer if you book both concerts taking place on this date.

Plan your visit

Address

Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, OX1 3SB

Core Visitor Information

Full information is available here

Accessibility

Full information is available here: https://www.musicatoxford.com/access-information/

Speakers

Professor Laura Tunbridge

Biography

Professor Laura Tunbridge

Laura Tunbridge joined the Oxford Faculty of Music in 2014, having previously been Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester (2004-2014) and Lecturer at the University of Reading (2002-2004). She studied music as an undergraduate at The Queen’s College, Oxford, and gained a M.A. from the University of Nottingham and a PhD from Princeton University. Laura has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York and at the History of Listening Emmy Noether Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and the recipient of grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust. Editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association from 2013-2018, in 2017 she was elected to the Directorium of the International Musicological Society. She is a member of the Academia Europaea (2020) and a Fellow of the British Academy (2021). She was awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association in 2021.

Laura’s research has concentrated on German Romanticism, with a particular interest in reception through criticism, performance and composition. In 2020, Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, was named by The Times as one of the books of the year, and awarded ‘Best Composer Biography’ by Presto Books. Supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, Laura’s current project is A Social and Sonic History of the String Quartet, an exploration of ensembles since the mid twentieth century.

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