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Spring 2011

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Music in the Round is enormously grateful to all its funders, sponsors, supporters and Friends, without whom these concerts would not be possible.

Funders: Arts Council England | Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Key Fund Yorkshire | Sheffield City Council The Lindsay Foundation Honorary President: Peter Cropper Supporters: Abbeydale Brewery Lifelong Patrons: John Cowling | David & Kate Dugdale Maurice & Sheila Millward

Welcome!

This is my farewell series of concerts for Music in the Round as Artistic Director. I hope you will enjoy the variety of concerts given by new artists to Sheffield who I have met on my recent travels, mixed with returning performers many of whom are now firm favourites.

It was twenty-seven years ago that we started with a fortnights’ festival of chamber music in the Crucible Studio. Little did we know then that we would now be arranging over 150 concerts, plus education projects, all over England. All this is possible because we have a totally dedicated team in the office and a wonderfully supportive group of board members.

Their enthusiasm and hard work is motivated by their admiration of our resident Ensemble 360. These eleven outstanding players are not only performing in Sheffield and South Yorkshire, but making a name as a group nationally and as individuals, internationally. Their recordings are receiving rave reviews and their commitment to Sheffield and the promotion of chamber music through Music in the Round will make a lasting impact on all our musical lives.

I am thrilled to have been part of this development and thank you all for your undying support over the last quarter of a century. I hope Angus Smith, my successor, enjoys the challenge as much as I have and I know that Music in the Round will go from strength to strength with the passion that everyone involved shares with you the audience.

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Ensemble 360

Ensemble 360 is Music in the Round’s resident ensemble. It brings together eleven world-class musicians to form one versatile group; five string players, five wind players and a pianist.

The enthusiasm, drive and musicality of each of the performers has proved a success with audiences across the UK as they find themselves drawn into the performances both through the communicative and engrossing nature of their playing.

Ensemble 360 is a strong team and a group of friends who share a passion for the music; a passion which radiates through each performance.

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Claudia Ajmone-Marsan Naomi Atherton Juliette Bausor Judith Busbridge Laurène Durantel Amy Harman Tim Horton Matthew Hunt Benjamin Nabarro Gemma Rosefield Adrian Wilson

VIOLIN HORN FLUTE VIOLA DOUBLE BASS BASSOON PIANO CLARINET VIOLIN CELLO OBOE

January Weekend with Ensemble 360 and the Elias String Quartet

Ensemble 360 invites the Elias String Quartet back to the Studio to join them for a weekend of events featuring Beethoven and music from Russia. With concerts for all ages, workshops and a post-concert chat, there’s plenty to choose from.

Please note that the Elias String Quartet concert is at the earlier time of 7.15pm.

The weekend at a glance…

Friday 21 January, 10.30am

Schools’ Concert with the Elias String Quartet Friday 21 January, 7.15pm Elias String Quartet Saturday 22 January, 10.30am Music Box with Polly Ives and Ensemble 360 Saturday 22 January, 12.45pm Ensemble 360 Saturday 22 January, 7.45pm Ensemble 360

Weekend Pass - see 3 concerts for: £30 / £20 Disabled & Unemployed / £7 Students. Offer only available until December 24th.

Please note that the weekend ticket does not include the schools’ concert and Music Box.

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Friday 21 January, 10.30am

, Schools Concert with Elias String Quartet The Elias String Quartet is familiar to many young people in Sheffield from their previous performances in Snap! Snap!, Giddy Goat, Carnival of the Animals and Folk Around the Globe, and from their involvement in masterclasses and the PowerPlus composition project.

We are thrilled to welcome them back to take us on a journey of the string quartet featuring classical, modern and folk music. This 50 minute concert is ideal for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

The children were completely mesmerized’ Teacher

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Tickets: £3 (accompanying teachers free) For more information, contact Polly Ives on polly@musicintheround.co.uk or 0114 281 4660

Photographer: Benjamin Ealovega

Friday 21 January, 7.15pm*

Elias String Quartet BBC New Generation Artists and BBC Music Magazine Newcomer of the Year 2010, the Elias String Quartet returns to the Studio for this special weekend of concerts with Ensemble 360.

