Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2022

13–21 May 2022 www.musicintheround.co.uk

WELCOME It’s been a huge pleasure and honour to be guest curator of the 2022 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

I’ve had lots of fun, working with Ensemble 360, putting together programmes of music I love, finding connections between old and new music and threading through various themes that are close to my heart.

Each concert features the music of at least one female composer, including overlooked gems from the last few hundred years as well as more recent pieces and a world premiere. I was also keen to explore the relationship between visual art and music and this features in a concert and roundtable discussion.

This Festival also moves beyond the Studio to other venues in the city, taking music out and about to new audiences, which is so important for the future.

HELEN GRIME MBE Guest Curator, Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2022

© Helen Grime

I’m very excited to be welcoming some of the most distinguished musicians working in the country as guest artists, and I hope you’ll enjoy meeting them as well as seeing Ensemble 360 back in their Festival home.

Booking opens Tuesday 7 December 2021, 10.00am www.musicintheround.co.uk | 0114 249 6000

FESTIVAL LAUNCH Friday 13 May 7.15pm – 9.05pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 JANÁČEK Concertino MARTINŮ Three Madrigals MEREDITH Tripotage Miniatures DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet No.2

Welcome drinks Celebrate the start of the Festival with us and enjoy a post-concert complimentary glass of wine or soft drink (served to all ticket-holders)

Tickets: £20 / £14 / £5

TICKETS £20

£14 Disabled & Unemployed

£5 Students & Under 35s*

Ensemble 360 © Kaupo Kikkas

*Ticket prices differ for Sounds of Now, talks and family events

IZZY GIZMO Saturday 14 May 11.00am – 11.45am 2.00pm – 2.45pm SADACCA, The Wicker ENSEMBLE 360 & AGA SERUGO-LUGO Family concert for 3–7 year-olds, based on the best-selling children's book by Pip Jones and Sara Ogilvie.

Tickets: £5

ART & MUSIC ROUNDTABLE

Saturday 14 May 4.30pm – 6.00pm Crucible Studio Theatre with HELEN GRIME, TIM HORTON and guests Tickets: £5 / Students and Under 35s Free

ART & MUSIC Saturday 14 May 7.15pm – 9.15pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 Programme includes works by BACH & CHOPIN that have inspired visual art, as well as music responding to artists such as WHISTLER, RICHTER and GOYA. Projections of artworks will provide a backdrop to this concert.

Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea, 1871 James Abbott McNeill Whistler Bequeathed by Miss Rachel and Miss Jean Alexander 1972 Photo: Tate

Tickets: £20 / £14 / £5

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SUNRISE

SUNSET

Sunday 15 May 5.15am – 6.30am Samuel Worth Chapel ENSEMBLE 360 Alphorn transcriptions CASALS Song of the Birds JS BACH Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor BWV1004 NISHIMURA Fantasia on Song of the Birds HAYDN String Quartet Op.76 No.4 'Sunrise' T DAVIES Yoik

Sunday 15 May 8.00pm – 9.35pm St Andrew’s Church, Psalter Lane ENSEMBLE 360 with young musicians and choir Programme includes madrigals, contemporary choral music and BEETHOVEN arr. MAHLER String Quartet No.11 'Serioso' BEETHOVEN Elegischer Gesang

Tickets: £20 / £14 / £8* (includes a hot drink and pastry) *Please note £8 Students & Under 35s ticket to cover refreshments

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Naomi Atherton © Neil Coverley 2020

STRING QUARTETS Monday 16 May 7.15pm – 8.45pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 PURCELL Chacony in G minor GRIME String Quartet No.1 PURCELL Fantasia No.6 in F MACKLAY Many Many Cadences PURCELL Fantasia in C minor BRITTEN String Quartet No.2 Tickets: £20 / £14 / £5

FOCUS ON THE OBOE

Tuesday 17 May 3.00pm – 4.00pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 BACEWICZ Trio for Oboe, Violin & Cello GRIME Five Northeastern Scenes KNUSSEN Ophelia’s Last Dance MARTINŮ Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Cello & Piano Tickets: £15 / £10 / £5

SCHUMANN, CLARKE & GRIME

Tuesday 17 May 1.00pm – 2.00pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 SCHUMANN Marchenerzählungen CLARKE Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale GRIME To see the summer sky KURTÁG Homage à R Schumann Tickets: £15 / £10 / £5

KARINE POLWART & DAVE MILLIGAN

Tuesday 17 May 7.15pm – 9.00pm Crucible Studio Theatre Superstar folk singer KARINE POLWART is joined by DAVE MILLIGAN on piano to perform works from their acclaimed 2021 album Still As Your Sleeping.

Tickets: £20 / £14 / £5

"...another majestic work, deceptive in its simplicity, poignant in its accomplished, stripped down musicianship" SONGLINES

★★★★★

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BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTETS

SEAN SHIBE

Wednesday 18 May 2.00pm – 3.45pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 BEETHOVEN String Quartet Op.59 No.2 SHAW Entr'acte BEETHOVEN String Quartet Op.135

Wednesday 18 May 8.00pm – 9.30pm Crucible Studio Theatre Works for solo guitar including JS BACH Suite in E minor BWV996 EASTMAN Buddha REICH Electric Counterpoint WOLFE Lad Scottish Lute Manuscripts

Tickets: £20 / £14 / £5

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"Shibe’s music-making is masterful, beautiful and convincing in every way" The Times

★★★★★

TICKETS £20 / £15

£14 / £10 Disabled & Unemployed

£5 Students & Under 35s*

Sean Shibe © Kaupo Kikkas

*Ticket prices differ for Sounds of Now, talks and family events

SCANDINAVIAN SCENES Thursday 19 May 1.00pm – 2.00pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 BYSTRÖM Kinderszenen ABRAHAMSEN Six Pieces for Horn Trio GRIEG Cello Sonata Tickets: £15 / £10 / £5

RUBY HUGHES, JOSEPH MIDDLETON & ENSEMBLE 360

Thursday 19 May 7.00pm – 9.15pm Crucible Studio Theatre Programme includes songs by IVES, GRIME and BRITTEN, RAVEL String Quartet and RESPIGHI Il Tramonto Tickets: £20 / £14 / £5

"When Hughes sings of fire, you feel the heat. At the word 'weeping', your heart breaks."

