The British Institute of Organ Studies will hold its 50th anniversary conference in Oxford from 9th-11th April 2026.
The conference will be based at Wadham College, Oxford, a seventeenth-century foundation located in the heart of Oxford’s “dreaming spires”.
The preliminary schedule is as follows:
Thursday 9th April
from 13:00 Conference registration in Wadham College
14:00-15:30 Session I: in Wadham College
16:00-17:30 Session II: in Wadham College
18:30-19:30 Dinner in Wadham College refectory
20.00 Recital: Katelyn Emerson, Keble College Chapel
Friday 10th April
09:30–11:00 Session III: at Brasenose College
11:15-12:30 Session IV: in Brasenose Chapel
12:30-13:00 Lunch in Brasenose College
13:10-13:50 Recital by Daniel Moult in The Queen’s College,
14:00-15:30 Session V: in Wadham College
18:30-21:00 Jubilee Conference Drinks Reception and Dinner in Wadham College Antechapel and Hall
21:15 Recital by Margaret Phillips in Wadham Chapel
Saturday 11th April
09:30-11:00 Session VII: in Wadham College
11.30-13.00: Panel discussion, including representation from The Organ Club: looking back and looking ahead
Further details of the above sessions and events will be added to this page in due course.
Speakers at the conference will include Jonathan Ambrosino (USA), John Maidment (Australia), Nicholas Thistlethwaite (UK), and others from around the world.
The conference email address is 50@bios.org.uk