Martin Harris Centre

ESTIVAL Day One - Ad Solem Chamber Choir

19:30 - 22:00 5 June 2012
Ad Solem - The University of Manchester Chamber Choir- kicking off ESTIVAL with an enchanting programme of choral music. This event will be held at The Catholic Church of the Holy Name of Jesus.

ESTIVAL Day 2 - Manchester University Wind Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 6 June 2012
Join us for the second evening concert of ESTIVAL 2012! MUWO, the University's largest wind ensemble performs Dragon Dance, In The Realm of the Sun God and Godzilla. To book please…

ESTIVAL Day 2 - Wind & Brass Ensembles

01:00 - 15:00 6 June 2012
Allow the Music Society to take you on a round-the-world trip through Spain, New York, Ireland and Greece in the first lunchtime concert of ESTIVAL 2012, with music from our Brass &…

ESTIVAL Day 3 - Manchester University Big Band

19:30 - 21:30 7 June 2012
The Big Band returns to entertain us with more classic gems from the Big Band repertoire. To book please follow the Quay Tickets link or call the Martin Harris Center Box Office.

ESTIVAL Day 3 - Opera

13:00 - 15:00 7 June 2012
ESTIVAL Day 3 begins with soloist Stephanie Tress in Martijn Padding: Last Words for Cello, and following a widely acclaimed full-house premiere in November 2011, our very own Leo Geyer…

ESTIVAL Day 4 - Beat The Rush Hour - String & Chamber Orchestras

17:00 - 19:00 8 June 2012
Join us for the final Beat The Rush Hour concert of Estival 2012! Soloist Jamie Phillips performs Hertel: Trumpet Concerto No.1, followed by Mendelssohn's ever popoular Hebrides Overture.…

ESTIVAL Day 4 - Brass Band

13:00 - 15:00 8 June 2012
The University of Manchester Brass Band kicks off the final day of ESTIVAL 2012 with a collection of landscape inspired pieces. To book please follow the Quay Tickets link or call the Martin Harris Centre Box Office.

ESTIVAL DAY 4 - Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 8 June 2012
The finale of ESTIVAL 2012 is set to be a classic! The University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra performs Rachmaninov's mythological canvas in The Isle of the Dead, Elgar's amusing…

Julian Jacobson - Beethoven Piano Recital

19:30 - 21:30 26 June 2012
Julian Jacobson will perform an all-Beethoven recital in conjunction with the Manchester International Beethoven Conference (University of Manchester, 25-27 June 2012). The programme…

Hallé Youth Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 16 July 2012
Borodin Prince Igor Overture Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (pathétique) Conductor - Andrew Gourlay Violin - Ciaran McCabe The Hallé Youth Orchestra…

Hallé Youth Choir

19:30 - 21:30 17 July 2012
The Hallé Youth Choir, with new Youth Choir Director, Richard Wilberforce, present a concert for a summer evening, prior to the forthcoming concert tour of Belgium in August.

Manchester Pride Chamber Music Lunchtime Concert

13:00 - 15:00 20 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Pride Chamber Music Evening Concert (BBC Radio 3 Recording)

19:30 - 22:00 21 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Pride Chamber Music Lunchtime Concert

13:00 - 15:30 22 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Pride Chamber Music Evening Concert (BBC Radio 3 Recording)

19:30 - 22:00 23 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Pride Chamber Music Lunchtime Concert

13:00 - 15:00 24 August 2012
Now in its fifth year, Manchester Pride’s series of chamber music recitals celebrates LGBT composers and features internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.…

Cooperation and Human Cognition’ – Public Lecture by Professor Michael Tomasello.

14:00 - 18:00 28 August 2012
Michael Tomasello, psychologist and co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, is one of the world’s leading researchers on social learning, communication…

BBC Radio 3 Live in Concert: Sunwook Kim

19:30 - 21:30 17 September 2012
Acclaimed Korean pianist Sunwook Kim comes to the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall to kick start BBC Radio 3’s exciting six-week Piano season this autumn. Sunwook Kim burst onto the international…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert & Seminar

13:00 - 15:00 27 September 2012
Haydn Quartet in C, Op. 1, No. 1 in B flat Karen Tanaka Metal Strings The University’s international star quartet-in-residence opens the new season with the modest birth of…

Quatuor Evening Concert

19:30 28 September 2012
Weinberg Quartet No. 3, Op. 14 Xenakis Tetras Beethoven Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 The Danels’ first evening concert showcases their greatest strengths: the quartet…

MUMS Welcoming Concert & Seminar

19:30 - 21:30 29 September 2012
Brahms – Hungarian Dances Nielsen – Flute Concerto Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms Conductors: Jonathan Evans, Thomas Goff, Philippa Goodall, Will Hooker, Oliver Till, Jack…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert – Paisean

13:00 4 October 2012
Modern Jazz quartet Paisean (gaelic for Passion) features Ed Jones (sax), Gavin Barras (double bass), Dave Walsh (drums) and is led by award-winning pianist and composer Steve Plews. FREE lunchtime Concert

MUMS Lunchtime Concert Series

13:00 - 14:30 5 October 2012
New and existing students from the Music Society perform solo and ensemble works - a chance to see and hear a high standard of musical performance.

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert & Seminar

13:00 - 15:30 8 October 2012
Fauré Quartet in E minor Op. 121 Delius Quartet (1916) Grieg Quartet in G minor, Op. 27 Like Debussy and Ravel, Fauré and Delius composed just one string quartet apiece: the…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert - MANTIS

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2012
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a lunchtime concert ahead of its forthcoming weekend festival (Sat 27 + Sun 28 October) of electro-acoustic concerts.

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