Keystones Piano Festival Presents Hallam Sinfonietta with Chris Noble

​This May we’re delighted to be hosting a week of music in the round with our Keystones Piano Festival in the historic Samuel Worth Chapel. Featuring a varied lineup of contemporary and classical compositions, this celebration of piano offers an intimate and atmospheric experience in our unique heritage setting.

Join 13 members of Sheffield’s outstanding symphony orchestra, Hallam Sinfonia, as they accompany one of Sheffield’s best jazz Pianists Chris Noble, for a sumptuous summery evening of Jazz, Classical, Folk and Pop. The varied programme sees Cole Porter classics paired with Grieg’s Holberg Suite; the opening theme of Tomb Raider alongside Ernest Tomlinson’s Folk Suite, plus many other lovely surprises …(any Severance fans out there?) We are really excited to bring a mini version of our orchestra to the beautiful Chapel and to fill the space with some soaring, beautiful melodies. Tickets are strictly limited so get yours early to avoid disappointment.

About Chris Noble
Chris is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, big band leader and music educator living in Sheffield. Chris has worked with and composed for a wide and diverse number of ensembles and performers including Opera North, Ffin Dance, and leading Jazz trombonist Dennis Rollins, with whom he composed and directed a mass performance piece (600 kids!) for a Music For Youth prom, commissioned by the joint music hubs of South Yorkshire. His 2022 composition City in the Sea for orchestra and soprano is published by UYMP, and Piece For A Dark Place was commissioned and performed by Hallam Sinfonia in 2024. Chris is also the leader, keys player and arranger for big band Straight 8s, a crack team of jazz pros operating out of Sheffield playing the music from the likes of Jamiroquai, Stevie Wonder, and, er, Daniel Bedingfield.

About Hallam Sinfonia
Often regarded as the closest Sheffield gets to a professional orchestra, Hallam Sinfonia continues to impress and astonish their audiences with their high level of skill and performance. Performing four core concerts a year in venues across the city the orchestra also loves to collaborate with other music groups in Sheffield to reach new audiences and bring music to as many people as possible. They love performing with Concerteenies, a musical charity here in Sheffield that brings the highest quality of music to babies and young children (and their adults!) with interactive and exciting concerts that make for the perfect introduction to an orchestra. And they also love to perform with their friends at Hallam Choral Society yearly too, creating concerts together that bring the best of both worlds to their audience. Hallam were also ecstatic to put on their first ever Christmas concert last December too at the beautiful Sheffield Town Hall together with Steel City Choristers – another amazing musical charity here in Sheffield that provides young people of Sheffield the best in choral teaching and performance training that would otherwise be unavailable to them.