Beethoven’s Op.18 quartets shows him both mastering the styles of his predecessors, Haydn and Mozart, whilst pushing musical boundaries into new territory; these quartets couldn’t have been written by any other composer than Beethoven.

Like most of Bartók’s music this short third quartet owes a great deal to folk melodies. It is a thrilling piece brimming with musical effects.

Beethoven’s Quartet in C was dedicated to Russian ambassador Count Rasumovsky. Along with his well-loved Eroica Symphony, it embodies a sense of heroism. Viennese audiences of the time loved the piece, BEETHOVEN enhancing Beethoven’s fame across Europe.

Quartet in F Op.18 No. 1 Tickets: £14 / £9.50

Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Students & Under 18s

Encore! Post-concert Chat

BARTÓK Quartet No.3

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The Elias is the best young quartet Ive come across in years

BEETHOVEN Quartet Op.59 No.3 in C Stay after the concert for a chance to Rasumovsky ask the Elias questions about tonight’s programme and what they have been up to Sara Bitlloch VIOLIN since leaving Ensemble 360.

Donald Grant VIOLIN Entry is FREE with your concert ticket.

Martin Saving VIOLA *Please note earlier start time Marie Bitlloch CELLO

Sunday Times

Saturday 22 January, 10.30am

Music Box with Polly Ives and Ensemble 360 Join Polly Ives alongside Amy and Naomi from Ensemble 360 for a 45 minute Music Box workshop for 3 - 6 year olds.

Exploring colour, this interactive and inspiring workshop includes musical traffic lights, rainbow bells, bassoon balloons alongside the Pink Panther, Blue Danube, Yellow Submarine and Greensleeves.

These workshops always sell out so book early. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Tickets: Participating children £5 (accompanying adults free) Book through the Music in the Round office, contact Chloe Miller Smith on Chloe@musicintheround.co.uk or 0114 281 4660

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Saturday 22 January, 12.45pm

Ensemble 360

Taking the lead from Beethoven’s use of Russian folk tunes in his Rasumovsky quartets Ensemble 360 showcases some of the greatest chamber music of that nation, interspersed with one of Beethoven’s own early masterpieces.

Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale dates from 1918, but he made this arrangement in 1919 for the financier Werner Reinhardt, an amateur clarinetist who had funded the original production.

Beethoven’s Op.1 Piano Trios are a great statement of the young composer’s intent. They combine elements of his indebtedness to Haydn and Mozart, but more importantly show the new path that he would follow.

STRAVINSKY Suite from Soldier’s Tale for clarinet, violin and piano Tickets: £9 / £6.50 Disabled

& Unemployed / £3 Students & Under 18s

TCHAIKOVSKY Sérénade Mélancolique Op.26 arr. for violin and piano BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E Flat Op.1 No.1

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Saturday 22 January, 7.45pm

Ensemble 360

Stravinsky’s Septet was written shortly after he had completed his opera The Rake’s Progress. It is one of his final pieces in the neo-classical style, looking back to the musical forms of the 18th century, before he adopted Schoenberg’s serial techniques. It is full of joy and is rhythmically puzzling for players and audience alike!

Rachmaninov’s second Trio Élégiaque is a heartfelt homage to his idol, Tchaikovsky, on whose own Piano Trio it is closely modelled, structurally as well as emotionally. It contains all of Rachmaninov’s trademark melodic ingenuity and passion.

Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Students & Under 18s

STRAVINSKY Septet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, violin, viola and cello

BEETHOVEN Piano Quintet in E Flat Op.16 arr. for violin, viola, cello and piano

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RACHMANINOV Trio Élégiaque in D minor Op.9

May Festival 2011

Friday 6 - Saturday 14 May

Passion, obsession and desire Austria

n, Hungarian and Bohemian music, 1804-1945

“You stand behind every note, you, living, forceful, loving. The fragrance of your body, the glow of your kisses - no, really of mine. Those notes of mine kiss all of you. They call for you passionately...”

Leos Janàcek

Details about the May Festival will be announced in February 2011. Visit www.musicintheround.co.uk and sign up to the Music in the Round postal or email list to get programme information before anyone else.

