(ALC) Music

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…

MUMS Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro

19:00 - 22:30 30 January 2014
Manchester University Music Society open the New Year with a two night run of one of Mozart’s greatest and best loved comic operas, Le Nozze di Figaro - a witty tale of love, betrayal…

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.

MUMS Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro

19:00 - 22:30 1 February 2014
Manchester University Music Society open the New Year with a two night run of one of Mozart’s greatest and best loved comic operas, Le Nozze di Figaro - a witty tale of love, betrayal…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 3 February 2014
J S Bach Excerpts from Partita No 1 in B minor BWV 1002 Henri Wieniawski Legende Op 17 Adriana Lucia Cristea violin Greta Gasser piano Sergei Prokofiev Excerpts from…

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 7 February 2014
Haydn Quartet in E flat, Op. 50 No. 3; Milhaud Quartet No. 2; Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 3; Haydn at the summit of his powers, followed by a rare chance to sample the prolific…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 10 February 2014
Joaquín Rodrigo Fandango from Tres Piezas Españolas Pierre Petit Toccata James Girling, Bradley Johnson guitars Frank Bridge Three Songs Benjamin Britten Selected songs…

Chetham’s Sinfonia and Ensembles

19:30 - 21:30 11 February 2014
Chetham’s Sinfonia return to the Martin Harris Centre to perform Vltava from Smetana’s symphonic cycle, Má vlast, as well as a concerto with a student soloist. Chetham’s Ensembles,…

Featured Artist: Richard Casey (Piano)

13:10 - 14:00 13 February 2014
Beethoven Variations op.34 Prokofiev Sonata no. 8 Prokofiev’s epic Sonata no. 8, very much the largest in his set of nine, was composed during the Second Word War. Richard places…

Psappha in collaboration with Vaganza

19:30 - 21:30 14 February 2014
PSAPPHA: The University of Manchester’s Contemporary Ensemble in Residence Manchester’s pre-eminent new music ensemble specialising in the performance of music by living composers.…

Chamber Ensembles

13:10 - 14:00 15 February 2014
Manchester University Music Society’s Chamber Festival Weekend continues with five premieres of works by undergraduate composers based here at the University of Manchester. These works…

MUMS Chamber Orchestra and Ensembles

19:30 - 21:30 15 February 2014
Messiaen Oiseaux Exotiques (Soloist: Daniel Chappell) Leo Geyer Sideshows (Soloist: Rachel Maby) Beethoven Symphony No.1 Manchester University Music Society close their Chamber…

Musicology Forum: Historiography, 'New Music' and Composer-Centeredness: On relations between research, teaching and programming

16:15 - 18:00 20 February 2014
Roddy Hawkins (University of Manchester); Martin Iddon (University of Leeds); Tim Rutherford-Johnson (editor of Oxford Dictionary of Music); Lauren Redhead (Canterbury Christ Church University)

Two-piano concert with Michelle Assay and David Fanning

13:10 - 14:00 20 February 2014
Rachmaninoff Suite No. 1, Op. 5 Shostakovich Suite Op. 6 Rachmaninoff’s first Suite is one of the most beautiful and exciting works in the two-piano repertoire. On the threshold…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 24 February 2014
Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro assai from Violin Sonata in G major Op 30 No 3 Ernest Bloch Nigun (Improvisation) Corey Wickens violin Charles Barsaga piano Richard Wagner…

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 28 February 2014
Rachmaninoff Quartet 1 Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op. 71, No. 2 Shostakovich Piano Quintet Op. 57 (with Richard Whalley) You didn’t know Rachmaninoff had composed string quartets?…

MANTIS Spring 2014 Festival: 10 year anniversary season

18:00 - 19:30 1 March 2014
6.00pm and 8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2014 6.00pm and 8.00pm, Sunday 2 March 2014 Various venues across MHC MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) celebrates its first 10 years…

MANTIS Spring 2014 Festival: 10 year anniversary season

20:00 - 21:30 1 March 2014
6.00pm and 8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2014 6.00pm and 8.00pm, Sunday 2 March 2014 Various venues across MHC MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) celebrates its first 10 years…

MANTIS Spring 2014 Festival: 10 year anniversary season

18:00 - 19:30 2 March 2014
6.00pm and 8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2014 6.00pm and 8.00pm, Sunday 2 March 2014 Various venues across MHC MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) celebrates its first 10 years with…

MANTIS Spring 2014 Festival: 10 year anniversary season

20:00 - 21:30 2 March 2014
6.00pm and 8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2014 6.00pm and 8.00pm, Sunday 2 March 2014 Various venues across MHC MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) celebrates its first 10 years…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 3 March 2014
Nikolai Kapustin Concert Etude Op 40 No 8 Maurice Ravel Une barque sur l'océan from Miroirs Rachel Fok piano Giovanni Bottesini Grand Duo Concertante…

Composers' Forum: Electroacoustic music composition and performance using gestural interfaces

16:15 - 18:00 6 March 2014
Daniel Barreiro (University of Manchester)

Fieri Consort

13:10 - 14:00 6 March 2014
The Fieri Consort explore inspirational sacred music by Renaissance composers Josquin des Prez and Jacobus Clemens. Fieri is fast becoming known for its fresh and vibrantly communicative…

The University of Manchester’s Contemporary Ensemble in Residence

19:30 - 21:30 7 March 2014
Psappha is Manchester’s pre-eminent new music ensemble specialising in the performance of music by living composers. www.psappha.com Mr Mahler, meet jazz. Camden Reeves Random…

MUMS Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 8 March 2014
Webern Im Sommerwind Wagner Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 (Soloist: Tom Hicks) MUMS Symphony Orchestra return to perform some of the most…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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