Events at Trinity 2023/24

EVENTS at TRINITY

WHAT’S ON 2023/2024

RECITALS / TALKS / EVENTS

Welcome to Trinity

I’m delighted to welcome you to the second season of Events at Trinity!

Since the (then) Prince of Wales opened our magnificent new Levine Building set in Trinity’s woodland garden, we have welcomed over three thousand members of the public to enjoy talks, tours and performances, and to experience at first hand the range of work that takes place behind the gates of an Oxford college.

A sense of being open and - more importantly - open to all, is a touchstone for Trinity’s relationship with its local community. Whether you’re a school student, an Oxford resident, a visitor to our city, member of the University or alumnus, we hope you will find something to spark your curiosity.

We’ve designed a programme that caters to all interests: from world-leading medics restoring damaged lives in some of the world’s most challenging conflict zones, to world-leading performers exploring some of the most sublime music ever written. And our expert team of gardeners will accompany you through the seasons with guided tours of the college’s historic gardens as we prepare to replant Trinity’s ‘long border’ to a design by renowned garden designer, Chris Beardshaw.

There is much to enjoy!

Dame Hilary Boulding President, Trinity College

Trinity College acknowledges with gratitude the generous support of the Events at Trinity programme by Professor Kim Nasmyth, Emeritus Fellow.

It’s been a real privilege to observe the public response to our first year of Events at Trinity. Tentative at first, but transforming steadily into an audience who have enjoyed our varied mix of talks, exhibitions, garden tours and concert recitals. Our programme is made up of two main strands of activities:

Trinity Talks offer a public platform for our Fellows and wider College community to share their latest research and thinking. These talks cover many subjects but do not require specialist knowledge to enjoy. Just bring your own curiosity and take part in the open Q&A with each speaker.

Trinity Recitals showcase the fine acoustics of the de Jager Auditorium with some of the world’s most exciting classical musicians. Mainly taking place on Sunday afternoons, our relaxed series of solo recitals, duos and ensembles will offer sumptuous musical experiences for everyone to savour. I am particularly looking forward to welcoming back our cover star Jeneba Kanneh-Mason after her stunning performance in the inaugural season.

Additional public events will be added throughout the year so keep an eye on our website for updates: www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/events-at-trinity

During your visit you will be able to purchase light refreshments in our café and can expect all the comfort of a modern, accessible and purpose-designed performance venue.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Andrew Miller, MBE Creative Director, Trinity College

Trinity Talks offer a public platform for Trinity fellows and the broader academic community to share their latest research and thinking. Wide ranging in subject, from sustainability to micro-surgery, and from poetry to film making, these highly informative and enjoyable talks are a chance to hear some of the leaders in their fields. The programme is open for everyone to attend – no specialist knowledge required.

Shehan Hettiaratchy: Bringing a knife to a gunfight... a surgeon’s view of war and conflict

Wed 1 Nov 2023 / 5pm

Trinity alumnus Shehan Hettiaratchy has spent the last 30 years as a trauma reconstructive surgeon working in the UK and overseas with the military and aid organisations. He has dealt with casualties from the war in Afghanistan, the London terror attacks and most recently, the wounded in Ukraine. He will discuss the human experience of managing trauma casualties and how we can deal with the healthcare burden caused by war, the disease without a cure.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Hugh Brody: Filming the spoken word –the Khomani San of the southern Kalahari

Wed 15 Nov 2023 / 5pm

Distinguished author, filmmaker and anthropologist and Trinity alumnus, Hugh Brody spent 15 years working with the San peoples living on the border of South Africa and Botswana. His project aimed to recover land and a language long believed to be extinct, using film and oral history to overcome a century of brutal oppression. Hugh’s illustrated talk will demonstrate documentary film making and anthropology working side by side to achieve remarkable outcomes.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Mirjana Spoljaric From Ukraine to Syria – the challenges of humanitarian action in today’s intractable conflicts

Tue 28 Nov 2023 / 5pm

Millions of people are facing humanitarian crises after years of warfare and instability. As the International Committee of the Red Cross marks its 160 th year of humanitarian action, its President  Mirjana Spoljaric describes the challenges posed by contemporary armed conflicts.

