Marios Papadopoulos

Masterclass
2016-07-30 14:30 - 17:45, 2016-08-01 14:30 - 17:45, 2016-08-05 09:30 - 12:45 (Europe/London) | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, United Kingdom

Oxford Philharmonic
2016-08-03 20:00 - 22:00, 2016-10-25 19:30 - 22:00, 2016-11-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2016-11-19 19:00 - 21:15, 2017-01-21 19:30 - 21:30, 2017-02-16 19:30 - 21:30, 2017-03-18 19:30 - 21:30, 2017-04-23 19:00 - 21:00 and 4 more dates | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, United Kingdom

Recital
2016-09-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Musikverein, Musikvereinspl. 1, Vienna, Austria

Armenina National Philharmonic Orchestra
2016-10-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Unnamed Venue, Yerevan, Armenia

Oxford Philharmonic
2016-11-17 19:00 - 21:15 | Cheltenham Town Hall, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1QA, United Kingdom

Model Hostel WELCOMMON
2016-11-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Festsaal, Rathaus Charlottenburg, Otto-Suhr-Allee 100, Berlin, 10585

Masterclass
2017-07-30 14:30, 2017-07-31 14:30 - 17:45, 2017-08-03 09:30 - 12:45, 2017-08-07 09:30 - 10:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford, United Kingdom
Marios Papadopoulos is the Oxford Piano Festival’s Artistic Director. Since his London debut in 1974, his career as a pianist and conductor has been worldwide. His prolific output as a recording artist includes Beethoven Piano Sonatas, performances of Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, works by Mussorgsky – including Pictures at an Exhibition – piano works by César Franck, and the 24 Preludes and Fugues by Shostakovich. In 1998, he founded the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he is Music Director. He holds a doctorate in Music from City University and is a Fellow by Special Election of Keble College, Oxford. He become an Honorary Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 2010 and was awarded the City of Oxford’s Certificate of Honour in 2013. Papadopoulos was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 2014 New Year’s Honours List for services to music in Oxford.

Oxford Philharmonic and Yefim Bronfman
2017-08-06 20:00 - 22:00 | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, United Kingdom
SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Yefim Bronfman piano
Marios Papadopoulos conductor
Yefim Bronfman is championed by critics as a superlative exponent of Brahms. His sensational 2012 Proms performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 captivated London audiences and his debut at the 2017 Oxford Piano Festival performing the same work promises to be a stirring occasion for all lovers of the Romantic piano genre. Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, written during the onset of the illnesses that would eventually kill him, bears witness to an astonishing artistic fervour, recollecting the worlds of Bach and Beethoven while provoking a new dynasty of symphonic imagination.

Oxford Beethoven Festival: Symphony & Concerto Cycle V
2020-11-19 19:30 - 22:00 | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, United Kingdom
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, ‘Pastoral’
Marios Papadopoulos piano/conductor
Beethoven beyond the stereotypes. The composer loved to perform the second of his piano concertos, not to position himself as the conquering hero but to revel in the colour, imagination and reactivity of pure music and all its possibilities. Here, with Marios Papadopoulos directing from the piano, that work forms the centerpiece in a concert whose two symphonies see Beethoven in a similarly amiable mood. The composer’s sixth is a premonition of the worlds of Mahler and Sibelius in its view of nature as man’s salvation. His eighth is simply a joy from start to end.
Pre-concert Recital 18:30
Young Artists’ Platform
A chance to hear talented young musicians
Free admission
The concert is scheduled to end at approximately 22.00
Tickets: £45.00 £35.00 £25.00 £15.00

Oxford Beethoven Festival: Symphony & Concerto Cycle VI
2020-11-26 19:00 - 21:05 | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, United Kingdom
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73, ‘Emperor’
Marios Papadopoulos piano/conductor
Few works communicate just how significant and pivotal a cultural figure Beethoven was like the ‘Emperor’ piano concerto, every bit deserving of its title. This unprecedented ‘grand concerto’ would explode the scale of the genre and prove a model for composers from Brahms to Liszt and beyond. Inspired by new, louder and more sensitive pianos and alarmed by Napoleon’s bombardment of Vienna, Beethoven created a monumental musical testament to the freedom of man. Marios Papadopoulos plays and directs the concerto after Beethoven’s charming Symphony No. 4.
Pre-concert Recital 18:30
Young Artists’ Platform
A chance to hear talented young musicians
Free admission
The concert is scheduled to end at approximately 21.05
Supported by Geoffrey & Caroline de Jager

