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Rising-star pianist

Mishka Rushdie Momen

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 15 January 2022, 7.15pm

Tickets: £20  
£14 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s 

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BACH Prelude & Fugue in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I 
MOZART Fantasie in C minor K475  
ROBERT SCHUMANN Ten Impromptus on a Theme by Clara Wieck Op.5 
PROKOFIEV Visions fugitives  
BYRD Fantasia in A minor  
LIGETI Etude No.10 Der Zauberlehrling 
SCHUBERT Fantasie in C Wanderer Fantasy 

Named ‘Critics’ Classical Music Breakthrough Artist’ in The Times Arts Awards 2021, Mishka Rushdie Momen is one of the most exciting young pianists performing today. This promises to be a tour de force through five centuries of music played with passion and profound musicality, including Schumann’s early impromptus on a theme by his future wife and Schubert’s epic theme and variations, the Wanderer Fantasy, perhaps his most expansive and exciting work. 

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About the Artists

Mishka Rushdie Momen

Mishka Rushdie Momen was The Times Arts critics’ chosen nominee in the field of classical music for their 2021 Breakthrough Award. This award is given by Sky Arts and The South Bank Show who profiled her for an episode of the programme to be broadcast in July. She appears in recitals and concerto performances worldwide, and Sir András Schiff has presented her in recitals in Zurich Tonhalle, 92Y in New York City, deSingel, Antwerp, and other venues across Europe.

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CHOPIN Works for solo piano

Tim Horton

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 5 March 2022, 7.15pm

Tickets: £20  
£14 Disabled & Unemployed 
£5 Students & Under 35s 

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MOZART Fantasy in C minor K396 
SZYMANOWSKI Masques Op.34 
CHOPIN Four Ballades 

Tim Horton continues his exploration of Chopin’s central place within the history of the piano. Looking back, Mozart’s improvisational Fantasy in C minor is dramatic in quality and dark in tone. Looking forward, Szymanowski’s dream-like Masques is colourful, hypnotic and capricious. Taking centre stage, Chopin’s innovative four Ballades share noble melodies and dance-like quality to explore the varied colours of the piano. 

About the Artists

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.

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.

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Tony Kofi ‘Kind of Blue’ sextet

Tony Kofi & Guests

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield
Saturday 8 January 2022, 7.30pm

Tickets: £18
£16 Over 60s, Disabled & Unemployed
£9 Students
£4 Under 16s

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TONY KOFI alto sax
FREDDIE GAVITA trumpet
ALEX GARNETT tenor sax
RICK SIMPSON piano
ANDREW CLEYNDERT bass
ALFONSO VITALE drums

Tony Kofi leads an all-star band celebrating Miles Davis’ highly innovative ‘Kind of Blue’ album, featuring the original numbers and some of the band’s own compositions inspired by it.

More than a milestone in jazz ‘Kind of Blue’ is a defining document of twentieth century music, one of those rare, influential works of art that achieve popularity among musicians, critics and the public alike. Even if you’ve never owned this classic album you’ll instantly recognise ‘So What’, ‘Freddie Freeloader’, ‘Blue in Green’, ‘All Blues’ and ‘Flamenco Sketches’ as old friends.

Presented by Sheffield Jazz

About Sheffield Jazz

Sheffield Jazz

Sheffield Jazz aims to bring the best of national and international jazz to the city, providing opportunities for people from all backgrounds in the Sheffield City Region and throughout Yorkshire, to hear and learn from some of the greatest of current artists.

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IZZY GIZMO schools’ concert WORLD PREMIERE

Ensemble 360 & Polly Ives

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
21-22 October 2021, 10.45am / 1.30pm

Limited tickets available for Friday concerts only. Booking for schools’ concerts is through the Music in the Round office. Please contact ellen@musicintheround.co.uk or call 0114 281 4660 for more details.

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Music and narration performed by Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives

Best-selling children’s book, Izzy Gizmo by Pip Jones, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie, tells the enchanting story of an intrepid young inventor who puts her talents to work to rescue a crow that can’t fly. This brand-new concert for 3 to 7 year-olds brings Izzy’s mechanical marvels and infectious creative spirit to life! Original music by Paul Rissmann features pots, pans, whistles and household items (as well as orchestral instruments). Together with story-telling and visuals from the book, this concert is a great introduction to live music for children. It’s full of wit, invention, songs and actions, and plenty of opportunities to join in.

Watch our Learn the Songs video on YouTube.

For 3 – 7 year-olds

Sponsored by

With thanks to our funders and supporters:

JG Graves Charitable Trust, Sheffield Town Trust, Sheffield Church Burgesses Educational Foundation, Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Foundation, Andrew McEwan Fund

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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. 

 

Polly Ives

Polly Ives is one of the UK’s leading music educationalists with a varied portfolio as a concert presenter, narrator, promoter, workshop leader, trainer and cellist.

Polly believes that music should be accessible to everyone from birth and throughout people’s lives. Her career has focused on finding unique and creative ways to provide high-quality musical experiences for young children (particularly 0-8 year olds) and their wide and varied communities.

