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CONCERTS IN OXFORD
Jack Gibbons has been giving highly acclaimed recitals in the university
city of Oxford for over 45 years,
his annual Oxford Summer Piano Series, founded 2 August 1988, having taken
place in the city without a break for 35 years.
For more information please
contact Tickets Oxford at the Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street
Oxford (tel 01865 305305).
www.ticketsoxford.com
COMING
SOON
JACK GIBBONS'
37th annual Oxford Summer Piano Series
"High spirited and historically informed"
New Yorker
See below for concert details
CONCERT 1:
AN EVENING OF
BEETHOVEN
Thursday
10th July 2025 at 8PM
Holywell
Music Room, Oxford
Pathétique
Sonata
Moonlight Sonata
Appassionata Sonata
Sonata in E minor, Op.90
('Funeral March")
"Jack 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... This was an exhilarating tribute to
a great master, enlivened by Gibbons's authoritative and entertaining
commentary, and earning a well-deserved standing ovation."
OXFORD
TIMES
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CONCERT 2:
AN EVENING OF GERSHWIN
Sunday
13th July 2025 at
8PM
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
 Rhapsody
in Blue
An American in Paris
Concerto in F (slow movement)
Prelude no.2
Swanee
The Man I Love
Fascinating Rhythm
Sweet and Low Down
The Half of it, Dearie, Blues
Looking For A Boy
Someone To Watch Over Me
My One and Only
"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 MAGAZINE
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CONCERT 3
CHOPIN
FOUR BALLADES
Wednesday
23rd July 2025 at
8PM
Holywell
Music Room, Oxford
Ballade no.1 Op.23
Ballade no.2 Op.38
Ballade no.3 Op.47
Ballade no.4 Op.52
Nocturnes from Opp.9 & 27
Mazurkas from Opp.17 & 30
Waltz in C sharp minor Op.64 no.2
Etudes from Opp.10 & 25
"Jack Gibbons is a unique phenomenon
in the musical world of today. Thanks to his virtuosic skills Gibbons
can hold an audience in thrall. His concert-giving style is equally
attractive: before his performances he talks unassumingly but with great
authority from the platform, drawing the listeners into a special
relationship."
HUMPHREY
BURTON, FORMER HEAD OF MUSIC AND ARTS, BBC
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CONCERT 4:
A GERSHWIN PARTY
Sunday
3rd August 2025 at
8PM
Holywell
Music Room, Oxford
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
GERSHWIN: I Got Rhythm
GERSHWIN: 'S Wonderful/Funny Face
GERSHWIN: Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
JOPLIN: Easy Winners
JOHNSON/WALLER: Carolina Shout
RACHMANINOFF: Prelude in C sharp
minor
RAVEL: Pavane pour une infante défunte
PROKOFIEV: Prelude in C, Op.12 no.7
SOUSA/HOROWITZ: The Stars and Stripes Forever
BERLIN: Let's Face The Music and Dance
GIBBONS: Lullaby in memoriam Edward Jablonski
Hailed by the BBC as “THE Gershwin pianist of our time”, Jack
Gibbons performs one of the programmes that sold out the Queen Elizabeth Hall
during Gibbons' 16 years of Gershwin concerts in the British capital. The
concert recreates the 1920s and 30s world of George Gershwin
with a selection of Gibbons' acclaimed Gershwin transcriptions alongside the music of
Gershwin's friends and contemporaries, from Maurice Ravel and Sergei
Rachmaninoff to Irving Berlin and Fats Waller.
"Jack Gibbons is THE Gershwin
pianist of our time. Gibbons has transcribed the
composer's flamboyant and fiendishly difficult recreations of his own
show-tunes... he dashes off the most insanely difficult passage-work
with a broad grin. This is music that requires verve, nerve, and
Gibbons' enviable capacity to generate party atmosphere."
YORKSHIRE
POST/BBC PROMS (Royal Albert Hall London)
"Hearing Jack Gibbons
perform is like being at a Gershwin party, in a sense like being with Gershwin"
EDWARD
JABLONSKI (GERSHWIN'S BIOGRAPHER)
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CONCERT
5
RAVEL AT 150:
celebrating the 150th anniversary of
Ravel's birth
Wednesday 6th August 2025 at
8PM
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
RAVEL Sonatine
RAVEL Oiseaux tristes
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
RAVEL Ma mère l'Oye
RAVEL Jeux d’eau
RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte
RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit.
"Jack Gibbons could be Britain's answer to Ivo Pogorelich.
Gibbons's hyperactively poetic account of Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit -
more considered, I felt, than Pogorelich's recorded performance - was
yet both vivid and hypnotic"
THE TIMES (Queen Elizabeth Hall London Debut
review)
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CONCERT
6:
A BACH CELEBRATION
Sunday 10th August 2025 at 8PM
Holywell
Music Room, Oxford
BACH Goldberg Variations
BACH/LISZT: Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543
BACH: Largo from Concerto BWV 1056
BACH: Prelude and Fugue in E flat minor BWV 853
BACH/BUSONI: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr
Jesu Christ
BACH/BUSONI: Chaconne
"Freshness of manner: His playing is absolutely convincing. Nothing was
predictable in his account (without repeats) of Bach’s Goldberg
Variations, yet each and every detail made some musically valid point."
THE TIMES (Queen Elizabeth Hall London Debut
review)
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CONCERT
7
CHOPIN POLONAISES & FANTAISIES
Sunday
17th August 2025 at 8PM
Holywell
Music Room, Oxford
Fantaisie Op.49
Polonaise in A flat Op.53 ("Heroic")
Polonaise-Fantaisie Op.61
Fantaisie-Impromptu Op.66 (posth)
Berceuse Op.57
Nocturne in C minor Op.48 no.1
Mazurka in A flat Op.59 no.2
Preludes Op.28 nos.4 & 15
Waltzes Opp.18 & 64 no.1
Etude in B minor Op.25 no.10
"Extraordinary talent…
Gibbons has a distinct and distinguished recreative gift and artistic
personality, the most exciting British pianist I have heard since John
Ogdon."
DENIS MATTHEWS CBE, renowned pianist and author
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CONCERT
8:
JACK
GIBBONS' FAREWELL
PIANO PARTY
Sunday
24th August 2025 at 8PM
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Musical reminiscences &
audience requests
"Jack Gibbons is one of
Oxford’s treasures."
OXFORD
TIMES
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HOW TO FIND THE
CONCERT HALLS IN OXFORD:
The maps below show the locations
of popular concert venues in the city
including the Holywell Music Room and SJE Arts' St John the Evangelist church, as well as the location of the Oxford Playhouse's
Tickets Oxford box office.
All venues are well serve by nearby pubs.
Click on the image below to read
reviews of past Oxford concerts  |
