Venue: Crucible Adelphi Room

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR ALL with special guests

The Hermes Experiment

Crucible Adelphi Room, Sheffield
Saturday 2 December 2023, 1.00pm

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Join Contemporary Music for All Sheffield (CoMA) for this presented workshop that interweaves explorations of the human voice into the unique colours of an open ensemble. CoMA are joined by composers Héloïse Werner (Hermes Experiment) and Ellen Sargen (MD CoMA Manchester) to explore pieces for mixed ensemble and voice. Either join in as an instrumentalist or vocalist on the day (all abilities of instrument and voice are welcome), or simply relax and watch as an audience member, with opportunities for Q&A throughout. Either way, this is an event to bring you closer to the music and scores will be available to peruse on the day.

Allcomers participants will be supported on the day to engage with these open scores, which invite players to make small decisions about what and how to play, and consider new ways of thinking about music.

If you’d like more information about this event, please email Learning and Participation lp@musicintheround.co.uk.

This event is hosted by Music in the Round. It is the third in our series of Participation Events around our Sounds of Now concerts. Don’t miss Hermes Experiment in the evening at 8pm in the Crucible Playhouse. Tickets for the 8pm event are available here.

Read more about CoMA here, and see what previous participants have said about their Allcomer Events here.

About the Artists

The Hermes Experiment

Winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award 2021 and the Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Competition 2019, The Hermes Experiment is one of the UK’s leading young contemporary music ensembles. Capitalising on their deliberately idiosyncratic combination of instruments (harp, clarinet, voice and double bass), The Hermes Experiment regularly commissions new works, as well as creating their own innovative arrangements and venturing into live free improvisation. They have commissioned over 60 composers at various stages of their careers. They have released two albums on Delphian Records – HERE WE ARE and SONG – both to critical acclaim. Read their full bio here.

FOCUS ON FAURÉ

Steven Isserlis, Irène Duval, Roy Howat, Tom McKinney & Dr Caroline Potter

Crucible Adelphi Room, Sheffield
Friday 24 May 2024, 2.30pm
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Cellist Steven Isserlis
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Steven is joined by Irène Duval, Caroline Potter and Roy Howat to chat about one of his favourite composers, Gabriel Fauré, in celebration of his centenary year. Chaired by Tom McKinney. 

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Part of Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2024. 

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About the Artists

Steven Isserlis

Acclaimed worldwide for his profound musicianship and technical mastery, British cellist Steven Isserlis enjoys a unique and distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author and broadcaster. As a chamber musician, he has curated series for many of the world’s most famous festivals and venues, including the Wigmore Hall, the 92nd St Y in New York, and the Salzburg Festival.

The recipient of many awards, Steven Isserlis’s honours include a CBE in recognition of his services to music, the Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau, and the Piatigorsky Prize in the USA. He is also one of only two living cellists featured in Gramophone’s Hall of Fame. He gives most of his concerts on the Marquis de Corberon (Nelsova) Stradivarius of 1726, kindly loaned to him by the Royal Academy of Music.

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Irène Duval

Praised for “her mastery of phrasing and of the dramatic dimension” Diapason, “astonishing virtuosity“ Revelation Classiques and her “infinite delicacy” Le Populaire du centre, Irène has won multiple international competitions and is an active performer of concerti, recitals and chamber music.

In the 23/24 season, Irène will be recording two solo albums to be released by Capriccio. She will be performing at the Festival Aix en Provence in France and the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival in Australia. Over the 22/23 season Irène made her debut with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Sir András Schiff and as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Irène also made her debut with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, and gave solo and chamber music recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie in Paris and across the UK.

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Roy Howat

Roy Howat is internationally renowned as both pianist and scholar whose concerts, broadcasts and lectures regularly take him worldwide.  A graduate of King’s College, Cambridge, he made a special study of French music in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter, and is one of few British artists repeatedly invited to teach and play French music at major French-speaking Conservatoires and on French radio.  He is specially known for his lively lectures and masterclasses, which he has given worldwide at venues including the USA’s Juilliard and Eastman Schools.  In a wide-ranging career he has also conducted professionally, played violin in major London chamber orchestras, and held University posts in several countries.

