The New Space

Can't wait for @lukethemitchell 's effervescent brilliance, refined artistry, and ornamented elegance at Bach at New College at 5pm today ✨🎶 Join us for a deep dive into J.S. Bach’s French Notebook, including works by masters such as Louis Marchand, Jean-Henri D’Anglebert, François Couperin, and Louis Couperin. Expect elegance, flair, and dazzling harpsichord brilliance throughout. 🎹🇫🇷 🕠 5:30–6:30pm 📍 The New Space, New College #BachAtNewCollege #LukeMitchell #OxfordEvents #BaroqueMusic #Harpsichord #LiveMusicOxford

🎶Looking forward to a packed week at The New Space, featuring... 🎻 Bach at New College with violinist Verena Eggensberger & harpsichordist Luke Mitchell - works by Bach, Muffat, and Telemann (23 February, 5.30pm) 🎹 Pianist Lubomyr Melnyk in recital - experience his transcendent continuous music (23 & 24 February, 8pm). 🎹 A Chopin recital by pianist Krzysztof Moskalewicz performing a selection of polonaises, nocturnes & mazurkas (25 February, 7pm). 🪈 Masterclass with recorder virtuoso Tabea Debus - an open session for all music lovers to observe (26 February, 2pm). 📍 All events take place at The New Space, New College, Mansfield Road, Oxford! Link in bio for further details 🎵📍 #NewSpaceOxford #NewCollegeOxford #LiveMusic #OxfordEvents #ClassicalMusic #Piano #Recorder #RecitalWeek 🎶✨

🎶 Bach at New College continues 🎶 Join us for a very special early evening concert as New College’s own Robert Quinney puts our Donzelague harpsichord through its paces in a programme of virtuosity and imagination. 📅 2 February 2026 🕠 5.30-6.30pm 📍 The New Space, Gradel Quadrangles, Mansfield Road, Oxford 🔗 Link in bio 🎶 Programme: Johann Sebastian Bach • English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 • Duetti II & IV, BWV 803 & 805 • Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828 An intimate setting, masterful playing, and some of Bach’s most compelling keyboard works #RobertQuinney #JSBach #TheNewSpace #OxfordConcerts #oxfordevents

A glimpse into the rehearsal for our first Bach at New College concert this term featuring @ela.kodzas and @lukethemitchell 🎶 Join us at The New Space at 5.30pm for works by Bach, Couperin and Muffat! #earlymusic #bach #harpsichord

Looking forward to welcoming the exceptional @ela.kodzas and @lukethemitchell for the first of our Bach at New College recitals this term! 📅 Monday 26 January 2026 ⏰ 5.30-6.30pm 📍 The New Space, Gradel Quadrangles, Mansfield Road Further details and tickets: [LINK IN BIO] 🎶 Programme: Bach | Preludio from Partita No. 3 Bach | Sonata in E minor, BWV 1023 Muffat | Sonata in D major Couperin | Septième Concert in G minor Bach | Sonata in E Major, BWV 1016 An hour of luminous Baroque music to start your week right. Don’t miss it. 💫

We were so lucky to have Tamás Pálfalvi deliver an afternoon of masterclasses for some of our brass students a couple of weeks ago. The masterclasses were generously endowed by the Davison Young Musicians Foundation. Tamás Pálfalvi is a virtuoso trumpet player and teacher at the Franz Lizst Conservatorium. Pálfalvi won the first Fanny-Mendelssohn-Förderpreis in 2015, and he was also awarded the WEMAG Soloist Award at Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 🖋Read more about New College's collaborations with the DYMF on our website: link in bio! @dymfawards

Congratulations to Anneka Vetter, the recipient of the Davison Young Musician Foundation Recital Award, Trinity 2025! Auditions for the Recital Award took place on 17th May and the standard of competition was extremely high. The DYMF adjudicating panel consisted of Tamás Pálfalvi, Cristian de Sa, Felix Kirkby, and Tom Davison. You can read their biographies via the link in our bio. 👀Stay tuned for details of Anneka's prize recital, coming soon... @dymfawards

Grant Still ?? Grant Move!! Come and hear this fabulous piece this Friday 23rd May, played by Lewis and Mar at 7:30pm @thenew_space_ , tickets from £4 in our bio. Here’s the full programme, get excited: Debussy - Sonata in G minor Grant Still - Suite Clarke - Midsummer Moon Pejačević - Sonata in D major, ‘Spring’ #violin #piano #classicalmusicians #oxford #oxforduniversity

Wish you could hear what happens next? Then come to @thenew_space_ this Saturday 17th May! You won’t be disappointed. This is Haydn quartet in C major Op.54 No.2 After this you’ll be hearing Brahms quartet in C minor Op.51 No.1

Attention all Oxford University music undergraduates!! Sign up now to take part in the Davison Foundation Recital Prize Competition... ⏰When? Saturday 17th May 2025 📍Where? The New Space, New College Gradel Quadrangle. ❓What? New College are hosting auditions for the Davison Young Musician Foundation Recital Prize Competition. The Recital Prize will be £500, as well as the opportunity to perform a public recital in The New Space. To learn more and to express your interest in this opportunity, please follow the link in our bio 🔗

Attention all brass players!! Free masterclass opportunity with virtuoso trumpet player Tamás Pálfalvi... ⏰When? Friday 16th May 2025, PM 📍Where? The New Space, New College Gradel Quadrangle (Mansfield Road) 🎺What? The Davison Foundation are providing a free masterclass opportunity for Oxford University brass players! To learn more and express your interest in this opportunity, please follow the link in our bio🔗 Tamás Pálfalvi is a virtuoso trumpet player and teacher at the Franz Lizst Conservatorium. Pálfalvi won the first Fanny-Mendelssohn-Förderpreis in 2015, and he was also awarded the WEMAG Soloist Award at Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

🎸Hear from Emmy-winning film and TV composer David Schweitzer @ The New Space ⏰When? Wednesday 12th March (week 8), 5pm 📍The New Space, New College Gradel Quadrangle ❓Free entry, no registration required David Schweitzer is an Emmy-winning composer based in London. Since graduating in music from New College, he’s forged a career as one of the foremost composers for film and TV. He is known for his scores for documentaries (World War II: From The Frontlines, 9/11: One Day in America, Our Great National Parks, Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen, Four Hours at the Capitol, Wonders of Life), for animation (over 1,000 episodes including work on Charlie & Lola, Angry Birds Toons, The Cat in the Hat and many more), and for dramas such as Emma, Sanditon, Vanity Fair, Victoria, The White Princess, and The Crown. David will be talking about his career and life in music, as well as giving some firsthand insight into the composing process with some examples of recent work. This is an unmissable opportunity to hear from one of the busiest and most successful composers around, whose work you’ve undoubtedly heard on Netflix, the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Amazon, and many other places. Convened by Dr. Luke Lewis @luke__lewis