John conducts a short course for the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra.

Join John and the City of Southampton Orchestra for a fun packed concert suitable for all ages.  Phil Cheeseman returns to narrate and compere (www.csorchestra.org).

John will direct a Harmony and Composition workshop for the Oxfordshire Advanced Musicianship Programme, in collaboration with St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. This event is part of the St. Anne’s Recital Series , and Oxfordshire Advanced Musicianship Programme, and includes a recital by pianist Yllka Istrefi at 6pm (http://yllka.com), and interview with composer Ash Madni.

Providing a regular series of conducting and composition workshops at the University of Oxford, John leads advanced students through Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in preparation for the full orchestra workshop with OCYO on Saturday 2nd February 2013.

Fun concerts for younger audiences - programme to include Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition

Providing a regular series of conducting and composition workshops at the University of Oxford, John leads advanced students through Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. This event is with full orchestra, with the participation of the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra.

A programme of four concerto premieres, by composers Christopher Bond, Lewis Furber, Ben Lunn, and James Golborn.

John conducts visiting ensemble, CHROMA, in a workshop of compositions by leading undergraduate and postgraduate composers at the University of Oxford. (www.chromaensemble.co.uk / www.music.ox.ac.uk)

A programme of works by postgraduate composers at the University of Oxford, to include Dan Jeffries She was a German Doctor called Julia, Chris Garrard Night or nothing, Luke Lewis  ...and all watched over by machines of loving grace, Sam Fernando Half Moon and Utterance, and Eugene Birman Red Dessert.

This event concludes the RWCMD Contemporary Music Ensemble collaboration with the BCMG.

Semi-final of the Oxfordshire Concerto Competition: Strauss Horn Concerto No.1, I (Sarah Johnson), Korngold Violin Concerto, I (Makoto Nakata), Nielsen Flute Concerto (Ellie Nugent), Ney Rosauro Concerto for Marimba, I and IV (Jack Chown), York Bowen Concerto for Viola (Anna Hughes), Bruch Violin Concerto (Bethan Rose, Leo Appel)

John will conduct the Oxford Philomusica in a workshop of compositions by students from Oxford University (www.oxfordphil.com / www.music.ox.ac.uk)

John will direct a Harmony and Composition workshop for the Oxfordshire Advanced Musicianship Programme, in collaboration with St. Anne's College, University of Oxford.  This event is part of the St. Anne’s Recital Series and includes a recital by Laura Lucas (flute) and Daniel Swain (piano) at 6pm

John will direct a Harmony and Composition workshop for the Oxfordshire Advanced Musicianship Programme, in collaboration with St. Anne's College, University of Oxford.  This event is part of the St. Anne’s Recital Series and includes a recital by pianist Madalina Rusu at 6pm.

Poulenc Gloria (conducted by Rupert Gough, Director of Choral Music, Royal Holloway), Britten Passacaglia from Peter Grimes, Dvorak Symphony No.9

John's school visits continue, working with First Access instrumentalists across Oxfordshire as part of the OCMS 2014 massed ensemble commission, to be premiered  on Friday 14th March 2014 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham (for Symphony Orchestra plus 300 young singers and instrumentalists)

John conduct's the City of Southampton Orchestra -  Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet,  Stravinsky  Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’, and Tchaikovsky Symphony no.5. Also see www.csorchestra.org

John will conduct and record 7 new works by RWCMD composers, with the RWCMD Concert Orchestra

John will be mentored by maestro Valery Gergiev on Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, with the Oxford Philomusica (see 'events' for other performances with the Oxford Philomusica)

OCYO starts work on Strauss: Don Juan, Britten: Four Sea Interludes, and Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2, in preparation for their summer tour to Italy.

Korngold Violin Concerto, op.35 (Makoto Nakata), Lowell Liebermann Flute Concerto (Ellie Nugent), Strauss Horn Concerto, op.11 (Sarah Johnson).

Providing a regular series of conducting and composition workshops at the University of Oxford, John leads advanced students through Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in preparation for the full orchestra workshop with OCYO on Saturday 27th April 2013.

John and the CSO welcome Juliette Roos, recipient of the BBC Young Musician Walter Todds Bursary Prize.

Providing a regular series of conducting and composition workshops at the University of Oxford, John leads advanced students through Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. This event is with full orchestra, with the participation of the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra.

John's presents the first of three composer workshops, working with young Oxfordshire composers, for his OCMS massed ensemble commission, to be premiered  on Friday 14th March 2014 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham (for Symphony Orchestra plus 300 young singers and instrumentalists)

John conducts the final instalment of the collaboration between the City of Southampton Orchestra and Winchester Symphony Orchestra.  This unique education project has featured professional, amateur, and student musicians, from across Hampshire.