Wednesday 2 March, 12.45pm

Ensemble 360

Bach is thought to have written his Goldberg Variations as a gift to Count Kayserling, an important and influential music-lover who suffered from insomnia. The Count had employed one of Bach’s best pupils, the fourteen-year-old Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, to play to him during his sleepless nights.

The theme is a dance-like aria written earlier

by Bach for his wife, but it is the bass line and chords that Bach uses for his thirty variations.

In this wonderfully virtuosic and challenging transcription for string trio, the three players are equal partners, as if creating the different registers of a single instrument.

Tickets: £9 / £6.50 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Students & Under 18s

BACH Goldberg Variations Arr. for string trio by Dimitry Sitkovetsky

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Photographer: Nikolaj Lund

Wednesday 2 March, 7.45pm

Danish String Quartet We’re delighted to welcome the Danish String Quartet as part of its debut tour following huge success at the 2009 London International String Quartet Competition, where it won five of the nine prizes, including First Prize. The Quartet is already renowned for its powerful impact on stage generated by the players’ sheer joy of performing and their fresh approach to repertoire.

Here the Danish performs Mozart’s famous Dissonance Quartet, which takes its nickname from the tense harmonies that open the piece, something that was radical for the time.

The energetic and dramatic Quartet in G minor is considered to be the milestone at which Nielsen reached his prime as a string quartet composer. In Beethoven’s late, great Quartet in E flat each part has equal importance, MOZART creating a totally new sound world to that Quartet in C K.465 of his previous quartets.

Dissonance

Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Students & Under 18s

Pre-concert Talk, 6.45pm

Members of the quartet discuss the role of chamber music competitions and reflect on the impact winning has had on them.

Entry is FREE with your concert ticket.

NIELSEN Quartet in G minor Op.13

I have never been more impressed by a young quartet than with the Danish String Quartet Peter Cropper

BEETHOVEN Quartet in E flat Op.127 Rune Sørensen Frederik Øland Asbjørn Nørgaard Fredrik Sjølin

VIOLIN VIOLIN VIOLA CELLO

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Friday 4 March, 7.45pm

Alexandra Dariescu

Alexandra returns to Sheffield following her hugely successful lunchtime concert with us in October 2009.

Here she performs a varied programme of virtuosic and lyrical pieces.

BEETHOVEN Beethoven’s virtuosic variations explore 32 Variations on an Original Theme in many different textures, rhythms, C minor dynamics and moods. Another set of variations, Schumann’s Op.1, reflects his fascination with puzzles.

Based on the letters in the surname of the piece’s dedicatee, Meta Abegg, it displays a thrilling concoction of styles.

Wagner’s dramatic Isolde’s Liebestod comes from the end of his masterpiece opera Tristan & Isolde, when Isolde grieves over the body of her love.

Liszt’s transcription wonderfully captures the passion and heartwrenching emotion of the aria.

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SCHUMANN Variations on the name Abegg Op.1 RAVEL Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit DEBUSSY L’Isle Joyeuse LISZT Ballade No.2 in B minor WAGNER Isolde’s Liebestod from Tristan & Isolde transc. Liszt CHOPIN Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in G Op.22

Saturday 5 March, 7.45pm

The Donald Grant Trio Donald makes his long-awaited return to the Studio with his new trio featuring some of the most innovative, energetic and compelling artists in the UK. Here they bring together traditional Scottish music and song, new material written by the group, improvisation and classical repertoire including Brahms’s Hungarian Dances.

All classically trained musicians, the trio boasts an eclectic background: Donald has performed here in Sheffield with folk legends Kate Rusby, Martin Simpson and Roy Bailey and is also part of the internationally acclaimed Elias String Quartet, now BBC New Generation Artists. Eilidh comes from a family of folk musicians and has published her own book of Scottish traditional tunes. Phil is known through Klezmer/Balkan band Moishe’s Bagel, who played to a packed Studio in 2007, as well as the Eliza Carthy band and Salsa Celtica.

Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Students & Under 18s

Breaking down the barriers of what we know as traditional folk music Maverick Magazine

Donald Grant Eilidh Martin Phil Alexander

FIDDLE/VOCALS CELLO/VOCALS PIANO

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Wednesday 9 March, 7.45pm

Leibniz Trio

The Leibniz Trio, which recently won the prestigious German Music Competition in Bonn, has been praised by audiences and critics alike for its honest and intelligent musical interpretations and expressivity. Peter Cropper heard this Trio perform and was so blown away he immediately invited them to tour with us.

Here the group performs Haydn’s grand Trio in A flat and Ravel’s sparkling Trio in A minor, full of harmonic and textural innovations, alongside Dvorák’s passionate and dark Trio in F minor, in which the music of his close friend Brahms can be recalled.

Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Students & Under 18s HAYDN Piano Trio No.14 in A flat

Quite simply beautiful and highly musical Aller-Zeitung, Germany

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RAVEL Piano Trio in A minor DVORÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op.65 Hwa-Won Pyun VIOLIN Lena Wignjosaputro VIOLA Nicholas Rimmer PIANO

Photographer: Rowanne Bennet

Thursday 10 March, 7pm Wednesday 30 March, 7pm

PowerPlus

All Ensemble 360 players [are] absolutely dedicated, enthusiastic, inspiring and totally sensitive to the ethos we wish to project Robin McEwan

with Ensemble 360 and Chris Bradley 10 March at The Studio 30 March at Upper Chapel PowerPlus is a project which aims to stimulate and enhance the composing skills of young music students in Sheffield schools, directed by Sheffield Music Advanced Skills Teacher Robin McEwan. Since the beginning of the autumn term, students have been writing music in response to a number of different stimuli for performance by the members of Ensemble 360 and marimba player Chris Bradley. The players have been working in schools with the students to help them expand their knowledge of instrumental techniques as well as to inspire and enthuse. The 10th March performance features music written for clarinet, oboe, bassoon, flute, horn, piano and marimba, and the 30th March concert showcases music for string quartet, piano and marimba.

Led in partnership with Tapton School, Head Teacher David Bowes, Mary Heyler, Music Strategy Adviser & Head of Sheffield Music Services and the Music Faculty of the University of Sheffield.

Tickets: FREE Contact Polly Ives for more information on 0114 281 4660 or polly@musicintheround.co.uk

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Friday 11 March, 12.45pm

Peter Hill

Quite extraordinarily beautiful and right The Times

Book Two of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier shows the composer at his most visionary, exploring harmonies that would not be out of place in Wagner, Mahler or even early Schoenberg, keyboard writing as rich as Brahms in his last years, and most of all an argumentative power that is a pre-echo of Beethoven.

But there is a lighter side: preludes that dance and shimmer with the grace of the later 18th century, wit and irony that only Haydn could rival.

As a foil to excerpts from the Well Tempered Clavier, the French Suite in D minor is Bach’s take on the dance forms of his time; playful, elegant, and deceptively simple.

Peter Hill is preparing a series of Bach recordings for Delphian Records.

£9 / £6.50 Disabled & Unemployed / BACH £3 Students & Under 18s French Suite No.1 in D minor

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BACH Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier Book 2 in C, E flat, F sharp minor, A flat & B flat minor

Friday 11 March, 7.45pm

Ensemble 360 Desert Island Concert

“On my own on a desert island I would find consolation in traditional and folkloric music from all over Europe, and in Schumann, one of my favourite composers. My parents used to put his third piano trio on at home to calm down their four exhausting kids ... I can’t remember if it worked but it stayed deeply in my memory.

I chose Dohnányi’s Serenade because of these words from Bartók: “you could resume Hungarian music with one person, Dohnányi”, is very close to the traditional music of Hungary.

Nathanel Malnoury is a close friend of mine, and it’s a real pleasure to play this piece. He wrote it for me in 2004, and it is made up of two movements based on Irish themes and is quite ... rock ‘n’ roll!

MALNOURY I’m proud to share the piano stool with Tim for Piece for double bass Mother Goose, which is not a pure homage to France, and viola rather an immersion in an oriental and enchanting world.

DOHNÁNYI Perhaps here is the end of my travels, finishing at home Serenade for violin, with you all in Sheffield!” viola and double bass LAURÈNE DURANTEL RAVEL Extracts from Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & Unemployed / Mother Goose Suite for £3 Students & Under 18s piano four hands

Pre-Concert Talk, 6.45pm

SCHUMANN Laurène chats about why she loves the pieces in tonight’s Piano Trio in G minor Op. 110 programme with fellow Ensemble 360 member Tim Horton.

