The oldest custom-built concert hall in Europe, the Holywell Music Room opened its doors to the public for the first time in 1748. Designed by Thomas Camplin, Vice-Principal of St Edmund Hall.The room continued as a concert venue throughout the eighteenth century and until 1836 from which time it was used for a number of other purposes including auctions and exhibitions. By the 1870s it was being used for weekly rehearsals by the Oxford Philharmonic Society and its future as a musical venue was further secured after 1910 when the Oxford University Musical Union obtained the lease on the building. The Holywell was restored and refitted in 1959-60 and since that time has been the location for many hundreds of recitals and concert series featuring prestigious visiting musicians as well as many local groups and student performers.
Capacity: 200
Facilities: Toilets, Disabled access, No bar
Travel Information:
Walking: 10 mins from town centre
From Banbury, by Car: approx. 45 mins. By Bus: S4 to Oxford City Centre. By Train: approx. 30 mins, Cross Country to Bournemouth, Oxford station then 20 min walk to Holywell Street
Oxford Coffee Concert Series
Oxford Coffee Concert Series
Celebrating women composers and performers.
Mozart | Beethoven | Chopin
Endymion
Reimagining classical forms
Frith Piano Quartet
Oxford Coffee Concert Series
Oxford Coffee Concert Series
Oxford Coffee Concert Series
Oxford Coffee Concert Series
Programme to include:
Brahms Horn Trio
Brahms Cello Sonata
Programme to include: Mahler Piano Quartet movement in A Minor Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time
Sun 17 Feb
Palestrina, Praetorius, Hassler and Schütz, culminating in J. S. Bach’s great double- choir motet Komm, Jesu, komm Palestrina Co...
Tue 19 Feb
KEBLE COLLEGE CHOIR Directed by Matthew Martin Music by Byrd and Tallis Music by Palestrina, Victoria, and featuring Bach’s motet Lobet den Herrn
Wed 20 Feb