Listen back to Tim Horton performing as part of Ensemble 360 across a series of BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts at the start of this month.
The programmes were drawn from several concerts recorded during Music in Round’s most recent autumn chamber music series across South Yorkshire, including concerts in Sheffield, Barnsley and Doncaster. Tim featured in three out of four BBC Radio Lunchtime Concerts on consecutive days featuring these recordings of Ensemble 360.
Appearing in the first concert, broadcast on 31st January, Tim gave a lovely spoken introduction to Ensemble 360 and Music in the Round, before introducing and performing Brahms’s wonderful Three Intermezzi for solo piano, He then went on to perform alongside Ensemble 360’s string players in Vaughan Williams’s Piano Quintet. Click here to listen again.
Tim featured again in the following day’s concert, this time as part of a mixed ensemble performing Ernő Dohnányi’s magnificent Sextet in C major. Click here to listen again.
In the last concert, broadcast on Friday 3rd February, Tim gave another spoken introduction, this time to Ravel’s magnificent Sonatine for solo piano, which he performs as the concert’s opening piece. Click here to listen again.
Tim is a permanent member of Ensemble 360, Music in the Round’s resident chamber ensemble, which plays a key role in the annual Sheffield Chamber Music Festival and performs frequently across South Yorkshire and around the country throughout the year. They have just been announced on the shortlist for a 2023 RPS Award in the Ensemble category, with the results being announced in a ceremony at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on Wednesday 1st March. Click here for more info.