Our friends have been on tour! After a week in Spain, three concerts in three towns, some very hot days and many hours travelling home on the coach, CSYO – The City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra played an incredible final concert last night at Sheffield Cathedral featuring Holst The Perfect Fool, 3 compositions by students in […]
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National youth music charity, Orchestras for All (OFA), has today announced the relocation of its headquarters from London to Sheffield. Following years of music-making activity at Camden arts venue, Cecil Sharp House ‒ home to the English Folk Dance and Song Society, with whom OFA looks forward to retaining a close link ‒ OFA’s new
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Harmony Works Trust is celebrating a key project milestone following its recent purchase of the 35,000 sq.ft Grade II* Listed Canada House in Sheffield City Centre. The £14m Harmony Works project will restore and revitalise Canada House, one of Sheffield’s grandest buildings. The building will be transformed into a new, central music education hub for
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We are thrilled to welcome Concerteenies and The Choir With No Name as new partners of Harmony Works. Concerteenies produces high-quality, relaxed musical experiences for 0-7 year olds and their adults. The Choir with No Name runs choirs and builds joyful singing communities with homeless and marginalised people around the UK. Their activities will also
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Harmony Works has been awarded funding to support key workstreams this year. Sheffield City Council approved the grant award in an Economic Development and Skills Committee meeting, on Wednesday 21 February. Committee chair Cllr. Martin Smith said: “The insides of that building are beautiful and in terms of a performance space for music would be absolutely
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Harmony Works is thrilled to welcome Ruth McDonald as the newest member of the board. Ruth joins the team as an experienced board member, also sitting on the Sheffield Theatres Trust board and the University of Sheffield Arts and Culture board. Ruth is a social worker and Race Equality Commissioner. On joining the board, Ruth
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We are delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has awarded Harmony Works a grant to support the restoration of Canada House, to create a music education and performance venue in the heart of Sheffield. The Wolfson Foundation is an independent charity with a focus on research and education. Its aim is to support civil society by
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Children across the city are taking part in fringe events to celebrate the MOBO Awards coming to town and we’re delighted that Harmony Works and our partner Sheffield Music Hub are on the Fringe Steering Committee, engaging with our fabulous Sheffield community of musicians across the city. As we anticipate the 7th February, which will
The below is written by the students involved in the project: We are architecture students at the University of Sheffield working on a digital design engagement tool that will include young people in the future vision of Canada House. The communities of young people that Harmony Works is involved with are central to the future
On September 29 2023, children at Beck Primary School in Shiregreen joined the thousands of other school children from nine other inner-city schools in Sheffield who have experienced playing a brass instrument. The culmination concert at Beck Primary came at the end of a week of music-making as part of the Proms in the Playground
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