The organisation was formed in 1984 by Peter Cropper, then the leader of Sheffield's world-renowned string quartet, The Lindsays.
It has worked with a variety of other art forms, artists and organisations including poet Ian McMillan, actors Samuel and Timothy West, composers Huw Watkins and Stephen Montague, choreographer Anna Olejnicki and local organisations such as Museums Sheffield, Flying Donkey, Opus Independents and Ignite Imaginations.
It has an innovative Learning & Participation] programme that delivers activity for all ages and levels of ability.
Reaching 10,000 people aged 0-19 each year, it includes a unique brand of children's concerts that play to sell-out audiences across England, regularly run schools’ workshops, performance and composition classes, Early Years workshops, concert opportunities for young performers, workshops for local musicians, talks, symposiums, masterclasses and more.
Regularly collaborating with Sheffield Music Hub and Sheffield Music Academy, in 2019 it led a hugely successful project, 'Schubert in Schools', with renowned baritone Roderick Williams, its singer-in-residence, to hundreds of KS3 pupils around the country.