Oxford Worldwide Tune Competition (previously Oxford Lieder Competition)

13 to twenty-eight October 2023 Artwork:Tune – Photos, Phrases, Music

• The UK’s largest competition of track celebrates its first competition underneath a brand new title with a fortnight that includes over 75 occasions.
• World premieres embody track cycles by FEDORA Opera Prize-winning British-Chinese language composer Alex Ho (Oxford Worldwide Tune Competition’s Affiliate Composer), Geoffrey Gordon, Mahdis Golzar Kashani, and Héloïse Werner, and a brand new work by Roxanna Panufnik co-commissioned with Presteigne Competition.
• World-class singers and pianists, alongside rising stars, take to the stage for night track recitals, complemented by a wide-ranging sequence of occasions together with lunchtime concert events, talks, excursions, workshops, dance, masterclasses, and extra.
• With tickets beginning at £5, a number of free occasions, £8 tickets for under-35s at each occasion, and a selection of reductions and concessionary charges, the Competition is accessible to all.

The Oxford Worldwide Tune Competition (13 to twenty-eight October 2023) presents a thrilling fortnight of intrigue, color, and inspiration this autumn. Artwork:Tune – Photos, Phrases, Music focuses on exploring the wealthy connections between track, poetry and visible arts, aligning the three artforms in all kinds of how. Over 200 singers, instrumentalists and audio system will seem at 76 occasions, encompassing the nice works of the repertoire alongside new works and thrilling discoveries.

Artists embody Dame Sarah Connolly and Dame Imogen Cooper who give the opening recital on 13 October; baritone Benjamin Appl joined by the Competition’s Creative Director Sholto Kynoch (14 Oct); tenor Nicholas Mulroy with lutenist Toby Carr and The Choir of the Queen’s School directed by Owen Rees (15 Oct); Christopher Maltman (16 Oct); Christine Rice, Timothy Ridout and Julius Drake (17 Oct); Miah Persson and Malcolm Martineau (18 Oct); Gweneth Ann Rand and Simon Lepper (20 Oct); Juliane Banse and Alexander Krichel (21 Oct); and Roderick Williams with Iain Burnside (23 Oct),  Robin Tritschler (24 Oct), Thomas Oliemans (24 Oct) and Toby Spence (28 Oct). Worldwide artists showing for the primary time embody Samuel Hasselhorn (19 Oct); Laurence Kilsby (18 Oct); Francesca Chiejina (19 Oct); Karola Pavone (21 Oct); Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (25 Oct); Andrei Kymach, showing with Llyr Williams in a programme of Ukrainian songs (25 Oct))..

The world premiere of The Glass Eye, a brand new track cycle by Affiliate Composer Alex Ho and acclaimed author Elayce Ismail, will probably be given by Kathleen Ferrier Award-winning countertenor Hugh Slicing with pianist Dylan Perez (26 Oct). A brand new track cycle by Iranian composer Mahdis Golzar Kashani will probably be premiered by, amongst others, Soraya Mafi and James Atkinson (13 Oct); Héloïse Werner’s Knight’s Dream will probably be sung by Helen Charlston with Sholto Kynoch(16 Oct); Jacques Imbrailo and Alisdair Hogarth will premiere Geoffrey Gordon’s On the spherical earth’s imagin’d corners (27 Oct); and Roxanna Panufnik’s Gallery of Reminiscences, with textual content by Jessica Duchen, will probably be carried out by Mary Bevan with Anna Tilbrook (27 Oct).

The cream of the brand new era contains baritone Theodore Platt, pianist Keval Shah, mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean (Britten Pears Younger Artist 2021/22), and soprano Harriet Burns, amongst many.  Six of the night recitals start with a brief Rising Artist slot, giving an important showcase to excellent younger professionals.

