Maki Sekiya, St Anne’s Camerata chamber orchestra deliver a memorable evening
The Common Room in the Radcliffe Observatory was filled to capacity on Friday 31 May for a concert featuring pianist Maki Sekiya, Green Templeton College’s Musician-in-Residence, together with St Anne’s Camerata chamber orchestra, conducted by Dr John Traill.
The first half of a highly adventurous programme was devoted to solo works by Beethoven (his Opus 109 sonata) and Liszt’s Campanella, after which came Mozart’s piano concerto no.14.
Green Templeton’s Musician-in-Residence Maki Sekiya performed an adventurous programme in the Observatory Common Room on Friday 31 May (Credit: Pedro Stoeckli)
Maki made light of this varied and challenging repertoire, holding her audience in thrall with the clarity and dynamic range of her interpretations. The concerto was a beautifully balanced dialogue between soloist and the Camerata.
The audience spent the interval climbing the next flight of the Radcliffe Observatory’s long curving staircase for a second half in the wonderful acoustics of its second floor Tower of the Winds.
The second half of the concert took place in the Tower of the Winds (Credit: Pedro Stoeckli)
Here, the Camerata played Spring, a gentle piece composed by Martyn Harry of St Anne’s College, and then Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss. This major work of 1945 portrayed the torture of the war years and drew an emotionally charged performance from the young players of St Anne’s.
The discovery of the Observatory’s second floor as a superb venue for music-making will undoubtedly ensure that more concerts will take place there in the future.
The partnership of Maki Sekiya with John Traill and the Camerata made for a truly memorable evening.
The partnership of Maki with John Traill and the Camerata made for a truly memorable evening (Credit: Pedro Stoeckli)
The college is delighted to welcome a new Oxford PharmaGenesis DPhil Scholarship in Translational Health.
The scholarship has been established through an endowment gift of £1,660,000 from Oxford PharmaGenesis, now part of the Klick family, creating a permanent fund to support doctoral students undertaking outstanding postgraduate research in the field of translational health at Nuffield Department of Primary Care @oxford_uni
Yesterday our alumni celebrated the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong alongside @st_annescollege alumni at the two societies’ first co-organised event.
The group gathered at a Michelin-starred restaurant to mark the joyful occasion, make new connections and enjoy exquisite traditional food together.
It is wonderful to see the two college alumni societies bringing the wider Oxford community together for what Nathaniel Chan (MBA, 2016), co-chair of the Green Templeton College Hong Kong Alumni Society, described as ‘a memorable occasion’.
Plans are already taking shape for a hike and karaoke event in November, following an ‘impressive impromptu a cappella performance by one alumnus’ at the lunch.
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Here’s some advice from our freshest crop of graduates to our incoming new students 🧑🎓👩🎓👨🎓
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🌌 Last weekend, Green Templeton welcomed Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Professor Brian Schmidt for the latest event in our Astronomy for All series.
Professor Schmidt took a packed audience on a journey through more than 13 billion years of cosmic history, from the Big Bang to the distant future of the Universe. He explored what we know about the cosmos, how we know it and some of the biggest mysteries that remain.
The lecture was chaired by Governing Body Fellow Rob Fender, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, and continued our celebration of Green Templeton’s connections with Oxford Astrophysics.
Our Oceania Alumni Group is on a roll after successful events in Sydney, Brisbane and last night in Perth.
We`re very thankful to the group`s committee for their energy, commitment and hard work in bringing the community together. It’s wonderful to see connections being strengthened, engagement growing, and the alumni community going from strength to strength.
Exciting times ahead!
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