September 2016 to May 2017 WELCOME to to New York and many more places along the way. We’ll salute A home the 2016–2017 our homegrown community concert season of music-makers in Forged for musical discovery, in Sheffield, and get busy in at the University learning and participation. the Sound Laboratory, where of Sheffield; a contemporary creations come to globe-trotting, life. And we celebrate all things lyrical, linguistic, sung and said in time-travelling, our first ever SongMakers Festival. boundary-crossing Throw some cracking programme we collaborations into the mix with are truly thrilled fellow Sheffield creatives like to share with you. Festival of the Mind, Human, Off the Shelf, Music in the Round, Classical Sheffield and the Year With scores of international of Making, and our programme and award-winning artists, a is fit to burst at the seams with kaleidoscope of choirs, collectives, musical magic. We’ve something to composers, and ensembles of astonish and delight music lovers all shapes and sizes, we hope of all tastes and ages, and look you’ll agree it’s quite the lineup! forward to welcoming you to one of our concerts soon. Together we’ll travel the world All concerts take place in the ’s Firth Hall unless stated otherwise. with Global Soundtracks, from Stewart Campbell Ticket prices are detailed on page 46 unless stated otherwise. Scotland to Sardinia, Northumbria Producer Showcasing a city of music-makers A Sheffield destination for the best in world, roots and folk #forgedinsheffield #globalsoundtracks

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Electrifying performances from the cutting edge Festival of the lyric, linguistic, sung and said #soundlaboratory #songmakers 4 5 Sounds of the Birds

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Wednesday 21 September, 7.30pm Tickets: Free, booking required Pre-concert talk, 6.10pm: Professor Peter Hill discusses Messiaen’s fascination with birds and birdsong

“ Organic, A mesmerising Our adventure through science, natural and meditation on music, music, nature and imagination is utterly glorious.” nature and landscape led by Tim Birkhead (ornithologist MOJO and Professor of Behavioural An immersive and multi-sensory Ecology at the University of experience; the language of birds Sheffield), with pianist Noah is translated for solo piano and Kang performing Messiaen’s illuminated by bold new visuals from monumental masterpiece. Sheffield-based design team Human. Noah Kang piano Kathryn Tickell From the brightly insistent call Professor Tim Birkhead speaker of the skylark to the menacing Stewart Campbell artistic & The Side tones of the tawny owl, Olivier director Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux Human visuals GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS reproduces the songs of different Tuesday 18 October, 7.30pm birds, vividly capturing their

interactions with a series of

stunning French landscapes. A whirlwind musical northwards; follow the playful journey across the sounds of pipes and fiddle to a Northumbrian landscape place where clogs storm, harp notes fall like plucked raindrops, Feel the wildness of the land and whilst wrapped in a blanket of soft the warmth of its people when voices and rich cello. BBC Folk Awards Musician of the Year Kathryn Tickell brings the Kathryn Tickell sound of her beloved Northumbria Northumbrian pipes, fiddle to Sheffield. A truly talented folk Louisa Tuck cello quartet is our company on this Ruth Wall harp heartfelt and exhilarating quest Amy Thatcher accordion, clogs

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SOUND LABORATORY Tuesday 1 November, 7.30pm

Piano meets poetry in A pianist of both power and an exploration of faith sensitivity, Cordelia Williams has and love enthralled audiences around the world. Multi-award-winning poet A fascination with the human Michael Symmons Roberts is soul unites Cordelia Williams known for his “amazing talent for and Michael Symmons Roberts. intimacy on paper” (The Guardian). Together they observe and explore Global Soundtracks Cordelia Williams piano universal themes of love, colour, Michael Symmons Roberts passion, silence and faith through words Fusion Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt Regards

GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS sur l’Enfant-Jésus (‘Twenty contemplations of the infant Tuesday 25 October, 7.30pm Jesus’); written in occupied Paris in 1944.