Mandated through the Geneva Conventions, the Committee works to ensure humanitarian protection and assistance, taking action in response to emergencies as a neutral, impartial and independent organisation.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Trinity Talks

Judge Theodor Meron Leadership crimes in Shakespeare: accountability and deniability

Wed 24 Jan 2024 / 5pm

Theodor Meron, former Judge and President of UN war crimes tribunals and now Honorary Fellow of Trinity and Oxford Visiting Professor of Law, lays bare the moral compromises and the efforts of leaders and courtiers in Shakespeare’s plays to preserve deniability for crimes, strategies still resorted to by modern actors.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Justin Stebbing

A story of artificial intelligence and drug development during the pandemic

Wed 28 Feb 2024 / 5pm

Justin Stebbing, Editor-in-Chief of Oncogene, one of the world’s leading cancer journals, is Visiting Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, ARU, Cambridge, and an alumnus of Trinity. Specialising in new therapies for cancer, Professor Stebbing has published over 650 peer-reviewed papers as well as regularly  presenting new data on optimal cancer therapies.  In this talk he will describe how during the  pandemic, a computer programme led to studies at breakneck speed in early 2020 which produced a treatment that was  US Government Food & Drug Administration approved 9 months later.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

NATO 75th Anniversary Time to retire or strengthen?

Wed 6 Mar 2024 / 5pm

April 2024 marks the 75th Anniversary of NATO –the transatlantic alliance as prominent in the Cold War as in the Ukraine conflict today. Its changing political initiatives, military operations, and burgeoning membership from 12 to 31 countries (and counting!) reflect its enduring significance. Helping to explain NATO’s foundations and current role are security studies expert Professor Patrick Porter, scholar and military veteran of NATO missions

Seth Johnston, and former senior Army commander and foreign policy expert

Jonathan Shaw

Tickets £10 / £5 (students) de Jager Auditorium

Dionne Brand: Poetry reading

Thu 7 Mar 2024 / 5.30pm

Join us for an evening of poetry from Dionne Brand, author of twenty-three books of poetry, fiction, and essays. She has received numerous awards, including the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. From 2009 to 2012, Brand served as Toronto’s Poet Laureate, and in 2017 she was named to the Order of Canada.

Tickets £10 / FREE for students – reserve in advance at www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/events-at-trinity de Jager Auditorium

To book tickets please visit www.ticketsoxford.com

Trinity Talks

Stephen Fisher British politics: what just happened and what’s next?

Wed 8 May 2024 / 5pm

The week after the May 2024 local elections will be an ideal time to take stock of British politics. The results of the locals will provide key clues as to the outcome of the general election due by January 2025. If that general election has already happened, then there will be even more to analyse, and a key moment to ask: what comes next for Britain?

Join our expert panel chaired by Trinity’s Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Professor Stephen Fisher, who is also a long-standing BBC Election Night analyst.

Tickets FREE de Jager Auditorium

Helen Oyeyemi

Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture

Thu 9 May 2024 / 5pm

Each year the Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture is given by notable creative writers and remembers Richard Hillary, the author of The Last Enemy, who was a student at Trinity. Helen Oyeyemi is an award-winning novelist and a former judge of the International Booker Prize for Literature.

Described by The Guardian as “a rare talent”, Helen is best known for Mr Fox, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours and Gingerbread.

Tickets FREE de Jager Auditorium

To book tickets or reserve free tickets please visit www.ticketsoxford.com or call 01865 305305

Charlotte Williams: Plastics – future options to improve sustainability

Wed 22 May 2024 / 5pm

We all recognise current global plastics production is unsustainable. Yet these materials can often improve sustainability through insulation, light-weighting of vehicles and future clean technologies. So how can chemistry and materials science improve the sustainability of plastics?

In this talk Trinity Fellow, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Charlotte Williams OBE will explore all the available options including renewables, efficient recycling, and building in sustainability at the earliest stages of technological development.

