FESTIVAL LAUNCH WITH ERROLLYN WALLEN

Errollyn Wallen, Katherine Hunka, Andrew Poppy & Ensemble 360

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Friday 14 May 2027, 7.00pm

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

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Errollyn Wallen with Ensemble 360
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WALLEN Songs (8′)
HUNKA Break Out (10′)
POPPY Almost the Same Shame (10′)
D SCARLATTI (arr. Lipatti) Six Sonatas (20′)
BRITTEN Sinfonietta (16′)

Composer-performer Errollyn Wallen launches Sheffield Chamber Music Festival in her own voice before welcoming some of her favourite composer-performers to play with Ensemble 360.

On the violin and viola, Katherine Hunka performs her moving and spirited Break Out with the strings of Ensemble 360, followed by a performance from pioneering post-minimalist composer-performer Andrew Poppy.

Crowned with Britten’s beloved chamber masterpiece, and forged from Wallen’s musical passions, friendships and connections, this opening concert sets the tone for a joyful and eclectic Festival celebrating the artists who write the music, play it and bring it to life.

“Katherine Hunka… directs from her violin with seemingly telepathic discretion.” The Irish Times

“Poppy’s music is like Madagascar – you discover species there you don’t find anywhere else.” The Wire

Post-concert drinks
Ticket-holders are invited to join us for a free glass of wine or soft drink after the concert to celebrate our Festival launch.

The opening events are generously sponsored by Kate Dugdale.

 

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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.