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Music Drama Lectures, Seminars & Conferences Other Public Events & Activities Drama Studio Spring Programme Department of Music Open Campus Spring Concerts February – May 2013 Sheffield Festival of Science and Engineering 15-24 March University Of Sheffield Follow us on Twitter Events. @SheffUniWhatsOn Download this booklet at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson/opencampus For more information on events at the University of Sheffield see: www.sheffield.ac.uk/whatson Sheffield Festival of Science groundbreaking role played by The Festival will be held in a and Engineering is our new science and technology in our range of exciting venues across celebration of science and region. the city including the museums, engineering and will be held in universities, science centres There will be a series of March 2013. The Festival will and local industry locations. influential speakers and we are include the renowned National delighted to host Professor The Sheffield Festival of Science and Engineering Week Jim Al-Khalili, a Professor in Science and Engineering will (15-24 March 2013) and will Theoretical Physics and Chair also aim to inspire tomorrow’s build on its success. of Public Engagement at the graduates with a chance to visit Funded and organised by The University of Surrey. The many University departments, University of Sheffield and activities will include over 120 some of which will include an Sheffield Hallam University sessions with local schools opportunity to gain hands-on and supported by museums and a programme open to the experience. and industry-education groups public with over 50 different To find out more about across the city, the Festival demonstrations, talks and Sheffield Festival of Science & will build on our universities’ experiments to take part in. Engineering 2013 please visit world class research and our website h demonstrate the exciting and www.scienceweeksy.org.uk/ Music Music – Department of Spring Concerts Department of Music Spring Concerts Classical – World – Jazz • Lunchtime – Rush-Hour – Evening • Affordable –Eclectic – ENLIGHTENING Aspiring to produce a varied programme of engaging and high quality musical events in an informal environment. Our concerts are aimed towards diverse audiences at a low cost. Tickets, when required, can be obtained from: Find us on Facebook: Sheffield Arena Ticket Shop: www.facebook.com/tuosconcerts T: 0114 256 5567 Follow us on twitter: Online at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts www.twitter.com/tuosconcerts University of Sheffield Students’ Union Box Office (Mon–Fri, 11.00am–6.00pm), View videos on YouTube: Western Bank, S10 2TG. www.youtube.com/tuosconcerts On the door on a first come first served basis, For more detailed programme information half an hour before the start of each concert. and to request a brochure please visit: www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts General Enquiries: T: 0114 222 0468 E: [email protected] FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTS RUSH-HOUR All concerts are at 1.10pm (doors open at 12.45pm) CONCERTS Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN Beat the traffic, avoid the public transport rush and These concerts are designed to be an alternative, informal way unwind before going home to spend part of a lunch hour and members of the audience may after a hard day’s work. These arrive and leave between musical items. informal concerts provide great affordable music for THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY THURSDAY 18 APRIL all people, including those GARY O’SHEA (PIANO) HANNAH ROBBINS with busy lifestyles who (SOPRANO) cannot make our evening and lunchtime concerts. MONDAY 18 FEBRUARY JAMES BINGHAM (TENOR), THURSDAY 25 APRIL MONDAYS MATT MALONE (PIANO) REBECCA BYDE (TRUMPET), 4 FEBRUARY EVELYN COOPER (PIANO) MA Performance Students MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY 18 FEBRUARY RACHEL CROWLEY (PIANO), THURSDAY 2 MAY MA Performance Students LAURA LISTER (SOPRANO), MIRIAM MCCOMBES 4 MARCH (SOPRANO), MARTHA EDDY Sheffield University Rep (SOPRANO) Orchestra MONDAY 11 MARCH JESSICA CRICH (PIANO) 8 APRIL THURSDAY 9 MAY Sheffield University Vocal XI NAN (PIANO), SEVASTI Consort THURSDAY 11 APRIL NOROU (PIANO) 15 APRIL NATALIE HALLIDAY (CELLO), Sheffield University Big Band SAM GILES (VIOLIN) Admission is free and tickets are not required 22 APRIL Percussion Ensemble Tickets £2.50 (only available on the door) Music – Department of Music SpringSpecial Concerts Events –– 01 Benjamin Britten, CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET c1949 at Crag House, TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY, photo by Roland Haupt 7.45pm Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN 6.30pm – Pre-Concert Talk: Paul Kildea – Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century. One of the world’s most celebrated and widely-travelled ensembles open the project with three powerful and captivating masterpieces of the string