She regularly produces and presents children’s concerts (including with London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Ensemble 360). She has worked with CBeebies, BBC Radio 3 and Scala Radio. Find out more. 

RAVEL, SHOSTAKOVICH & DVOŘÁK

Piatti Quartet

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 1 November 2021, 7.30pm

Tickets £18

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RAVEL Quartet in F
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet in No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
DVOŘÁK Quartet in F, Op. 96, American

The Piatti Quartet makes a welcome return to Portsmouth, with perhaps the most famous of all quartets not yet heard in our series, Dvořák’s vigorous and very tuneful ‘American’.

Dvořák was still alive when Ravel composed his only addition to the repertoire, and indeed only ten years separates the two pieces, and yet their sound‐worlds could not be more different. Another huge contrast comes with Shostakovich’s darkly autobiographical C minor work, composed in just three days in 1960. At the time he thought it might be his last, though in the event he went on to produce seven further quartets.

IZZY GIZMO family concert

Ensemble 360 & Polly Ives

Wigmore Hall, London
Saturday 30 October 2021, 11.00am

Tickets
£12 adult
£10 child

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Music and narration performed by Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives

Best-selling children’s book, Izzy Gizmo by Pip Jones, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie, tells the enchanting story of an intrepid young inventor who puts her talents to work to rescue a crow that can’t fly. This brand-new family concert brings Izzy’s mechanical marvels and infectious creative spirit to life! Original music by Paul Rissmann features pots, pans, whistles and household items (as well as orchestral instruments). Together with story-telling and visuals from the book, this concert is a great introduction to live music for children. It’s full of wit, invention, songs and actions, and plenty of opportunities to join in.

For 3 – 7 year-olds

Sponsored by

With thanks to our funders and supporters:

JG Graves Charitable Trust, Sheffield Town Trust, Sheffield Church Burgesses Educational Foundation, Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Foundation, Andrew McEwan Fund

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. 

 

Polly Ives

Polly Ives is one of the UK’s leading music educationalists with a varied portfolio as a concert presenter, narrator, promoter, workshop leader, trainer and cellist.

Polly believes that music should be accessible to everyone from birth and throughout people’s lives. Her career has focused on finding unique and creative ways to provide high-quality musical experiences for young children (particularly 0-8 year olds) and their wide and varied communities.

She regularly produces and presents children’s concerts (including with London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Ensemble 360). She has worked with CBeebies, BBC Radio 3 and Scala Radio. Find out more. 

HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN & SCHUBERT

Martin Roscoe

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 11 October 2021, 7.30pm

Tickets £18

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HAYDN Andante with Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII/6
SCHUBERT Sonata in G major D.894
MOZART Rondo in A minor, K. 511
BEETHOVEN Sonata in A‐flat, Op. 110

This is our third attempt to have Martin Roscoe play this programme!

It includes four composers who really cemented Vienna’s reputation as the musical capital of the world. The works presented were all composed there within about forty truly golden years, during which what we now call the ‘classical’ period made the transition to early romanticism. Haydn and Mozart represent the former, while Beethoven’s creative output exemplifies the transition. By the time of Schubert’s final sonatas, Beethoven had only been dead for a year, and yet we are clearly in a different age.

Please note the change to the previously advertised programme

About the Artists

Martin Roscoe

During his illustrious career, Martin Roscoe has become one of the UK’s most loved and respected pianists. With his extensive repertoire, consummate musicianship and immediate connection with audiences, he is in great demand as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist.

Martin appears regularly at Wigmore Hall and has long-standing associations with many of the UK’s leading orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Scottish Symphony. A prolific recording artist, Martin has a distinguished discography and is one of the most broadcast pianists on BBC radio.

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MOZART, WEIR & BRAHMS

Gould Piano Trio & Gary Pomeroy

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 21 March 2022, 7.30pm

Tickets £18

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MOZART Piano Trio in E, K. 542
WEIR Piano Quartet
BRAHMS Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25

The Gould Trio last visited Portsmouth Chamber Music four years ago with clarinettist Robert Plane when they gave a spellbinding performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.

This time they are joined by violist Gary Pomeroy from the Heath Quartet who played here in May 2013. Brahms’ G minor piano quartet is his most popular chamber work with its whirlwind Hungarian Dance finale. Judith Weir has become almost a household name over the last 20 years or so, being awarded a CBE in 2005, and succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as Master of the Queen’s Music in 2014.

Gould Piano Trio

The Gould Piano Trio has been compared in the Washington Post to the great Beaux Arts Trio for their “musical fire” and “dedication to the genre” and has remained at the forefront of the international chamber music scene for well over a quarter of a century. They have performed at iconic venues worldwide, such as New York’s Weill Recital Hall, with tours of N. America, the Far East, Europe and New Zealand, and numerous appearances at London’s Wigmore Hall. Their extensive discography includes releases on Naxos, Chandos, Somm, Resonus, NMC and Champs Hill.