Feast your ears! Mesmerisingly beautiful and gently A cutting-edge world haunting, guitar virtuoso Giuliano music mega-bill Modarelli’s unique style blends World Folk, Arabic, Flamenco, Latin Kefaya’s genre-busting, border- and Eastern European. crossing sound has been described as “internationalist”, “guerrilla jazz”, Kefaya “contemporary world-fusion” and Elaha Soroor vocals “global protest music”. An eclectic Giuliano Modarelli guitar group of immigrants, travellers John Ball santoor and international artists, Kefaya seek the common ground between folk traditions of the world, whilst “ Soulful, beautifully staying rooted firmly in the 21st paced and etching deep century. Kefaya are joined by Afghan emotions” singer Elaha Soroor. The Sunday Express on Giuliano Modarelli

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“ One of Karine Chango the finest Polwart Spasiuk singer- songwriters GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS in Britain ****” Saturday 5 Nov, 7.30pm Thursday 10 Nov, 7.30pm The Guardian

All Tickets: £16 Subtropical folk from an Argentinean Darkly beautiful and accordion master socially conscious folk from award-winning “Music is a way to go to a place singer-songwriter you’ve never been before,” says Chango, and so he carries us To Scotland, and songs peopled away with alluring rhythms and with the ghosts of childhood mesmeric melodies to a land of adventures, elderly neighbours, red earth, lush vegetation, rivers eroding shorelines and exiled and waterfalls. mothers. Reflecting her pre- Image © Paul Heartfield

musical background as a social A folk recipe of South American Image © Ignacio Arnedo worker, Karine’s songs are and Spanish flavours peppered poignant and powerfully relevant, with polka overtones from eastern whilst her warm voice, succinct , Chamamé music reflects storytelling, enduring melodies the different communities that “ A gifted, and traditionally-inspired settled in northeast Argentina profoundly arrangements draw you in as if to a in the 16th to 19th centuries. expressive late night tale told by the fireside. Chango’s sometimes melancholic performer” but always optimistic brand of Rootsworld Karine Polwart is four times Chamamé has earned him a BBC winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award and a Latin Awards, including twice for Best Grammy nomination. Original Song.

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Festival Pass: £40 Full Price £30 Over 65/Unwaged/Staff/Student/Under 26

Pass excludes Die Winterreise and Bach: St John Passion concerts 12 13

Food for Die Thought Winterreise Friday 11 Nov, Friday 11 Nov, 2.30pm–3.10pm 7.15pm–8.30pm

Venue: Firth Hall Venue: Crucible Tickets: Free, booking required Studio Theatre Tickets: £19/£13/£5 Booking: Autumnal musings www.musicintheround.co.uk from young minds or 0114 249 6000

Celebrate all things harvest, A journey through snow autumn and food in this outreach and ice, frozen hearts concert by hundreds of Sheffield’s and lost love primary school children. Franz Schubert described Die Winterreise to a friend as “a cycle of terrifying songs” that “please me more than all the rest, and in time they will please you too.” Wilhelm Müller’s poems depict a solitary individual amid nature at its cruellest and coldest: it’s a vision of numbing intensity expressed in music that is by turns bold and desolate. The singer’s journey proceeds relentlessly towards desolation, alleviated only

by shards of piercing beauty along the way that merely highlight the descent into a personal hell. Sung “ Roderick Williams in German. No interval. imbued each song with myriad colourful Roderick Williams baritone nuances, his rich, Christopher Glynn piano burnished baritone lovely throughout Image © Benjamin Ealovega

the evening.” New York Times

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Music, SongMakers Language Pop Up and Poetry Saturday 12 Nov, Saturday 12 Nov, 11am–6pm 10am–3.30pm Venue: Winter Garden, city centre Venue: Firth Hall Tickets: Free, no booking required Tickets: £5, tea and coffee included Enjoy Sheffield’s Winter Garden as

singers from the city perform song An expert-led exploration all day long. of German song

Delve into a world of words, language and music, focusing on German song, with world-famous Nights Not baritone Roderick Williams, Spent Alone poetry and song specialist Professor Helen Abbott Saturday 12 Nov, (University of Birmingham) and 2pm–3pm German literary and cultural history specialist and BBC Radio Venue: Upper Chapel, city centre 3 New Generation Thinker 2016 Tickets: £7/£6 Dr Séan Williams (University of Sheffield). A musical portrait of a provocative poet The session will focus on: – The challenges of singing in Pulitzer-winning poet Edna St German and how singers Vincent Millay inspired a generation approach languages in with her frankness about her performance of song unconventional life. Performed by – The relationship between text acclaimed mezzo Kitty Whately and and music with a focus on 19th pianist Simon Lepper, this trio of century German poetry songs by Jonathan Dove channel – Includes students from the the tension and anarchic passion University of Sheffield found in her writing. performing in a masterclass Image © Natalie J Watts in German song Kitty Whately mezzo soprano Simon Lepper piano

