Oxford International Song Festival

Oxford International Song Festival was founded in 2002 to celebrate and rejuvenate classical song. The 2024 Festival includes 70 events over 16 days (11-26 October) across 15 venues with c.200 artists and expected total attendance of c.10,000. Our organisation was formerly known as Oxford Lieder, but in 2023 we rebranded to Oxford International Song Festival to better reflect the rich variety of o

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Oxford International Song Festival was founded in 2002 to celebrate and rejuvenate classical song. The 2024 Festival includes 70 events over 16 days (11-26 October) across 15 venues with c.200 artists and expected total attendance of c.10,000. Our organisation was formerly known as Oxford Lieder, but in 2023 we rebranded to Oxford International Song Festival to better reflect the rich variety of our work.

The main focus of our activity each year is the Festival, which brings many of the world’s leading singers and pianists to Oxford, as well as showcasing exciting emerging artists. Other events take place across the year, including our Spring Song Festival and recitals with partners around the country and internationally. Our dedicated Learning & Participation programme engages people of all ages and backgrounds in high-quality creative activity, including an extensive programme of workshops in local primary schools and a Young Artist Programme that offers training and performance opportunities to outstanding early-career professionals. We aim always to enrich people’s experience of music and language, both through fruitful collaborations with other artistic institutions and through a wide-ranging series of study events, including talks, study days and symposia. In 2015, Oxford Lieder won a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award, cited for its ‘breadth, depth and audacity of programming,’ and we were shortlisted again at the 2023 RPS Awards.

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