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About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

About Hallam Sinfonia
Set up as a chamber orchestra 50 years ago, the Hallam Sinfonia's repertoire nowadays extends from the baroque to the 21st century, including large-scale romantic works, and from the mainstream classics to film music and children's concerts. We also enjoy collaborations: we have a partnership with Hallam Choral Society, with whom we work at least once a year, and have performed with other groups in the city.

Upcoming concerts
Click here to learn more about our forthcoming concerts in the remainder of the 2025-26 season

Hallam Sinfonia
Hallam Sinfonia is an exciting Sheffield-based orchestra which aims to provide audiences with the highest quality music-making possible through its highly skilled players and stimulating programmes. Find out about what we do and why you should come and see what we do!
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Dancing Through Time: Discovering Something a Little Different
Soloists for our upcoming concert, Kathryn Hathaway and Charlotte Kenyon, discuss how they came to know - and love - Nancy Galbraith's concerto "Dancing Through Time" When we first decided that we would like to audition to perform a concerto with Hallam Sinfonia, we knew that we wanted to do something a little different. As a flute and viola duo, the obvious problem was that there isn’t exactly an enormous catalogue of concertos waiting for us! So began a period of musical de


Reflections on Concerteenies
This piece was written by Emily Paul, a mother who has brought her children to several of Hallam Sinfonia's collaborations with Concerteenies - a Sheffield-based musical charity putting on concerts for younger children. Although originally aimed at children aged under 7, some of our recent collaborations, including March's "The Duck With No Luck", have targetted slightly older children as well! Thank you Concerteenies and Hallam Sinfonia! Concerteenies has played a big part i


A Violinist's Perspective on Scheherazade
Our forthcoming concert will include one of the most enduring 19th century orchestral works - Rimsky-Korsakov's epic Scheherazade. Based on the tales of The Arabian Nights, the role of the story-teller Scheherazade is represented by a solo violin, with her quasi-improvised theme being repeated frequently throughout the work. Our leader, Hannah Thompson-Smith, will perform this role in our performance, and she told us why she loves the piece: Throughout my playing career, Sche


Introducing Katherine Stonham!
We are delighted that for our forthcoming performance, Engineering and Inventions: A Passenger Seats Concert , we will be joined by conductor Katherine Stonham for the first time! Originally from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Katherine is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester, where she studied violin with Julia Hanson and conducting with Robert Guy. She was awarded the GRNCM diploma in July 2021. Katherine is principal conductor of the
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