Jo Towler

Yesterday for @musicintheround.bsky.social I attended the launch of the @sheffieldcathedral.bsky.social five-year strategy as a member of its new Music Board, and a Key Professional Lunch with @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social Cllr Mahroof, all looking towards a brighter future in #Sheffield!

Her Royal Highness met with our Chief Executive @jotowlerwareham.bsky.social for a tour of our home venue, the Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse in the Crucible @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social, before a short performance of violin and piano duos from our resident musicians Ensemble 360 at Upper Chapel.

Running @musicintheround.bsky.social is fab, but outside of work I also get to do fab things, like play to thousands of people at Tramlines Festival...!

Interesting afternoon with colleagues from @sheffielduni.bsky.social with a 'Creative Industries Engaging with Parliament and Policy Makers' training session. Let's make our voices and @musicintheround.bsky.social's heard in London!

Day in London in this place for @musicintheround for a roundtable with the Minister of State for DCMS, Chris Bryant, colleagues from @aborchestras.bsky.social and other key classical organisations, making the case for the sector, its success and impact, and our needs. Good discussion!

At the launch of Sheffield Creative Academy with @sheffcolangela.bsky.social - linking young creative talented people at Sheffield College with the cultural sector. Here's to a bright future! #sheffcolcreates

Why are you calling this Wargame? War is not a game, and this title enhances the idea that countries are playing some sort of game on a pc, or a boardgame, rather than its real impact on people's lives. Its underlying journalistic questioning concept is a good one, but 'game'?!

Music in the Round seeks a new National Projects Manager Music in the Round -

Want to come and join me and other fab people @musicintheround.bsky.social? We're recruiting for a Development Manager and a National Projects Manager: musicintheround.co.uk/music-in-the...
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Sheffield is the place to be! #sheffieldissuper #thisischambermusic

Bach at Breakfast: Ensemble 360 serve up a Goldberg feast A concert at 07:30 am? In a cemetery chapel? It must be the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival!

Fab 5-star review of one of our early morning events in @musicintheround.bsky.social Sheffield Chamber Music Festival. bachtrack.com/review-ensem... We're having a lot of fun here in Sheffield in the sunshine, and so are our sell-out audiences!

Wonderfully mesmerising evening of astonishing music-making from @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social, Jill Jarman and friends to bring Day 2 of the @MusicintheRound Sheffield Chamber Music Festival to a brilliant close!

Wonderful start to @musicintheround 2025 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival last night, celebrating 20 years of Ensemble 360! Today family concert, Janacek musings and music and then the amazing @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social and friends!
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Celebrating music in Sheffield with lots of creatives - @musicintheround.bsky.social just one of many people and groups here. So great to have @tomhunt100.bsky.social and Team Culture Sheffield here this morning supporting the sector.

Welcome to how the cultural sector based outside of the M25 feels on a daily basis. But what can we / are we going to do about it?

Tariffs

At last, someone who understands how tariffs are going to make America great again!
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The Storm Whale: a children’s storybook concert – Big Give Support our new interactive storybook concert, ‘The Storm Whale’, to engage young people aged 3 to 7 across the country with high-quality music-making, many for the first time. Families and schools wi...

We need just £95 of donations in the next hour to hit our £20k fundraising target for our new storybook project for 3-7-year-olds! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Classical Weekend → Our Favourite Places – Sheffield Culture Guide One big celebration of classical music. With pop-up performances in the Winter Garden and Leah's Yard, a workshop for kids in the Musical Pocket Park, a celebration of the musical history of miners, a...

Really chuffed to see @classicalsheffield.bsky.social Festival Weekend featured in @ourfaveplaces.bsky.social! ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/cla.... It's going to be an amazing few days of music across the city! @hallamsinfonia.bsky.social, @musicintheround.bsky.social and many others.

Very excited to have played with Crookes Brass Band today at my first ever Yorkshire Areas!

Listening to @tomhunt100.bsky.social at the South Yorkshire Culture Creatives event at The Showroom. We need to keep dreaming BIG - and we are @musicintheround.bsky.social with our Harmony Works partners!

Getting to know the new voice of Breakfast on Radio 3 Guitarist and presenter Tom McKinney sits down with Clare Stevens ahead of his induction to talk birding, broadcasting and the daunting task of taking over from Petroc Trelawny

Lovely piece about former @musicintheround.bsky.social team member @tommckinney.bsky.social as he takes on a new role on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social: www.classical-music.uk/features/art.... We had some fun times with Tom!

Ensemble 360’s Lark takes wing Ensemble 360’s Music in the Round concert is a homage to the 20th-century English industrialist Walter Willson Cobbett... and also to the enduring popularity of The Lark Ascending.

Wonderful review of the recent @musicintheround.bsky.social concert with Ensemble 360 at @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social featuring English composers. bachtrack.com/review-ensem... Loads more concerts still to come this spring! #lovesheffield

And today for @musicintheround I'm at @sheffielduni.bsky.social for Muses, Mind, Machine conference, led by Prof Renee Timmers. Another busy day!

Here in sunny Gateshead for the #abo2025 conference for @musicintheround. Busy day ahead!

Disappointing BBC Bargain Hunt today. Apparently Meccano is the ultimate 'boy's toy' and 'best left to the boys'. Seriously. It's 2024 and I LOVED playing with my Meccano. Such stereotypes need to be consigned to history.

This morning, I represented @musicintheround.bsky.social at an event about Sheffield's new Cultural Strategy. Delighted to see @tomhunt100.bsky.social, Leader of @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social, talking so passionately about culture in the city. democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/documents/s7...

Inspiring through strings Where is the next Sheku Kanneh-Mason coming from? Support our Visiting Quartet to expand our work in schools with young people up and down the country, inspiring them to play and learn about string pl...

It's that Big Give time of year! We're supporting string playing in our schools at a time when music is being hit by funding cuts, otherwise where will the next generation of music-makers and audiences come from? Any gift welcome... Thank you. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Leafcutter John - "I've built this turntable – you put rocks on it and listen to them" We sat down with the veteran electronic experimentalist to talk about how his new work for Music in the Round taps into the unheard sonic properties of the Peaks.

Really looking forward to seeing and hearing this event @musicintheround.bsky.social on 30 November! nowthenmagazine.com/articles/lea...

Woke up to this in not-so-sunny-Sheffers. Dusting off the winter coat and cracking on!