(ALC) Music

Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) - Vocal Showcase

13:00 - 14:00 15 November 2013
Manchester University Barbershop Chorus Manchester University Ladies’ Barbershop ‘AcaBellas’ ‘Chorus Antiquus’ ‘Tagline’ The singers of Manchester University Music Society…

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert with Paavali Jumppanen

19:30 - 21:30 15 November 2013
Haydn, Quartet in C, Op. 9 No. 1; Ravel Quartet in F; Franck, Piano Quintet in F minor. Star Finnish pianist Paavali Jumppanen joins the Quatuor Danel in the sweeping sensuality…

Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) - String and Brass Ensembles

19:30 - 21:30 16 November 2013
Holst St Paul’s Suite New Student Commission Britten Simple Symphony Koetsier Symphony for Brass Patrick Friel Starmaker Ceremonial Dobson Torsion MUMS String Orchestra performs…

Composers' Forum: John Turner and Jeff Harrington

16:00 - 17:45 21 November 2013
A double bill: John Turner, 'On the Contemporary Recorder'; followed by Jeff Harrington ‘On Internet Publishing'

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - John Turner 70th Birthday Concert

13:10 - 14:00 21 November 2013
Music by Bernstein, Ives, Cowell, Rorem, Jeff Harrington (première of For Solomon Eagle), Kevin Malone (The Radio Song) and Richard Whalley (new work). Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano)…

Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO)

19:30 - 21:30 23 November 2013
Hanson Chorale & Alleluia Alarcon Concertango (Soloists: Harry Smith, Hamish Brown) Camphouse Watchman, Tell Us Of The Night Bernstein Suite from West Side Story Adam Swayne…

Musicology Forum: 'Poverty and ‘Piracy’: Local music recordings and competing interests in Bolivia'

16:15 - 17:45 28 November 2013
This week's Musicology Forum is given by ethnomusicologist Dr Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Featured Artist: Richard Casey (Piano)

13:10 - 14:00 28 November 2013
Peter Maxwell Davies Piano Sonata (1981) Beethoven Sonata in A flat Op. 110 The second of Richard Casey’s “ Beethoven and…” recitals this year features the rarely performed…

Manchester University Commissioning Ensemble (MUCE)

13:10 - 14:00 29 November 2013
MUCE is a new, student-run initiative dedicated to showcasing the compositional talent that students, staff and University alumni have to offer. Composers are offered a unique opportunity…

The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 30 November 2013
Dvo?ák Stabat Mater The University of Manchester Chorus opens its 2013/14 season with a performance of Dvo?ák's Stabat Mater. We are incredibly excited to welcome our newly appointed…

Ad Solem The University of Manchester Chamber Choir - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM 8th NOVEMBER

19:30 2 December 2013
Copland In The Beginning Stravinsky The Dove Descending Bednall Behold, O God Hailstork The Song Of Deborah Tallis Lamentations Bednall The Souls Of The Righteous Gibbons…

Manchester University Big Band

19:30 - 21:30 5 December 2013
Certain to entertain any audience, Manchester University Big Band returns to deliver an exciting and energetic set, filled with popular tunes you’ll be humming all night long! Be sure…

QUATUOR DANEL Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 5 December 2013
Casken Choses en moi; Reeves Fireworks Physonect Siphonophore (String Quartet No.1); Haydn Quartet in E flat, Op. 33 No. 2 (The Joke). John Casken – the University’s composer emeritus…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Bachelors of Composition

14:30 - 15:30 5 December 2013
The Quatuor Danel workshops new quartet movements by the University’s undergraduates.

Manchester University Baroque Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 6 December 2013
Students from the Manchester University Baroque Orchestra give a historically informed performance on the university’s reproduction instruments. This concert offers a unique and exciting…

Musical and Other Cultural Responses to Political Violence in Latin America

6 December 2013
Deadline for booking: Tuesday 3 December, 5pm. Space permitting, it will be possible to register on the day of the event. Please note that this will incur a cash charge of £5 and will…

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 6 December 2013
Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op. 50 No. 1; Reeves Dactylozooid Complex (String Quartet No. 2); Whiteman Cloud Fragments (String Quartet No. 2); Guy Danel’s farewell choice Guy Danel…

Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) - Festive Concert

19:30 - 21:30 12 December 2013
Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks Cosmo Singers Hindemith Tuttifäntchen Suite Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols Anderson Sleigh Ride MUMS Symphony Orchestra…

Musicology Forum: 'Wagner contra Wagner: Listening in, and to, Tannhäuser'

16:15 - 17:45 12 December 2013
Ryan Minor (State University of New York, Stony Brook), 'Wagner contra Wagner: Listening in, and to, Tannhäuser'

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Psappha

13:10 - 14:00 12 December 2013
The University of Manchester’s Contemporary Ensemble in Residence Psappha is Manchester’s pre-eminent new music ensemble specialising in the performance of music by living composers.…

Singing the War in France: (WW1 Centenary Lecture Series)

17:00 - 18:00 18 December 2013
From August 1914, professional cabaret singers started to write and perform songs that addressed the conflict, initially with much patriotism and enthusiasm for France's participation…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 13 January 2014
Ludwig van Beethoven Duo in E flat major WoO 32 ‘Eyeglass’ Christina Bean viola Lorna Davis cello Claude Debussy Musique; Romance-Silence ineffable; Aimons-nous et dormons…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 27 January 2014
Henri Tomasi Evocations for solo oboe Helen Clinton oboe Jacob Ter Veldhuis May This Bliss Never End Jacob Ter Veldhuis The Garden of Love Gillian Blair…

Fortepiano Recital by Susan Alexander-Max

13:10 - 14:00 30 January 2014
In a unique recital, the world renowned fortepianist/clavichordist Susan Alexander-Max will be performing classical masterpieces by Mozart, Clementi and Haydn. Susan will perform…

Music Research Seminar: Philip Grange (University of Manchester), 'Clichés and the Individual Talent: Or, Working at your career by not working at your career'

16:15 - 18:00 30 January 2014
Philip Grange, Professor of Composition at the University of Manchester, gives the opening talk of this semester's Composers Forum.

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