Oxford University’s premier student chamber orchestra perform an all-French programme of works spanning two centuries from 1748 to 1948, in the atmospheric setting of St Peter’s College Chapel.

From the Baroque grandeur and drama of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s overture to his classically-inspired opera ‘Zaïs’ (in a new edition by conductor Ed Whitehead), to the sparkling 20th-century wit of Francis Poulenc’s rarely-performed ‘Sinfonietta’, via the piquant neoclassicism of Ravel’s ‘Tombeau de Couperin’, it’s sure to be an unmissable evening.

Also on the programme is a performance of Edgard Varèse’s intricately-crafted, ‘Rite of Spring’-inspired eight-minute triptych ‘Octandre’, scored for seven winds and double bass and performed by a group of Oxford’s finest principal players.

More information at www.facebook.com/events/207567529386354. Tickets available from ousinf@oums.org