Tickets: £35 £2 £15

Oxford Beethoven Festival: Symphony & Concerto Cycle VII
2020-12-11 19:00 - 21:50 | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, United Kingdom
BEETHOVEN
Christus am Ölberge, Op. 85
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Eleanor Dennis soprano
Ian Bostridge tenor
David Soar bass
The Choir of Keble College
Anne-Sophie Mutter violin
Marios Papadopoulos conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter returns to the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and brings to our Beethoven celebrations one of the composer’s most joyous, lyrical works – his Violin Concerto. If the composer appears trouble-free in that score, his oratorio Christus am Ölberge was a cry of anguish, a reflection of the composer’s inner turmoil through that of Christ’s. It is a powerful, dramatic and intense work in which Beethoven is unflinching in the face of emotional and physical distress, but is filled with music of strange beauty, clear humanity and compelling drama nonetheless.
The concert is scheduled to end at approximately 21.50
Supported by Michael Thomas & Serena Simmons

Tickets: £40 £30 £20

Oxford Beethoven Festival: Symphony & Concerto Cycle VIII
2020-12-13 19:30 - 21:50 | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, United Kingdom
BEETHOVEN
Fantasia in C minor, Op. 80, ‘Choral Fantasy’
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, ‘Choral’
Claire Rutter soprano
Angela Simkin mezzo-soprano
Toby Spence tenor
David Shipley bass
Philharmonischer Chor der Stadt Bonn
Paul Krämer chorus master
Marios Papadopoulos piano/conductor
Concert introduced by John Suchet
Beethoven’s ninth still sounds palpably off-the-leash despite the two centuries of musical evolution that have passed since its first performance in 1824. This most iconic of symphonies is still riddled with contradictions – part model of classical form, part complete rule-breaker; a dark, deranged romp and an inspiring journey to triumph. Marios Papadopoulos conducts it here, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra joined by singers from Beethoven’s home town of Bonn, after the very work that smoothened its way: the unique hybrid of symphony, concerto and choral work that is the ‘Choral Fantasy’.
The concert is scheduled to end at approximately 21.50

Tickets: £40 £30 £20

Oxford Philharmonic at the Cadogan
2023-05-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Cadogan Hall, London, United Kingdom
Mozart Ch’io mi scordi di te?, K. 505
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
John Rutter Anniversary Greeting for the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra (world premiere)*
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Sophie Bevan Soprano
John Rutter conductor*
Marios Papadopoulos piano/conductor
The seventh is Beethoven’s most fascinating symphony – a work whose new vision of rhythm’s relationship with harmony produced the most physical, compelling music that had ever been created. Beethoven wasn’t just exploring new techniques, he was giving voice to a wave of joy that had swept into his life and filled him with determination and optimism. Before it, we hear Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, which sees the composer begin his transformation of the piano concerto from entertaining diversion to engrossing narrative experience. Marios Papadopoulos is conductor and soloist for this visit to London’s Cadogan Hall.

Enigma Variations
2023-06-03 19:30 - 20:30 | Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, United Kingdom
Morfydd Llwyn Owen Nocturne* Side-by-Side
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Elgar Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, ‘Enigma’
Alban Gerhardt cello
Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey conductor*
Marios Papadopoulos conductor
When Edward Elgar started to improvise a little tune at his piano one day, considering how a group of his closest friends might play that tune, he gave birth to one of the greatest masterpieces of English music. The ‘Enigma’ variations are uplifting and resigned, humorous and profound. Elgar’s dazzling, virtuosic orchestral showpiece comes after his acerbic, embittered and sorrowful Cello Concerto written in less happy times, and the rediscovered gem that is Morfydd Llwyn Owen’s sumptuous Nocturne.