Tickets FREE

de Jager Auditorium

Neil Jones: Passing it on

Wed 5 Jun 2024 / 5pm

This isn’t brain surgery - it’s much more delicate! Using the world’s most powerful microscopes and stitches finer than a human hair, microsurgeons are now able to reconnect the smallest blood vessels and nerves in the body - saving lives and limbs and restoring quality of life to millions.

Trinity alumnus Professor Neil Jones is a distinguished leader in this field and will discuss how microsurgery has revolutionised reconstructive surgery in a variety of settings. He will also share with us his experience of over thirty years of “passing it on” through performing and teaching humanitarian reconstructive surgery in some of the least developed countries in the world.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students) de Jager Auditorium

The Oxford International Song Festival (formerly Oxford Lieder) celebrates its 22nd year, but the first under its new name! This year’s thrilling theme ‘Art: Song’ aligns the visual arts with poetry and music. Alongside a roster of world-renowned singers and pianists, you’ll find colour, fashion, musical manuscripts, artist-poets, five world premieres, a Schubert-inspired band and much more besides...

Trinity is delighted to once again be a Festival partner, with a range of events hosted in the de Jager Auditorium.

Voice Electric

Wed 18 Oct 2023 / 9.30pm

Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano)

Purple Taiko (video artist)

Lotte Betts-Dean is fast establishing herself as one of today’s most creative and exciting voices. Together with video artist Purple Taiko, Lotte developed this show for solo voice, electronics and vintage CRT monitors for Britten Pears Arts’ Festival of New last year.

Voice Electric includes groundbreaking works by Luigi Nono and Kurt Schwitters alongside newer works by Kaija Saariaho, Erin Gee, Stuart MacRae and Mathis Saunier. Using analogue processing and effects to create a visual collage of lo-fi imagery, textures and colour, Purple Taiko’s visuals complete a thrilling evening.

Tickets £16 / £7 (under 35s) de Jager Auditorium

Images of Schubert

Sun 22 Oct 2023 / 11am

Siân Dicker (soprano)

Natalie Burch (piano)

Richard Wigmore (speaker)

The broadcaster, writer and lecturer Richard Wigmore examines images of Franz Schubert from his  contemporaries (many of his friends were artists) to the present day. His talk is interspersed with Schubert songs, performed by prize-winning soprano and former Oxford Song Young Artist Siân Dicker, with pianist Natalie Burch.

Tickets £12 / £7 (under 35s) de Jager Auditorium

For full details of the Festival and to book tickets or Festival passes, please visit www.oxfordsong.org

Lotte Betts-Dean

Siân Dicker

Looking at Blake

Tue 24 Oct 2023 / 5.15pm

Robin Tritschler (tenor)

Christopher Glynn (piano)

Experience William Blake as both poet and artist.

Composers including Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Parry, Walton, Clarke and others set Blake’s poetry. Today, a rich selection of these fantastic songs is made even more vivid by projected images of Blake’s striking artworks, in a special project curated by tenor Robin Tritschler.

Tickets £18 / £7 (under 35s) de Jager Auditorium

Goya & Granados

Wed 25 Oct 2023 / 9.30pm

Mercedes Gancedo (soprano) Sholto Kynoch (piano)

Catalan composer Enrique Granados was also a fine painter, with a near obsession with the works of visionary artist Francisco Goya. Granados made his name with his cycle of piano pieces, Goyescas, but his Tonadillas, a vibrant set of twelve songs, were also written in direct response to Goya’s work.

Barcelona-based Argentinian soprano Mercedes Gancedo performs this cycle, complemented by readings and projections.

Tickets £15 / £7 (under 35s) de Jager Auditorium

Three Pebbles

Fri 27 Oct 2023 / 5.15pm

Tangram (Alex Ho, Mantawoman, Laila Smith)

Associate Artists at LSO St Luke’s, Tangram is a trailblazing music collective. They come to the Festival fresh from making their European debuts with Untold (winner of the FEDORA Opera Prize). The programme is inspired by the missing history, place, and legacy of Chinese communities in the UK and US, and includes new works by their co-Artistic Directors: Mantawoman, one of the leading yangqin players performing outside Asia; and Alex Ho, who is also The Song Festival’s Associate Composer.