A Steinway Artist, Roy Howat knows much of his concert repertoire from the composers’ manuscripts, and was one of the editors invited by the late François Lesure, along with Pierre Boulez and others, to found the Paris-based Complete Debussy Edition (Œuvres Complètes de Claude Debussy), for which he has edited much of the piano music.  Among his other publications are numerous Fauré Urtexts for Peters Edition, two seminal books (Debussy in proportion and The Art of French piano music), an English edition of Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger’s classic Chopin, pianist and teacher, and chapters in numerous other books on Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók and other topics.  His championship of Chabrier has led to recordings and a Dover edition of  Chabrier’s marvellous piano music.  He hold the posts of Keyboard Research Fellow at London’s Royal Academy of Music, and Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.

Tom McKinney

Tom joined Music in the Round in 2015 and works with us alongside his career as a broadcaster on BBC Radio 3, currently presenting the station’s most popular programme Essential Classics. Tom grew up in Stoke-on-Trent and studied classical guitar with Craig Ogden at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he now also lectures. Tom also curates the new music series at Kettle’s Yard Art Gallery in Cambridge and is a member of the Artistic Sub-Committee at NMC Recordings.

Dr Caroline Potter

CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT CAN MUSIC DO?

Graham Fitkin, Tim Horton, Helen Prior & Tom Payne

Crucible Adelphi Room, Sheffield
Saturday 13 May 2023, 5.00pm

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This panel discussion is an opportunity to explore musical responses to the natural world and ask if music, and the wider arts, can contribute to developing our response to the most pressing issue facing us today.  

A distraction while sea levels rise, or a galvanising force to motivate us as we build a better world… does music have a role to play in tackling the climate crisis?  

Featuring composer Graham Fitkin, Co-creator of Sheffield Ark Tom Payne, music psychologist Helen Prior and Ensemble 360’s Tim Horton, this promises to be a lively conversation to inspire and provoke.

About the Artists

Graham Fitkin

Graham Fitkin is a British composer, pianist and conductor. His compositions fall broadly into the minimalist and postminimalist genres. He was born in Cornwall in 1963, studied at Nottingham University with Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne and then in The Netherlands with Louis Andriessen at Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. He works regularly with pianist Kathryn Stott, founded the four-pianist group ‘Nanquidno’ and worked closely with six piano ensemble Piano Circus.Described by The Independent in 1998 as “one of the most important of our younger composers”, he is particularly known for his works for solo and multiple pianos, as well as for music accompanying dance. Read more.

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. 

Helen Prior

Helen is a music psychologist, with interests in music performance, music education, music and wellbeing, and music and the environment based at the University of Hull. Her work with the Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) explored the experiences of professional musicians in creating, or shaping, their musical performances. Equally important is the area of music education, within which she has explored remote music lessons through the Connect: Resound project, led by Professor Andrew King; and is also exploring transitions within music education with Dr Elaine King. Musical activities have a range of benefits, particularly in relation to wellbeing, and Helen’s involvement with the Strokestra Project (led by Elaine King) explore these benefits in detail. Music can have a profound influence on us, changing our physical and mental wellbeing, but also influencing our decisions; Helen’s work in relation to music and the environment investigates the ways in which we might harness this power to help people to adopt environmentally-friendly behaviours. Overall, Helen is fascinated by the myriad ways in which we interact with music as human beings, and her research explores these from a range of perspectives.

In her spare time, Helen enjoys playing the piano, and the modern and baroque violin, and occasionally doing some orchestral conducting.

Tom Payne

Tom is a performance maker, writer, dramaturg, filmmaker, and digital creative. He is Co-director of the UK/Australian performance company Doppelgangster and has worked extensively in the creative industries. Tom is Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Acting & Performance, and draws upon his professional experience to support work-based learning on the degree, and is also a Recruitment Lead, and Social Media Lead, within the Stage and Screen subject area. In his research and professional practice, Tom’s performance-making strategies seek to engage audiences with questions of social and ecological justice. Tom is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has taught drama, theatre, performance, and media communication and production in Further and Higher Education since 2001.