About This Live Project

The Church of the Nazarene on Victoria Street, Sheffield, is currently a disused, grade II listed building owned by the University. Despite the music department moving into the adjacent Jessop building and new, purpose-built SoundHouse, they are still lacking a space for performance. The vision is to adapt the empty church into a licensed performance space for music, which can become a home for music and a face for musicians to present their music to the city of Sheffield.

The music department engages in a diverse range of performing activities from classical chamber music, to opera and contemporary music theatre, including world music performance, electroacoustic music and mixed media. The proposed performance space will be central to the day to day functioning (rehearsing, performing, teaching) as well as knowledge transfer and community activities, of the music department. Ensemble in residence Ensemble 360 and world music performer in residence John Ball would perform there, along with a steady stream of internationally acclaimed visiting performers.

Friday 23 October 2009

Lunchtime Concert

Today we experienced a performance from the Mick Beck Stephen Grew Duo, who kicked off the first in the season of University Luchtime Concerts. Stephen Grew was on the piano and Mick Beck played a mixture of the tenor sax, bassoon and whistles. The two created a series of interesting, experimental and improvised pieces within the intimate location of the drama studio.
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