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Seven Shostakovich Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok Romances Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 Saturday 12 Nov, 4pm–5pm Joan Rodgers soprano Venue: Upper Chapel, city centre Phoenix Piano Trio Tickets: £7/£6 Jonathan Stone violin Christian Elliott cello Passion, loss and Sholto Kynoch piano longing pervade this Russian song suite

Orphelia’s lament for the departed Harawi Hamlet, a prophetic bird, a lover’s Saturday 12 Nov, kiss in the still St Petersburg night, 7pm–8pm a fearsome storm and the plight of

the homeless… Joan Rodgers, one Tickets: £7/£6 Image © Rose Daniel of Britain’s best loved sopranos, Venue: Firth Hall

performs Shostakovich’s powerful and personal settings of Alexander Intoxicating songs Blok’s poetry which speak of joy, of mythology and suffering, and the wider fate of cosmic mystery humanity at large. The Phoenix Piano Trio combine Seven Soprano Gweneth-Ann Rand’s Romances with Shostakovich’s interpretations of Olivier profound and haunting second Messiaen’s music are widely piano trio, infused with Russian acclaimed. Inspired by the and Jewish folk themes. legend of Tristan and Isolde, this complex and powerful modernist masterpiece is full of Andean mythology and primitive rituals.

Gweneth-Ann Rand soprano Simon Lepper piano

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Cabaret On Songs Wenlock Saturday 12 Nov, Edge 9pm–10pm Sunday 13 Nov, Venue: Firth Hall 12.30pm–1.30pm Tickets: £7/£6 Venue: Firth Hall Tickets: £7/£6 Sparkling and saucy tales from turn-of-the-century Berlin Haunting and heart- aching, a lament for Written for the Überbrettl the passage of time nightclub in Berlin, Schoenberg’s cabaret songs fizz with lilting waltz Winds blow across centuries rhythms, mock martial fanfares, in this emotional meditation and passionate reveries. Witty, on mortality. From the heat of playful and full of raucous double- summer to the icy cold of winter, entendre, these songs were written Vaughan Williams’ musical for the hush of night. Programme to adaptation of A.E. Housman’s include Schoenberg’s Brettl-Lieder. poem is at times troubled, optimistic, resigned and tranquil. Raphaela Papadakis soprano Sholto Kynoch piano Daniel Norman tenor Sholto Kynoch piano

Gildas Quartet Christopher Jones violin Gemma Sharples violin Kay Stephen viola Anna Menzies cello Image © Raphaelle Photography

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Odysseus Schumann, Sunday 13 Nov, Brahms and 2.30pm–3.30pm Mendelssohn Venue: Firth Hall Sunday 13 Nov, Tickets: £7/£6 4.30pm–5.30pm

An epic journey in song Venue: Firth Hall Tickets: £7/£6 Love and war, mythical beasts, gods and goddesses; explore the Magical songs performed tales behind Homer’s ancient by outstanding musicians poem in this creatively crafted hour of song. Sink into a Sunday afternoon full of sumptuous strings and golden Bach: St John Passion Benedict Nelson baritone soprano with song arrangements Sunday 13 November, 7.30pm Graham Johnson piano by Hugo Riemann. Venue: Octagon Centre, University of Sheffield Raphaela Papadakis soprano Tickets: Advanced: £14/£10/£6 Gildas Quartet On the Door: £16/£12/£7

Awe-inspiring drama and world. This new performance of a colossal collaboration Bach’s masterpiece features fresh English translations of the chorales An alliance of more than one from writers of different faiths and hundred voices from choirs backgrounds. around the city will unite - full of desire and restlessness - in Jonathan Peter Kenny conductor this powerful and passionate James Conway director expression of Western culture. Soloists from English Touring Opera From its opening impassioned cry The Old Street Band to God to the final, magnificent Sheffield Choir chorus, Bach’s St John Passion University of Sheffield calls us to face up to some of the Chamber Choir most basic questions about our Sheffield Chorale life, purpose and place in the

