Author: Edward Mackay

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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Express your interest in joining the chorus of ‘The Monster in the Maze’

22 Feb 2024

King Minos has a labyrinth in his palace. Inside there lurks a Minotaur. This monster, half-man and half-bull, feeds on human flesh. Minos decrees that the Athenians should provide a supply of young people to be sacrificed. The hero Theseus steps in, determined to enter the maze and take on the monster at its heart…

We are seeking singers to be part of Jonathan Dove’s ‘The Monster in the Maze’ which receives its Sheffield premiere on the iconic Crucible stage in four performances on 1st and 2nd November 2024. Our most ambitious project to date, this will be Music in the Round at its best: a bold collaboration, forged in the crucible of creativity that is our City of Makers. And we want you to be part of it. Please register your interest here.

Rehearsals will start late Summer 2024 and usually fall on Sunday afternoons. Rehearsals will also take place in the evenings of the week leading up to the performances on 1st and 2nd November. Music and rehearsal tracks will be provided.

Commissioned and first performed in 2015 by the Berlin Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, it was praised by the Financial Times as “an exhilarating, visceral take on the ancient Greek myth”. This is an amazing opportunity for people of all ages to come together and perform alongside our professional resident artists and guest soloists, highlighting the best of music-making in Sheffield. Whether you sing regularly with a choir, or would like to try singing in a large group for the first time, we want to hear from you.

This is an epic story: millennia in the making and a fitting celebration for our 40th anniversary year! Be part of it, by signing up below.

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Composer callout: be part of WeCompose 2023-24

4 Aug 2023

Music in the Round has been running composition projects with children and young people for many years. Our latest project builds upon PowerPlus and Schubert in Schools. We recently ran a successful pilot of WeCompose, you can read about it here and explore some of the resources from the pilot project here. We’re currently looking for composers to support the next round of KS3 students from October 2023 to May 2024.

To learn a little more about the project and role, please download this information pack.

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If you have any questions, please email Learning and Participation lp@musicintheround.co.uk

To apply to be part of this project by completing this form by 6pm on Wednesday 23 August 2023. We will be holding short online interviews the following week.

We want this project to be representative of all sections of society and actively welcome candidates who are currently under-represented in the arts: people of colour, an/or anyone who self-identifies as LGBTQIA+ or disabled.

Thank you for your interest in this project! We look forward to hearing from you.

JOIN OUR TEAM: We’re seeking a National Projects Manager (maternity cover)

20 Dec 2022

Music in the Round is seeking a National Projects Manager (maternity cover)

DEADLINE: 9.00am, 27 January 2023

INTERVIEWS
w/c 20 February 2023

National Projects Manager (maternity cover)

We are seeking a National Projects Manager (maternity cover), who is passionate about what we do, and will join us at an exciting time as we focus on fully integrating all our strands of activity with venues around the country. We are looking to appoint someone who can maintain and develop excellent relationships with a wide range of venues, organisations, supporters and musicians. Liaising collaboratively with each of our current partner venues around the country, working with the Head of Programmes to nurture each of these partnerships through presenting inspiring concerts and Learning & Participation activity within their local communities, this position is key to developing new relationships with concert venues, both those keen to expand their live chamber music programming through presenting concerts, and organisations looking to deepen and embed music-making in their local area.  

Click on the button below to find out more and download the National Projects Manager application pack.

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Music in the Round is an Equal Opportunities Employer

We want our workforce to be representative of all sections of society and actively welcome candidates who are currently under-represented in the arts: people of colour, and/or anyone who self-identifies as LGBTQIA+ and/or self-identifies as disabled.