Martin Harris Centre

JOHN HEGLEY – Key Stage 2 Interactive Schools Performance

11:00 - 12:00 8 February 2013
The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, based at The University of Manchester, is delighted to welcome back critically acclaimed performance poet John Hegley. His interactive…

John Hegley

20:00 - 22:00 9 February 2013
English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter Critically acclaimed performance poet John Hegley returns to enchant us with his interactive poetic genius and silliness.…

Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Abi Morgan

18:00 - 20:00 11 February 2013
Following two sell out events Jeanette Winterson returns with her "Jeanette Winterson in Conversation" series with screenwriter Abi Morgan. Abi Morgan has made a name for herself with…

PSAPPHA Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 14 February 2013
A witty mini-concerto for violin – what its Swedish-Dutch composer calls a ‘self-portrait’ by the instrument – prefaces lyrical interior landscapes by two outstanding composers who…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert - Trio Atem

13:10 - 14:00 14 February 2013
Trio Atem present music ranging from the sensuous to the extreme in a concert exploring the sonic potential of the unusual flute/mezzo-soprano/cello combination Trio Atem Northern…

Manchester University Music Society Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 16 February 2013
In the first half of the 20th century, a huge variety of styles were adopted when writing for the orchestra. Fine works by Ravel, Debussy and Shostakovich will be performed alongside…

Literature Live: Michael Hofmann and Rachel Seiffert

18:30 - 20:30 18 February 2013
Michael Hofmann One of the most influential UK poets of the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Hofmann’s poetry collections include Nights in the Iron Hotel (1984), Acrimony (1986), Approximately…

University of Manchester Drama Society Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Awards (MIFTA's)

19:00 - 21:30 20 February 2013
Following the success of the Autumn Showcase 2012, the University of Manchester Drama Society are back with their first performance of the awards season. the MIFTAs open with a bang…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 21 February 2013
A new work for solo violin by the University’s Camden Reeves, sandwiched by two of the shortest Shostakovich quartets – his deceptively simple first and his cryptically enigmatic and…

University of Manchester Drama Society's Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Awards (MIFTAS)

19:00 - 21:30 21 February 2013
Following the success of the Autumn Showcase 2012, the University of Manchester Drama Society are back with their first performance of the awards season. the MIFTAs open with a bang…

Manchester University Music Society Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 22 February 2013
Come and enjoy a Friday lunchtime concert performed by The Manchester University Music Society. These concerts are FREE, no need to book just turn up. Electroacoustic All undergraduates…

Quatuor Danel Friday Evening Concert Series

19:30 22 February 2013
Philip Grange’s stirring memorialisation of war, premiered by the Quatuor Danel at Manchester Grammar School last season, in between two of the most popular works in the string quartet…

University of Manchester Drama Society's Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Awards (MIFTAs)

19:00 22 February 2013
Following the success of the Autumn Showcase 2012, the University of Manchester Drama Society are back with their first performance of the awards season. the MIFTAs open with a bang…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert - Fidelio Trio

13:10 - 14:00 28 February 2013
With performances from The Wigmore Hall to Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, the ...virtuosic Fidelio Trio... (Sunday Times) perform extremely diverse music internationally and features…

MANTIS Spring Festival 2013

18:00 - 19:30 2 March 2013
MANTIS presents a weekend of new electroacoustic music featuring works by composers based at the NOVARS Research Centre (University of Manchester) as well as a concert of works by Ricardo…

MANTIS Spring Festival 2013

20:00 - 21:30 2 March 2013
MANTIS presents a weekend of new electroacoustic music featuring works by composers based at the NOVARS Research Centre (University of Manchester) as well as a concert of works by Ricardo…

MANTIS Spring Festival 2013

14:00 - 15:30 3 March 2013
MANTIS presents a weekend of new electroacoustic music featuring works by composers based at the NOVARS Research Centre (University of Manchester) as well as a concert of works by Ricardo…

The Comedy Network presents: Iain Stirling and special guests

20:00 - 22:00 4 March 2013
Enjoy a side-splitting comedy evening hosted by The Comedy Network, one of the leading names in live comedy, booking and representing the hottest names on the comedy circuit. Your MC…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert - Il Bacio

13:10 - 14:00 7 March 2013
A choice selection of ayres, arias, suites and sonatas by the esteem'd composers Henry Purcell and George Frederick Handel in honour of Fair Britannia. Performed by the chamber ensemble…

PSAPPHA Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 8 March 2013
Pictures and stories come in dazzling solos and bright ensembles. Wildboy, with a clarinet skirling as the untamed creature also portrayed in Truffaut’s film The Wild Child, was one…

University of Manchester String Orchestra and Brass Band

9 March 2013
Gregson's massive An Age of Kings, for Brass Band, singers and harp will be an epic conclusion to this concert, whilst the first half will include two more serene works by Gorecki and…

Literature Live: Kirsty Gunn

18:30 - 20:30 11 March 2013
Kirsty Gunn is the author of seven books of fiction including a collection of short stories and a compendium of poetry, essays and fragments, and is published in the UK by Faber and…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert - Charles Blandy, tenor and Rodney Lister, piano

13:10 - 14:00 14 March 2013
Two masterly and eloquent musicians from Boston USA present fascinating song cycles by two American composers: Five Settings of European Poets (1978-79) by Arthur Berger (1912-2002)…

Manchester University Music Society Ad Solem - University of Manchester Chamber Choir

19:30 - 21:30 15 March 2013
Ad Solem, the Music Society's elite chamber choir, will perform a selection of enthralling works from a variety of different musical periods. please join us for a wonderful evening of choral music.

Vaganza Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 15 March 2013
The University of Manchester’s New Music Ensemble Peter Maxwell Davies once said of an equivalent Vaganza concert: ‘The most interesting thing apart from the quality of the playing…

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