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SOUND LABORATORY Tuesday 15 November, 7.30pm “ One of acoustic Miniature music with in miniature. Performed by our music’s most promising massive meaning Associate Artists the Ligeti Quartet, young talents: a singer- this concert also features a new songwriter and Probing the possibilities of building jazz-influenced work from young mandolin and banjo the most expressive music by the British composer Elliot Galvin. prodigy with the taste smallest means. and poise to strike György Kurtág Six Moments that rare balance of Musical universes are distilled into Musicaux, Op. 44 commercial and their most essential components, Anton Webern Six Bagatelles critical success.” the smallest musical cells are Elliot Galvin new work The New York Times transformed into large scale György Ligeti String Quartet No. 2 structures, and all the explosive Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for drama, mystery and humour of String Quartet a full chamber piece is captured Béla Bartók String Quartet No. 5

A blend of contemporary Sarah folk, Americana and roots

Inspired by views of the reservoir Jarosz in New York’s Central Park, Sarah Jarosz’s fourth album plus ‘Undercurrent’ is full of longing and looking back, with a splash guests of optimism. Drift along with this gifted multi-instrumentalist and GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS singularly expressive vocalist and Friday 18 Nov, 7.30pm her band.

All Tickets: £17.50

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“ So extraordinary and otherworldly is this film’s power, you could believe you were watching the actual trial of Joan of Arc.” The Guardian Voices Appeared: La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc

Tuesday 22 November, 7.30pm

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A silent masterpiece with recognised as a silent masterpiece. ravishing live score The award-winning Orlando Consort have crafted a stunning An intense experience awaits as soundtrack to transport us back to we journey to medieval France the 15th century. to witness the trial of Joan of Arc, accompanied by intricately Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer beautiful choral laments from Starring Renée Maria Falconetti The Orlando Consort. With music performed live by The Orlando Consort Condemned unseen in France Richard Wilberforce alto on its release, vilified by the Mark Dobell tenor Catholic authorities and even Angus Smith tenor banned outright in England, Carl Donald Greig baritone Theodor Dreyer’s La Passion de Robert MacDonald bass Jeanne d’Arc (1928) is widely

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Sheffield Lerner University without Wind Loewe Orchestra FORGED IN SHEFFIELD

FORGED IN SHEFFIELD Tuesday 6 Dec, 7.30pm Sunday 4 Dec, 7.30pm A lyrical showcase

An uplifting band with rousing repertoire A full-sized Broadway orchestra shines a light on lyricist Alan Sound New Music A dynamic group drawn from Jay Lerner’s songs from his across the University, the Wind collaborations with major Junction Ensemble Orchestra regularly perform Broadway composers. Based on Weekend high-quality and high-energy archival research by Dominic SOUND LABORATORY concerts to eager audiences, McHugh and Matthew Malone SOUND LABORATORY from Weston Park Band Stand from the Department of Music, Tuesday 29 Nov, 7.30pm to Belgium’s Leuven Cathedral. this show features songs written Friday 25–Sunday 27 Nov with Leonard Bernstein (West Tickets: Free, booking required From Sheffield’s Side Story), John Barry (James musical cutting edge Bond) and Burton Lane, alongside Cinema for the ear! the first ever performances of Marvel at the musical minds of recently discovered songs. Join us to investigate the frontiers our students, staff and alumni. of contemporary electronic music, Freshly devised pieces by with an immersive experience Sheffield composers sit alongside Image © Cordelia O’Driscoll of three-dimensional sound; electrifying performances of unbound by pitch or rhythm, contemporary music; this edition instrumentation or abstraction. featuring work by Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016). Featuring performances from University students, alongside special guests including sound artist Annie Mahtani and composer Elizabeth Anderson.

