CLOSE-UP FAMILY CONCERT: MUSIC FOR CURIOUS YOUNG MINDS

Elinor Moran & Ensemble 360

Cast, Doncaster
Saturday 8 March 2025, 11.00am

Tickets
£11
£6 Under 16s

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Musicians from Ensemble 360

A lively family concert, featuring five wind musicians (flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and horn) and a very special guest singer, Roderick Williams (soloist at King Charles III’s Coronation) who will perform Vaughan Williams’ song ‘The Vagabond’. Together they breathe life into the wondrous world of chamber music.  

They’ll play well-known classical favourites from Britten and Debussy to Haydn and Holst, alongside more recent works such as Anna Meredith’s playful portrait of a moth and Valerie Coleman’s celebratory Kwanza dance.  

Perfect for 7-11 year olds, this is a lively, interactive concert, and a rare opportunity for families to experience the world-famous baritone Roderick Williams performing up close in the Crucible Playhouse! 

Part of Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2024. 

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Programme:
BRITTEN I. Prologue from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (1’30) 
HAYDN arr. Parry IV. Rondo-Allegretto from Divertimento No.1 (2’) 
ONSLOW IV. Finale (extract) from Wind Quintet (3’30) 
ARNOLD I. Allegro con brio from Three Shanties (2’30)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr. Morton ‘The Vagabond’ from Songs of Travel (3)
LIGETI III. Allegro grazioso from ‘6 Bagatelles’ (2’30) 
DEBUSSY Syrinx (3’) 
BACEWICZ I. Allegro from Quintet for Wind Instruments (3’) 
STRAVINSKY II. from ‘Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet (1’) 
HOLST IV. Air and Variations from Wind Quintet (4’) 
DANZI IV. Allegretto from Wind Quintet No.2 (3’) 
MEREDITH  Moth’ from Tripotage Miniatures (2’30) 
COLEMAN  Umoja (2’45) 

FAMILY CONCERT: GIDDY GOAT

Ensemble 360

Palace Theatre, Mansfield
Monday 17 February 2025, 11.00am

Tickets:
£8 adults
£5 Child (2-14 years)

Past Event
Giddy Goat family concert image

Based on the colourful children’s book, this family concert tells the story of Giddy, a young mountain goat who is scared of heights. A tale of facing fears and making friends, it’s a brilliant way to introduce children to classical music, with visuals from the book and plenty of chances to join in!

Perfect for 3 – 7 year olds and their families!

CLOSE UP: MUSIC FOR CURIOUS YOUNG MINDS

Ensemble 360 & Elinor Moran

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 17 March 2025, 1.30pm

For tickets, please email hayley.reay@portsmouthguildhall.org.uk

Musicians from Ensemble 360

A lively schools concert, presented by Elinor Moran and featuring five wind musicians (flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and horn). Together they breathe life into the wondrous world of chamber music.

They’ll play well-known classical favourites from Britten and Debussy to Haydn and Holst, alongside more recent works such as Anna Meredith’s playful portrait of a moth and Valerie Coleman’s celebratory Kwanzaa dance. Perfect for 7-11 year olds, this is a lively and interactive concert.

Ideal for 7-11 year olds.

CLOSE UP: MUSIC FOR CURIOUS YOUNG MINDS

Aga Serugo-Lugo & Ensemble 360

Wigmore Hall, London
Thursday 20 March 2025, 11.00am

Tickets:
£5

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Musicians from Ensemble 360

A lively schools concert, presented by Aga Serugo-Lugo and featuring five wind musicians (flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and horn). Together they breathe life into the wondrous world of chamber music.

They’ll play well-known classical favourites from Britten and Debussy to Haydn and Holst, alongside more recent works such as Anna Meredith’s playful portrait of a moth and Valerie Coleman’s celebratory Kwanzaa dance. Perfect for 7-11 year olds, this is a lively and interactive concert.

