Festival Launch - Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2024
A spectacular launch for Sheffield Chamber Music Festival, showcasing two spellbinding works in the intimacy of the Crucible Playhouse. A passionate Piano Quartet by Gabriel Fauré – whose music our Guest Curator Steven Isserlis has described as “uniquely moving and uplifting”– opens the evening.
Peter Hill Plays Bach - Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2024
Leading British pianist Peter Hill has been part of the Music in the Round ‘family’ from the very beginning, appearing in the first Festival in 1984. For the first time since his sell-out concert in 2018, he returns to the Playhouse to give a solo recital of a selection of Bach’s elegant ‘English’ Suites and ever-inventive ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’.
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2024
In 2024, Music in the Round celebrates its 40th anniversary, with the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival set to be a highlight bringing nine sensational days of concerts in the Crucible Playhouse 17 – 25 May 2024.
Accent on Youth Summer Concert
Lovely Lully; sensational Saint-Saëns; ravishing Ravel and pleasing Poulenc all performed with the freshness of youth.
Emma Rawicz Quartet & Tony Kofi Quartet
A very special concert, a double bill to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sheffield Jazz and its predecessors. It features two great all-star bands led by multi-award winning British Jazz musicians, one of whom is a longstanding favourite with Sheffield audiences and another who has made a huge impression in the past couple of years.
London Concertante - Vivaldi Four Seasons And Lark Ascending By Candlelight
Experience astounding music by one of classical music’s greatest composers performed by some of the country’s best classical musicians set in the stunning candlelight surroundings of the cathedral.
Sir Scallywag & the Battle of Stinky Bottom
When King Colin sets his sights on finding the famous Golden Sausage, there’s only ONE person for the job: Sir Scallywag! But will the six-year-old knight be mighty enough to defeat the filthy trolls and win the stinkiest battle ever?
The Hallé
For his final concert in Sheffield as Hallé Music Director, Sir Mark Elder acknowledges a core Hallé tradition; both old and new English music. In this true flagship programme, he is joined, as he was in his first season as the Hallé’s Music Director, by Sir Stephen Hough, an undisputed “keyboard colossus” (The Guardian).
Sunrise - Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2024
Back by popular demand! The wind players of Ensemble 360 will perform a selection of music to accompany the rising sun, alongside the dawn chorus of singing birds.
Visions - An Afternoon of Choral Music - Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2024
The Abbeydale Singers perform Cantique de Jean Racine, one of Gabriel Fauré’s most popular works, loved for its beautifully restrained nature and gorgeous harmonies.