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La Nativité A colourful commentary Martin Scunthorpe-born, widely travelled on the Christmas story and now based in Sheffield, Martin du Seigneur Simpson is an internationally adored Rich in colourful harmonies, guitarist whose solo shows SOUND LABORATORY GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS flexible rhythms and carol-like are spellbinding and deeply Friday 9 Dec, 7.30pm melodies, each part of visionary Tuesday 13 Dec, 7.30pm moving. A multiple winner at composer for the organ Olivier the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (Best Tickets: Free, booking required Messiaen’s ‘The Birth of the Album, Best Song and twice Artist Venue: Sheffield Cathedral, One of the finest acoustic city centre Saviour’ interprets a different and slide guitar players in of the Year), aspect of the Christmas story; the world from the Virgin Mary’s joy and Martin’s interpretations of rapture at the birth of Jesus, to the traditional songs are wonder of the shepherds and the masterpieces of storytelling. brightness of the angels.

Joshua Hales organ Image © Graham Whitmore

Ligeti Quartet: Uniquely Welsh but universally Christmassy A Child’s Well-loved pieces and A festive fairytale treat for all Sheffield brand new music Christmas the family, A Child’s Christmas in in Wales Wales chronicles Dylan Thomas’s University A joyful atmosphere is always to own childhood memories and Symphony be found at a Sheffield University SOUND LABORATORY remains one of his most popular Symphony Orchestra concert, Sun 18 Dec, 1pm and 6pm and loved works. Orchestra where you will see some of the In this wonderful adaptation FORGED IN SHEFFIELD finest orchestral players from Tickets: £10/£8/£30 Family (up for strings, step into December around the University. to two adults and two children) Sunday 11 Dec, 7.30pm days ‘as white as Lapland’, where mischief is easily found, snowballs Expect drama-packed music, with are hurled, and the curious pieces from Borodin, grownups are shrewdly observed. Holst and Stravinsky alongside a brand new composition from Narration by Gruffudd Glynn Music undergraduate Story by Dylan Thomas Ellen Sargen. Music adaptation by Charlotte and Adam Caird George Nicholson director

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The Boy classic Have Yourself a Merry Little Paolo Angeli and Christmas, yet much of his other Next Door work as both composer and vocal arranger is largely forgotten. Derek Gripper FORGED IN SHEFFIELD GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS Tuesday 14 Feb, 7.30pm Conducted by Matthew Malone

Wednesday 8 February, 7.30pm and performed by University of Serenading a great Sheffield students, the programme figure of American is based on the work of Dominic A genre-defying guitar Derek Gripper has produced popular music McHugh of the Department of double bill of daring some of South Africa’s most Music. contrast and brilliant extraordinary musical work. Fusing Illustrating his unique contribution beauty the country’s disparate creative to the Broadway and Hollywood traditions with styles throughout musical, Martin’s lyrical works Sardinian guitarist Paolo Angeli the world, his music draws on include the musical Meet Me in bows, strums, strikes and plucks at European classical traditions, St Louis, featuring the all-time his uniquely prepared instrument avant-garde Brazilian works, Malian of multi-directional strings, kora music, Cape Town’s folk hammers, pedals and propellers. styles, and even Indian classical Unclassifiable and multi-layered, music, all the while synthesizing this music is suspended between them into a style uniquely his own. free jazz, minimal pop, post-folk and pre-everything else. Songs of social change, “ One of the most Shake the resistance and protest interesting things with a host of top folk “ The sound of a I’ve heard on guitar Chains stars master musician” in twenty years” GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS All About Jazz on Paolo Angeli John Williams on Derek Gripper With a focus on British - and Friday 24 Feb, 7.30pm Yorkshire - history, Nancy Kerr, Hannah Martin, Greg Russell, Findlay Napier and Tim Yates explore the role music and song has played in social change. Taking in the industrial revolution, universal suffrage and the slave trade, Rock against Racism and the miners’ strike, a stirring and insightful evening in the company of some fantastically talented musicians.