Elgar Introduction and Allegro (Charlotte Scott, Alexandra Wood, Jon Thorne, Sebastian Comberti)

Tippet Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (Alexandra Wood, Charlotte Scott, Sebastian Comberti)

Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (John Mark Ainsley, Richard Dilley)

Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

Britten Courtly Dances from Gloriana

Poulenc The Story of Babar the Elephant (narrated by Chris de Souza)

Brahms Hungarian Dance No.5

Britten Matinees Musicales

John's presents the second of three composer workshops, working with young Oxfordshire composers, for his OCMS massed ensemble commission, to be premiered  on Friday 14th March 2014 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham (for Symphony Orchestra plus 300 young singers and instrumentalists)

London Fanfare Trumpets premiere John's latest ceremonial commission - http://www.londonfanfaretrumpets.com/

John's school visits continue, working with First Access instrumentalists across Oxfordshire as part of the OCMS 2014 massed ensemble commission, to be premiered  on Friday 14th March 2014 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham (for Symphony Orchestra plus 300 young singers and instrumentalists)

David and Lelia Sadlier, on tour from the USA, present the first of their performances of John's Two Songs to Celebrate the Benjamin Britten Centenary (premiered Dec 2012, St. Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London)

John's presents the final composer workshop, working with young Oxfordshire composers, for his OCMS massed ensemble commission, to be premiered  on Friday 14th March 2014 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham (for Symphony Orchestra plus 300 young singers and instrumentalists)

John's collaboration with the Cornish American Song Institute continues for another year. For more details please see http://casonginstitute.org/

David and Lelia Sadlier, on tour from the USA, present another performance of John's Two Songs to Celebrate the Benjamin Britten Centenary (premiered Dec 2012, St. Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London)

David and Lelia Sadlier, on tour from the USA, present another performance of John's Two Songs to Celebrate the Benjamin Britten Centenary (premiered Dec 2012, St. Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London)

The Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra presents it's final concert before the summer tour programme begins. Programme to also include John Rutter's The Sprig of Thyme with a massed choir from Oxfordshire schools.  The soloists will feature in the Bruch - Leo Appel, Bethany Rose, and Alexander Guinesekera

The Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra feature in the National Festival of Music for Youth's final exhibition, having qualified from the regionals earlier this year, performing Richard Strauss' epic tone poem, Don Juan.

The first of five OCYO tour concerts begins at the stunning Basilica di San Pietro, Perugia, Italy.

The second of five OCYO tour concerts at the stunning Chiesa San Francesco, Terni, Italy.

The third of five OCYO tour concerts at the stunning Orvieto Duomo, Orvieto, Italy.

The penultimate OCYO tour concert at the stunning Museo San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy.

OCYO present their final year concert.

Arvo Part Cantus in Memorium Benjamin Britten, Mozart Clemenza di Tito overture, Clarinet Concerto (soloist Michael Collins), Haydn Symphony No. 104 (‘London’).

Grieg Concert for Piano in A minor (soloist Mami Shikimori), Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending, Saint-Saens ‘the swan’ from Carnival of the Animals, Fantasia on Greensleaves, Offenbach Orpheus and the Underworld overture, and other popular classics.

John conducts a workshop with the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra, for the Oxfordshire Advanced Musicianship Programme.  Repertoire to include Bernstein Candide Overture, Borodin Polovtsien Dances, and Britten Passacaglia from Peter Grimes.

A celebratory concert in the presence of the composer. Programme to include Psalm - A song of Ascents (1992), Shakespeare Scenes for Solo Trumpet and String Orchestra (2013), and a new work John and past/present Oxford composers that have worked with Robert, built upon his Little Prelude, written for Ensemble ISIS in 2003.

John and OCYO conclude the National Festival for Youth 'Proms' at the Royal Albert Hall

John conducts his 10th season with the City of Southampton Orchestra, opening with Britten Pas de Six from Prince of the Pagodas, Bourgeois Trombone Concerto (Michael Buchanan, prize-winner, Haverhill Sinfonia Concerto Competition 2013), and Shostakovitch Symphony No.8.                                                

On what would have been Benjamin Britten's 100th birthday, John conducts a massed performance of his Friday Afternoons op.7, accompanied by the Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra.

Newbury Symphony Orchestra, on of the oldest nonprofessional orchestras in the UK, launch their 2013-14 season.

