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Ensemble 360 was formed in 2005 to take up residency in South Yorkshire succeeding The Lindsays who were retiring as a quartet. The ensemble brings together musicians from across the globe to form one versatile ensemble of eleven musicians; five wind players, a pianist, double bassist and the Elisas String Quartet.Chimpanzees of Happytown - T1690160395Celebrating the importance of love and happiness in everyone's lives, Paul Rissmann's much-loved musical retelling of Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees's best-selling picture-book returns. Meet Chutney the Chimpanzee who, with one small act of planting a seed, transforms the lives of the entire town of Drabsville, and teaches its inhabitants to celebrate their differences and make life more colourful along the way! With narration, visuals from the book and lots of music to introduce the musicians of Ensemble 360, this is a brilliant first concert for 3-7 year-olds. | |
| 16 Mar 24 | Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680 listing details L0276192910 |
Close Up - Music for Curious Young Minds - T01527220335Combining some of the most well-known music ever written, as well as some new works from surprising places. This brand-new concert includes thrilling adventures through music, cheeky characters and epic heroes, along with mind-blowing musical games and the chance to join in and make music together. This is a friendly hour of fun and the finest string quartet music. | |
| 10 Jun 23 | Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680 listing details L01634328624 |
Shostakovich and Beethoven String Quartets - T1319857372Beethoven inscribed these words on the manuscript of his profoundly moving final string quartet. This Op.135 quartet was written towards the very end of his life, and is touched by the wisdom of his years yet is as full of contrast, quick wit and struggle as any of his earlier works. Two masterpieces of the 20th century are presented alongside Beethoven's quartet: Stravinsky's wonderfully inventive short pieces and Shostakovich's masterful third quartet, which encompasses the scope of a symphony in an intimate chamber work. | |
| 10 Jun 23 | Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680 listing details L01273017305 |
Beethoven, Berwald & Mozart - T01506328764Beethoven's Septet was his most popular work; an inventive, celebratory piece, full of youthful energy and generosity of spirit, punctuated by fanfares, solos, cadenzas and exuberant fireworks that give Ensemble 360 a chance to show off! The evening begins with a Romantic septet, inspired by Beethoven, written by his Swedish younger contemporary, and in between have Mozart's sublime Clarinet Quintet. Three celebrated works of chamber music on a larger scale. | |
| 22 Apr 23 | Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680 listing details L0191622865 |
The Lark Ascending - T243776130The Lark Ascending performed in its original violin and piano version. Vaughan Williams Concerto for Oboe and Strings. Ravel's Sonatine for Piano. Schumann's expansive Piano Quintet in E? major, Op.44. | |
| 4 Feb 23 | Stoller Hall, Manchester :: V1083679661 listing details L1104154149 |
T2124150287Brahms's harmonious Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, one of the great masterpieces in the clarinet repertoire, is performed alongside Schumann's exuberant, playful and romantic ‘fantasy pieces'. This is also a rare chance to hear Vigneri's tuneful and spirited sonata for horn and piano, and Reinecke's trio, which continues the exploration of the fantastical, passing hunting call-like melodies between the clarinet and horn, to a thrilling, galloping climax. | |
| 10 Mar 22 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L01410042618 |
T01915295680The Goldberg Variations are rightly hugely popular. First written for harpsichord and best known to modern audiences as a work for piano, here they are arranged for string trio. In this form, the intricacy of counterpoint and the spirituality of this monumental musical structure are brought to the fore through the conversational interplay between the instruments. These hour-long concerts are not to be missed. | |
| 18 Feb 22 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L1212389275 |
T2054357733Marking clarinettist Matthew Hunt's final appearance in Sheffield as a member of Ensemble 360, he appears in three pieces for this concert. Adès's 'Catch' is a series of intricate musical games and explosive new sounds for strings, clarinet and piano. Stravinsky's narrative work, 'A Soldier's Tale', features an enjoyable mix of styles including ragtime and klezmer to create a dramatic and melodic miniature epic. To end, one of Brahms's later works, his 'Clarinet Trio' providing a fitting conclusion to this fantastic concert.Performer Matthew Hunt. | |
| 10 Feb 22 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L0665181964 |
T01964880153A chance to hear two of Beethoven's early quartets marked by wit and invention, formal control and deft construction. The monumental first 'Razumovsky' quartet follows, an intense work that marked a sea-change in Beethoven's writing and is passionate, defiant and deeply moving. | |