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“ Italian baroque and New York avant garde face up to one another like lion and tamer, with fascinating results.” The Guardian

Scarlatti:Cage: Sonatas

SOUND LABORATORY Tuesday 28 February, 7.30pm

Aural fireworks, Adventurous Israeli pianist David dazzling double piano Greilsammer sets sparks flying across 176 keys, and post- Musical planets collide when performance talks about the the works of two visionaries, prepared piano and his admiration Domenico Scarlatti and John for the two composers he has set Cage, are brought together face-to-face. across centuries in a thrilling two-piano spectacle. This programme (65 minutes) will be performed with no interval and will be followed by a post-

performance talk. Image © Julien Mignot

David Greilsammer piano

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Classical Global Soundtracks programmes, including explorations of Sheffield traditional Chinese music, performances of work by Festival French composer Pierre Boulez, appearances by the Ligeti Friday 17–Sunday 19 Mar Quartet and much more.

The city as you’ve never See classicalsheffield.co.uk heard it before for further announcements

As part of the second Classical Sheffield festival, expect more from our Sound Laboratory and

Rachmaninoff: University A versatile blend of voices of Sheffield A Heart in Exile A choir of students from across Chamber the University, the Chamber Choir regularly perform throughout the Tuesday 14 March, 7.30pm Choir city and further afield, with recent concerts in Dublin and Paris. FORGED IN SHEFFIELD Tickets: Advanced: £14/£10/£6 On the Door: £16/£12/£7 Saturday 25 Mar, 7.30pm Venue: St Mark’s Church, Broomhill A musical portrait, Scripted from Rachmaninoff’s a heart in exile own letters and diaries, critically acclaimed pianist Lucy Parham Loaded with loss and yearning, makes a welcome return to Parham’s composer portrait Sheffield, joined by distinguished Rachmaninoff: A Heart in Exile actor Henry Goodman (Avengers: follows the Russian composer Age of Ultron, Notting Hill). from his youth through his subsequent self-imposed exile Lucy Parham piano and finally to California, where Henry Goodman narrator he died in 1943.

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Sklamberg Sklamberg and the Shepherds blend traditional and newly and the composed Yiddish and Russian song with klezmer and southern Shepherds Mediterranean music. Though GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS each performer represents a different nation, their backgrounds Wed 29 Mar, 7.30pm unite them; their ancestors all emigrating from the in A joyous trio of search of a better life. Klezmer royalty Lorin Sklamberg vocals A spirited musical journey Merlin Shepherd clarinet merging bouncy village songs, Polina Shepherd vocals, piano mournful clarinet and fiery vocals. Don’t miss this rare chance to see an exceptional “ Pure soul music with trio of renowned Klezmer a Jewish heartbeat.” performers. The Essential Klezmer

An uplifting band with University rousing repertoire of Sheffield A dynamic group drawn from Wind across the University, the Wind Orchestra Orchestra regularly perform high-quality and high-energy FORGED IN SHEFFIELD concerts to eager audiences, from Weston Park Band Stand to Saturday 1 April, 7.30pm Belgium’s Leuven Cathedral.

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“ The most intense Yogesh Samsi of Drums’, the tabla is the most and beautiful aspect popular Indian percussion of rhythm can be (tabla) instrument. experienced when you GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS are in perfect rhythm Tabla maestro Yogesh Samsi is with yourself” Friday 21 April, 8pm a greatly committed artist and a champion of traditional Indian Pandit Yogesh Samsi music, winning crowds over with Indian musical maestro his solid knowledge, talent and commitment to the art of playing Music for heart and hands, the the tabla. tabla is taught person to person down generations under the warm watch of the Indian sun. Sometimes known as the ‘Queen

The Day Rediscovered in 2009 by the Department of Music’s Dominic Before Spring McHugh, it has been newly

FORGED IN SHEFFIELD orchestrated by Matthew Malone for performance by student Tuesday 2 May, 7.30pm musicians as part of the Forgotten Thursday 4 May, 7.30pm Broadway Musicals project.

A long-forgotten musical Pre-concert talk 4 May, 6.10pm: performed by a full Dominic McHugh and Matthew Broadway-sized orchestra Malone discuss the background to The Day Before Spring, with live Romance stirs on campus in this performances of three songs cut charming musical, which had lain before the show opened forgotten in a California library in 1945. for over half a century; this will be the first time the whole score has Part of the Festival of Arts & Humanities been heard since 1953.