Tickets £18 / £7 (under 35s) de Jager Auditorium

Mastercourse Mon 23 – Fri 27 Oct 2023

Wolfgang Holzmair makes a welcome return to the Festival to lead the annual Mastercourse, providing a wonderful opportunity for a new generation of brilliant musicians to learn from top international artists and to immerse themselves in song. A fantastic insight into the creative process for audiences, who are warmly invited to attend throughout the week. Sessions run throughout the day and audiences are welcome to come and go.

Tickets £6 per day (£26 pass) . Free entry for students

Robin Tritschler

Mercedes Gancedo Tangram

Trinity Recitals

Jennifer Pike (violin)

Martin Roscoe (piano)

Sun 29 Oct 2023 / 2.30pm

Lili Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps & Nocturne

Beethoven: ‘Spring’ sonata

Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie from Preludes Book 1

Jeremy Pike: Elegy for Ukraine

Grieg: Sonata in C minor

A century apart, Beethoven and Boulanger each salute the spring. Debussy sees glittering visions, and Grieg unleashes an imagination with the force of a spring torrent. Jennifer Pike is more than one of the most engaging and insightful violinists ever to win BBC Young Musician: she’s an artist with stories to tell, and together with pianist Martin Roscoe she shares four of them, plus a haunting and timely new work by her father Jeremy.

Tickets £25 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Schola Cantorum of Oxford

Sun 19 Nov 2023 / 2.30pm

Brahms: Liebeslieder Walzer for choir and piano duet

Part songs by Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann

Music for piano duet

Come, then, with your dark eyes - come, when the stars beckon!

When Brahms moved to Vienna, he poured out his hopes and dreams to the rhythm of a waltz. His bittersweet Lieberslieder Walzer are the singing, swinging heart of a concert that positively glows with romance, as the University of Oxford’s premier chamber choir Schola Cantorum explores the private, intensely poetic musical world of the two people who meant more to Brahms than anyone else: Robert and Clara Schumann.

Tickets £25 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Photo by Maryam Wocial

Trinity Recitals

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano)

Christopher Glynn (piano)

Sun 28 Jan 2024 / 2.30pm

Romantic songs by Schubert, Mahler, Fauré, Browne, Vaughan-Williams, Clarke, Dring, Coates and Lehmann

(see website for full repertoire details)

“Everything was immaculate, and yet incredibly fresh and free” wrote Opera Today of the young British mezzo Kathryn Rudge – and she brings the same charisma and joie de vivre to opera house and recital platform alike. It’s all about love: and together with pianist Christopher Glynn, she presents a garland of love songs, from the impassioned imaginings of Schubert and Mahler to the playfulness, wit, and indelible melodies of British light music.

Tickets £25 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Natalie Clein (cello)

Sun 11 Feb 2024 / 2.30pm

Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009

Taverner: Thrinos

Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011

Kodály: Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8

A solo cello can create a universe: all it takes is four strings and a bow. Bach’s great suites for unaccompanied cello are that universe’s alpha and omega, and in this recital Natalie Clein will play both the sunlit C major Suite and its dark, majestic doppelgänger: the Suite in C minor. But there’s also quiet rapture from John Tavener and the folk-inspired flights of Kodály’s mighty Solo Sonata –meat and drink to a cellist as commanding as Clein.

Tickets £25 / £5 (students) de Jager Auditorium To book tickets please visit

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Trinity Recitals

James Ehnes (violin)

Andrew Armstrong (piano)

Wed 21 Feb 2024 / 7.30pm

Leclair: Sonata Op. 9, No. 3

Shostakovich: Sonata

Sinding: Suite in the Old Style Op. 10

Sarasate: Spanish Dances Op. 22

Wieniawski: Polonaise Brillante Op. 21

Critics tend to fall over themselves when describing Canadian violinist James Ehnes: “The wondrous James Ehnes, a thinker of the violin as well as a supreme virtuoso of the instrument” wrote the Daily Telegraph. But why take their word for it, when you can hear him for yourself - playing with his regular collaborator Andrew Armstrong in a programme that sets the power of Shostakovich’s brooding Violin Sonata against the sheer dazzlement of the 19th century virtuoso tradition?