| 5 Feb 22 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L1551814718 |
T1617993616Programme includes: BACH Cello Suites No.1 & No.3 Ensemble 360 cellist, Gemma Rosefield, plays two of Bach's most intimate works, his first and third cello suites. These Suites are some of the most frequently performed and recognisable solo compositions ever written for cello, and regularly feature in film and television soundtracks. They will be complemented by other pieces that also display Bach's intricate construction, inventive spirit and expansive musicality.Performer Gemma Rosefield (cello). | |
| 21 Jan 22 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L2138148395 |
T01135441289The music of Hungary is passionate, thrilling and rooted in the country's own folk music traditions, perhaps best heard in the works of Béla Bartók and György Ligeti, two of the 20th century's most important composers. Bartók's First Violin Sonata is a storm of energy interspersed with moments of elegance and beauty; while Ligeti's Horn Trio is a modern classic that echoes the Brahms Horn Trio with its emotion, as well as featuring dramatic effects from the horn. | |
| 4 Dec 21 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L01620425714 |
Breaking Convention - T1293612725Revered by Mozart and Beethoven, Haydn is celebrated as the ?father' of the string quartet. His second ?Sun' quartet and Beethoven's youthful Sonata for Horn are brimming with an energy that also features in Mozart's glorious Piano Quartet.Performer Claudia Ajmone-Marson (violin). Performer Naomi Atherton (horn). Performer Ruth Gibson (viola). Performer Tim Horton (piano). Performer Benjamin Nabarro (violin). Performer Gemma Rosefield (cello). | |
| 20 Oct 18 | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L1388156420 |
T1747903058This evening's concert of world-class musicians from Ensemble 360 opens with beauty and youthful energy in the form of Schubert's haunting Nocturne and Mendelssohn's vivacious string quartet. Gabriel Faur?'s Requiem is one of the most popular choral works of all time and he brings the same lyricism and warmth to this supremely elegant Piano Quintet.Performer Tim Horton (piano). Performer Benjamin Nabarro (violin). Performer Claudia Ajmone-Marsan (violin). Performer Ruth Gibson (viola). Performer Gemma Rosefield (cello). | |
| 18 Jun 18 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L264505141 |
T1878197455Performer Naomi Atherton (horn). Performer Tim Horton (piano). Performer Benjamin Naborro (violin). Performer Gemma Rosefield (cello). | |
| 13 Mar 17 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L1679799807 |
| 18 Apr 16 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L2142353094 |
T01283789116Ensemble 360 perform works by Mozart, Britten and Finzi. Mozart's String Quartet in E Flat is one of 6 dedicated to Haydn, who declared the younger man to be the finest composer he had ever encountered. | |
| 27 Nov 15 | The Civic, Barnsley :: V959 listing details L0365449553 |
T0847948192In their 10 year history, Ensemble 360 have consistently championed modern music, and this programme features two of Hungary's greatest composers, Bela Bartok and Gyorgy Kurtag. The third quartet is one of Bartok's most significant pieces, revealing an extraordinary mix of effects in a short time-span. Alongside these pieces, they'll be playing Brahms' Clarinet Quintet, considered by some to be his most profound chamber composition. It has an air of melancholy but is punctuated by moments of wild frenzy, not least with an extraordinary outburst in the slow movement. | |
| 23 Oct 15 | The Civic, Barnsley :: V959 listing details L01318473157 |
T379095103Celebrate Ensemble 360s 10th birthday with an evening of pieces that have special significance for the players. Beethoven's Quintet and Elgar's Quintet both featured in the Ensemble's first tour of partner venues across England, while Martinu's sparkling Nonet has become a regular favourite with audiences. | |
| 25 Sep 15 | The Civic, Barnsley :: V959 listing details L338779638 |
T1302639259The 11 members of Ensemble 360 present a glorious programme of chamber music brimming with vitality and energy. From the seductive opening melody of Dvorak's 2nd Piano Quintet, the work of a composer at the peak of his powers, to the irrepressible 'joie de vivre' of Spohr's Nonet, this is a concert full of beauty, 'wild dancing' and happiness. | |
| 2 Jun 15 | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L1594533698 |
T2093945670Britten wrote his Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings while still a student; its concise design and spiky character combine youthful brilliance with striking individuality. Elgar's Andante and Allegro is another early work, composed around 1878, and originally entitled 'Xmas Music'. Beethoven's tribute to Mozart's Don Giovanni was written only five years after Mozart's death. The concert ends with a masterpiece from the end of Beethoven's career: a work of breathtaking innovation that has at its heart the vast ?Heilige Dankgesang', written during the composer's recovery from a near-fatal illness. | |