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Saturday 12 March, 10.30am

I Fagiolini Vocal Workshop Do you enjoy singing?

World-class vocal ensemble I Fagiolini gives a three hour workshop before the evening concert. Led by choral expert and BBC Radio 3 presenter Robert Hollingworth and baritone Eamonn Dougan, this workshop is an exploration of unaccompanied Renaissance and contemporary works open to adult choral singers.

Participants: ÂŁ15 from Chloe Miller Smith at Music in the Round on 0114 281 4660 or chloe@musicintheround.co.uk

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Photographer: Eric Richmond

Saturday 12 March, 7.45pm

I Fagiolini

I Fagiolini is a world-renowned vocal ensemble which specialises in both early and contemporary music. With a unique presentation style that brings the beauty and drama of music to life, the group is directed by choral expert and BBC Radio 3 presenter Robert Hollingworth.

This year I Fagiolini celebrates its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion this programme includes a new work by Orlando Gough, based on a moment in the life of one of the 16th SENFL century’s most important and flamboyant poets, Das Gläut zu Speyer Torquato Tasso, who inspired Monteverdi but ended up in a mental asylum with delusions JANEQUIN that he was to be murdered.

Le Chant des Oiseaux

Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Students & Under 18s

Sheffield Young Singers Pre-Concert Performance, 6.30pm

STRIGGIO Italian Madrigal DE WERT Qual Musico Gentil

ORLANDO GOUGH Directed by Helen Cowen, talented singers aged The Spell 8 – 15 perform music including Can You Hear Me? Regional Premiere

by Bob Chilcott, I Turn on the Tap by Richard Stilgoe MONTEVERDI and Baningati, a traditional Cameroonian song.

Incenerite Spoglie

Tickets: £3 / FREE with your evening concert ticket (if you request one) The Spell commissioned by the National Centre for Early Music with funding from the PRS for Music Foundation.

MILHAUD Deux Poèmes Op.39 Plus some jazz and folksong arrangements

An irrepressible force in the early music world, bringing bags of style, energy and dramatic excitement to everything they touch International Record Review

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Wednesday 16 March, 12.45pm

Ensemble 360

Beethoven’s Variations on Rule Britannia seem to display more than a little irony towards the theme. Any elements of potential pomposity in the theme are roundly and humorously satirised.

Temporal Variations can be seen as vision for peace at a time when political anxiety in Europe was keenly felt by pacifists such as Britten. It includes the nationalistic dance movements of Germany (waltz) and Poland (polka), the march and yard exercises of the soldiers and an oration that evokes a dictatorial speech! It is one of the most powerful and poignant pieces of chamber music written in the 20th century.

Charles Koechlin was a hugely prolific composer, with pieces as diverse as chamber music and BEETHOVEN Hollywood film scores. He loved 5 Variations on Rule the romanticism of Chopin and Britannia in D Fauré and was great friends with BRITTEN Ravel. He was also Cole Porter’s Temporal Variations teacher and a great supporter for oboe and piano of new music within France.

KOECHLIN £9 / £6.50 Disabled & Sonata for Bassoon & Piano Op.71 Unemployed / £3 Students

& Under 18s

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POULENC Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Photographer: Sussie Ahlburg

Wednesday 16 March, 7.45pm

Navarra Quartet Haydn’s Quartet Op.54 No.2 is typical Haydn; elegant and yet always with moments of the unexpected. The piece took the violin to new heights, with extended solos throughout, including an expressive and high-reaching line in the tender slow movement.

Written when Shostakovich was under censure from the Party, his Quartet in B flat is dark and almost tragic. Written at a time composers were nervous of writing anything adventurous for fear it would be deemed undemocratic, this bold piece HAYDN was not premiered until after Quartet in C Op.54 No.2 the death of Stalin.

SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No.5 in B Flat Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Op.92 Disabled & Unemployed /

£3 Students & Under 18s

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BEETHOVEN Quartet in A minor Op.132 Magnus Johnston Marije Ploemacher Simone van der Giessen Nathaniel Boyd

VIOLIN VIOLIN VIOLA CELLO

Saturday 19 March, 7.45pm

Urban Folk Quartet Recommended by Donald Grant, fiddle player and Elias String Quartet violinist, the Urban Folk Quartet comes from the heady mix of traditional tunes of England and Spain to the vibrant fusion rhythms of the Birmingham scene.

Launched in 2009, this new band has already achieved huge success, headlining major festivals across Europe and winning the Spanish International Folk Competition at its fourth concert!

Virtuosic, not just in feel and technical ability but in musical concept as well, don’t miss the first UK tour of this phenomenal new band.

Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & Unemployed /£3 Students & Under 18s Frank Moon OUD, GUITAR, PERCUSSION & VOCALS Tom Chapman PERCUSSION & VOCALS Joe Broughton FIDDLE, GUITAR, MANDOLIN & VOCALS Paloma Trigas FIDDLE & VOCALS

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Wednesday 30 March, 7.45pm

Jin Ju

Jin Ju makes a very welcome return to Music in the Round following her concert with us in December 2008.

Debussy’s witty Etudes were dedicated to the memory of Chopin, and have a charm reminiscent of the older composer’s work. They explore the piano’s contrasting sonorities and timbres, and are some of Debussy’s greatest late music.

Stravinsky’s brief and lively Sonata contains influences of the baroque, classical and early romantic periods. It opens by recalling the sound world of Haydn, and the lyricism and ornamentation of the second movement echoes Bach, whose spirit in the final movement is recalled by an agile and quirky two-part invention.

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Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & Unemployed /£3 Students & Under 18s DEBUSSY 12 Etudes STRAVINSKY Sonata (1924) RAVEL Miroirs

Thursday 31 March, 7.45pm

Ensemble 360

This concert is set to be full of energy and vivacity, opening with Poulenc’s highly animated, abundantly witty and lusciously French Sextet.

Dvorák wrote his Quintet for string quartet and double bass early in his life and his young and infectious spirit can be heard throughout.

POULENC Sextet in C Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, for flute, oboe, usually heard for orchestra, are clarinet, bassoon, based on gypsy tunes and full of horn and piano explosive energy. In contrast, DVORÁK Brahms’s Trio was written in String Quintet in G the wake of his mother’s death, Op.77 for violin, and his angst and pain is two violas, cello reflected in the third movement. and double bass

Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Students & Under 18s

Pre-Concert Talk, 6.45pm

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BRAHMS Trio in E flat Op.40 for violin, horn and piano

BRAHMS Members of Ensemble 360 take a Hungarian Dances (excerpts) - Arr. deeper look at the work of Dvorák Nicholas Charron and Brahms. Entry is FREE with for flute, oboe, clarinet, your concert ticket. bassoon, horn, two violins, viola, cello, double bass and piano

Saturday 2 April, 7.45pm

Sheff ield Jazz: Storms 1 Nocturnes

In 2001 Tim Garland formed a unique trio of virtuoso jazz players, all band leaders in their own right but committed to creating a three way dialogue of captivating, immersive music.

The Storms / Nocturnes trio features New York vibraphone star Joe Locke and recent Grammy nominee Geoffrey Keezer, the peerless piano phenomenon now living in California, along with the UK’s Garland on saxophones and bass clarinet. After a gap of several years running their respective bands they are reunited and are currently recording their new album which will be released in Spring 2011.

Tickets: £15 / £12 Senior Citizens, Disabled, Unemployed & Students / £5 Under 16s Tim Garland SAXOPHONES & BASS CLARINET Joe Locke VIBRAPHONE Geoffrey Keezer PIANO

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Saturday 9 April, 7.45pm

Ensemble 360

Gumboots by David Bruce was composed in 2008 to a commission from Carnegie Hall. Its title refers to gumboot dancing, which developed out of a form of communication used by black miners during apartheid in South Africa in which they would slap the chains that connected them together. This eventually evolved into a lively form of dance.

The only piece of Brahms’ to exist in two different pieces is this Trio. He revised the piece towards the end of his life but against type (he was notoriously selfcritical) allowed the earlier version to continue to be published. The revision turns the piece into a mature masterpiece, so much so that the earlier version is now rarely performed.

