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SCHOOLS’ CONCERTS: GIDDY GOAT

Ensemble 360 & Lucy Drever

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
16-18 October 2024, 10.45am / 1.30pm

To secure your place, please email
lucy@musicintheround.co.uk
with your preferred concert date and time
and the number of tickets you require

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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 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. 

Current availability for tickets (each concert is 55 mins):

Weds 16 Oct, 10.45am (aimed at FS1&2) low availability

Weds 16 Oct, 1.30pm (aimed at Y1&2) good availability

Thur 17 Oct, 10.45am (aimed at Y1&2) very low availability

Thur 17 Oct, 1.30pm (aimed at FS1&2) good availability

Fri 18 Oct, 1.30pm (aimed at Y1&2) low availability

These schools concerts are supported with an in-person training session at the Crucible Theatre on Thursday 12 September. Choose from 9.30am-11.30am, 1.00pm-3.00pm or  4.00pm-6.00pm (low availability for the twilight session).

Download our educators’ info pack for further information.

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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. 

 

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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THE MONSTER IN THE MAZE

Music-Makers of Sheffield

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Saturday 2 November 2024, 11.00am / 3.00pm

Tickets 
£5 for everyone  
Carers free 

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DOVE The Monster in the Maze (50’)

An opera production for the people of Sheffield and with the people of Sheffield.

Music: Jonathan Dove
Libretto: Alasdair Middleton
Music Director: John Lyon
Director: Rosie Kat
Theseus: Anthony Flaum
Mother: Camille Maalawy
Daedalus: Robert Gildon
King Minos: Paul Hawkyard

Featuring ENSEMBLE 360, CONSONE QUARTET, BRIDGE ENSEMBLE, SHEFFIELD MUSIC HUB SENIOR STRINGS, SHEFFIELD YOUTH CHOIRS featuring JUNIOR VOICES, YOUTH VOICES & CONCORDIA and SINGERS FROM SHEFFIELD

“Here they are – the children of Athens!
The hope of Athens, the future of Athens!
Deep in the maze, the monster, already
paws the sand and tosses his horns…”

      - libretto, Monster in the Maze

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 regular supply of their young people to be sacrificed to the monster. The Athenian hero Theseus steps in, determined to enter the maze and take on the monster at its heart…

Jonathan Dove’s ‘The Monster in the Maze’ receives its Sheffield premiere on the iconic Crucible stage. 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. 

Commissioned and first performed in 2015 by the Berlin Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra with Simon Rattle, it was praised by the Financial Times as “an exhilarating, visceral take on the ancient Greek myth”.  

This amazing new production will showcase people of all ages coming together from across the city to perform alongside our professional resident artists and guests, highlighting the best of music-making in Sheffield. 

An epic story: millennia in the making and a fitting celebration for our 40th anniversary year! 

With thanks to our funders: Blakemore Foundation, JG Graves Charitable Trust, Music for All, Scops Arts Trust Sheffield Music Hub, Sheffield Mutual and individual donors.

View the brochure online here or download it below.

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Save £s when you book for 5 Music in the Round concerts or more at the same time. Find out more here. 

About the Artists

Theseus: Anthony Flaum

Anthony is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music & the National Opera Studio. He has sung principal roles with many of the UK’s major opera companies – English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Grange Park Opera, Buxton Opera Festival, Northern Ireland Opera, Iford Arts, Nevill Holt Opera and Opera Della Luna amongst others. He began his career in the original Olivier award-winning production of La bohème as Rodolfo for OperaUpClose. In 2021, he made his acting debut to much critical acclaim in King Lear alongside Sir John Tomlinson & Sir Thomas Allen at The Grange Festival and The Soldier’s Tale at Edinburgh International Festival with Sir Thomas Allen. He is very active on the private function market, passionate about educational outreach in the arts and has sung with many celebrated orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic. He recently founded his own opera theatre company Prologue Opera in his hometown of Hastings. He continues to broaden his work as a Producer with other music companies in the region and also in other genres…for example by recently playing Hillaire Belloc in Cautionary Tales – a new musical play (dir. Keith Warner). Most recently, he sang Cavaradossi in Becoming Tosca (Prologue Opera).