| 11 Apr 15 | Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680 listing details L941647993 |
T0804063404Regulars to the Wigmore Hall and on BBC 3, as well as here at the New Vic, Ensemble 360 is one of the outstanding chamber groups working in the UK today. | |
| 23 Mar 15 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L2047820671 |
T1079015214New Vic regulars and one of the most outstanding chamber groups working in the UK today, with a programme of two distinct halves: the first, elegant and charming; the second passionate and dramatic. | |
| 27 Nov 14 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L01587384461 |
T1602236093Cesar Franck's Piano Quintet is a work of extraordinary passion that is almost entirely out of character with the restrained beauty of the composer's other work. So brazen was the expressivity that the dedicatee and pianist at the ?rst performance, Camille Saint-Saens, stormed o? the stage at the end of the concert in disgust. The inspiration for the piece is believed to have been Augusta Holmes, a young singer and composer with whom, it is said, the majority of male students and teachers at the Paris Conservatoire were infatuated. | |
| 26 Nov 14 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L979729196 |
Oboe & String - T1588722713 | |
| 11 Oct 14 | Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680 listing details L545573941 |
| 21 Jul 14 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L0718548104 |
T0293458810In their ?rst performance of the season, Ensemble 360 play two outstanding works of the Romantic repertoire. Written in 1842, Schumann's Piano Quartet in E ?at is an invigorating work displaying great subtlety and re?nement. Its musical structure is in?uenced by Beethoven but with passages of sprightliness reminiscent of much of Mendelssohn's music. Schubert's Octet of 1824 also owes much to Beethoven, having been commissioned by Count Ferdinand von Troyer as a piece to complement the latter composer's Septet. By adding a second violin, Schubert created a largely spontaneous, congenial work, with hints of moroseness in common with his other chamber pieces of this period. Tonight's concert supports the Women of Steel fundraising campaign to commission a statue by Martin Jennings. | |
| 9 Oct 14 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L1909911225 |
Shadow Game - T01553072278Shadow Game is a new piece by Charlotte Bray, one of Britain's most dynamic living composers, commissioned especially for Doncaster. It gives a fresh take on a centuries-old musical tradition ? the ?Sinfonia Concertante', a style muchloved by Mozart and Haydn which allows a group of soloists to combine with an orchestra and dazzle with their collective virtuosity. Charlotte and some of Britain's finest instrumentalists ? all members of Ensemble 360 ? join forces with musicians from across Doncasterfor this World Premiere performance. As well as Shadow Game, a treasure trove of other chamber pieces will lead to an exhilarating evening of music. | |
| 5 Apr 14 | Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680 listing details L1516183469 |
& Marina Lewycka: Conversation Pieces - T991926648Ensemble 360 play a sequence of pieces that touch on the family background and musical experiences of one of the UK's favourite novelists, Marina Lewycka. During the concert, ensemble members will discuss with Marina the importance of her Ukrainian heritage and exchange thoughts on the nature of performing and listening to chamber music. Ranging across three centuries, the music in tonight's programme moves from the elegance of Bach to the liveliness of Poulenc's Trio, and the Romantic yearning of Chopin's early Piano Trio. Prokofiev's Five Melodies began as wordless songs for the Ukrainian soprano Nina Koshetz, but Prokofiev quickly made a virtuoso arrangement of them for the Polish violinist Paul Kochanski. | |
| 17 Oct 13 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L1867139251 |
Concert 1 - T1479506373This concert includes a rare opportunity to hear Brahms's beautiful Serenade Op.11 as it was originally conceived, for ten instruments, before he reworked it for orchestra. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll must be one of the most exquisite musical gifts ever composed: it was first performed on the stairs of Wagner's house on Christmas morning 1869, as a birthday present for his wife Cosima. Lutoslawski's ebullient Dance Preludes are inspired by the folk music of Poland. | |
| 10 Oct 13 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L01436115116 |
& Peter Cropper - T583755368Leader of the legendary Lindsays, co-founder of Music in the Round and world-class violinist, Peter Cropper, joins Music in the Round's brilliant resident ensemble. | |
| 10 Jul 13 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L0916140189 |