Tickets: £14 / £9.50 Disabled & BAX Oboe Quintet Unemployed / £3 Students & for oboe, 2 violins, Under 18s viola and cello

BRUCE Gumboots for clarinet, violin, viola and cello

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BRAHMS Piano Trio in B Op. 8 (revised version)

Music in the Round needs you!

For focus group sessions

Regular, occasional and non-attendees welcome!

Music in the Round is seeking volunteers for a series of focus groups to discuss the audience experience. Light bites and drinks supplied.

If you are interested in taking part or learning more please contact Marty Mills on 0114 281 4660 or marty@musicintheround.co.uk

Venue Information

Sheffield Theatres Studio | Norfolk Street | Sheffield S1 1DA Seating Areas: All seats are unreserved, but please specify which area you wish to sit in when booking, i.e. stage level, tier one or tier two.

Latecomers: The auditorium will open 30 minutes before the advertised start time. Please note that latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

Access: The Studio offers easy access for wheelchair users although spaces are limited; please inform the box office at the time of booking if you require a wheelchair space. For blue badge holders, spaces are available in the Q-Park and NCP car parks.

Parking: There is a 24-hour Q-Park car park on Arundel Gate for which ticket-buyers can receive a discount voucher, and a 24-hour NCP car park that can be accessed from Norfolk Street or Arundel Gate. Contact the box office for more details.

Thu 3 February - Sat 5 March Sheffield Theatres presents

The David Hare Season

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Plenty, Racing Demon & The Breath of Life A major retrospective of one of the most influential and prolific playwrights of post-war Britain. Sheffield Theatres is now proud to present three of Sir David Hare’s finest plays - each written twelve years apart - across all three theatres, alongside a whole series of play readings, workshops, talks and interviews.

Season Ticket Deal available.*

Tue 22 – Sat 26 March

Northern Ballet’s Cleopatra Cleopatra’s legacy has inspired generations. Now composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and Northern Ballet Artistic Director David Nixon OBE, bring this astounding story to the stage in this must-see ballet.

Lyceum Theatre

Mon 16 - Sat 21 May

Yes, Prime Minister The original writers of the classic BBC TV series, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, have reunited for this anniversary production, and now the Prime Minister Jim Hacker, his Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and his Private Secretary Bernard Woolley are back in this hilarious new play.

Lyceum Theatre

Box Office: 0114 249 6000 Group bookings: 0114 249 6060

Thu 1 December 2011 – Sat 7 January 2012 A Sheffield Theatres Production

Company by Stephen Sondheim

This brilliantly observed musical about love and marriage is sophisticated, fast-paced and funny. Packed with sensational songs, Company will star Sheffield Theatres’ Artistic Director Daniel Evans.

Book and pay for your tickets for Company before 31 March and save £2.00 on each ticket.* Crucible Theatre *Terms and conditions apply

Booking Your Tickets 0114 249 6000

www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk In person at the Crucible box office Box Office

Booking info venue

By Phone: Monday - Saturday, 9.30am - 8pm In Person: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 8pm On non-performance days the box office closes at 6pm All telephone and online bookings are subject to a 75p handling fee.

By Post

Re-Sales We endeavour to re-sell your tickets on your behalf at a charge of 50p per ticket if the event is sold out.

Booking Dates Booking for Friends of Music in the Round opens on Wednesday 1 December. During this priority period use the booking form on page 32. Tickets are limited to two per Friend per event.

You can book your tickets by post using the form on page 32. Please include one SAE per six tickets ordered to allow General booking opens on Wednesday 8 December. your tickets to be posted back. It is usual for telephone and personal bookings to be given priority.

Ticket Offers

Concessions Concessions are available upon proof of status for people with disabilities, those registered unemployed, students and under 18s. Prices are indicated on each concert page.

Family Tickets Family groups of four (to include at least two under 18s) can save 10% on tickets. In advance only.