Mother: Camille Maalawy

Camille has achieved notable acclaim for bridging both musical and cultural divides. Born to a Coptic Egyptian father and English mother, her repertoire is as extensive as it is diverse, specialising in singing new music and often working directly with composers to incorporate elements of Arabic music.

Camille made her debut at Glyndebourne last autumn, playing Oma in Glass Human by Samantha Fernando. Recent highlights include ‘Weather Forecaster’ in The Water Diviner’s Tale for Opera North; presenting a group of newly written songs at Hull Jazz Festival as a Kickstart Commission Artist, and the premiere of Egyptian composer, Nahla Mattar’s Songs on Colloquial Arabic at the Royal Opera House Engender Festival. In addition, Camille completed a PRSF Resonance residency with Opera North, where she explored the diversity of her cultural heritage more deeply, co-creating a new song cycle, Mezzaterra (Meeting Point), which has been performed at Opera North and as part of the Tete-a-Tete festival.

Daedalus: Robert Gildon

Robert studied singing at Manhattan School of Music, New York, the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival (performing lead role in John Casken’s Golem) and the Britten Pears School. He was a recipient of the Garsington Opera Prize.

Work includes Orlando Gough’s Weather the Storm (Garsington Opera), Billy Budd in Billy Budd REimagined (ROH), Old Man in The Moon Hares (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenmen), Scott Stroman’s new opera ‘The Weekend’, based on Michael Palin’s play, (Bloomsbury Theatre), Old Man in world premiere of The Old Man and the Sea (First Light Festival/Britten Pears Arts), Don Giovanni (Garsington Opera Lord Mayor/Education Project), Lord Cecil in Philip Cashian’s The Cumnor Affair (Tête à Tête), Compere in The Answer to Everything (Streetwise Opera/BFI), Head Fox in children’s opera Outfoxed at the Royal Festival Hall, Journalist in Jonathan Dove’s TV opera Man on the Moon (Channel 4) and Dave Brubeck’s cantata La fiesta e la posada (London Symphony Orchestra /Barbican).

King Minos: Paul Hawkyard

Paul has worked in an extensive range of acting roles from TV drama, Children’s TV, and West End Musicals and shows. Credits include Ghost Stories, War Horse, Old Jack’s Boat, The Railway Children and Emmerdale.

THE MONSTER IN THE MAZE

Music-Makers of Sheffield

Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Friday 1 November 2024, 3.00pm / 7.15pm

Tickets 
£5 for everyone  
Carers free 

Past Event
Silhouette of a Minotaur head
Home› What's on› THE MONSTER IN THE MAZE

DOVE The Monster in the Maze (50’)

An opera production for the people of Sheffield and with the people of Sheffield.

Music: Jonathan Dove
Libretto: Alasdair Middleton
Music Director: John Lyon
Director: Rosie Kat
Theseus: Anthony Flaum
Mother: Camille Maalawy
Daedalus: Robert Gildon
King Minos: Paul Hawkyard

Featuring ENSEMBLE 360, CONSONE QUARTET, BRIDGE ENSEMBLE, SHEFFIELD MUSIC HUB SENIOR STRINGS, SHEFFIELD YOUTH CHOIRS featuring JUNIOR VOICES, YOUTH VOICES & CONCORDIA and SINGERS FROM SHEFFIELD

“Here they are – the children of Athens!
The hope of Athens, the future of Athens!
Deep in the maze, the monster, already
paws the sand and tosses his horns…”

      - libretto, Monster in the Maze

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 regular supply of their young people to be sacrificed to the monster. The Athenian hero Theseus steps in, determined to enter the maze and take on the monster at its heart…

Jonathan Dove’s ‘The Monster in the Maze’ receives its Sheffield premiere on the iconic Crucible stage. 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. 

