Performances
UPCOMING
OUJO takes Bully
Tuesday 2nd December, 2025.
Bullingdon Club, Oxford
Vocatio:Responsio
"A Little Night Music - Mozart and Sammartini"
Monday 1st December, 2025, 8:15 pm
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford
Wednesday 26th November, 2025, 2:10 pm
Lincoln College, Oxford
OUJO, The Oxmas Ball
Monday 17th November, 2025
See here for details
RECENT
OUJO x JazzSoc
Wednesday 5th November, 2025
The Mad Hatter, Oxford
Vocatio:Responsio - Italy 1 - 1 England
Monday 27th October, 2025
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
(Conductor: Samuel Oliver-Sherry)
Francesco Geminiani: Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op.7 No.1
George Friedric Handel: Concerto Grosso in B-Flat Major, Op.6 No.7
William Hayes: Concerto Grosso in G Minor, (W)6:004
Charles Avison: Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op.3 No.1
Charles Avison: Concerto Grosso in G Major, Op.4 No.6
Jazz Classics with the Eva Fidler Quartet
Wednesday 23 October, 2025, 13:15-13:45
Eva Fidler (saxophone), Arthur Bird, Ross Baker & Alexander McNamee
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford
Moment’s Notice – John Coltrane (arr. Dexter Gordon)
Well, you needn't – Thelonious Monk
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise – Sonny Rollins
Never Let Me Go – Melissa Aldana
What Can I Do? - Alexander McNamee
Piano Recital
Wednesday 16 October, 2025, 13:15-13:45
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford
J. S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in Eb major BWV 852
Mendelssohn – Songs Without Words, op. 38 no. 6, op. 62 nos. 5 & 6
Nick Samuel – Prelude No. 22 in B minor (for Samuel Oliver Sherry)
Alexander McNamee – Sonatina for 4 parts
Joseph Kosma – Autumn Leaves
Sunday 12th October, 2025
I performed piano with the quartet on my own composition, "Forest Edge"
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford
Whighams' Wine Cellars, Edinburgh
Sunday 14th September 2025, 19:30pm
Jazz set of my own compositions and arrangements of standards with Eva Fidler, Ross Baker and Arthur Bird.
The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh
Saturday 13th September 2025, 18:15pm
Jazz set of my own compositions and arrangements of standards with Eva Fidler, Ross Baker and Arthur Bird.
Tickets here or on the door.
Midas1 at The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh
Friday 29th August 2025, 21:15pm
We'll be playing a set of New Orleans soul and funk.
Giardini La Mortella, Ischia
with Oxford University Jazz Orchestra
Thursday 3rd July 2025
Vocatio:Responsio - Democratising the Double
Director: Samuel Oliver-Sherry
Wednesday 18th June 2025, 7:30pm
Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford
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Handel: Concerto in B-Flat Major, HWV288
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Vivaldi: Concerto in D Minor, Op.3 No.11
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Corelli: Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op.6 No.4
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van Wassaener: Concerto in A Major
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JS Bach: Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1043
Brickworks III: Rendering
Mon 9th June 2025, 7:00pm
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford
The Asha Parkinson Quartet (piano)
Tuesday 27th May 2025, 7:30pm
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford
The programme featured Asha's reinterpretations of Arabic and Turkish folk songs, as well as selections from her Encounters Suite—a powerful cross-cultural work inspired by the feminist poetry of Maram Al-Masri and Dana Dajani.
Piano Masterclass with Joanna MacGregor
Ludlow Piano Festival
Sunday 25th May, 2025, 11:00am
Vocatio:Responsio - Leipzig's "Other" Options
Director: Samuel Oliver-Sherry
Monday 12th May 2025, 8:15pm
St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford OX1 3EY
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Graupner: Danket, priest Gott in der Hohe
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JS Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
See here for tickets
Piano Recital
Thursday 8 May, 2025, 13:15-13:45
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford
J.S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major from Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II/21
J.S. Bach – Art of Fugue ‘Contrapunctus XI’
McNamee – From Chesser to Colinton
Duke/Harburg – April in Paris
Piano Recital
Thursday 6 March, 2025, 13:15-13:45
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford
Bach - Keyboard Sonata in D minor, BWV 964
(a transcription of Violin Sonata in A minor BWV 1003).
II Fuga III Adagio.
Meadows Chamber Orchestra
Saturday, 1st March 2025, 19:30
The Parish Church of St Cuthbert,, Edinburgh
My piece commissioned by this orchestra was performed. See 'Compositions' for details.
The Bate Collective (Dir: Dr Jonathan Williams)
Thursday, 27th February 2025, 13:00
Keble College, Oxford
This concert marked the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Concert Spirituel on 18 March 1725
Monday, 24th February 2025, 19:00-21:30
The New Space, New College, OX1 3BN
11 new works from the Brickworks collective of young composers.
