Each May, Sheffield Chamber Music Festival sets up in the Crucible's intimate Playhouse theatre and other venues around the city for nine days of intimate and inviting classical music performances for all ages. It's all organised by the folks at Music in the Round.
The guest curator for Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2026 is singer Claire Booth. The festival will open with a launch performance from Claire with Music in the Round's resident band Ensemble 360.
The 2026 programme features much-loved chamber music staples composed by the likes of Beethoven and Brahms, as well as the opportunity to try something a little more unusual.
Highlights in the programme include: a performance of collaborative work by American composer Morton Feldman and Irish writer Samuel Beckett, an opera for children, and a day of music and walking in the Peak District. Meanwhile the atmospheric Samuel Worth Chapel in Sheffield General Cemetery will host performances of birdsong at dawn and breakfast, ending with a sunset show as darkness falls.
See the full Sheffield Chamber Music 2026 programme.
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