CLOSE UP: MUSIC FOR CURIOUS YOUNG MINDS

Aga Serugo-Lugo & Ensemble 360

Wigmore Hall, London
Sunday 23 March 2025, 3.00pm

Tickets:
Children £10
Adults £12

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Musicians from Ensemble 360

A lively family concert, presented by Aga Serugo-Lugo and featuring five wind musicians (flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and horn). Together they breathe life into the wondrous world of chamber music.

They’ll play well-known classical favourites from Britten and Debussy to Haydn and Holst, alongside more recent works such as Anna Meredith’s playful portrait of a moth and Valerie Coleman’s celebratory Kwanzaa dance. Perfect for 7-11 year olds, this is a lively and interactive concert.

FAMILY CONCERT: GIDDY GOAT

Ensemble 360

Junction, Goole
Saturday 7 June 2025, 2.00pm

Tickets:
£7

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Being a mountain goat is no fun when you are scared of heights!

Stand poor Giddy on a mountain ledge and his head starts spinning and his knees turn to jelly… But can he find the fearless goat inside himself?

Based on the best-selling children’s book by Jamie Rix and Lynne Chapman with original music by Music in the Round’s children’s Composer-in-Residence, Paul Rissmann, this concert features instruments including strings, woodwind, and horn, presented together with storytelling and projected illustrations. Performed by the hugely engaging musicians of Ensemble 360, this concert is a great introduction to live music; full of wit, invention, songs and actions, and plenty of opportunities to join in.

CLOSE-UP: MUSIC FOR CURIOUS YOUNG MINDS

Ensemble 360 & Aga Serugo-Lugo

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 24 May 2025, 11.00am

Tickets:
£12 
£7 UC, DLA & PIP 
£5 Under 16s 

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Musicians from Ensemble 360

A tour through the wondrous world of chamber music, specially created for young audiences. This concert combines some of the most well-known music ever written, alongside playful storytelling in Berio’s entertaining Opus Number Zoo. With thrilling musical adventures told through music, cheeky characters and epic heroes, this concert of marvellous musical games is perfect for children aged 7 11.  

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RELAXED CONCERT: APPALACHIAN SPRING

Ensemble 360 & Members of the Elias Quartet

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Tuesday 20 May 2025, 2.00pm

Tickets:
£5 / carers free

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Musicians from the Elias String Quartet

BARBER Adagio from String Quartet Op.11 (9′) 
BARBER Canzonetta Op.48 (8′) 
COPLAND Appalachian Spring (30′)  

For this ‘Relaxed’ concert of American music featuring Barber’s much-loved Adagio and Copland’s joyful Appalachian Spring, doors will be left open, lights raised, a break-out space provided and there will be less emphasis on the audience being quiet during the performance. People with an Autism Spectrum, sensory or communication disorder or learning disability, those with age-related impairments and parents/carers with babies are all especially welcome. 

BARBER Samuel, Adagio for Strings

It’s an amusing accident of history that Barber’s Adagio, one of the totems of American music, was composed in Austria (where Barber was spending the summer and autumn with Gian-Carlo Menotti) and first performed on 14 December 1936 at a concert in Rome (as the slow movement of the String Quartet Op.11). Barber was delighted with this movement, describing it to his friend Orlando Cole as ‘a knockout!’ While finishing the whole quartet, he arranged the Adagio as an independent movement for string orchestra and this was first performed in 1938 in a broadcast concert in New York given by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Barber’s fellow composer Aaron Copland spoke about the piece in 1982 for a BBC radio programme, praising ‘the sense of continuity, the steadiness of the flow, the satisfaction of the arch … from beginning to end. It’s gratifying, satisfying, and it makes you believe in the sincerity which he obviously put into it.’

