Music in the Round

05/09/2026

TODAY:
Known for bold, fearless programming, GBSR Duo is fast emerging as the leading interpreter of Morton Feldman’s music. Performances in London at the King’s Place, Barbican and Southbank Centre have received high praise from The Guardian: “the intense concentration of these performers and the delicately immersive sound world they created were utterly unforgettable”. Feldman’s rarely performed ‘Dance Suite’ features alongside a monumental new commission by Bryn Harrison, a leading British composer whose music has been described as “utterly compelling” (The Guardian).

This concert is being recorded by BBC Radio 3 for future broadcast.

🎫 SOUNDS OF NOW: FELDMAN & HARRISON GBSR Duo
🗓️ Sat 5 September, 8pm
📍 Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield

Tickets and more info here:
https://musicintheround.co.uk/events/sounds-of-now-feldman-harrison/

05/09/2026

TODAY:
“An artist of extraordinary magnetism” (Daily Telegraph), Yorkshire pianist Sarah Beth Briggs has enjoyed a distinguished career both on stage and in the recording studio. She returns to the Crucible Playhouse for an afternoon of glittering piano favourites.

Among the highlights are works by R Schumann and Beethoven: Schumann’s evocative Forest Scenes conjures a mysterious and haunting symbolic world, populated by hunters, lonely flowers and a watchful, prophetic bird; while Beethoven wrote of his lively Bagatelles that these were “quite the best pieces of their kind that I have written”.

🎫 PIANO CLASSICS Sarah Beth Briggs
🗓️ Sat 5 September, 2pm
📍 Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield

Tickets and more info here:
https://musicintheround.co.uk/events/piano-classics-2/

04/09/2026

Don’t cry Siwan, there are some great 🍂GBSR AUTUMN DATES🍂 coming up!

🧮 Bryn Harrison world premiere 🧮
5 September | Music in the Round The Crucible Sheffield
Bryn Harrison’s ENORMOUS new piece for us, Five Transfigurations and Seven Litanies (75-100’) will receive its world premiere at Sheffield’s Music in the Round, alongside Morton Feldman’s unpublished and rarely performed Dance Suite (For Merle Marsicano) and Barbara Monk Feldman’s beautiful piano piece Clear Edge

🖼️ Sarah Davachi world premiere 🖼️
26 September | Kings Place
As part of our year as Kings Place Artists in Residence we are so excited to have been able to commission Sarah Davachi to write a piece for the duo. Turn Portrait is for microtonal harp and vibraphone, piano, cowbells, and gongs, using d&b audiotechnik En-Space, and it’s going to be very beautiful indeed

💿 HYPHEN album launch 💿
11 October | Zapyškis, Lithuania
We are so happy to be returning to Lithuania this autumn to play with our brilliant friends Twenty Fingers Duo 🎻🎻 This concert will launch the album we made together of music by Julius Aglinskas and Lawrence Dunn

🧮🇱🇹 Bryn Harrison in Vilnius 🧮🇱🇹
13 October | PLAYGROUND, Vilnius
The second outing of Bryn’s giant Five Transfigurations and Seven Litanies, this time set in Vilnius’ beautiful Sapiegų rūmai palace

💪 Steve Martland: Lines of Resistance 💪
12 November | Kings Place
Our final concert as Kings Place Artists in Residence 😢 we have devised a programme to honour KP’s featured composer Steve Martland. Joined by new music hotties Juliet Fraser and Joseph Havlat we’ll present music by Andriessen, Priaulx Rainier, Stravinsky, Luke Lewis + a few other surprises, alongside Martland’s Drill and our own arrangement of Mr Anderson’s Pavane

🎂 Birthday Boys at HCMF 🎂
24 November | HCMF - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Huddersfield Town Hall
Honouring Steve Reich and Philip Glass’ 90th birthdays, and Morton Feldman’s centenary at HCMF, we’ll present a few ‘number’ pieces: Reich’s Four Organs, Glass’ Two Pages, and Feldman’s Five Pianos, joined by the esteemed Philip Moore, Jake Brown, and Joseph Havlat

JOIN US! Links to almost all of these events here: https://www.gbsr.co.uk/concerts

📸 Dan John Lloyd, with thanks

03/09/2026

An "incredible depiction of the sea." 🌊

Debussy’s La Mer is transformed from a vast orchestral work into an arrangement for piano trio by Sally Beamish. Violinist Benjamin Nabarro explains what makes this arrangement so special and what else you can hear from Ensemble 360.

