News & Features
Easter Weekend Cancelled
Due to the Coronavirus UPDATE: 3 Apr 20 at 5:15pm Unfortunately we have also had to cancel our concert on 3 May. It is our hope that this we will resume our concerts in June. UPDATE: 17 Mar 20 at 08:42am Support our 'Bach Family' by donating your ticket Click here to...
Performer Focus: International Women’s Day
Theresa Caudle (violin): It’s not something I’ve consciously thought about before but on this International Women’s Day it occurs to me what a high proportion of us instrumentalists in OBS are women! I feel very lucky to work in a field where so many women flourish and their talents are recognised…
Choral Scholar Focus: David Woods
Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training to date. I studied music at the University of Birmingham and afterwards I was a choral scholar at Croydon Minster while a graduate music assistant at Whitgift School. After that I was a choral scholar at St...
Choral Scholar Focus: Sidharth Prabhu-Naik
Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training to date. I first started singing as a chorister at Westminster Cathedral. After an organ scholarship at Christ's Cambridge I benefitted from several training schemes such as Genesis Sixteen and the Ex Cathedra scholars...
Choral Scholar Focus: Mercè Bruguera Abelló
Choral Scholar Focus: Mercè Bruguera Abelló Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training to date. I am Catalan and come from Barcelona. I sang for ten years with a renowned children’s choir there and also had one year of singing lessons and then entered...
A Trip to the Business School
Earlier in the year Pegram Harrison (SBS Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship) invited Oxford Bach Soloists to join him at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The session, designed and run for MBA students, was about leadership. Several of the students...
OBS: 2020 Opening Concerts
First concerts of 2020 Start 2020 with Bach's approach to Christ's miracles and parables: twelve cantatas to take us through to March. The Magi JS BACH Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Sing a new song to the Lord), BWV 190 Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind (See,...
Choral Scholar Focus: Fiona Fraser
Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training to date? As an Undergraduate, I studied Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, holding both an Organ and Choral Scholarship at the University Chapel. I then graduated from Cambridge University in 2015 with...
Announcing Michael Chance as our Patron
Today we are thrilled to announce Michael Chance as Patron of the Oxford Bach Soloists! "I am thrilled to have been asked to be Patron of Oxford Bach Soloists, with the music of J. S. Bach being central to my performing and recording life. The work OBS has been doing...
Choral Scholar Focus: Tom Lilburn
Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training to date? I have been a Lay Clerk in the Choir of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle for three years. I came to Windsor after graduating in Natural Sciences from St John’s College Cambridge, where I was a choral scholar...