PRESS RELEASE September 2015
This October Sheffield’s choirs, ensembles, orchestras and instrumentalists come together in the first ever Classical Sheffield Festival of Music. More than 600 singers and instrumentalists, from age 7 to 82, professional and amateur, will fill the city with music in the biggest and most varied celebration of classical music it has ever seen. There’ll be 30 concerts, from a bite-sized 20 minutes to 90 minutes long in seven venues: Sheffield Cathedral, City Hall and City Hall Ballroom, Crucible Studio, Blue Moon Cafe, Firth Hall, and a programme of pop-up music in Winter Garden , October 23rd - 25th 2015. Four symphony orchestras, seven chamber ensembles, twelve choirs, and two opera companies will perform works by more than 50 composers, including Mozart, Mussorgsky, Bernstein, Boulez, Tippett, Piazzolla, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Turnage, Bartok, Barber and Terry Riley as well as Indian classical music and classical-influenced jazz. The festival starts on Friday 23rd with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sheffield-born Ryan Wigglesworth and ends with New York Counterpoint at Firth Hall on Sunday 25th. Most concert tickets are just £5 with those aged 18 and under going completely free. There are two days of fee events in the Winter Garden and Blue Moon café. Deborah Chadbourn, Executive Director of Music in the Round, said:
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