T0230605444Ensemble 360 makes its own contribution to the Olympic celebrations with a programme designed to inspire us all to get active! A rare chance to hear Andre Caplet's effervescent Quintet, pieces featured at the 1936 and 1984 Olympic Games, music by composers with some surprising connections to the world of sport, and a new work by US-born composer Stephen Montague.Performer Naomi Atherton (horn). Performer Juliette Bausor (flute). Performer Amy Harman (bassoon). Performer Tim Horton (piano). Performer Matthew Hunt (clarinet). Performer Adrian Wilson (oboe). | |
| 14 Jun 12 | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L02013895865 |
Intimate Letters - T1635251326Janacek's letters to his young lover, adapted by Paul Allen and read by an actor, follow a composer's journey from inspiration to music. | |
| 12 Mar 12 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L550898065 |
Intimate Letters - with Timothy West - T303807764Performer Banjamin Nabarro (violin). Performer Claudia Ajmone-Marsan (violin). Performer Judith Busbridge (viola). Performer Gemma Rosefield (cello). Performer Laurene Durantel (double bass). | |
| 2 Dec 11 | New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth :: V769 listing details L720795711 |
| 20 Nov 11 | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L0223235501 |
T1493885869Ensemble 360 brings together eleven musicians of international reputation, renowned not only for their world-class playing but also for the way in which they communicate their passion and enthusiasm for the music. The programme is full of energy and vivacity, starting with Poulenc’s highly animated and witty Sextet. Dvorak wrote his Quintet early in his life and his young and infectious spirit can be heard throughout. Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, usually heard for orchestra, are based on gypsy tunes and full of explosive energy. In contrast, Brahms’ Trio was written in the wake of his mother’s death. | |
| 3 Apr 11 | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L0942437924 |
Music in the Road - T769759166Beethoven’s The Ghost, is named after the atmospheric slow movement which helped to establish the popularity of the piano trio as genre. Brahms’ Serenade is a lively dance-like work that’s full of surprises! Sandwiched between the two is a new and beautiful work by Welsh composer Huw Watkins. Chamber music is close to Huw’s heart and he has written works for many leading chamber ensembles. Broken Consort was written especially for Ensemble 360 in 2008. | |
| 7 Jun 09 | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L875397585 |
Music in the Round - T1584157892Company Dirty Beasts. | |
| 22 Jun 08 | Telford Theatre, Telford :: V110 listing details L944008367 |
Tour de France - Music in the Round May Festival 2007 - T2054536862 | |
| 11 May 07 to 19 May 07 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L326004785 |
T1077451660Company Britten Sinfonietta. Group/Band Poulenc Sextet. Music Elgar (Piano Quintet in A minor). | |
| 8 Feb 07 | Lancaster Arts, Lancaster :: V522 listing details L01543924841 |
T01962941621Music Britten. Music Spohr. Music Dvorak. | |
| 7 Jan 07 | The Theatre By The Lake, Keswick :: V7 listing details L0983680846 |
& Friends - Songs Without Words - Exploring Early Romanticism - T01966431312 | |
| 5 May 06 to 13 May 06 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L1051023051 |
T0971417864Music Mozart (Flute Quartet in A K298). Music Beethoven (Piano-Quintet in E Flat Opus 16). Music Elgar (Piano Quintet in A Minor Opus 84). | |
| 14 Dec 05 | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L0607675489 |
| 9 Dec 05 | Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax :: V1098014226 listing details L1060871738 |
| 28 Sep 05 | The Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere :: V191 listing details L1975633955 |
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| 30 Apr 18 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L939777937 |
| 23 Nov 15 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L1328596265 |
| 24 Oct 15 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L01028665021 |
| 19 Oct 15 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L850308685 |
| 24 Jan 15 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L2118748651 |
| 27 Oct 14 | Guildhall, Portsmouth :: V770 listing details L01960635557 |
| 5 Jul 14 | Cast, Doncaster :: V1545109680 listing details L715367567 |
| 12 Mar 10 | Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax :: V1098014226 listing details L1537336299 |
| 3 Jun 09 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L0885620157 |
| 7 Feb 09 | Sheffield Theatres, Sheffield :: V962 listing details L01231639276 |
| 12 Jun 08 | Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax :: V1098014226 listing details L505568727 |
| 26 Apr 08 | Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax :: V1098014226 listing details L074383355 |
| 28 Mar 08 | Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax :: V1098014226 listing details L1328232383 |
| 29 Apr 07 | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L01397450473 |
| 17 Jan 07 | New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L01634667600 |
