FINALE: CAKE!

Errollyn Wallen, Tim Williams & Ensemble 360

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 22 May 2027, 7.00pm

Tickets: £23
Recipients of PIP, UC, DLA and Pension Credit: £14
Under 35s & Students: £5

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R STRAUSS (arr. Morton) Schlagoberswalzer from Schlagobers Suite (6′)
SAINT-SAËNS Wedding Cake (6′)
LUCIER Nothing is Real (10′)
ROSSINI Les noisettes from Quatre mendiants (4′)
WALLEN Battenberg Concerto World Premiere (10′)
KEAL Scherzando from Wind Quintet (4′)
R SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E flat Op.44 (30′)
GERSHWIN (arr. Morton) ‘Let ’Em Eat Cake’ Overture (8′) 

Sheffield Chamber Music Festival comes to a delicious close in a programme of musical confectionery, with Schumann’s magnificent Piano Quintet at its heart. 

Strauss’s whipped-cream waltz sits alongside Saint-Saëns’ sparkling Wedding Cake. Rossini supplies a handful of musical sweets, while Errollyn Wallen’s newest work Battenberg Concerto receives its world premiere. 

Our Guest Curator has saved some space for playful surprises in her Finale too, with a teapot among the instruments taking the stage. Keal’s lively Scherzando offers another bite-sized delight before Schumann’s expansive Piano Quintet brings its sweeping melodies, intimate exchanges and irresistible energy to the feast. 

Gershwin sends the Festival off with the exuberant Let ’Em Eat Cake Overture, rounding off nine days of musical friendships and unexpected connections in celebratory style. 

A finale with something for every appetite. 

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About the Artists

Errollyn Wallen

Errollyn Wallen CBE is a multi award-winning Belize-born British composer named as one of the world’s top twenty most performed living classical composers. Her prolific output includes over twenty operas and a large catalogue of orchestral, chamber and vocal works, which are performed and broadcast throughout the world. She has composed for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games 2012, for the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees, a specially commissioned song for COP 26 and a re-imagining of Jerusalem for the Last Night of the Proms 2020. Errollyn Wallen’s book Becoming a Composer was published by Faber in 2023. Her recordings have travelled 7.84 million kilometers in space, completing 186 orbits around the Earth on NASA’s STS-115 mission. In August 2024 Errollyn Wallen was appointed Master of the King’s Music. Read more.

Ensemble 360 musicians

Ensemble 360

Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK for the quality and integrity of their performances. Formed in 2005, eleven musicians of international standing came together to take up residency in South Yorkshire with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group comprising five string players, five wind players and a pianist.  Get a glimpse of them in performance here.

The Ensemble 360 musicians share a passion for the music which radiates through each performance. Their enthusiasm, drive and musicality captivate audiences both through the quality of their playing and their engaging spoken introductions. Due to the flexible nature of the group’s line-up the repertoire possibilities are enormous; anything from baroque duos, through classical quartets to new commissions for all eleven players.