John leads a workshop of student conductors. Repertoire: Wagner Siegfried Idyll. Orchestra provided by OUMS (Oxford University Music Society).  A preparatory seminar, for participants, will precede this event, on Monday 25^th November 2013 (MT wk 7), LRA, Faculty of Music, 2-4pm.

Programme to follow

Merry Christmas!

Another fun-packed concert for all the family - programme to include Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf, Elgar Wand of Youth Suite (excerpts), John Williams Jurassic Park, Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals (excerpts). Phil Cheeseman narrates.

Fun concerts for younger audiences - programme to include Bernstein Candide and Borodin Polovtsien Dances

EDVARD GRIEG – Piano Concerto in A minor, I. Allegro molto moderato (Zizhou Zhang)

ÉDOUARD LALO - Cello Concerto in D minor, I. Prelude, lento - Allegro maestoso (Frankie Carr)

JEAN SIBELIUS - Violin Concerto, Op. 47, I. Allegro moderato (Enyuan Khong)

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Concerto in A minor for Oboe and Strings III. (Tim Keasley)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, I. Allegro (Francesco Browne)

CARL NIELSEN - Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, D.F.119, I. Allegro moderato (Daniel Shao)

Finn Keane Canario

Lewis Coenen-Rowe A Machine Like No Other

Jo Currie Fugitive Places

Toby Huelin Time Piece

Daniel Lewis Phi

Frankie Perry Elegy

John conducts a workshops of new works by leading composers at the University of Oxford

Judith Weir Tiger under the Table (2002)

Joseph Currie Invisible Priests (2014)

Judith Weir Rain and Mist Are on the Mountain, I’d Better Buy Some Shoes (2005)

Nick Morish Praecox

Judith Weir Blue-Green Hill (2013)

John conducts a workshop of compositions by undergraduate and postgraduate composers at the University of Oxford

Programme details of the Final concert to be announced mid-February 2014

OCYO conclude the Oxfordshire County Music Service Gala event at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

Newbury Symphony Orchestra's mid-season concert features a return to St. Nicholas church with Rachmaninov's celebrated second symphony.

A series of conducting, composition, and performance workshops, and a final concert:

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546

Purcell Trumpet Sonata

Warlock Capriol Suite

Handel Trumpet Suite in D Major

Britten Six Metamorphosen After Ovid, ‘Niobe’   (trumpet)

Elgar Serenade for Strings   

Traill Serenade for Flugelhorn and String Orchestra (World Premiere)

Bruch Kol Nidrei    (arr. Paul Wood)

Elgar Salut d’amore  (arr. Christo Pavlov)

Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Respighi Pines of Rome

Shostakovich Symphony no.5

John leads a workshop of student conductors. Repertoire: Respighi Pines of Rome. This event is in partnership with the Oxfordshire County Music Service.  A preparatory seminar, for participants, will take place on Monday 28^th April 2014, LRA (Faculty of Music), 2-4pm.

The CSO welcomes Making Music Young Concert Artist, Joseph Shiner, to perform the Weber Clarinet Concerto no.2, in this animated programme.

Strauss - Radetsky March

Sibelius Finlandia
Grieg peer gynt suite no1

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet

RVW English Folk Song Suite
Strauss The Blue danube
Filmscores, to include Gladiator, and The Dambusters
Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture

details to follow

Composer in Residence, writing, lecturing, and conducting.

casonginstitute.org/

John and the CSO conclude the 2013-14 season.

Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Respighi - Pines of Rome

Shostakovich - Symphony No.5

Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Respighi - Pines of Rome

Shostakovich - Symphony No.5

Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Respighi - Pines of Rome

Shostakovich - Symphony No.5

Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Respighi - Pines of Rome

Shostakovich - Symphony No.5

After a successful tour to Germany, OCYO present their final 2013-14 concert.

Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Respighi - Pines of Rome

Shostakovich - Symphony No.5

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18

Rimsky - Korsakov  Symphonic Suite Sheherazade Op 35

Oxford Proms Orchestra

Mami Shikimori – piano

John Traill – conductor

http://www.oxfordproms.co.uk/

John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Beethoven - Violin Concerto

Stravinsky - Petrushka (1947)

A varied programme of contemporary music, including the premier of John's Equale for Horn, String Quartet and String Orchestra

All aboard! - for a travel themed concert for all the family!

Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Williams Star Wars

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, Elgar Cello Concerto, Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No.3

John conducts works by University of Oxford composers

Christopher Redgate presents five oboes, including the Lupophon!

