New Music for Doncaster

A piece of music themed around Doncaster’s history is set to receive its world premiere in the city.

Saturday 18 March 2023, 7.15pm, Tickets £12 under 26, £15 standard at CAST, Doncaster

Eminent concert pianist Matthew Schellhorn, a former Hatfield resident who has recorded numerous critically acclaimed albums, is performing the new piece.

At the heart of the solo piano concert is a new commission by Yorkshire-based composer Ben Gaunt, written to celebrate the fine and unusual stone carvings of the Doncaster Sand House –a unique and fascinating but little-known part of Britain’s heritage which stood from the 1850s until the Second World War. Sand House is an evocative new suite of piano pieces telling an important part of Doncaster’s story, composed by Gaunt and commissioned by Schellhorn lasting around 20 minutes. As part of Schellhorn’s concert, music to set the scene includes two 1920s masterpieces –Gershwin’s jazz–classical crossover Rhapsody in Blue, and Ravel’s haunting and timeless Boléro.