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Sound New Music Junction Ensemble Weekend SOUND LABORATORY

SOUND LABORATORY Tuesday 9 May, 7.30pm

Friday 5–Sunday 7 May From Sheffield’s Tickets: Free, booking required musical cutting edge

Cinema for the ear! Marvel at the musical minds of our students, staff and alumni. Join us to investigate the frontiers Freshly devised pieces by of contemporary electronic music, Sheffield composers sit alongside with an immersive experience electrifying performances of of three-dimensional sound; contemporary music. unbound by pitch or rhythm, instrumentation or abstraction. Featuring performances from University students and staff, alongside special guests including Jonty Harrison and Denis Smalley. See www.sheffield.ac.uk/usss for more information.

University Well-loved pieces and brand new music of Sheffield A joyful atmosphere is always Symphony to be found at a SUSO concert, Orchestra where you will see some of the finest orchestral players from

FORGED IN SHEFFIELD Image © Cordelia O’Driscoll around the University. Programme to include Saturday 13 May, 7.30pm Scriabin’s Symphony No. 2. Adrian Moore director

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“ There is probably no more inspirational musician working today than Podger” Gramophone

Rachel Podger

Wednesday 17 May, 7.30pm

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Solo violin that rises like Programme to include: the sun and floats on air J.S. Bach Partita in G minor (trans. Rachel Podger from Flute Internationally renowned baroque Partita in A minor BWV 1013) violinist Rachel Podger plays Biber Passacaglia in G minor pieces by baroque composers for solo violin from the Mystery Bach, Biber and Tartini. Sonatas “The Guardian Angel” J.S. Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor This performance marks an for solo violin, BWV 1004 annual tribute to Peter Cropper Tartini Sonata in B minor (1945–2015), an inspirational musician and teacher who influenced countless music students through his playing, encouragement and passion for music. Here we mark Peter’s contribution to music-making, learning and performance at the University of Sheffield.

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Associate Artists

Our Associate Artists are key to fulfilling our artistic vision. They take us on musical journeys, engineer electrifying performances, and cultivate ambition by working with children and young people in our community.

Sound Laboratory: Ligeti Quartet Mandhira de Saram violin Patrick Dawkins violin Richard Jones viola Valerie Welbanks cello

Formed in 2010, the Ligeti Quartet is dedicated to performing modern and contemporary music, commissioning new works, and engaging diverse international audiences. Establishing a reputation as leading exponents of new music, their engagements take them throughout

the UK and abroad, with performances in leading concert halls to Image © Mike Massaro cinemas, galleries, theatres, boats and ‘icebergs’! The Ligeti Quartet regularly works with artists outside classical music, and have gained a reputation for an innovative approach to new music, through work with performance artists, video, actors and DJs. Catch the Ligeti Quartet live: See pages 22 and 29.

Global Soundtracks: John Ball

John Ball is a dedicated performer and teacher of North Indian music specialising in both tabla and the one hundred stringed santoor. John studied Santoor with Sri Harjinder Pal Singh, a senior disciple of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, and has received extensive training from some of India’s greatest tabla maestros including Sri Sudhir Saxena, Ustad Faiyaz Khan and Pandit Yogesh Samsi. In recent years he has worked as a composer and performer in several successful collaborative projects, including Indus, Rafiki Jazz and Unfurl, and has a passion for fusing Indian music with other world music traditions, performing at Womad, Edinburgh Festival, Musicport, Brecon Jazz Festival and the London Jazz Festival. Catch John Ball live: See page 6.

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Tickets

In Person Member of staff or a student From the Students’ Union Box Office and want to get a discount? Students’ Union, Make sure you present your University of Sheffield, uCard on arrival. Western Bank, Advanced Full Price £14 Advanced Full Price £10 Sheffield S10 2TG Please note we are unable to offer Advanced Over 65/ Advanced Over 65/ Monday–Friday: 11am–6pm refunds on tickets unless a show is Unwaged/Staff£10 Unwaged/Staff£8 cancelled or changed considerably Advanced Student/Under 26 £6 Advanced Student/Under 26 £5 Online (for example a change in date of On the Door Full Price £16 On the Door Full Price £12 www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts performance). On the Door Staff/Over 65/ On the Door Staff/Over 65/ No booking fees Unwaged £12 Unwaged £10 Parking On the Door Student/ On the Door Student/ Telephone The most convenient car park for Under 26 £7 Under 26 £6 0333 666 3366 Firth Hall and the Octagon Centre All telephone bookings are subject is Q-Park on Durham Road. to £1.50 telephone service fee. Please note this telephone number Access is for ticket purchase only and is All of our venues have disabled a booking facility provided by our access to performance spaces. ticketing agent TicketSource. We will happily reserve spaces for wheelchairs. On the Door Left it to the last minute? For general enquiries please You can buy tickets on the door, contact the Concerts Team subject to availability. Doors open on 0114 222 0468. 30 minutes before each concert.

