College Record 2017

directed the Oxford Mindfulness Centre where he developed MBCT as a means
of preventing relapse and recurrence in major depression. The event was a great
success and prompted lively discussion: we hope to invite him again next year.
On 30 September the Society helped to organize another Tibetan Chöd practice
event with Chödpa Lama Rinpoche, a Tibetan Lama who specialises in this Tibetan
technique of meditation. The Meditation Courses will continue next year.
Güzin Yener
Music Society
At our first concert of the academic year, Susana Gómez Vázquez performed
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor; Albéniz: Iberia, Corpus Christi,
Rondeñia; Schubert: Impromptus D 935, Nos. 3 and 4; Ligeti: Opus 10 Étude, Der
Zauberlehrling; and Ginastera: Sonata No. 1 (Opus 22). This was Susana’s third
concert at Wolfson: she first played for us in 2009 when she was 15 years old, and it
has been a pleasure to see her career flourish.
Maki Sekiya returned for a second time in November, in a piano recital featuring
Chopin and Schumann. She played the first Chopin Impromptu, the Mazurka Opus
17, No. 4, and then the Ballades according to earlier performance practice, in
which the four are played as four movements of one work. She continued with the
Schumann Études Symphoniques, also played in the original form. Maki lives in
Oxford and attracted a large local audience new to Wolfson.
Also in November, Glenn Wong (GS) (countertenor) and Pieter Bogeart (GS)
(piano) performed vocal and piano music including opera arias by Händel, Lieder
by Schubert, and a set of English songs by Britten, Quilter and Vaughan Williams.
Later in November, Pei-Jee Ng (cello) and Chiao-Ying Chang (piano) from the
Fournier Trio performed Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major, Opus 5, No. 1;
Fauré Elegie, Opus 24; Ginastera Pampeana No. 2, Opus 21; and Franck’s Sonata in
A major. The duo was very well received.
In Hilary Term, the Fournier Trio performed three Beethoven Trios, the first of three
concerts in 2017 of the complete Piano Trios, which attracted our biggest audience
so far.
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