Concert Diary
2024
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Celebrating 21 years of supporting young people in Oxfordshire
with their development in the creative arts since 2023.
Sunday, 24th November
Trinity A Cappella Choir
This exciting vocal group from Oxford Brookes University
will sing in aid of the Exuberant Trust at the URC, Summertown, Oxford.
Pop music hits are transformed by this choir with intricate harmonies
and vibrant energy. From chart-topping anthems to nostalgic favourites,
Trinity A Cappella brings creativity and heart to each performance. Expect arrangements of songs from Coldplay, Elvis Presley, Billy Joel and many others.
Concert at 6.00pm
Venue: United Reformed Church,
294 Banbury Road, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7ED
(opposite South Parade)
Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Email: Trinity A Cappella
Past Events
Saturday, 15th June
Exuberant Trust - Showcase 2024
Featuring performances by
Exuberant Trust grant-award winners.
... and some stories about how an award can make a dream come true.
In collaboration with:
Turrill Sculpture Garden - Summer Music Festival.
2-4pm
Turill Sculpture Garden
294 Banbury Road, Summertown,
Oxford OX2 7JN (behind the Summertown Library).
Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Please book tickets in advance at Eventbrite.
More information about the Summer Music Festival can be found
on the Turill Sculpture Garden website.
Sunday, 7th July
Victoria De Melo
Piano Recital
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 "Tempest"
Chopin Ballade No. 3
Schumann Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Liszt Paganini etudes, S. 141 No. 2 in E flat major
Liszt Trois etudes de concert, S. 144 No. 2, La leggierezza
Concert at 3.00pm
Venue: The Pavilion at The Limes,
87 High Street, Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH.
(Directions)Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Free tickets on the door, or book in advance at Eventbrite.
Now 15 years old, Victoria has already passed important milestones as a pianist - she gained her Licentiate of Royal School of Music in 2021, having studied in the Junior Departments of both Guildhall and Royal College of Music. This year she has already played in the Sheldonian Theatre and in the Holywell Music Room. Victoria has been to masterclasses with Dmitri Alexeev in Austria and Stephen Kovacevich in Cambridge and she is currently studying under Jianing Kong.
Victoria De Melo |
Victoria de Melo |
Sunday, 15th July
'Sound Walks'
Josephine Illingworth
Exuberant award-winner Josephine Illingworth is a singer, guitarist, artist and long-distance hiker. Her recent works use soundscape and the folk tradition to explore specific settings and landscapes - painting pictures with sound.
Concert at 7.00pm
Venue: The Pavilion at The Limes,
87 High Street, Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH.
(Directions)Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
These recent works, ranging from simple folk songs to more ambient sound works, aim to use music as a transportative force. Josephine constructs her sonic works as journeys, weaving stark poetry, folklore, glimmering guitar and field recordings into a soundscape that feels almost tactile.
Josephine is a singer and multi-instrumentalist, and a long-distance hiker. Trained as a choral scholar at Oxford, she has spent her post-university years re-imagining how sound should be heard and used. She uses field recordings and her own voice to take the listener through a sonic exploration of place. We’ll hear her explorations into how sound can conjure a specific setting or landscape, from the mountain huts of the Dolomites and Italian cathedrals to the woodlands of south-east England. Fascinated by nature and religion, her songwriting is built of her own personal mythology; memories of her suburban childhood and stories from the places she wandered to once she grew up, twisted through the lens of her own lyricism.
Josephine Illingworth’s work has been exhibited in the Royal Albert Hall, at Fabrica Research Centre, on BBC Radio, and has featured in the soundtracks of several cinematic works. She has worked with Juice Vocal Quartet, the BBC Concert Orchestra, and has attended workshops with sound art heavyweights like Chris Watson, Jana Winderin and Philip Jeck. She has sung in Notre Dame, Chartres Cathedral, and St Pauls, and has been tipped as ‘an artist to watch’ by the BBC. She received a UK Young Artists Award from Mall Galleries, a Roger Short Journal Prize for ‘Istanbul’, and the Oxford University Kendrew Prize for ‘Sunsleeper’.
Sunday, 20th October
Humans, nature, and human nature
Camilla Seale - mezzo-soprano
Alex Norton - piano
Songs by Poulenc, Ravel, Schumann, Clarke, Debussy & Delibes.
Concert at 4.30pm
Venue: The Pavilion at The Limes,
87 High Street, Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH.
(Directions)Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Tea and soft drinks will be served after the recital, which will finish by 6pm.
Camilla Seale graduated with Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music, after first reading English at Cambridge and studying Social Inequality at LSE. Her voice has been described as a ‘velvety mezzo’, and she has won a string of awards. Her operatic debut was at Buxton International Festival, followed by a season in the chorus at Glyndebourne. In 2023-4 she was a Young Artist on the Global Talent Programme at the National Opera Studio, with support from the Exuberant Trust and the David Willcocks Music Trust.
Sunday, 3rd November
Strings Attached
Sarah Verney - piano
Eric Clarke - violin, viola
W. A. Mozart - Sonata for violin and piano in G Major, K.V. 301
J. S. Bach - Sonata for viola da gamba and keyboard in G major, BWV 1027
Rebecca H. Clarke - Four pieces for viola and piano
Concert at 3.30pm
Venue: The Pavilion at The Limes,
Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH.
(Directions)Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Tea and soft drinks will be served after the recital, which will finish by 6pm.