Commissioned and first performed in 2015 by the Berlin Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra with Simon Rattle, it was praised by the Financial Times as “an exhilarating, visceral take on the ancient Greek myth”.  

This amazing new production will showcase people of all ages coming together from across the city to perform alongside our professional resident artists and guests, highlighting the best of music-making in Sheffield. 

An epic story: millennia in the making and a fitting celebration for our 40th anniversary year! 

With thanks to our funders and supporters: Blakemore Foundation, JG Graves Charitable Trust, Music for All, Scops Arts Trust, Sheffield Music Hub, Sheffield Mutual and individual donors.

View the brochure online here or download it below.

DOWNLOAD

Save £s when you book for 5 Music in the Round concerts or more at the same time. Find out more here. 

About the Artists

Theseus: Anthony Flaum

Anthony is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music & the National Opera Studio. He has sung principal roles with many of the UK’s major opera companies – English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Grange Park Opera, Buxton Opera Festival, Northern Ireland Opera, Iford Arts, Nevill Holt Opera and Opera Della Luna amongst others. He began his career in the original Olivier award-winning production of La bohème as Rodolfo for OperaUpClose. In 2021, he made his acting debut to much critical acclaim in King Lear alongside Sir John Tomlinson & Sir Thomas Allen at The Grange Festival and The Soldier’s Tale at Edinburgh International Festival with Sir Thomas Allen. He is very active on the private function market, passionate about educational outreach in the arts and has sung with many celebrated orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic. He recently founded his own opera theatre company Prologue Opera in his hometown of Hastings. He continues to broaden his work as a Producer with other music companies in the region and also in other genres…for example by recently playing Hillaire Belloc in Cautionary Tales – a new musical play (dir. Keith Warner). Most recently, he sang Cavaradossi in Becoming Tosca (Prologue Opera).

Mother: Camille Maalawy

Camille has achieved notable acclaim for bridging both musical and cultural divides. Born to a Coptic Egyptian father and English mother, her repertoire is as extensive as it is diverse, specialising in singing new music and often working directly with composers to incorporate elements of Arabic music.

Camille made her debut at Glyndebourne last autumn, playing Oma in Glass Human by Samantha Fernando. Recent highlights include ‘Weather Forecaster’ in The Water Diviner’s Tale for Opera North; presenting a group of newly written songs at Hull Jazz Festival as a Kickstart Commission Artist, and the premiere of Egyptian composer, Nahla Mattar’s Songs on Colloquial Arabic at the Royal Opera House Engender Festival. In addition, Camille completed a PRSF Resonance residency with Opera North, where she explored the diversity of her cultural heritage more deeply, co-creating a new song cycle, Mezzaterra (Meeting Point), which has been performed at Opera North and as part of the Tete-a-Tete festival.

Daedalus: Robert Gildon

Robert studied singing at Manhattan School of Music, New York, the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival (performing lead role in John Casken’s Golem) and the Britten Pears School. He was a recipient of the Garsington Opera Prize.

Work includes Orlando Gough’s Weather the Storm (Garsington Opera), Billy Budd in Billy Budd REimagined (ROH), Old Man in The Moon Hares (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenmen), Scott Stroman’s new opera ‘The Weekend’, based on Michael Palin’s play, (Bloomsbury Theatre), Old Man in world premiere of The Old Man and the Sea (First Light Festival/Britten Pears Arts), Don Giovanni (Garsington Opera Lord Mayor/Education Project), Lord Cecil in Philip Cashian’s The Cumnor Affair (Tête à Tête), Compere in The Answer to Everything (Streetwise Opera/BFI), Head Fox in children’s opera Outfoxed at the Royal Festival Hall, Journalist in Jonathan Dove’s TV opera Man on the Moon (Channel 4) and Dave Brubeck’s cantata La fiesta e la posada (London Symphony Orchestra /Barbican).

King Minos: Paul Hawkyard

Paul has worked in an extensive range of acting roles from TV drama, Children’s TV, and West End Musicals and shows. Credits include Ghost Stories, War Horse, Old Jack’s Boat, The Railway Children and Emmerdale.