Bones Apart
Trombone Quartet
Music in the Round
Set up in 1984 by Peter Cropper, leader of The Lindsay String Quartet, and Tony Thornton, Chairman of Sheffield Theatres, the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival was a bold and visionary festival, bringing world-class chamber music to a city with a limited history of classical concerts.
Re-named Music in the Round in 1992, but still built on the excellence and vision of The Lindsays, the original May Festival soon grew into a year round series of performances by musicians of the highest calibre.Around the Country, a touring programme visiting venues across England, was established in 2003 with funding from Arts Council England, extending the outreach of Music in the Round still further.
If music be the food of love...
New programme for the Music in the Round series
Exploring music inspired by some of Shakespeare's greatest masterpieces, including new arrangements of works such as Gounod's Romeo & Juliet, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder and Bernstein's West Side Story alongside original works by Timothy Jackson and Jason Carr.