Nigel Simeone 2014

COPLAND Aaron, Appalachian Spring

It was the patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge who commissioned Aaron Copland to compose a new ballet for Martha Graham’s dance company in 1943, for performance in the Coolidge Auditorium (named after her) at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.. Copland was delighted with the idea, particularly after Graham sent him the first version of her scenario concerning a young married couple in rural Pennsylvania. The ballet went through various titles during the composition process, and Copland’s manuscript was simply headed ‘Ballet for Martha’, but Graham settled on ‘Appalachian Spring’ just before the premiere, taking the title from a poem by Hart Crane. One of the attractions for Copland was the challenge of writing for an ensemble of 12 instruments (the largest group that could fit into the very small pit in the Coolidge Auditorium), and the result was described in a review of the first performance by the ballet critic John Martin as ‘a score of fresh and singing beauty. It is, on its surface, a piece of early Americana, but in reality, it is a celebration of the human spirit.’ Copland himself was typically self-effacing, admitting that ‘people seemed to like it, so I guess it was all right.’ In 1945 he made a very successful arrangement for large orchestra, but the sound of the original has a beauty and intimacy all its own. Copland decided quite early on to use the Shaker tune ‘Simple Gifts’ (written in 1848), and this melody is woven through much of the score, notably in the set of variations. But while the score perfectly matches the ‘local’ elements of the story, it also transcends them to become a piece of universal appeal: Copland’s great achievement in Appalachian Spring is to have created a quiet and heartfelt vision of hope in troubled times.

Nigel Simeone 2024

FAMILY CONCERT: GIDDY GOAT

Ensemble 360 & Lucy Drever

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Saturday 17 May 2025, 11.00am

Tickets:
£12
£7 UC, DLA & PIP
£5 Under 16s 

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Being a mountain goat is no fun when you are scared of heights! Stand poor Giddy on a mountain ledge and his head starts spinning and his knees turn to jelly. But can he find the fearless goat inside himself in time to rescue little Edmund, the sheep? 

This family concert based on the best-selling children’s book by Jamie Rix and Lynne Chapman features original music by Music in the Round’s Children’s Composer-in-Residence, Paul Rissmann, for strings, wind and piano. Presented together with story-telling and projected illustrations from the book, it’s a great introduction to live music for children aged 3 – 7 and includes plenty of opportunities to join in! 

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BACH IN THE ROUND

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Saturday 22 February 2025,

10.30am – 12.30pm
3.30pm – 6.00pm

Free entry, donations welcome
No need to book, just turn up

Classical violinist Benjamin Nabarro from Ensemble 360

Step inside the music of Bach, up-close and reimagined, in this specially created surround-sound installation running alongside Benjamin Nabarro’s recitals in the tranquil setting of Upper Chapel.  

To make this innovative, multi-speaker installation, fragments of Ben’s performance of Bach’s Sonata No.1 in G minor were recorded, layered, looped and transformed. Played through eight loudspeakers, visitors will be enveloped in Bach’s life-affirming music, reworked in this unique and immersive sensory experience.  

FAMILY CONCERT: GIDDY GOAT

Ensemble 360 & John Webb

Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa
Sunday 2 March 2025, 11.30am

Tickets:
£9 children 
£15 adults
£42 family ticket

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Giddy Goat family concert image

Based on the colourful children’s book, this family concert tells the story of Giddy, a young mountain goat who is scared of heights. A tale of facing fears and making friends, it’s a brilliant way to introduce children to classical music, with visuals from the book and plenty of chances to join in!

Perfect for 3 – 7 year olds and their families!

FAMILY CONCERT: GIDDY GOAT

Ensemble 360 & Caroline Hallam

Cast, Doncaster
Saturday 16 November 2024, 11.00am

Tickets:
£6 children 
£11 adults
*Box office charges may apply

Past Event
Giddy Goat family concert image

Based on the colourful children’s book, this family concert tells the story of Giddy, a young mountain goat who is scared of heights. A tale of facing fears and making friends, it’s a brilliant way to introduce children to classical music, with visuals from the book and plenty of chances to join in!

Perfect for 3 – 7 year olds and their families!