Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture presents: ‘Jazz Spiritualities: The Natural Noise of Good’

Tim Boniface will continue the series with a talk entitled ‘The Meaning of the Blues: Questions of hermeneutics, community and meaning through a jazz suite for peace’.

Trinity Term Week 7 – Wednesday 10th June at 5pm, The Collier Room, Regent’s Park College, Oxford.

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Psalter: Themes for Peace is one of a series of three jazz suites that explores scriptures on peace through instrumental composition and improvisation. I will use this work as a starting point to discuss questions around the ways sacred text is read and experienced in communities of faith, and questions around the relationship between music and meaning. What do we mean when we say ‘music speaks louder than words’? especially when that music is improvised jazz?

Rev’d Dr Tim Boniface is an acclaimed jazz saxophonist and composer, and also Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge. A leader of his own ensembles and collaborator with many top UK jazz musicians, Tim is also the artistic director of ‘Girton Jazz’, a leading scheme within the University of Cambridge, is a performance coach with the University of Cambridge Centre for Music Performance and a sessional tutor with the Faculty of Music. He holds a PhD in theology from Durham University and as Chaplain to Girton College (since 2020) looks after the life of the Chapel, offers spiritual support and is part of the College’s general welfare structure. His latest album ‘Psalter: Themes for Peace’ was released in Summer 2025 to critical commendation.

Part of the Jazz Spiritualities: The Natural Noise of Good  series organised by the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture.