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SCHOOLS’ CONCERT: THE STORM WHALE

Ensemble 360 & Lucy Drever

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
7-10 October 2025, 10.45am / 1.30pm

To book, please email lucy@musicintheround.co.uk

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Music in the Round invites your class to take part in a brilliant music project, culminating in a live concert at the Crucible Theatre this October.

Paul Rissmann (composer) has created a brand-new piece of music based around the modern-classic children’s books by Benji Davies, which includes songs for your class to learn and join in with in the concert.

The Storm Whale tells the story of a boy, a whale washed up on the beach and friendships that will change their lives forever and echo down the generations. Benji Davies’ heart-warming tales of friendship, love and courage are brought to life through music specially written to accompany the book. 

Our EY and KS1 practitioners will support you to embed singing and music-making in classroom learning throughout the project, with training, resources, and in-school support newly developed around The Storm Whale books. The project introduces young children to classical music in a fun and educational setting, including a concert featuring strings, woodwind and horn, presented together with story-telling and projected illustrations.

Performed by the wonderfully dynamic and hugely engaging musicians from Ensemble 360, this concert is a great introduction to live music for early years and KS1 children. It’s full of wit, invention, songs and actions, and plenty of opportunities to join in.

Current availability for tickets (each concert is 55 mins):
Weds 8 Oct, 10.45am low availability
Weds 8 Oct, 1.30pm limited availability
Thurs 9 Oct, 10.45am sold out
Thurs 9 Oct, 1.30pm good availability
Fri 10 Oct, 10.45am low availability
Fri 10 Oct, 1.30pm good availability

These schools concerts are supported with an in-person training session at the Crucible Theatre on Thursday 4 September. Please choose from 1pm–3pm or 4pm–6pm. 

An educators’ info pack will soon be available with further information.

“The Storm Whale tells a simple but powerful story about loneliness and the love between a parent and child… The world may be as big and lonely and incomprehensible as the ocean, but still it’s possible to find tremendous, heart-stopping tenderness.” The New York Times on the book

“The musicians did a wonderful job of introducing the young audience to enjoyment of the theatre, live music and engaging story-telling. Proof of their success [were] the lines of excited children coming up to meet the musicians who had gathered in the foyer with their instruments.”

The Yorkshire Post (on a previous Music in the Round storybook concert)

About the Artists

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. 

 

Lucy Drever

Lucy Drever is a presenter, workshop leader and narrator. She regularly presents and leads workshops with some of the leading orchestras, arts venues and music charities in the UK including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Wigmore Hall and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra of which she is Associate Artist. She has recently narrated concerts for Lambert Jackson at the London Palladium and is the Head of Creative Learning at the Benedetti Foundation. Furthermore, she was recently appointed trustee of the Samuel Gardner Memorial Trust.

Lucy works in a variety of settings including arts venues, schools, Early Years spaces, hospitals, conservatoires and prisons. As well as education consultancy she works across various industries, helping people with their presenting and public speaking skills.

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SCHOOLS’ CONCERT: GIDDY GOAT

Ensemble 360 & Elinor Moran

Palace Theatre, Mansfield
Thursday 25 September 2025, 11.00am

To book, please contact the Palace Theatre Box Office on 01623 463133

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Music in the Round invites your class to take part in a brilliant music project, culminating in a live concert at Mansfield Palace Theatre.

Paul Rissmann (composer) has created a fantastic piece of music based around the children’s book Giddy Goat (Jamie Rix and Lynne Chapman) which includes songs for your class to learn and join in with in the concert.

Our EY and KS1 practitioners will support you to embed singing and music-making in classroom learning throughout the project, with training, resources, and in-school support newly developed around the Giddy Goat story. The project introduces young children to classical music in a fun and educational setting, including a concert featuring strings, woodwind and horn, presented together with story-telling and projected illustrations.

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?

Performed by the wonderfully dynamic and hugely engaging musicians from Ensemble 360, this concert is a great introduction to live music for early years and KS1 children. It’s full of wit, invention, songs and actions, and plenty of opportunities to join in. 

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About the Artists

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. 

 

Elinor Moran

Elinor is in demand as a vocal workshop leader and animateur. She regularly works in learning and participation teams with such companies as ROH, ETO, Opera North, Snape Maltings, Garsington Opera and as far away as The Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus in Toronto.

Elinor has just returned from singing with André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra as a soloist on a world tour. She was a soloist on a SONY BMG recording “The Best Of Gilbert And Sullivan” which reached the top of the Classical Chart and can be heard on Blossom Street’s new Naxos recording of choral music by female composers “This Day”. Her recent roles include Mimi La Boheme (in the Olivier Award winning OperaUpClose production at the Soho Theatre and Charing Cross Theatre and Tour) and she has been the recipient of a Garsington Opera Chorus Award. 

Elinor studied voice at Chetham’s School Of Music and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 2012 she performed a dance role in Danny Boyle’s Olympic Opening Ceremony but has since put away her hip hop shoes (until the right future opportunity…).

THE LARK ASCENDING

Ensemble 360

Palace Theatre, Mansfield
Thursday 25 September 2025, 7.30pm

Tickets
£15*

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HOLST Phantasy String Quartet (10′)
BRITTEN Three Divertimenti for String Quartet (10′)
HOLBROOKE Ellean Shona (4′)
HOWELLS Phantasy Sting Quartet (13′)
PURCELL Three-part Fantasias (8′)
HOWELLS Rhapsodic Quintet (12′)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (arr. Gerigk) The Lark Ascending

The violin soars melodiously above the rest of the quartet in the gorgeous arrangement of Vaughan Williams’ most popular work The Lark Ascending, which concludes this concert of English music. Fantasies from the Baroque gems of Purcell’s Three-part Fantasias to Imogen Holst’s Phantasy String Quartet sit alongside this perennial favourite.

About the Artists

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. 

 

SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Close Up for KS2

Ensemble 360 & Guest presenter

The Stables, Milton Keynes
Tuesday 7 October 2025, 11.00am / 1.00pm

Tickets £8
Free teacher ticket with every 10 seats booked

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Take a tour through the wondrous world of chamber music, specially created for young audiences, combining well-known classical favourites with new works from surprising places. This concert for Key Stage 2 includes thrilling musical adventures told through music, cheeky characters and epic heroes, mind-blowing musical games and the chance to join in and make music together.

The concert includes extracts from: Schubert’s String Quartet in D Minor ‘Death And The Maiden’, Stravinsky Three Pieces, Haydn’s Op.33 No.3 ‘Russian Quartet’ and Mozart’s String Quartet In E Flat (full repertoire list is available on stables.org)

Classroom resources will also be provided to support the concert.

 

About the Artists

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. 

 

ROMANTIC & CLASSICAL STRING QUARTETS

Consone Quartet

Emmanuel Church, Barnsley
Friday 21 November 2025, 7.30pm

£14.50

DLA, PIP and UC £10
Under 35s £5

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BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F H.34
HAYDN String Quartet in G Op.33 No.5 ‘How do you do?’
MOZART String Quartet in A KV464 

Music in the Round’s Visiting String Quartet make their Barnsley debut! The Consone Quartet has won great acclaim for its authentic interpretations of Romantic and Classical works, with prestigious awards including the Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble prize and as BBC New Generation Artists. 

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Consone Quartet

The first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of classical and romantic repertoire. Music in the Round is delighted to welcome the Quartet to ‘the family’ as our Visiting Quartet. Supported by the Frost Trust, they visit schools across the city, working in partnership with Sheffield Music Hub and performing at concerts promoted by us around the country.

Formed at the Royal College of Music in London, the Consone Quartet launched their professional career in 2015, shortly after which they were awarded two prizes at the 2015 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, including the EUBO Development Trust Prize and a place on the EEEmerging Scheme in France. They went on to win the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Prize, and in 2022 were awarded a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust (BBT) fellowship. Read their full biography here.

MOZART VIOLIN SONATAS

Ensemble 360

Emmanuel Church, Barnsley
Friday 3 October 2025, 7.30pm

£14.50
DLA, PIP and UC £10
Under 35s £5

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Programme includes:
MOZART  Sonata in E minor K304 (12’)
R SCHUMANN  F-A-E sonata (mvt 2) (3’)
MOZART  Sonata in G K301 (15’)
R SCHUMANN  Sonata No.1 in A minor Op.105 (17’)
MOZART  Sonata in A K305 (15’)   

Mozart’s glorious violin sonatas – among the composer’s most charming works – nestle between music by Robert Schumann in this hour-long recital for violin and piano. Violinist Claudia Ajmone-Marsan and pianist Tim Horton promise an hour of exuberant, lyrical, and joyful music from two of the greatest composers of the Classical and Romantic periods. 

About the Artists

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. 

 

JASDEEP SINGH DEGUN & ENSEMBLE 360

Jasdeep Singh Degun & Ensemble 360

The Stables, Milton Keynes
Tuesday 7 October 2025, 8.00pm

Tickets:
£11 – £27.50

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A composer and virtuoso of the sitar with a classical string quintet makes for an electrifying pairing. Ensemble 360 celebrates its 20th birthday with a gift to us – boundary-breaking new music created collaboratively.

Jasdeep Singh Degun is no stranger to forming alliances in the music world. He was composer and co-music director for Opera North’s 2022 award-winning production of Orpheus, weaving a tapestry from the European and Indian traditions. ‘It’s really not a matter of different worlds meeting’, he reflects. ‘It’s just me: as much as I’m immersed in Indian classical music, I’m a product of this country; I’m a British composer.’ Both innovator and custodian of tradition, composer and performer, with a debut album made with the legendary Nitin Sawnhey released on Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records, he is reshaping the musical landscape.

 

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Jasdeep Singh Degun

Breaking down cultural boundaries with his extraordinary artistry and new approach to composition, virtuoso sitarist, Jasdeep Singh Degun, brings a new energy and vision to both Indian classical and contemporary music. He’s redefining genres and passionate about exposing music from his heritage to audiences across the globe. Learning under the careful guidance of Ustad Dharambir Singh MBE, Jasdeep has performed all over the world in many high profile productions and prestigious venues, including Buckingham Palace, the Amphitheatre in Doha, and Westminster Abbey at the Royal Commonwealth Service 2022 in the presence of the British Royal Family and Prime Minister.

Signed to the prestigious Real World Records, Jasdeep released his much anticipated debut album titled ‘Anomaly‘, working under the guidance of celebrated musician and producer Nitin Sawhney. Jasdeep was announced as Artist-in-Residence at Opera North, and in 2022 he was composer, co-music director and soloist in Opera North and South Asian Arts-uk’s acclaimed opera Orpheus. This production garnered five-star reviews and earned Jasdeep a 2022 Critics’ Circle Music Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Opera”.

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. 

 

MOONLIGHT

Isata Kanneh-Mason

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7.00pm

Tickets:
£23
£14 UC, PIP & DLA
£5 Students & Under 35s

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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor Op.27 No.2 ‘Moonlight’ (18’) 
RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit (23’)
TABAKOVA Nocturne (3’) 
TABAKOVA Halo (10’) 
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.21 in C Op.53 ‘Waldstein’ (24’) 

Described as “a born musician with a virtuoso technique”, Isata Kanneh-Mason has been praised for “her ability to engage your emotions from first note to last – and to think outside the box” (Gramophone). For this recital, Kanneh-Mason presents two of Beethoven’s best-loved works for solo piano: the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, with its famous extraordinarily beautiful opening movement, and the dazzlingly virtuosic ‘Waldstein’ Sonata. Ravel’s expressionistic masterpiece Gaspard de la nuit and works by award-winning Bulgarian-British composer, Dobrinka Tabakova, complement this evening of glorious melodies.

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THE GENIUS OF BEETHOVEN

Ensemble 360

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 6 December 2025, 7.00pm

Tickets:
£23
£14 UC, PIP & DLA
£5 Students & Under 35s

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BEETHOVEN
Sonata for Cello and Piano No.3 Op.69 (26’) 
   Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello Op.11 (20’) 
   String Quartet in A minor Op.132 (45’) 

Ludwig van Beethoven – a true genius, and one of the greatest composers to have ever lived – is celebrated in this concert showcasing the ingenuity and inventiveness of his chamber works. The Cello Sonata was written when Beethoven was at the height of his musical powers, beloved by performers and audiences alike. Known as the ‘Gassenhauer Trio’, the unusual combination of cello, clarinet and piano shows brilliant writing for all the instruments and has always been well-received for its use of a popular operatic tune in the final movement. His late String Quartet – with its spellbinding, elegiac third movement, subtitled the ‘Holy Song of Thanksgiving’ – concludes an evening that will captivate, astonish and amaze.

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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. 

 

RELAXED CONCERT: THE GENIUS OF BEETHOVEN

Ensemble 360

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 6 December 2025, 2.00pm

Tickets:
£5 / carers free

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BEETHOVEN Sonata for Cello and Piano No.3 Op.69 (26’)
BEETHOVEN Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello Op.11 (20’) 

For this ‘Relaxed’ concert featuring Beethoven, 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.

About the Artists

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. 

 

VIENNESE MASTERWORKS: BRAHMS & MORE FOR SOLO PIANO

Tim Horton

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Thursday 4 December 2025, 7.00pm

Tickets:
£23
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£5 Students & Under 35s

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HAYDN Piano Sonata in E flat major Hob.XVI:52 (17’)
BRAHMS Four Ballades Op.10 (25’)
SCHOENBERG Suite Op.25 (15’)
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.15 Op.28, ‘Pastoral’ (25’) 

Tim Horton returns to Sheffield for the latest in his popular series celebrating the long musical history of Vienna. Beethoven’s well-known Piano Sonata No.15, nicknamed the ‘Pastoral’, is showcased alongside Brahms’s emotional and romantic Four Ballades, which relate stories through poetic references. Written by one of the 20th century’s most important composers based in Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg, the Suite is a landmark collection of Baroque dances with a difference.

IN CONVERSATION with Tim Horton
Crucible Playhouse, 5.30pm – 6.15pm
Tickets: £5 / Free to all ticket holders for the evening concert, but please book in advance

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Tim Horton

Tim Horton is one of the UK’s leading pianists, equally at home in solo and chamber repertoire. He is a founder member of both the Leonore Piano Trio and Ensemble 360 and has been a regular guest pianist with the Nash Ensemble. He was invited to make his solo debut at Wigmore Hall in 2016 where he will be giving further solo recitals in the coming seasons. Between 2011 and 2015 Tim presented a complete Beethoven Sonata cycle at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield for Music in the Round, and was invited to return to perform a cycle of Schubert Sonatas from 2017-2019. He is currently performing a cycle of concerts based around the composer Chopin for Music in the Round. Read more. 

MOZART GRAN PARTITA

Ensemble 360

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Saturday 22 November 2025, 2.00pm

Tickets:
£23
£14 UC, PIP & DLA
£5 Students & Under 35s

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ARRIEU Suite en quatre (10’)
GOUNOD Petite symphonie (20’)
MOZART Serenade No.10 K361 ‘Gran Partita’ (50’) 

Mozart’s Serenade No.10 – immortalised in the 1984 film Amadeus – is considered one of the composer’s greatest works, and is a masterpiece of wind writing. Nicknamed the ‘Gran Partita’ (or ‘big wind symphony’), it is breathtaking in its beauty.

Described by English music critic Noël Goodwin as “virtually an ‘operatic’ ensemble of passionate feeling and sensuous warmth”, the work’s emotional core is the third movement’s Adagio, a lyrical, intense melody that tugs at the heartstrings.

This is chamber music on a large scale, with an array of oboes, bassoons, horns, clarinets, basset horns and a double bass playing one of the undisputed highlights of classical music.

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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.