BEETHOVEN, SCHULHOFF & DVOŘÁK

Pražák Quartet

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 21 February 2022, 7.30pm

Tickets £18

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BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E‐flat, Op. 74, Harp
SCHULHOFF String Quartet No. 1
DVOŘÁK Quartet in G, Op. 106

Like Martin Roscoe, the Pražák Quartet was due to perform for us two seasons ago. Their only previous visit to Portsmouth was in the second season of these concerts, way back in January 2006 when concerts were in the Cathedral.

Erwin Schulhoff was born in Prague in 1894, and was strongly influenced by jazz idioms and rhythms, this quartet dating from 1924. Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ quartet needs little introduction, its nickname deriving from the harp‐like pizzicatos of the first movement. Dvořák’s penultimate quartet is his finest, with great energy in the outer movements, and a most sublime slow movement.

HOWELLS, COLERIDGE‐TAYLOR & ELGAR

Ensemble 360

The Guildhall, Portsmouth
Monday 31 January 2022, 7.30pm

Tickets £18

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Naomi Atherton (horn)
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HOWELLS Rhapsodic Quintet
COLERIDGE‐TAYLOR Nonet in F minor, Op. 2
ELGAR Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84

An enterprising all‐British programme which features Elgar’s wonderful late piano quintet, composed at the same time as the Cello Concerto, and inhabiting some of the same mood.

Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor studied at the Royal College of Music where his composition teacher was Stanford, and one of his main musical influences was Dvořák. He had enormous success with the cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, but some of his finest works are actually his early chamber pieces. Howells was very influenced by Elgar who was 35 years his senior, and this piece for clarinet and strings shows the strong melodic impulse which is characteristic of his music.

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. 

 

IZZY GIZMO family concert

Ensemble 360 & Polly Ives

The Civic, Barnsley
Tuesday 26 October 2021, 1.00pm / 3.00pm

Tickets:
Adult £9
Child £6

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Music and narration performed by Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives

Presented in partnership with Off the Shelf Festival of Words

Best-selling children’s book, Izzy Gizmo by Pip Jones, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie, tells the enchanting story of an intrepid young inventor who puts her talents to work to rescue a crow that can’t fly. This brand-new family concert brings Izzy’s mechanical marvels and infectious creative spirit to life! Original music by Paul Rissmann features pots, pans, whistles and household items (as well as orchestral instruments). Together with story-telling and visuals from the book, this concert is a great introduction to live music for children. It’s full of wit, invention, songs and actions, and plenty of opportunities to join in.

For 3 – 7 year-olds

Sponsored by

With thanks to our funders and supporters:

JG Graves Charitable Trust, Sheffield Town Trust, Sheffield Church Burgesses Educational Foundation, Sheffield Bluecoat and Mount Pleasant Foundation, Andrew McEwan Fund

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. 

 

Polly Ives

Polly Ives is one of the UK’s leading music educationalists with a varied portfolio as a concert presenter, narrator, promoter, workshop leader, trainer and cellist.

Polly believes that music should be accessible to everyone from birth and throughout people’s lives. Her career has focused on finding unique and creative ways to provide high-quality musical experiences for young children (particularly 0-8 year olds) and their wide and varied communities.

She regularly produces and presents children’s concerts (including with London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Ensemble 360). She has worked with CBeebies, BBC Radio 3 and Scala Radio. Find out more. 

CONCERTEENIES with Music in the Round (1 & 2 year olds)

Craig Ogden, Miloš Milivojević & Polly Ives

Channing Hall, Sheffield
Saturday 6 November 2021, 11.30am

Tickets: £7.50 per grown-up + accompanying child

10.00am (for 0-1 year-olds)
11.30am (for 1 and 2 year-olds, siblings welcome)

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Featuring Craig Ogden & Miloš Milivojević
Presented by Polly Ives

Classical guitarist Craig Ogden has recorded six chart-topping CDs for Classic FM. He teams up with award-winning classical accordionist Miloš Milivojević for this relaxed concert for babies and their grown-ups. 

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About the Artists

Craig Ogden

Described by BBC Music Magazine as “A worthy successor to Julian Bream“, Australian born guitarist Craig Ogden is one of the most exciting artists of his generation. He studied guitar from the age of seven and percussion from the age of thirteen. In 2004, he became the youngest instrumentalist to receive a Fellowship Award from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. One of the UK’s most recorded guitarists, he has accumulated an acclaimed discography for Chandos, Virgin/EMI, Nimbus, Hyperion, Sony and six chart-topping albums for Classic FM. His most recent recordings are a solo recital disc for Chandos, Craig Ogden in Concert and a new arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach with violinist David Juritz and cellist Tim Hugh for Nimbus Records.

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Polly Ives

Polly Ives is one of the UK’s leading music educationalists with a varied portfolio as a concert presenter, narrator, promoter, workshop leader, trainer and cellist.

Polly believes that music should be accessible to everyone from birth and throughout people’s lives. Her career has focused on finding unique and creative ways to provide high-quality musical experiences for young children (particularly 0-8 year olds) and their wide and varied communities.

She regularly produces and presents children’s concerts (including with London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Ensemble 360). She has worked with CBeebies, BBC Radio 3 and Scala Radio. Find out more.