About

The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building (JdP) is a beautiful, modern, and intimate music venue specifically built for chamber music performance and dedicated to the memory of the extraordinary cellist Jacqueline du Pré. The JdP is a part of St Hilda's College, Oxford and is located within its beautiful grounds on the banks of the River Cherwell. St Hilda’s College is committed to sustaining and developing the JdP Music Building as a centre for the learning, teaching, performance, and experience of music at all levels, at all ages, and for people from all backgrounds.

What We Do...

JdP Concert Series

The JdP Music Building promotes its own professional concerts, welcoming world-class performers such as Steven Isserlis (JdP Patron), Joanna MacGregor, and Nick van Bloss.

EXPO Events

The research centre for experimental music at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, presents concerts of contemporary classical music, experimental music, and electro-acoustic music as well as various interdisciplinary projects.

Lunchtime Recitals

Free concerts given by the next generation of performers, every Thursday during term at 1.15pm.

DANSOX Events

The JdP hosts many events organised by Dance Scholarship Oxford, which provides a major forum for dance scholarship in Europe and promotes dialogue between prominent academic disciplines and the worlds of dance theory and practice.

Community Events

The JdP Music Building presents monthly Cushion Concerts for children and their parents as well as an annual Christmas Pantomime for families, and other events such as the Sir Robert Mayer Children's Concert sponsored by Robert Mayer Trust. 

Other Events

The JdP is open to the public and available to hire for concerts, plays, art exhibitions, corporate functions, and other events.

JdP Music Circle

The JdP Music Circle is a group of patrons, friends and supporters who contribute to the life of the JdP. If you would like to support the venue in any way, please consider joining the JdP Music Circle today!