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Music in the Round seeks a new Marketing & Development Coordinator

14 Jul 2025

Music in the Round is seeking a Marketing & Development Coordinator to work closely with the Marketing & Communications Manager, Chief Executive and other members of staff to grow and diversify our audiences, improve income generation and promote the organisation and its activity across the country.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do and can develop excellent relationships with a wide range of supporters, staff and organisations. Getting to know existing stakeholders and gaining a thorough understanding of our wide range of activity and musicians is key to being successful in this role.

This new role involves a range of activity, from submitting applications to trusts and foundations and identifying new funding opportunities, to digital and social media marketing, some print production and data collating, as we aim for our activity to be accessible to more people in more places. 

More information and how to apply here:
Marketing & Development Coordinator Application Pack 2025 

Online DEI form: Google Form

Deadline to apply: 9.00am, Monday 11 August

Music in the Round seeks a new National Projects Manager

20 May 2025

Music in the Round is seeking a National Projects Manager who is keen to support our aim of fully integrating all our strands of concert and Learning & Participation activity with venues outside of Sheffield.

We are looking to appoint someone who enjoys running events to work with the Head of Programmes and National Projects Assistant to administer our national programme of activity, maintaining and developing excellent relationships with a wide range of venues, organisations, supporters and musicians. Collaborating with our current partner venues around the country, this exciting role is about nurturing each of these partnerships through presenting inspiring concerts and L&P activity across the country, from Goole to Portsmouth via Doncaster and Milton Keynes.

More information and how to apply here: National Projects Manager 2025

Online DEI form: Google Form

Composer callout: be part of WeCompose 2025-2026

14 May 2025

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 South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire as well as in East London, Milton Keynes and the Solent Area (Portsmouth, Southampton, Isle of Wight). Our first three years have reached over 1620 students, and in 2025/2026, 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 Monday 9 June 2025
Interviews in person 17 and 25 June 2025 (Sheffield); 24 June (London).

Email wecompose@musicintheround.co.uk with any questions.

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Music in the Round seeks new trustees

24 Apr 2025

Update: Applications for these positions have now closed.

We are currently seeking up to three new trustees, who believe in our aim of bringing people and music closer together.

We currently have a board of 12 trustees (listed here), but as some are stepping down over the coming months we have an opportunity to refresh the people who support Music in the Round. We think that the best organisations have a diversity of voices, so we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. In particular we are keen to hear from anyone who feels they are under-represented in chamber music.

We also would like to meet people who work with or have knowledge of neighbourhood/community organisations in Sheffield and the vicinity.

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A new culture strategy for Sheffield

4 Dec 2024

Sheffield has revealed a new culture strategy for the city.

“Sheffield is a city filled with inspiring artists, makers, and doers. Our artists, musicians, and designers are known around the world, but those who live here understand that thousands of incredible creatives across our communities and neighbourhoods are simply getting on with their work. We recognise that, as a city, there is much more we can do to support these individuals in flourishing.

With this in mind, we have developed a fresh vision for creativity, arts, and culture in Sheffield. We hope this vision will ensure that everyone who lives, works, or visits here has the opportunity to participate, collaborate, and benefit from the many wonderful contributions that arts and culture bring to our city.”

You can download it now, or read it in full here. 

“A terrific achievement” Responses to The Monster in the Maze

4 Dec 2024

Reviews are in for our recent production The Monster in the Maze. Read them all online here:

Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian ★★★★

“…First heard only as a tuba-heavy roar of brass, played by a raucous “Minotaur band” in the gallery, the worm-like man-beast was deliciously creepy when he finally appeared through two different entrances simultaneously. The hero of the hour is Theseus – part Wagner’s Siegfried, part Barbie’s Ken – who wore an orange fluorescent shell suit, waved a sword as twinkly as a Christmas tree and knew no fear. The final chorus, these music-makers of Sheffield singing and playing their hearts out, was expansive and stirring.”

Robert Hugill, Planet Hugill

“The whole performance was a terrific achievement… Rosie Kat’s production used the whole auditorium with bravura. We, the audience, were close to and surrounded by the drama, giving the performance real immediacy. The non-professional performers were entirely unphased by this and I was particularly impressed by the way the youth chorus grasped the drama despite being in such close proximity to the audience.”

Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer

“…Rarely if ever have I heard such enthusiasm from a group of singers, who threw themselves into the occasion… And with such engagement form the young singers, it felt just perfect… A triumph, then, and a heart-warming one, a that.”

One of our participants in the adult chorus, Isabel Lovell, wrote this piece about her experience of rehearsals which was shared by Classical Music through the e-newsletter and on their website.

“Last Sunday we had our first rehearsal with all the different choirs– children’s, youth and adult choruses – together, and we were all blown away hearing the children coming in with their parts. Seeing the production slowly come together has been an amazing experience. When rehearsals started, the three choruses rehearsed separately, meeting for two hours every Sunday in the middle of Sheffield. It felt so magical to hear it start to come together, to hear how each part fit together to create something larger than the sum of its parts.”

Come and sing in ‘The Monster in the Maze’

3 Jul 2024

Would you like to sing in the chorus of an amazing opera?
Would you like to perform in the iconic Crucible Theatre?

We are looking for people to join our adult chorus for Jonathan Dove’s ‘The Monster in the Maze’ for four performances on 1 and 2 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.

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 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.

Come and join us!
Please register your interest here.

You do not need previous experience of singing on stage or to read music, just a love of singing and lots of enthusiasm!

Pre-production week rehearsals 

15 Sept, 2.30-4.30pm, The Foundry, Sheffield Music Hub
29 Sept, 2.30-4.30pm, The Foundry, Sheffield Music Hub
(The Foundry, 3 Brown St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2BS. Entry via buzzer to the side of the red door)
13 Oct, 2.30-4.30pm, The Creative Lounge
20 Oct 2.30-4.30pm (full run), The Creative Lounge
(The Creative Lounge, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX. Entry via the Showroom Workstation and it’s on the left as you go in)
27 Oct 2.30-4.30pm (sitzprobe with everyone), venue tbc

Production week schedule in Crucible Theatre:
29 Oct 5.30-8.30pm
30 Oct 5.30-8.30pm
31 Oct 1.30-4.30pm and 5.30-8.30pm (two dress rehearsals)
1 Nov performances 3pm & 7.15pm
2 Nov performances 11am & 3pm

We request that performers attend the majority of rehearsals, understanding there will be some prior commitments and missing the odd one or two is fine.

Music and rehearsal tracks will be provided. The opera lasts around 50 mins, and you will be standing to sing for around 20 mins, with little other movement required.

If you know of a young person aged 14-18 who would like to sing in the opera, find out more about the Youth Chorus here: Sheffield Music Hub

For more information, please contact lp@musicintheround.co.uk.

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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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.”

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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JOIN OUR TEAM: Participation and Events Coordinator

15 Dec 2023

We are looking to appoint a Participation & Events Coordinator.

Deadline for applications
10.00am Monday 22 January 2024
Interviews w/c 29 January 2024

The Participation and Events Coordinator will be involved in the planning and delivery of events for a range of audiences that expand our programme of activity beyond the concert hall, enabling people of all ages and backgrounds to get closer to the music. The person who is recruited will join us at an exciting time as we focus on fully integrating all our strands of activity in the concert hall and with local communities in partnership with venues and organisations in Sheffield and beyond.

Find out more and download an application pack.

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