Tickets £25 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

To book tickets please visit

Roderick

Williams (baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano)

Sun 21 Apr 2024 / 2.30pm

Hearing Pictures

Schubert: Selection of early lieder (see website for full details)

Debussy: De Grêve from Proses Lyriques

Head: The Estuary

Keel: Trade Winds

Britten: Seascape from On this Island

Ives: From ‘The Swimmers’

Poulenc: Le Travail du Peintre

Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II D.768 (Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh); Auf dem Wasser zu singen D.774

“People often ask me why I always seem so cheerful” says Roderick Williams. “And I just say, why shouldn’t I be? I’m singing wonderful music”. With Williams, a recital is more than just a selection of beautifully-sung miniatures. It’s a journey, and today Williams and legendary song pianist Roger Vignoles cross nations and centuries to explore a landscape of the imagination –from the English coastline of Benjamin Britten to the heights of Schubert’s Austrian alps.

Tickets £25 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Presented in association with Oxford International Song Festival: Spring Song  Tickets for this event can be booked through www.oxfordsong.org

Rosalind Ventris (viola)

Llŷr Williams (piano)

Sun 28 Apr 2024 / 2.30pm

Johannes Brahms: Sonata Op. 120, No. 1 in F minor

László Weiner: Sonata

Zoltán Kodály: Adagio

Clara Schumann: Romances, Op. 22

Johannes Brahms: Sonata Op. 120, No. 2 in Eb major

Associate Member of Trinity College, Rosalind Ventris, has been praised for her ‘gorgeously full-bodied’ viola playing (The Guardian). She is joined by a fellow virtuoso - the superb Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams - to perform two of Brahms’s most revered works, and intimate Romances from his lifelong colleague and confidante, Clara Schumann. Their programme takes its fire from the Hungarian folk tradition too, with a rarely heard sonata by Weiner, who was tragically murdered in the Holocaust. Alongside this is a poignant Adagio by his teacher, Kodály.

Tickets £25 / £5 (students) de Jager Auditorium

Rachel Podger (violin)

Sun 19 May 2024 / 2.30pm

Vilsmayr: Partita No. 6 in A major from Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera (1715)

Noguiera and Klagenfurt manuscripts: A Suite of short movements

Matteis, Nicola: Fantasia con discretione

Bach arr. Kelly: Toccata and fugue BWV 565 arranged for solo violin in A minor Kelly: Phantasia for solo violin

von Westhoff: Suite for solo violin (1683)

Bach: Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006

Rachael Podger has been called “the queen of the baroque violin”, with Gramophone magazine describing her as “a glorious example of someone who lives her life through her violin”. Today, she walks a sonic tightrope as she plays the baroque repertoire for unaccompanied violin – by turns flamboyant, playful, perilous and sublime. Expect colourful fantasies from Matteis and Westhoff and intellectual bravura from Bach, as well as something new (and very personal) from Chad Kelly.

Tickets £25 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

To book tickets please visit www.ticketsoxford.com

Trinity Recitals

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)

Sun 2 Jun 2024 / 2.30pm

Scarlatti: Sonata in A Major K. 24

Scarlatti: Sonata in F Minor K. 466

Chopin: Waltz No. 2 in C Sharp Minor Op. 64

Chopin: Sonata No. 2

William Grant Still: Three Visions

Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7

Trinity College is delighted to welcome back Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, following her hugely popular recital in January 2023. This exciting programme, ranging from Scarlatti to Prokofiev, demonstrates the full range of her artistry as well as showcasing a rarely-heard work by the pioneering African American composer William Grant Still.

Tickets £25 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Trinity Graduate Research Showcase

Tue 27 Feb 2024 / 5pm

Come and hear the latest research being undertaken by Trinity’s talented postgraduate students! Learn about a wide range of topics –previous talks have covered everything from sustainable plastics and deep learning artificial intelligence to the geopolitics of narrative style –in a series of bite-sized talks with Q&A and a chance for further discussion over refreshments afterwards.