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GS: Global Soundtracks SL: Sound Laboratory Ligeti Quartet: A Child’s 18 1pm Firth Hall Diary SM: SongMakers FiS: Forged in Sheffield Christmas in Wales I Ligeti Quartet: A Child’s 18 6pm Firth Hall Christmas in Wales II September February 21 6.10pm Sounds of the Birds Firth Hall SL Paolo Angeli and Derek 8 7.30pm Firth Hall GS October Gripper 18 7.30pm Kathryn Tickell & The Side Firth Hall GS 14 7.30pm The Boy Next Door Firth Hall FiS 25 7.30pm Global Soundtracks Fusion Firth Hall GS 24 7.30pm Shake the Chains Firth Hall GS November 28 7.30pm Scarlatti:Cage:Sonatas Firth Hall SL 1 7.30pm Vingt Regards Firth Hall SL March 5 7.30pm Karine Polwart Firth Hall GS Rachmaninoff: 14 7.30pm Firth Hall 10 7.30pm Chango Spasiuk Firth Hall GS A Heart in Exile 11 2.30pm Food for Thought Firth Hall SM 17–19 Classical Sheffield Festival Various Sheffield University 11 7.15pm Die Winterreise Crucible Studio SM 25 7.30pm St Mark’s Church FiS 12 10am Music, Language and Poetry Firth Hall SM Chamber Choir Sklamberg and the 12 11am SongMakers Pop Up Winter Garden SM 29 7.30pm Firth Hall GS Shepherds 12 2pm Nights Not Spent Alone Upper Chapel SM April 12 4pm Seven Romances Upper Chapel SM Sheffield University Wind 12 7pm Harawi Firth Hall SM 1 7.30pm Firth Hall FiS Orchestra 12 9pm Cabaret Songs Firth Hall SM 21 8pm Yogesh Samsi (tabla) Firth Hall GS 13 12.30pm On Wenlock Edge Firth Hall SM May 13 2.30pm Odysseus Firth Hall SM 2 7.30pm The Day Before Spring Firth Hall FiS Schumann, Brahms and 13 4.30pm Firth Hall SM Mendelssohn 4 6.10pm The Day Before Spring Firth Hall FiS 13 7.30pm Bach: St John Passion Octagon Centre SM 5–7 Sound Junction Weekend Firth Hall SL 15 7.30pm Ligeti Quartet: Microcosm Firth Hall SL 9 7.30pm New Music Ensemble Firth Hall SL Sheffield University 18 7.30pm Sarah Jarosz plus guests Firth Hall GS 13 7.30pm Firth Hall FiS Symphony Orchestra Voices Appeared: La Passion 22 7.30pm Firth Hall de Jeanne d’Arc 17 7.30pm Rachel Podger Firth Hall 25–27 Sound Junction Weekend Firth Hall SL 29 New Music Ensemble Firth Hall SL December Forged in Sheffield Forged in Sheffield Sheffield University Wind 4 7.30pm Firth Hall FiS Lunchtime Concerts Rush Hour Concerts Orchestra 6 7.30pm Lerner Without Loewe Firth Hall FiS Upgrade your lunch break – pop Swap sitting in traffic for a short Sheffield into Firth Hall and enjoy a range and sweet concert. Sure to soothe 9 7.30pm La Nativité du Seigneur SL Cathedral of music from our very talented after a long day in the office. Sheffield University students. Beats eating at your Free entry – see our website 11 7.30pm Firth Hall FiS Symphony Orchestra desk any day. Free entry – see for listings 13 7.30pm Martin Simpson Firth Hall GS our website for listings www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts   ShefUniConcerts  [email protected]

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