Our Supporters

A HUGE thankyou to our sponsors, partners and donors for their continued support.

As a small music education charity, we welcome all support no matter how big or small and can offer bespoke packages to businesses wishing to partner with us. Individual donations of good quality instruments are also always welcome. Please contact Matt Wigley to discuss further.

AHF Transforming Heritage
Affinity
Imperial Signs
GRI Group
John Thaw Foundation
The Postlethwaite Music Foundation
The D'Oyly Charitable Trust
The JG Graves Charitable Trust
The Freshgate Trust Foundation
Tramlines Trust
Sheffield Town Trust
SMA would like to thank Dorothy Hampson for the donation of a beautiful Welmar piano to our teaching rooms.

Our Patrons

Elizabeth Watts

Elizabeth Watts was a chorister at Norwich Cathedral and studied archaeology at Sheffield University before attending the Royal College of Music and studying with Lillian Watson. She graduated in 2005 with distinction and was awarded the ‘Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother’ Rose Bowl for outstanding achievement.

Elizabeth won the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Prize, the 2007 Outstanding Young Artist Award at the Cannes “MIDEM Classique Awards” and gained international recognition at the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, winning the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize and becoming a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

In 2011 she won a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and was appointed as an Artist in Residence at London’s South-bank Centre.

Ryan Wigglesworth is a pianist, conductor and composer.

He was born in Wincobank, Sheffield, attended King Edward VII School and was a Cathedral choirboy. After that he went to Charterhouse School then was organ scholar at New College, Oxford.

Ryan went to Guildhall and lectured at Corpus Christi Cambridge for 2 years. He made his conducting debut in Sheffield during the summer of 2014 with the Halle as their Principle Guest Conductor and will be back in the coming seasons.