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	Jack Gibbons has been giving highly acclaimed recitals in the university city of Oxford for over 30 years, all concerts taking place in the historic Holywell Music Room (Europe's oldest purpose-built concert hall, opened in 1748, where both Handel and Haydn performed) and the beautiful Magdalen College Auditorium. Special discounted concert E-tickets are available from this site: E-tickets for Jack Gibbons' Oxford concerts can be purchased on-line direct from this website at special discount on-line prices. You can also join our mailing list free of charge to receive details of future concerts by Jack Gibbons, including priority booking and discount ticket offers; to join please e-mail your details (e-mail address or snail mail address or both) to mailing@jackgibbons.com.
	Holywell Music Room and Magdalen College Auditorium, Oxford July and August 2009 JACK GIBBONS' 22nd annual Summer Piano Series Eleven concerts, beginning Sunday 5th July 2009, featuring the music of some of the most inspirational composers in history   An Evening of Beethoven An Evening of Gershwin An Evening of Mozart An Evening of Chopin An Evening of Alkan An Evening of J.S. Bach An Evening of Summer Music An Evening of Liszt Chopin Encores Gershwin Encores Farewell Piano Party   TICKETS Advance tickets for Jack Gibbons' 2009 Summer Piano Series are on sale at the discount rate of £15 each direct from this website up to 24 hours before each concert A special season ticket for all 11 concerts can be also be purchased for only £55 direct from this website (just £5 a ticket if attending all 10 concerts) Tickets at the above rates can also be purchased in person (or by phone or internet) from Tickets Oxford, Oxford Playhouse, Oxford (tel 01865 305305) Full price tickets will also be on sale on the door of the concert halls from 7.15PM on concert days (£18 full price, £15 concessions) Scroll down for more information on each concert and to purchase tickets...   CONCERT 1: AN EVENING OF BEETHOVEN Holywell Music Room, Oxford Sunday 5th July 2009 at 8PM       Award-winning virtuoso pianist Jack Gibbons opens the 22nd annual season of his acclaimed Summer Piano Series with a programme of some of Beethoven’s finest piano music, including the Moonlight, Pathétique & Appassionata Sonatas.     "Jack Gibbons opened his 18th summer season at the Holywell last week amid a mild outbreak of Gibbons-mania. The start of the concert was delayed by ten minutes as staff struggled to cope with the demand for seats. Gibbons' affinity with Beethoven's music is such that he transcends mere recital; rather, he becomes one with the composer, absorbing his moods and passions, and recreating his bravura technique." Oxford Times     Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each:   Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 2: AN EVENING OF GERSHWIN Holywell Music Room, Oxford Wednesday 8th July 2009 at 8PM       Jack Gibbons, “THE Gershwin pianist of our time” (BBC), recreates the original breathtaking virtuoso piano style of George Gershwin through his famous note-for-note recreations of the composer’s original recordings of Rhapsody in Blue, I Got Rhythm, The Man I Love, etc.     "To listen to Gibbons' performances is to marvel afresh at his astonishing virtuosity, his rare control of the music's rhythmic vigour and his supreme relish for its melodic richness... Gershwin does not come more exhilarating than this" Classic CD   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 3: AN EVENING OF MOZART Holywell Music Room, Oxford Sunday 12th July 2009 at 8PM       Jack Gibbons explores the genius and tragically short but whirlwind life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through words and music, performing some of Mozart’s most exquisite piano music, including Sonata alla Turca, Sonata in A minor, K.310, and excerpts from his beautiful concertos.     "Jack Gibbons won a rapturous ovation from the audience for playing that demonstrated a formidable technique, true musicianship and sheer poetry" Oxford Times review of Gibbons playing Mozart's K.488   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 4: AN EVENING OF CHOPIN Holywell Music Room, Oxford Wednesday 15th July 2009 at 8PM       Jack Gibbons brings together a collection of some of Chopin’s most famous masterpieces, representing every facet of his incomparable art, making the concert a must for all Chopin devotees. Music includes Ballades, Scherzos, Waltzes, Preludes, Polonaises, Mazurkas, Studies, etc.     "As I listened, enthralled, to his glorious playing – now melting, now almost terrifying in its ferocity there flashed across my mind that much quoted remark of Schumann's concerning Chopin: 'Hats off, gentlemen, genius. 'Surely there was more than a touch of genius in Jack Gibbons." Croydon Advertiser   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 5: AN EVENING OF ALKAN Holywell Music Room, Oxford Sunday 19th July 2009 at 8PM       In one of the most unusual programmes of recent years, Jack Gibbons explores the music and enigmatic mind of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Chopin’s close friend and neighbour, performing three of his greatest works in a single concert: Ouverture, Symphony for solo piano and the legendary Concerto for solo piano whose pages contain some of the most spectacular and haunting piano music of the 19th century. This is definitely a concert NOT to be missed.     "Staggering... this ranks among the most exhilarating feats of pianism I've heard ... Gibbons is an Alkan interpreter of exceptional authority" The Gramophone   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 6: AN EVENING OF J. S. BACH Holywell Music Room, Oxford Wednesday 22nd July 2009 at 8PM       Jack Gibbons performs an evening of music by one of the greatest of all composers, Johann Sebastian Bach. The programme includes readings of contemporary anecdotes and letters, a demonstration of how to write a fugue, and a wide variety of music drawn from throughout Bach’s life including Preludes and Fugues, Partita no.1, Chaconne (arr. Busoni) and the dazzling Goldberg Variations (with which Jack Gibbons made his acclaimed Queen Elizabeth Hall London debut in 1984).     "Gibbons' revealed a freshness of manner [in his performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations], everything he did making a musically valid point" The Times   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 7: AN EVENING OF SUMMER MUSIC Holywell Music Room, Oxford Wednesday 29th July 2009 at 8PM       A special collection of classical piano masterpieces, including music by Schubert (Impromptu in G flat), Rachmaninov (Preludes), Schumann (Träumerei), Alkan (Marche Triomphale), Debussy (Submerged Cathedral) plus music by Chopin, Brahms, Ravel & Gershwin. The programme will also contain a selection of Jack Gibbons’ own highly acclaimed music (as performed recently at Carnegie Hall in New York) including Music Box, Sarabande, Song without Words, etc..     "Jack Gibbons is a genius. And like most genuine geniuses he doesn't need to enhance his image with mystery or posturing. By the interval we were in awe, by the end of the evening I felt like Salieri in the presence of Mozart." Zimbabwe Upbeat Magazine   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 8: AN EVENING OF LISZT Magdalen College Auditorium, Oxford Friday 7th August 2009 at 8PM       Liszt has been described as the first classical musician to enjoy a rock star life style. Tonight’s programme, interspersed with anecdotes and contemporary letters, includes many of Liszt’s most famous and romantic music: Hungarian Rhapsodies nos.2 & 12, Leibestraume, Funérailles, Sonata in B minor, etc..     "Outstanding pianist.. scintillating performance, by far the finest I have yet heard" Edward Greenfield, The Guardian   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 9: CHOPIN ENCORES Magdalen College Auditorium, Oxford Friday 14th August 2009 at 8PM       Jack Gibbons plays more of Chopin’s timeless masterpieces, including the Fantaisie-Impromptu, Barcarolle, Berceuse, plus Waltzes, Studies, Preludes, Nocturnes, Ballades, etc..     "Jack Gibbons himself is a pianist of genius, with an endearing Jimmy Stewart-like awkwardness, a charming smile and about forty hands. His delight in and enthusiasm for the music is almost tangible in the haze of nervous energy that radiates from him." Daily Information, Oxford   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 10: GERSHWIN ENCORES Magdalen College Auditorium, Oxford Friday 21st August 2009 at 8PM       Jack Gibbons, described by Classic FM as “one of the world’s greatest Gershwin exponents”, performs the programme that regularly sells out London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall: a recreation of music played at Gershwin's legendary parties in New York in the 1920s, including the Rhapsody in Blue.     "A remarkable recreation of Gershwin's unique style. Hearing Jack Gibbons perform is like being with Gershwin" Edward Jablonski, biographer of Gershwin, New York, 1998   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:     CONCERT 11 JACK GIBBONS' FAREWELL PIANO PARTY Magdalen College Auditorium, Oxford Friday 28th August 2009 at 8PM       Jack Gibbons concludes his 22nd annual Summer Piano Series with his traditional end of summer mix of both serious and light hearted music, including requests chosen on the night by the audience. Music to include works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Alkan, Liszt, Gershwin & Gibbons himself!     "Gibbons' enthusiasm was evident from the start and made all the more clear in his interesting and at times humorous commentary. They gave the performances a stamp of authority that made the evening memorable." Worcester Telegram & Gazette, USA   Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 11 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £55:
	HOW TO FIND THE CONCERT HALLS IN OXFORD: The map below shows the location of popular concert locations in the city including the historic Holywell Music Room, as well as the location of the Oxford Playhouse's Tickets Oxford box office. The Holywell Music Room is well served by nearby pubs, being a few yards from both the Kings Arms and Turf Tavern pubs (see second image below).
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