quartet literature - Britten’s hauntingly beautiful third string quartet, Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet and A BOY WAS BORN Shostakovich’s powerful and A FESTIVAL OF MUSIC CELEBRATING moving String Quartet No8 100 YEARS OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN Tickets £8.50, £6 Generously supported by The University of Sheffield (concessions), £3 (students, Arts Enterprise and the Britten–Pears Foundation. unwaged, under 26) More Arts Enterprise events on Pgs 11 & 12 HELEN ABBOTT (SOPRANO) MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY, The composer Benjamin Britten worked prolifically in 5.30pm almost every genre. His mastery of the orchestra, his Firth Hall, Firth Court, brilliant and versatile approach to musical drama, his Western Bank, S10 2TN ingenuity and sensitivity in the marriage of music and text in song, and his commitment to making music accessible Britten: Quatre Chansons to all by composing for amateurs and children has ensured Françaises Britten’s music still continues to enthral and capture the Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées imagination of audiences around the world. Songs will be interspersed with The festival will promote better understanding of his poetry readings by students life and work as composer and musical innovator; in from the Department of French. addition to examining the broader context of arts and culture in the 20th century. Encompassing talks, concerts, Admission is free and tickets films, and musical theatre productions, internationally are not required acclaimed visiting artists perform alongside community musical organisations in the city in this yearlong Sheffield celebration of music, culture and Benjamin Britten. For more information, ticket purchase and to request a festival brochure please visit the festival website: www.aboywasborn.co.uk Music Music Music 02 –– Music – Department of Music Spring Concerts Music – Department of Spring Concerts TALK AND PERFORMANCE: CANTICLE II AND THE THEME OF THE SACRIFICIAL SON MONDAY 11 MARCH, 5.30pm Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN Professor Hugh Pyper, Sam Penkett (countertenor), Stewart Campbell (tenor), Jonathan Gooing (piano) A performance of Britten’s dramatic ‘Canticle II’ and accompanying lecture on the theme of loss of innocence in Britten’s operas and songs. PHOENIX PIANO TRIO Admission is free and tickets are not required TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY, 7.30pm Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN JOAN RODGERS (SOPRANO) CHRISTOPHER Fast establishing itself as one of today’s leading GLYN (PIANO) ensembles, the Trio perform John Ireland’s TUESDAY 12 MARCH, 7.30pm passionately intense Piano Trio No3 and Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN Beethoven’s irresistible Ghost Trio. Britten: The Poet’s Echo, Op76 Tickets £8.50, £6 (concessions), £3 (students, unwaged, under 26) Critically acclaimed soprano Joan Rodgers CBE performs Britten’s six atmospheric and mesmerising settings of poems by SHEFFIELD CHORALE Pushkin alongside songs by Rimsky-Korsakov, SATURDAY 9 MARCH, 7.30pm Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov. St Andrew’s Church, 31 Psalter Lane, S11 8YL Tickets £8.50, £6 (concessions), £3 (students, unwaged, under 26) A selection of Britten’s prolific choral music will be performed alongside songs sung by Peter Thompson, winner of the David Clover award in SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY CHAMBER the Oratorio and Sacred Song. ORCHESTRA Tickets £10, £8 (concessions), £6 (students). FRIDAY 15 MARCH, 7.30pm Under 16s free Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN (Not on sale from main box office, visit The orchestra and undergraduate student James www.aboywasborn.co.uk for details) Bingham perform the sparkling and energetic orchestral song cycle Les Illuminations. HALLAM SINFONIA Tickets £8.50, £6 (concessions), £3 (students, SATURDAY 9 MARCH, 7.30pm unwaged, under 26) Ecclesall Parish Church, Ringinglow Road, S11 7PQ Tickets and booking details on page 1 The Hallam Sinfonia play Britten’s Simple Symphony alongside works by Beethoven and Schumann. Music Tickets £10, £8 (concessions), £5 (students), £3 Music (under 18) Music Music – Department of Music Spring Concerts –– 03 SHEFFIELD YOUTH ORCHESTRA SATURDAY 23 MARCH, 7.30pm Central United Reform Church, 60 Norfolk Street, S1 2JB Performances of two works composed for the horn player Dennis Brain: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, an orchestral song cycle settings of five poems on the theme of night, and the lucid Canticle III based on Edith Sitwell’s Poem The Raids (1940). Stephen Vickers (conductor); Stewart Campbell SACCONI STRING QUARTET (tenor); Lily Frascina (French horn) TUESDAY 30 APRIL, 7.30pm Tickets: £8, £6 (concessions). (Not on sale from Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN main box office, visit www.aboywasborn.co.uk for details) The Sacconi Quartet, recognised for its unanimous and compelling ensemble perform Britten’s