Tickets FREE – available on the door de Jager Auditorium

Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation Talks

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a film star? Or how those sumptuous period costumes are made? OUFF is here to answer all your questions with an exciting series of talks with the stars of the film and television industries. Come along to hear from professionals working in all departments, in front of and behind the camera. From writers, producers and directors to costume designers, actors, and jobs you may have never even heard of, we’ve got it all.

Image shows actor and screenwriter Ben Willbond at previous OUFF speaker event.

Tickets FREE – for details, please visit  www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/events-at-trinity

A Restored Border: Gardens Season

Celebrate the return of Spring at Trinity with a short series of garden tours and talks from leading horticulturalists as we prepare to plant our redesigned long herbaceous border.

Gardens Season Tours

Wed 24 Apr 2024 / 3.30pm

Wed 1 May 2024 / 3pm

Wed 15 May 2024 / 3.30pm

An informal walk round Trinity’s famous gardens, focussing on recent developments which have updated the historic gardens and adopted more sustainable working practices. Head Gardener Kate Burtonwood will share the re-planting of the Woodland Garden, Library Quad, lawns and borders.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students)

Sue Stuart-Smith: The well gardened mind

Wed 24 Apr 2024 / 5pm

The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. But when we get our hands in the earth, we connect with the cycle of life in nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. Prominent psychiatrist and psychotherapist Sue Stuart-Smith draws on her grandfather’s return from the First World War, Sigmund Freud’s obsession with flowers and interviews with people from gardening projects in prisons and hospitals to illustrate how gardening can answer deep existential needs. In addition Dr Stuart-Smith will present findings from recent research demonstrating that connecting to nature alleviates symptoms of anxiety, stress and depression. Based on her bestselling Sunday Times Book of the Year.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students)

de Jager Auditorium

Photo by Russell Sach

Kate Burtonwood: Sustainable gardening at Trinity

Wed 1 May 2024 / 5pm

Trinity College’s Head Gardener describes the recent introduction of more modern and sustainable horticultural practices at Trinity, along with the inherent challenges. New approaches to gardening could lead us to view our green spaces differently in the coming years. Kate Burtonwood trained with the RHS and at Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum, and was listed as one of HortWeek’s Top 150 Head Gardeners in 2022.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students) de Jager Auditorium

Ashley Edwards: Plants for wellbeing

Wed 15 May 2024 / 5pm

How can we engage in the natural world to improve our mental and physical health? How do we make gardens as accessible as possible? Ashley Edwards shares his personal experience as a Head Gardener and Horticultural Therapist at Horatio’s Garden London & South East to delve into the ways that a garden can change lives.

Tickets £10 / £5 (students) de Jager Auditorium

There’s more to Trinity...

Ground Visits

Come and enjoy the grounds of Trinity College at your leisure: find a peaceful and tranquil historical setting in a city centre location. Our grounds are open for public visits on Saturday and Sunday, subject to availability; group visits are also admitted with advance booking via our Porter’s Lodge.

Cream Teas

Experience a delicious Trinity Cream Tea during the College vacation period in the welcoming surroundings of the Levine Café. Enjoy scones that are freshly baked by Trinity’s talented college chefs, accompanied by Cornish clotted cream, strawberry preserve and freshly brewed tea.

Available for group bookings with a minimum of 10 people. Available to pre-order.

Dining

Experience a true fine dining experience with excellent food from Trinity’s renowned chef who is constantly creating new and exciting dishes.

Our traditional Dining Hall is currently undergoing a period of refurbishment and is due to reopen in Summer 2024; whilst this work is taking place, we have relocated our dining facilities to the Lawns Pavilion building on Trinity’s beautiful lawns. Group bookings only.

Conferencing

The Levine Building at Trinity was opened by HRH The Prince of Wales in May 2022. It can accommodate conference space for up to 155 delegates in the auditorium, which is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities including adjustable stage and acoustic configurations, plus built-in projection options. Our fully accessible Garden Room can be adapted to the specific requirements of your event for up to 100 guests, with floor to ceiling windows giving views across the college grounds. This is the perfect venue for your event. We also have several smaller fully equipped meeting rooms of varying sizes which can be set as per your requirements. A wide range of catering options are also available which can be tailored to your event.

