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Concert archive
1 December 2018, 7.30pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford
Join us for an evocative choral excursion through the Christmas story, featuring the music of Jonathan Dove, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Tavener, Kodaly and many more … with a few mince pies and some mulled wine for the road.
June 30, 2018
Merton College Chapel, Merton Street, Oxford
Five varied song cycles make up the City of Oxford Choir’s June concert in the acoustically superb surroundings of Merton College Chapel.
Sunday 11 March, 2018
St Mary-le-Bow, London
Our summer concert was held at the church of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London, as part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London.
9 December 2017, 7.30pm
The University Church, High Street, Oxford
Christmas 2017 was very busy for us: as well as our main concert in University Church, we also performed at Blenheim Palace at a fundraiser to support Oxfordshire Youth, as well as at the Sophos holiday party in Abingdon.
If you'd like to invite the choir to be a part of an event you're planning in the future, do get in touch with our Chairperson to discuss details.
13 October 2018
St Barnabas Church, Jericho
A wide river may part us from a lover; it may symbolise the final crossing of the dying. Water brings life to parched earth: not all cultures are blessed with plentiful tap water and some pray for Miracle of the Spring; others invoke a Cloudburst ceremony.
Our fresh and vital programme is enlivened by a number of unusual percussion effects. With music by Fauré, Eric Whitacre, Bob Chilcott, Palestrina, Barber, Schubert, Tippett and more.
7 October 2017, 7.30pm
St Barnabas Church, Oxford
We are excited to introduce our latest programme, Gloriana, contrasting music written for the Court of Elizabeth I with works written in the time of our own Queen. We will be joined by William Purefoy as counter-tenor soloist in the beautiful Italianate Romanesque church of St Barnabas in Jericho.
24 June 2017, 7.30pm
The Queen's College, High Street, Oxford
We're celebrating! The City of Oxford Choir was founded in 1977 to host a visiting choir from Leiden, one of Oxford’s twinned towns. The current choir – with half of its members not yet born born in 1977 – has developed strengths in contemporary composition and in English song, and has also explored non-classical singing. For our 40th anniversary concert in The Queen’s College Chapel, we will present a number of works particularly associated with the choir and with its three principal conductors to date: Carolyn Brock, Peter Leech and Duncan Aspden.
4 March 2017, 7.30pm
Exeter College, Oxford
In our Spring concert, we are delighted to announce that we will be joined by our friends in the Voci Chamber Choir of Windsor for an evening of British partsong. Tender and delicate, rousing and symphonic, this concert will include some of the finest English language choral music.
10 December 2016, 7:30pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford
This year, as the short days grow ever busier and the news of the world ever darker, it seems particularly important to honour and celebrate goodness and light. Join us as we follow the Star of Wonder towards the peace, joy and hope of the Christmas season.
8 October 2016, 7.30pm
Exeter College Chapel, Turl Street, Oxford
This October in a beautiful Oxford chapel - based upon the exquisite Paris jewel box church of Sainte-Chappelle - we sang a selection of the best of French church music, centred around works by Duruflé, Saint-Saëns, Poulenc and Fauré.
11 June 2016, 7.30pm
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford
A quartet of superb romantic composers - Brahms, Elgar, Fauré and Rossini - dominated this concert, connecting poetic allusions of love and nature.
February 27, 2016
St Mary's Church, Adderbury
From Rutter’s settings of traditional folk songs to Shearing’s settings of Shakespeare with a jazz twist, the repertoire of English song offered a rich and varied musical delight.
The programme included:
December 12, 2015
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford
Sir David Wilcocks, legendary conductor, administrator and editor, inspired a generation of musicians. His death in September, aged 95, probably marked the passing of the last person to have been conducted by Elgar.
Wilcocks was dynamic in many fields, but his contribution to Christmas carols was immense, partly through the much copied King's College Cambridge sound where his broadcasts between 1957 and 1974 influenced millions, and partly through the ubiquitous collections: Carols for Choirs, used every year by singers everywhere.
October 15, 2015
Exeter College Chapel, Oxford
A concert of enchanting choral music, contrasting darkness with light.