Lunchtime concerts: Book 4 concerts for the price of 3 January Pass – see 3 concerts for: £30 / £20 Disabled & Unemployed / £7 Students. Offer only available until December 24th First Timers: Get two tickets for £5 each on your first booking

Booking Form

PLEASE COMPLETE ALL DETAILS IN BLOCK CAPITALS Name Address

There are two ways to pay (tick where applicable) q I have enclosed a cheque made payable to ShefďŹ eld Theatres q Please debit my Visa / Mastercard / Maestro / Visa Delta / Mastercard Debit (delete as appropriate)

Postcode

Number on card:

Tel Number (daytime)

Expiry Date:

Tel Number (evening)

Maestro issue number:

Email

CVV Number:

q I am a Friend of Music in the Round

This is the three digit number at the end of the signature strip on your card

q I am not a Friend of Music in the Round Cardholder’s Signature (tick where applicable)

q Please add me to the Music in the Round mailing list

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Please enclose a photocopy of your proof of status if concessionary tickets are required

Booking Form

PLEASE RETURN WITH ONE SAE PER SIX TICKETS TO: Sheffield Theatres Box Office | Norfolk Street | Sheffield S1 1DA Tickets Required

Quantity x Price

Seating Area

Date

Time

Standard

Stage Level / Tier 1 / Tier 2

Example: 2 Mar

7.45pm

1x

£14

Disabled / Student / Unemployed Under 18 2x

£9.50

1x

£3

LUNCHTIME CONCERT OFFER

x £27

x £19.50

x £9

JANUARY CONCERT PASS

x £30

x £20

x £7

Stage Level

Grand Total

Continue on separate paper if necessary

Total

£36

. .. y r ia D r u o y r o f s e t Da

Music in the Round and Ensemble 360 perform throughout South Yorkshire with a variety of new and repeated programmes, allowing you to hear more repertoire or catch a programme you’ve missed.

Visit www.musicintheround.co.uk for programme details.

2011 dates: Barnsley Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday

4 February 18 March 18 March 8 April 27 May 17 June

7.30pm 1.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Ensemble 360 Little Red Riding Hood Ensemble 360 Ensemble 360 Elias String Quartet Ensemble 360

Saturday 5 February 7.30pm Saturday 19 March 3pm Saturday 19 March 7.30pm Saturday 2 April 7.30pm Thursday 19 May 7.30pm

Ensemble 360 Little Red Riding Hood Ensemble 360 Ensemble 360 Elias String Quartet

Doncaster

Rotherham Monday 16 May

1.30pm Little Red Riding Hood

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. .. e c n a l g a t a n o s a Se Friday 21 January, 10.30am

Schools’ Concert with the Elias Quartet Friday 21 January, 7.15pm Elias String Quartet Saturday 22 January, 10.30am Music Box Workshop Saturday 22 January, 12.45pm Ensemble 360 Saturday 22 January, 7.45pm Ensemble 360 Wednesday 2 March, 12.45pm Ensemble 360 Wednesday 2 March 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Wednesday 2 March, 7.45pm Danish String Quartet Friday 4 March, 7.45pm Alexandra Dariescu Saturday 5 March, 7.45pm Donald Grant Wednesday 9 March, 7.45pm Leibniz Trio Thursday 10 March, 7pm PowerPlus Friday 11 March, 12.45pm Peter Hill Friday 11 March, 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Friday 11 March, 7.45pm Ensemble 360 Desert Island Concert: Laurène Durantel Saturday 12 March, 10.30am I Fagiolini Vocal Workshop Saturday 12 March, 6.30pm Sheffield Young Singers Saturday 12 March, 7.45pm I Fagiolini Wednesday 16 March, 12.45pm Ensemble 360

Wednesday 16 March, 7.45pm Saturday 19 March, 7.45pm Wednesday 30 March, 7pm Wednesday 30 March, 7.45pm Thursday 31 March 6.45pm Thursday 31 March, 7.45pm Saturday 2 April, 7.45pm Saturday 9 April, 7.45pm

Navarra Quartet Urban Folk Quartet PowerPlus Jin Ju Pre-Concert Talk Ensemble 360 Sheffield Jazz: Storms / Nocturnes Ensemble 360

5 £ ck Ti et Offer!

First time attendees can now get two tickets for £5 each on their first booking.

Only available in advance from Sheffield Theatres box office.