John conducts a varied programme of music by Rebecca Saunders and postgraduate composers at the University of Oxford

Contemporary music workshop at Oxford University

John and the NMP open up music by Xenakis and Skempton

Traill Equale

Harry Come, Spring

F. Strauss Nocturne

Sibelius Serenade in C

Holmes Aurora (premier)

Hyde String Quartet

Saxton String Quartet No.3

Strauss Horn Concerto No.1

Mendelssohn Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5

Smetena - Wallenstein's Camp

Strauss  - Horn Concerto No.2

Dvorak - Symphony No.6

Copland Symphony no.3

Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Stravinsky Firebird Suite

Holst - The Perfect Fool

Mussorgsky / Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition

Brahms - Symphony No.4

Beethoven Symphony No.5

Mozart Horn Concerto No.3

Traill Equale

an d more...!

The premier of four new songs for the Cornish American Song Institute, part of John's 2014-15 Composer-in-Residence

Copland Symphony No.3

Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Stravinsky Firebird Suite

Grieg Two Melodies, Op.53

I. Norwegian, II. The First Meeting

 Elgar Elegy, Op.58

 Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies, Op.34

I. Heart’s Wound, II. Last Spring

 Haydn Concerto for Trumpet in Eb major

I. Allegro, II. Andante, III. Allegro

Barry Gray – Thunderbirds March
arr. Custer – Star Trek Through The Years
Debussy arr. Caplet – Claire de Lune
Daniel Dorff – Blast Off!
Holst – Venus from The Planets
John Williams – Leia's Theme from Star Wars
John Williams – Star Wars: Main Title Theme

Deborah Pritchard Skyspace (soloist Simon Desbruslais)

Richard English Flight (world premiere)

Prokofiev Violin Concerto no.2 (Emma Lisney)

Grieg Piano Concerto (Harry Baker)

Strauss Horn Concerto no.1 (Myrddin Rees-Davies)

Mozart Clarinet Concerto (Ben Clapin and David Mears)

Dvorak Cello Concerto (Rebecca McNaught)

Bent Sorensen Pantomimes (soloist Carson Becke, piano)

John Willis new work

Bent Sorensen Nocturnal (soloist William Foster, trombone)

Walton Johannesburg Festival Overture

Elgar Enigma Variations

Prokofiev Violin Concerto no.2 (Emma Lisney)

Strauss Horn Concerto no.1 (Myrddin Rees-Davies)

Mozart Clarinet Concerto (David Mears)

Kalinnikov             Serenade for Strings

Richard English    Flight

Grieg                      ‘Norwegian’, from Two Melodies, op.53; ‘Last Spring’, from Two Elegiac Melodies,op.34

Martyn Harry         Come, Spring

Elgar                        Serenade for Strings in E minor, op.20

This conference will explore issues pertaining to the study of conducting from a range of perspectives by bringing together research across a variety of disciplines including musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, philosophy, psychology, anthropology and sociology as well as from practitioners. The tripartite aims of the conference will be to engage researchers and practitioners in productive dialogue, promote practice as research, and raise awareness of the state of research in the field of conducting.

Organized by the Oxford Conducting Institute, the committee members include Dr John Traill, St. Anne's College (Director, OCI), University of Oxford; Dr Anthony Gritten, Royal Academy of Music; Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, University of Oxford; and Benjamin Loeb, Executive Director, Quad City Symphony Orchestra.

Please visit the conference website for information about the programme and registration or the Facebook page: OCI Conducting Studies Conference. For more details you can also email: oci.conference.info@gmail.com

This conference will explore issues pertaining to the study of conducting from a range of perspectives by bringing together research across a variety of disciplines including musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, philosophy, psychology, anthropology and sociology as well as from practitioners. The tripartite aims of the conference will be to engage researchers and practitioners in productive dialogue, promote practice as research, and raise awareness of the state of research in the field of conducting.

Organized by the Oxford Conducting Institute, the committee members include Dr John Traill, St. Anne's College (Director, OCI), University of Oxford; Dr Anthony Gritten, Royal Academy of Music; Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, University of Oxford; and Benjamin Loeb, Executive Director, Quad City Symphony Orchestra.

Please visit the conference website for information about the programme and registration or the Facebook page: OCI Conducting Studies Conference. For more details you can also email: oci.conference.info@gmail.com

Deborah Pritchard We Remember Them (world premiere conducted by Ben Lamb)

Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings

Deborah Pritchard Seven Halts On The Somme: Trumpet Concerto (world premiere)

Johannes Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem (arr.Deborah Pritchard & John Traill)

Built to replicate Burgos Cathedral, the Asuncion in Melgar de Fernamental is a 15th century temple of large proportions.  Located in close proximity to the Pilgrimage Santiago de Compostela rout, many pilgrims would stop here on their way north.