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Keble Early Music Festival 2026

24 February to 28 February

Keble College, Parks Road
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PG
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01865 272727
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About Keble Early Music Festival 2026

The Keble Early Music Festival is an annual celebration of early music held at Keble College, Oxford. The festival showcases historically informed performances of music from the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, featuring renowned musicians, vocal ensembles, and instrumentalists.

Typically, the festival includes a mix of concerts, masterclasses, and talks, providing both audiences and performers with an immersive experience in early music. It often features performances in the stunning Keble College Chapel, known for its beautiful acoustics and striking architecture.

Now in its 12th year, Oxford’s foremost festival of early music returns in February.


Keble Early Music Festival 2026: Concerts & Workshops


Highlights from 2025

Fretwork

Fretwork

25 February @ 7.30pm
Keble College Chapel
Fretwork is a performance of Orlando Gibbons’s greatest chamber Fantasias and verse anthems performed by members of Keble Chapel Choir.
Sounds Of The City

Sounds Of The City

26 February @ 1.00pm
Keble College Chapel
Keble’s Graduate Choral Assistants present a musical jaunt through 16th and 17th-century vocal music from across Europe
Stile Antico: The Prince of Music – Palestrina in the Eternal City

Stile Antico: The Prince of Music – Palestrina in the Eternal City

26 February @ 7.30pm
Keble College Chapel
Stile Antico is one of the world’s finest vocal ensembles and is marking its twentieth season by honouring Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
The Basilinda Consort: Arise my Love

The Basilinda Consort: Arise my Love

27 February @ 7.30pm
Keble College Chapel
The Basilinda Consort presents ‘Arise my Love’ drawing on research relating to music from convents established for English Catholic women.
Compline by Candlelight

Compline by Candlelight

27 February @ 9.00pm
Keble College Chapel
Compline by Candlelight is a plainchant and polyphony sung by Keble Chapel Choir, and it is a free admission event.
Bach And Sons - Organ Recital

Bach And Sons – Organ Recital

28 February @ 1.00pm
Keble College Chapel
Emeritus Organist of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom celebrates the musical lineage of the Bach family in an Organ Recital.
Monteverdi's Laboratory

Monteverdi’s Laboratory

28 February @ 5.00pm
Keble College Chapel
Monteverdi’s Laboratory is about the evolution of vocal music from renaissance polyphony to the dramatic music which evolved into opera.
Helen Charlston & Friends: I Love and I Must

Helen Charlston & Friends: I Love and I Must

28 February @ 7.30pm
Keble College Chapel
Join Helen Charlston, Julian Perkins, Jonathan Manson, and Bill Carter in a programme of 16th and 17th-century songs – I Love and I Must
The Rise of Cremona: Virgil and the Violin

The Rise of Cremona: Virgil and the Violin

01 March @ 12.00pm
Keble O’Reilly Theatre
Benjamin Hebbert presents Virgil and the Violin, and explores the rise of Cremona as the centre for instrument-making.
Purcell's The Fairy Queen

Purcell’s The Fairy Queen

01 March @ 7.30pm
Keble College Chapel
Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is a semi-staged production by Keble Chapel Choir, the Instruments of Time and Truth, and a cast of young soloists.