Royalties from The MUSIC of LIFE are used to support concert performances and recordings by The Oxford Trobadors in association with guest performers. The Oxford Trobadors take their inspiration from the music of the language, Occitan, in which the 12th and 13th century Troubadours composed. The language and culture are still alive today in the south of France and parts of Italy and Catalonia. ‘Troubadour’ in Occitan is written ‘Trobador’. The language resembles Italian, Spanish and Portuguese and is very close to Catalan.

Magnificent!!! Review in the Oxford Times

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Recent performances include concerts in the Holywell Music Room in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, a Soirée Occitane at the Maison Francaise in February 2006, and a concert performed at the launch party of The MUSIC of LIFE held before an audience of 200 in the Balliol College Hall on 10th June 2006. Various members of the ensemble have also been involved in launching The MUSIC of LIFE in different parts of the world (Berlin, Milan and in the Périgord) and in performances of Lecture Concerts on The MUSIC of LIFE.

Audience Reactions:

July 2011 (in Holywell Music Room, Oxford)

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June 2011 (in Aula Magna, Universita di Milano)

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February 2011 (in Kirche St Maria Magdalena, Berlin)

I haven't enjoyed a concert so thoroughly in a long time. 

The students also were thrilled

It'll be a day long remembered

January 2011 (in Holywell Music Room, Oxford)

Trobadors Triumphant! You electrified the audience

another magnificent evening!  It was wonderful!

an enormously enjoyable evening. 

Magnificent: Review in the Oxford Times

August 2010 (in Holywell Music Room, Oxford)

What a feast - one pleasurable surprise after another - moving climax

Great fun and thoroughly enjoyable

an evening of music and song speaking with real feeling

Looking forward to the next

January 2010 (in Holywell Music Room, Oxford)

extraordinary occasion: great venue, superb performances

amazing concert         truly a magnificent concert         very original event

beautiful, simple but astonishing!   tremendous performance!

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All royalties are devoted to charity.

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