Weddings

Enjoy exclusive use of Trinity College for your special day, where our team are here to assist every step of the way. From the ceremony in our historic Chapel to selecting menus for you and your guests to enjoy, and all within Trinity’s beautiful grounds – make your special day one to remember!

Filming

With its stunning architecture and grounds – some dating back to 1555 – Trinity College could be the perfect backdrop for your production. Our site has hosted ITV’s “Inspector Morse” among other broadcasts, and we would be happy to discuss any bespoke plans with you.

Accommodation

Why not make the most of your time at Trinity College and stay with us? With our city centre location, we are in the perfect spot for you to enjoy a short break in the historic city of Oxford. We have a variety of accommodation options available, ranging from rooms in our newly opened Levine building to the more traditional parts of the College. Bed and Breakfast options are available.

For further information or to book please contact our Conference & Events Manager at conference@trinity.ox.ac.uk

Booking Information

Tickets for all Trinity Talks and Recitals are available through Tickets Oxford. Online www.ticketsoxford.com

Phone 01865 305305

In person from the Box Office at Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LW

Please note that tickets for Oxford International Song Festival can only be booked through www.oxfordsong.org

Getting Here

Trinity College, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH

Trinity College is located in the heart of Oxford city centre, with the entrance for Events via Trinity College Porter’s Lodge on Broad Street. The Levine Building and de Jager Auditorium are just a short walk from the entrance.

Trinity College is approximately a 10 minute direct walk from both the train and bus stations. If travelling by bike, bicycle racks are available nearby on Broad Street. Car parking in Oxford is limited and we encourage the use of public transport and Park & Rides to travel into the city centre.

Café

The Café in the Levine Building is fully accessible and offers a range of light refreshments to enjoy during your visit.

Access

We welcome disabled visitors. Please advise  the Box Office at time of booking if you have  any access requirements. Free companion  seats are available for wheelchair users and  disabled visitors.

The entrance and route through Trinity College from the Broad Street entrance is level and can be easily accessed by wheelchair users. The Levine Building which houses the de Jager  Auditorium, Café and Garden Room is fully  accessible with disabled toilets available. There is also level access to Trinity Chapel  across a cobbled courtyard.

Terms & Conditions

All details of the programme are correct at time of going to print. We reserve the right to make alterations to the programme, performers, times and prices. All concessions are subject to availability.

2023

October

Wed 18 - Fri 27 Oxford International Song Festival at Trinity de Jager Auditorium See p10-11

Sun 29 Recital – Jennifer Pike / Martin Roscoe de Jager Auditorium 2.30pm

November

Wed 1 Talk – Shehan Hettiaratchy de Jager Auditorium 5pm

Wed 15 Talk – Hugh Brody

Sun 19 Recital – Schola Cantorum of Oxford

Tue 28 Talk – Mirjana Spoljaric de Jager Auditorium 5pm

2024

January

Wed 24 Talk – Judge Theodor Meron de Jager Auditorium 5pm

Sun 28 Recital – Kathryn Rudge / de Jager Auditorium 2.30pm Christopher Glynn

February

Sun 11 Recital – Natalie Clein de Jager Auditorium 2.30pm

Wed 21 Recital – James Ehnes / de Jager Auditorium 7.30pm Andrew Armstrong

Tue 27 Trinity Graduate Research Showcase de Jager Auditorium

Wed 28 Talk – Justin Stebbing

March

Wed 6 NATO 75th Anniversary

Thu 7 Talk – Dionne Brand

Roderick Williams /

Williams

8 Talk – Stephen Fisher

9 Talk – Helen Oyeyemi

Sun 19

Talk – Ashley Edwards

– Rachel Podger

22 Talk – Charlotte Williams

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

Neil Jones

Front cover image: Jeneba Kanneh-Mason at Trinity College by Ian Wallman; back cover image: Claire Booth, Oxford Lieder Festival by Ian Wallman.