Post-Bop Jazz Showcase
Saturday, 8 February 2025, 19:30
Jazz at St Giles, 10 Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6HT
Piano Recital
Thursday 6 February, 2025, 13:15-13:45
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
You can watch live or on replay here.
Vocatio:Responsio - Stabat Mater
Director: Samuel Oliver-Sherry
Monday 3 February 2025, 8:30pm
Holywell Music Room, Holywell St, Oxford OX1 3SB
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Tomaso Albinoni: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Si6
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Emanuele d'Astorga: Stabat Mater in C Minor
A late-night, intimate feast of choral music at Magdalen College Chapel when Emanuele d’Astorga’s eigtheenth-century setting of the thirteenth-century Christian hymn Stabat Mater takes centre stage.
Bruch Violin Concerto (with Wing-Hei Woo, violin)
J.S Bach, English Suite no. 5 in Em: Prelude
Friday, 31 January 2025, 6:15pm
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College
The Jazz Bar
10 January 2025
Keys and piano with Dave Midas and band, playing New Orleans and Latin funk. Tickets on the door.
Hogmanay Gala Ball
31 December, 2024
Mar Hall, Erskine
Had a great time playing some rock, pop and disco for a change!
Vocatio Responsio - l'Armonia: Rules vs Innovation
Director: Samuel Oliver-Sherry
2 December, 2024
Keble College Chapel, Oxford
Continuo. Listen to Vivaldi (Winter),
Gutterball (OUJO)
29 November, 2024
The Bullingdon, Cowley Road, Oxford
Brickworks
25 November, 2024, 19:00
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
I'll be performing in new works as part of this composers' collective.
Organ, Newbury Symphony Orchestra
23 November, 2024
St Nicholas Church, Newbury.
Saint-Saëns - Organ Symphony
10 November, 2024, 13:15-13:45
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
JS Bach - Prelude and Fugue in E major, BWV 878
Alexander McNamee - The Colder Air
Piano Recital
17 October, 2024, 13:15-13:45
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
McNamee - Fugue in 5 flats
Jazz Duo with Adam Cole (double bass)
Bach - Art of Fugue BWV 1080: 'Contrapunctus X, alla Decima'
Chopin - Ballade No. 1 in G minor, op. 23
Listen to the replay here.
The Jazz Bar
28 September 2024
"The World Premiere Quintet" with Colin Steele, Mario Caribe, Paul Towndrow and Doug Hough-Stewart.
Jazz at Whighams
22 September 2024
Midas 1 at Whighams Wine Cellars, Edinburgh with Dave Midas, Nick Gould, Marco Solazzo and Dan Shearer. Material from Dave's trip to Cuba this year, Charlie Parker and some of our own. Listen to "Belinda's Flute" here.
Jazz at The Bawbee
8 September 2024
The Bawbee, Bridge of Allan, Stirling
Book launch: "Nocturne', by Christopher Rush
5 September 2024
George Watson's Music Auditorium, Edinburgh
I performed a variety of pieces by Chopin to accompany readings by Christopher Rush from his new book. You can watch the evening, both my playing and the readings, here.
"In Nocturne, Rush delves deep into the life and soul of Chopin, a man whose profound journey of self-discovery finds its ultimate expression through piano music. This poignant narrative also captures the unwavering devotion of a Scottish woman who stood by him through life and beyond."
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sacred Arts Festival
Composing Sacred Music: The Next Generation
15 August 2024, 13:15
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
I was organist for this event. Two of my compositions were also performed.
"In this concluding event of the 2024 Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation Music Competition for young Scottish composers, professional musicians directed by Calum Robertson will perform six winning musical compositions. Dame Judith Weir, Master of the King’s Music, and principal adjudicator, will present the prizes. Sponsored by The Christian Arts Trust, the Edinburgh Society of Organists and the Royal College of Organists."
Piano Recital
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 13:15-14:00
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
J.S. Bach – Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue in D minor, BWV 903
Alban Berg – Piano Sonata op. 1
Miles Davis – Nardis
Cole Porter – Could It Be You
Under Construction (Still)
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 19:00
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
A concert of compositions by 1st year Music students
Post-bop Showcase with Eva and Friends
Saturday, 17 February 2024, 19:30
St Giles' Church, 10 Woodstock Road Oxford OX2 6HT
Eva Fidler: Saxophone
Sheen Bendon: Trombone
Noah Stone: Drums
Adam Cole: Bass
Alexander McNamee: Piano
Piano Recital and New Compositions
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 13:15-13:45
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor
McNamee – Aerial (with Eva Fidler, saxophone), Snow, Rain, Sky & Fugue in C Aeolian
St Hilda's Freshers' Concert
Thursday, 30 November 2023, 13:15
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland
I played keys in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland in 2021 and 2022, including a recording session at BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow in October 2021 with Andrew Bain and Paul Booth. Here's a link to "Close to Home" (Lyle Mays arr. Paul Booth).
Grieg Piano Concerto #1, First Movement
March 2023
George Watson's College Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Stephen Griffin