The JdP’s third January New Music Weekend welcomes back the NeoQuartet of Gdansk for two concerts of Polish and German music that ranges greatly from environmental multimedia work to ambient trance music. Another festival theme is contemporary music for gamelan given by the British crack gamelan ensemble, Hammer & Bronze. The remainder of the festival consists of work by emerging Oxford composers – Screaming Mouth, Sonova, Red Lipstick and Holly Gowland.
Weekend Pass - £45 / £15 students (free for music students)
Day Pass (valid for Saturday or Sunday) - £25 / £10 students
(See instructions on tickets oxford website on how to book weekend or day passes)
Schedule below (see each event listing for more details - https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/jdp-music-building/events/january-new-music-weekend-iii):
Friday 16 January
18:00, JdP Music Building - NeoQuartet Composition Workshop, £15 / £5
Saturday 17 January
14:30, JdP Music Building - Screaming Mouth, £10 / £5
16:45, Pavilion - Lecture on Stefan and Franciszka Themerson's 'Europa' Film, £10 / £5
18:00, Pavilion - NeoQuartet Concert, £25 / £10
19:45, JdP Music Building - Holly Gowland: Music for Electronics, £10 / £5
21:15, JdP Music Building - NeoQuartet Concert, £25 / £10
Sunday 18 January
14:30, JdP Music Building - Sonova & Red Lipstick, £10 / £5
16:00, Pavilion - Lecture on composition for Javanese gamelan instruments, £10 / £5
18:30, Pavilion - Hammer & Bronze: Gamelan Concert, £25 / £10 Mark Simmons: Jest to Impress
As seen on Mock The Week, BT Sport and ITV, ‘Master of one-liners’ Mark Simmons had a groundbreaking 200+ date sell out debut tour lasting two years, spanning the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Mark is back on tour in 2026 with Jest To Impress, a brand new show packed with even more expertly crafted one-liners, alongside his trademark off-the-cuff jokes based on random audience suggestions.
Mark is enjoying further success with his podcast, Jokes With Mark Simmons, where he invites a fellow comic, such as Gary Delaney, Sarah Millican, Milton Jones, and Penn & Teller to discuss jokes that they’ve written but for whatever reason couldn’t get to work.
*A £2.75 booking fee per transaction applies to this event across all channels - website, phone and in-person bookings at the Box Office. The fee is waived for members, schools, groups and access bookers.
Mark Simmons: Jest to Impress