The Times

★★★★★

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Ruby Hughes © Camillo Escheverri

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SOUNDS OF NOW BASTARD ASSIGNMENTS

Thursday 19 May 9.30pm – 10.30pm Site Gallery “One of the most exciting forces in contemporary music” (Financial Times).

These four composer-performers integrate theatre, spoken word, choreography and visuals into their music-making, often coated with a deliciously wild sense of humour.

Their music is beautiful, wonderful and endlessly surprising.

Tickets: £10 / £8 / £5

FRENCH DUOS & TRIOS Friday 20 May 1.00pm – 2.15pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 L BOULANGER Two Pieces for Violin & Piano DEBUSSY Piano Preludes No.4, 6 & 7 from Book 1 N BOULANGER Three Pieces for Cello & Piano SIERRA Butterflies Remember a Mountain RAVEL Sonata for Violin & Cello Tickets: £15 / £10 / £5

COPLAND, WEIR & MOZART

Friday 20 May 5.00pm – 6.10pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 COPLAND Duo for Flute & Piano WEIR Airs from Another Planet MOZART Piano Quintet in E flat K452 Tickets: £15 / £10 / £5 PRE-CONCERT TALK Friday 20 May, 4.15pm - 4.45pm HELEN GRIME & JUDITH WEIR FREE, please request tickets when booking for the 5.00pm concert

LATE BEETHOVEN: PIANO & STRINGS

Friday 20 May 7.15pm – 9.40pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.30 Piano Sonata No.31 Piano Sonata No.32 WALLEN The Negro Speaks of Rivers BEETHOVEN String Quartet Op.127 Tickets: £20 / £14 / £5

CLOSE UP

FESTIVAL FINALE

MUSIC FOR CURIOUS YOUNG MINDS Saturday 21 May 11.00am – 12.00pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 & AGA SERUGO-LUGO Family concert for 7–11 year-olds

Saturday 21 May 7.15pm – 9.15pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 BRITTEN Sinfonietta KNUSSEN ...Upon One Note GRIME Seven Pierrot Miniatures SLATER World Premiere RPS Composer 2021-22 Commission for Music in the Round BRAHMS Serenade No.1

Tickets: £11 / £8 / £6

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PRE-CONCERT TALK Saturday 21 May, 6.00pm – 6.45pm ANGELA SLATER, HELEN GRIME & JAMES MURPHY Royal Philharmonic Society FREE, please request tickets when booking for the 7.15pm concert

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© Aga Serugo-Lugo 2021

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WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS COME & SING Sunday 15 May Singers of all ages and abilities come together for music-making and an informal performance.

Register interest now by emailing ellen@musicintheround.co.uk We've invited several groups of musicians to participate in workshops.

You are welcome to come and observe the workshop process at the following free events: OBSERVE: PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP Monday 16 May 12.00pm – 1.00pm Crucible Studio Theatre HELEN GRIME, ENSEMBLE 360 & students from the UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD FREE, please book via box office

OBSERVE: COMPOSITION WORKSHOP Wednesday 18 May 12.00pm – 1.00pm Crucible Studio Theatre HELEN GRIME, ENSEMBLE 360 & students from the UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD FREE, please book via box office

SOUNDS OF NOW WORKSHOP Thursday 19 May 3.00pm – 4.30pm Site Gallery Artists from Sheffield CoMA (Contemporary Music for All) FREE, please book via box office Further participatory and pop-up events will be taking place during Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

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Ensemble 360 © Kaupo Kikkas

BOOK YOUR TICKETS ONLINE www.musicintheround.co.uk

BY PHONE 0114 249 6000 IN PERSON at Crucible Theatre box office (10.00am – 6pm, or later on days with performances)

Priority booking: Tues 30 November General booking: Tues 7 December

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Front cover © Chris Saunders 2021

Save 10% when you buy tickets for 5 or more different concerts in one transaction.* Save 15% when you buy tickets for 10 or more different concerts in one transaction.* Save 20% (up to £62) when you buy tickets for the whole Festival in one transaction. A full Festival pass therefore costs £248 after discount (£173.60 Disabled & Unemployed).* Booking for 5 or more concerts?

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Crucible Studio Theatre 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 1DA www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk SADACCA 48 Wicker, Sheffield S3 8JB www.sadacca.co.uk St Andrew's Church 31 Psalter Lane, Sheffield S11 8YL www.standrewspsalterlane.org.uk Samuel Worth Chapel Cemetery Avenue, Sheffield S11 8NT www.gencem.org/thevenue Site Gallery 1 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS www.sitegallery.org *To qualify for these discounts, you cannot include more than one ticket for each concert; offer excludes tickets for family concerts and our Come & Sing event; all tickets must be purchased in one transaction, and you must state which concerts you wish to attend; no other ticket offers apply.

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