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 Concerts
Alasdair Beatson & Friends
Celebrity Farewell Concert
Oxford Coffee Concerts
Programme TBC
Oxford Coffee Concerts
Programme
Beethoven: String Quartet no 11 in F minor, op 95 (“Serioso”)
Beethoven: String Quartet no 7 in F major, op 59 no 1
Duration: 1 hour
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