April Spotlight on Culture in Sheffield
Music in the round announces Kathryn Stott and Steven Isserlis CBE as Guest Festival Curators for Sheffield Chamber Music Festival in 2023 and 2024
Kathryn Scott
Music in the Round, the leading national promoter of chamber music, launches its first ever edition of Sheffield Chamber Music Festival with a Guest Festival Curator this year: composer Helen Grime MBE. Running from Friday 13 – Saturday 21 May 2022, the chamber music showcase will be a vibrant nine-day celebration held in the Crucible Studio Theatre and other venues around Sheffield.
Helen will be followed by pianist Kathryn Stott, who will curate Sheffield Chamber Music Festival in 2023. She is an internationally-renowned musician who has performed across the world, appearing at the Last Night of the BBC Proms. For more than 25 years, Kathryn has been the artistic vision behind many major festivals and concert series in Norway, Italy, Leeds and Manchester, and most recently was Artistic Director for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (2018–2021).
Cellist Steven Isserlis
Cellist Steven Isserlis CBE takes on the role of Guest Curator for Sheffield Chamber Music Festival in 2024, to celebrate Music in the Round’s 40th anniversary year. Steven Isserlis enjoys a unique and distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author and broadcaster. As a chamber musician, he has curated series for many of the world’s most famous festivals and venues, including Wigmore Hall, 92nd St Y in New York and the Salzburg Festival. Steven is currently the artistic director of the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove, in Cornwall.
Jo Towler, Chief Executive of Music in the Round: “Sheffield Chamber Music Festival is the highlight of our year-round programme, since we were founded by Peter Cropper of Lindsay String Quartet fame, 38 years ago. As we approach our 40th anniversary we thought we would take it to the next level by inviting amazing musicians to curate each year, bringing their own personal perspective to the Festival.
“It is a recognition of our reputation, established by Peter over the years and more recently with Ensemble 360, that we are able to attract guest curators of this calibre to bring people and music closer together in Music in the Round’s unique and friendly ‘in the round’ concerts.”
Music in the Round presents concerts at numerous venues around the country as well as its home of Sheffield Theatres’ Crucible Studio.