Book your tickets and hear the sea in a whole new way.

🎫 Debussy: La Mer Ensemble 360
🗓️ Thurs 24 September, 7pm
📍 Upper Chapel Sheffield - Unitarian

Tickets and more info here:
https://musicintheround.co.uk/events/debussy-la-mer/

Classical Sheffield Welcome to Sheffield

02/09/2026

Our series highlights some of the must-sees that you won't want to miss this season!

Winner of the Young Artist Category in the 2026 Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Awards, star trumpeter Matilda Lloyd joins Ensemble 360 for a sparkling celebration of American music, alongside some dazzling trumpet classics. Described by BBC Music Magazine as a “trumpeter extraordinaire,” and celebrated for her impeccable sound, crystalline phrasing, and exquisite control, Matilda Lloyd holds audiences spellbound through virtuosity and expressive power.

This brassy concert celebrates the brilliant sounds of the trumpet and its central place in American chamber music drawing on diverse traditions stretching back to Haydn.

🎫 AMERICANA: GERSHWIN AND BERNSTEIN Matilda Lloyd & Ensemble 360
🗓️ Sat 3 October, 2pm
📍 Upper Chapel Sheffield - Unitarian

Details and booking link here:
https://musicintheround.co.uk/events/americana-gershwin-and-bernstein/

Sheffield Theatres Welcome to Sheffield

01/09/2026

How time flies!
This year we are celebrating 20 years of world-class classical music in Barnsley! 🎈🎻
Article from Aroundtown Magazine

Discover our upcoming Barnsley concerts here: https://musicintheround.co.uk/whats-on/?add_artists=&add_city=38&add_venue=&event_date=&action=mitr_filters

This year, Sheffield charity Music in the Round celebrates 20 years of bringing international classical musicians to Barnsley with a series of concerts.

01/09/2026

THIS WEEK:

🎫 PIANO CLASSICS Sarah Beth Briggs
🗓️ Sat 5 September, 2pm
📍 Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield Sheffield Theatres

🎫 SOUNDS OF NOW: FELDMAN & HARRISON GBSR duo
🗓️ Sat 5 September, 8pm
📍 Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield Sheffield Theatres

Tickets and more info here:
https://musicintheround.co.uk/whats-on

Classical Sheffield Welcome to Sheffield BBC Radio 3

31/08/2026

Find ticket link, full details and programme info for this Concert featuring Tim Horton (piano) in East Midlands

25/08/2026

Our series highlights some of the must-sees that you won't want to miss this season!

Known for bold, fearless programming, GBSR Duo is fast emerging as the leading interpreter of Morton Feldman’s music. Performances in London at the King’s Place, Barbican and Southbank Centre have received high praise from The Guardian: “the intense concentration of these performers and the delicately immersive sound world they created were utterly unforgettable”. Feldman’s rarely performed ‘Dance Suite’ features alongside a monumental new commission by Bryn Harrison, a leading British composer whose music has been described as “utterly compelling” (The Guardian).

This concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for future broadcast.

🎫 SOUNDS OF NOW: FELDMAN & HARRISON GBSR duo
🗓️ Sat 5 September, 8pm
📍 Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield

See comments for details and booking link.

Sheffield Theatres Welcome to Sheffield BBC Radio 3

20/08/2026

Meet the glass harmonica.

Invented by Benjamin Franklin, this extraordinary instrument uses a series of rotating glass bowls to create its unique, ethereal sound. 🎶🫧

Glass-harmonica player Alasdair Malloy shows us exactly how it works and a taste of its beautiful sound.

Alasdair joins Ensemble 360 for Mozart & Friends, a programme including Mozart’s Adagio for Glass Harmonica - Mozart’s final chamber composition. Absolutely not to be missed!

🎫 MOZART & FRIENDS Ensemble 360
🗓️ Tues 8 September, 7pm
📍 Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield Sheffield Theatres

Tickets and more info available in the comments.

Classical Sheffield Welcome to Sheffield