Our partners

Oxford Orpheus works with a number of partners.

Musically, a key partner is the Oxford Sinfonia Orchestra which is a mix of semi-professional and strong amateur players; it provides the full symphony orchestra capability required by the music.The players generously and loyally support the Oxford Orpheus events, and enable the production of high quality choral performance and excellent musical collaboration.

We also work each year to support one or more chosen music-related partner charities. In 2022, the year we came back from Covid, we made a donation to the Help Musicians charity. In other recent years we have supported three different charities promoting a love of music within Oxfordshire’s state schools: the  Christ Church Cathedral Chorister Community Outreach Programme – a unique collaboration between the Christ Church Cathedral Choir school and the Oxfordshire County Music Service to promote music teaching in primary schools; the Oxford International Song Festival’s Schools Project, also working in state primary schools;  and the Oxford Bach Choir’s Schools Choral Programme whose purpose is to promote good quality choral singing in secondary schools in the Oxford area.We have also supported charities that bring music and singing to people whose lives are particularly difficult: Beating Time is a charity which works for the rehabilitation of offenders by setting up choirs in prisons as a route to building their skills and capacity to break the cycle of re-offending; the Choir with no name has set up choirs for the homeless in seven UK cities during the past few years. In total we have been able to donate nearly £20,000 to our chosen charities during the last eight years.