Month: June 2024

JOIN WECOMPOSE: Callout for Composers 2024

24 Jun 2024

We are seeking composers who are passionate about working with young people and facilitating their creative ideas. Join a dynamic, reflective and committed cohort of composers working with students, teachers and musicians to transform how composition is taught in secondary schools.

WeCompose is our transformative in-schools composition project: a collaboration between teachers, professional composers, outstanding ensembles and leading music educators. Developing high quality resources and approaches, we work directly in schools in Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, the East Riding of Yorkshire and the wider northern region as well as in Barking & Dagenham, Milton Keynes and Portsmouth. Our first two years have reached over 750 students, and in 2024/25, we aim to reach 2,460 young people across the country. Beyond the three years of currently funded delivery we will share our learning as widely as possible, making resources, approaches and training available to all teachers who wish to use them.

Be part of something amazing. Find out more and download an application pack. Apply here.

Deadline for applications
09.00am Friday 19 July 2024
Interviews in person 30 and 31 July 2024

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Reviews are in for Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2024

13 Jun 2024

It’s wonderful to look back on nine days of fabulous concerts, family performances, screenings, a symposium, panel discussions and, above all, beautiful music from our 40th anniversary Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

Read more about it in the reviews online:

The Arts Desk *****
“one of the most vibrant chamber music festivals anywhere.”

The Spectator: Friday Night in Paris
“the atmosphere [the Playhouse] generates – with audience closely packed on all four sides of the performance space – is wonderfully immediate, especially when (as on this occasion) it’s filled to capacity.”

Bachtrack
An evening with Steven Isserlis *****
“Works by Robert Schumann and Gabriel Fauré – “my best friends in music” – provided a packed Crucible Playhouse with works of deep anguish and passionate affirmation, played with rapturous devotion by Isserlis himself, a state readily transmitted to his younger associates, Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano) and Irène Duval (violin).”

Bachtrack
Saint-Saëns: The Renaissance Man ****
“It was, truthfully, a remarkable concert that will live long in the memory, notably for the performance of the film score Saint-Saëns wrote for L’assassinat du duc de Guise, played to accompany a screening.”

Thoroughly Good
Celebrating the Lindsays
“The appreciation amongst the audience was palpable hinting at the rich bond the quartet’s reputation had formed. It is an achievement readily identified on the faces of fans, and symbolised in the presence of the chamber music festival to this day.”

Classical Explorer
Saint-Saëns: The Renaissance Man
“Delights and discoveries abounded at every turn.”

French Gems
“A fabulous performance of a fabulous piece.”

Romantic Piano
“Momen’s exquisite recital included music from Rameau to Ravel.”