Wolfgang Holzmair makes a welcome return to the Competition to steer the annual Mastercourse (23-28 Oct). The course supplies an excellent alternative for a brand new era of musicians to study from high worldwide artists and to immerse themselves in track. It additionally offers an perception into the artistic course of for members of the general public. Holzmair will probably be joined by 4 visitor tutors together with the pianist, writer and scholar Graham Johnson to share his knowledge.

The center weekend of the Competition (21-22 Oct) is devoted to Franz Schubert. The Schubert weekend is an annual function, tracing the composer’s life yr by yr till the Schubert bicentenary in 2028. The weekend’s centrepiece will probably be a lecture-recital led by Graham Johnson, giving his seminal survey of Schubert’s life, 200 years on. He will probably be joined by singers together with the German baritone Stephan Loges and American soprano Martha Guth.

A bunch of ‘Tune Connections’ occasions embody: a celebration of the life and work of artist, musician and author Tom Phillips RA; a concentrate on the Pre-Raphaelite artists, poets and composers together with the Ashmolean Museum’s Color Revolution exhibition; a day of style and track together with a homage to Yves Saint Laurent and a recital created across the scents of Grasp Perfumer Christian Provenzano; SongPath at Harcourt Arboretum; an introduction to Max Klinger’s Brahmsphantasie by Natasha Loges; a tour of the Queen’s School and a go to to the extraordinary medieval crypt at St Edmund Corridor; talks on Picasso and Käthe Kollwitz; and an illustrated discuss led by speaker Professor Philip Ross Bullock marking Rachmaninoff’s one hundred and fiftieth anniversary by tracing his relationship with the Russian countryside as expressed by way of poetry and music. Late evening occasions embody Voice Electrical with Lotte Betts-Dean and video artist Purple Taiko at The Levine Constructing at Trinity School (18 Oct), and Voice Trio’s Hildegard Transfigured at The College Church (19 Oct).

Some occasions are free or priced at simply £5-£10, and there are millions of tickets for £15 or much less. A beneficiant vary of reductions are supplied to anybody reserving a number of occasions, and tickets can be found for £8 in any respect occasions for under-35s. Venues embody the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, the Sheldonian Theatre, the Jacqueline du Pré Music Constructing, the Holywell Music Room (Europe’s oldest live performance corridor), the Queen’s School Higher Library and Chapel, Harcourt Arboretum, St Catherine’s School, the Lecture Theatre on the Ashmolean Museum, St Edmund Corridor, the College Church, and a number of other faculty chapels.

Sholto Kynoch, Creative Director of Oxford Worldwide Tune Competition, stated: ‘That is our twenty second competition, however the first underneath our new title, as we make the change from Oxford Lieder Competition. Viewers members who’ve been coming for years will see that in some ways little has modified: in addition to the nice works of Schubert and Schumann, we have now an enormous breadth of music spanning centuries and in a number of languages, and it’s this breadth that’s higher mirrored in our new identification. For many who are new to the Competition, I hope they’ll discover a lot to intrigue and encourage. Our celebratory and welcoming spirit is brighter than ever!

This yr’s thrilling theme aligns the visible arts with poetry and music in all kinds of how. I really feel that there’s really one thing right here for everybody, whichever facet of the humanities most attracts individuals in. Alongside a roster of world-renowned singers and pianists, audiences will discover color, style, musical manuscripts which can be themselves artworks, artist-poets, artist-composers, programmes impressed by artworks, and alternatives to create musically impressed artwork. We additionally make our first foray into dance; function 5 world premieres together with a brand new track cycle fusing Iranian and European classical kinds; welcome an astonishing jazz pianist and a Schubert-inspired band; and way more in addition to.

I’m already counting down the times to the Competition and look ahead to welcoming audiences and celebrating the very important and diversified world of track in all its wonderful guises.‘

Public reserving for the Oxford Worldwide Tune Competition is now open. Guide tickets on-line by  at clicking right here or telephone the Field Workplace on 01865 591276 (Monday – Friday, 11am – 4pm).