Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

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…

CIDRAL Open Event: Professor Tom Safley (History, University of Pennsylvania) ‘What Ruin? Of Insolvency and Scandal, Fortunes and Families in Early Modern Economic Life’

17:00 - 19:00 4 March 2014
Can we speak of "ruin" in economic life and activity? Surely, businesses fail, wealth disperses and individuals suffer. In premodern society, the consequences could be dire: debtor's…

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…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 10 March 2014
Leigh Howard Stevens Rhythmic Caprice for marimba Compagnie Kahlua Ceci n’est pas une balle Delia Stevens percussion Chick Corea (arr Jackson) Children's Songs…

Musicology Forum: Composing, Performing and Publishing: Mozart’s “Haydn” Quartets

16:15 - 18:00 13 March 2014
Simon Keefe (University of Sheffield)

QUATUOR DANEL Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 13 March 2014
Haydn Seven Last Words, Op. 51 Haydn’s meditative orchestral work commissioned by Cádiz Cathedral, also known in a choral version, here in the composer’s beautiful transcription…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Masters of Composition

14:30 - 15:30 13 March 2014
A workshop of new string quartets by Masters students in composition at the University.

MUMS Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 14 March 2014
A great chance to sample the high standards of performance from Manchester University Music Society: students perform a wide variety of both recognisable and lesser-known works all…

MUMS String Orchestra and Brass Band

19:30 - 21:30 15 March 2014
Programme to include: Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus Grieg Holberg Suite Sibelius Romance and Andante Festivo Manchester University String…

Literature Live: Maureen N. McLane and Glyn Maxwell

18:30 - 20:30 17 March 2014
Maureen N. McLane was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of World Enough: poems (Farrar, Straus, 2010) and Same Life: poems (FSG, 2008)…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 17 March 2014
Felix Mendelssohn Zweistimmige Lieder Op 63 Sarah Foubert soprano Richard Moore baritone Tim Kennedy piano Franz Schubert Fantasie in F minor D 940 Chiahu Lee, Shaun Motiani piano

The Art of Marcel Duchamp, Nam June Paik and the Modernist Musical Paradigm

17 March 2014
Professor Shaw-Miller is Professor of Art History and Subject Head at Bristol University. He is an expert on relationships with music in modern art.

The Michael Kahan Kapelye - Klezmer Ensemble

13:10 - 14:00 20 March 2014
Programme to include: Wedding music of the Ashkenazi communities of Eastern Europe Named after the Manchester classical and klezmer violinist tragically killed in June 2008, the…

Cosmo Singers

19:30 - 21:30 21 March 2014
Lullabies, work songs, spirituals and other traditional music from Hungary, Finland, Mexico, Kenya and South Africa brought to life by the Cosmo Singers. Directed by Justin Doyle,…

VAGANZA - Composers’ Showcase Concert

13:10 - 14:00 21 March 2014
Come and join us as Vaganza celebrates the extraordinary diversity and ingenuity of music by our student composers.

Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO)

19:30 - 21:30 22 March 2014
Marshall Aue! Ticheli Blue Shades Ticheli Sanctuary Matthews Thirty to Tango Laurisden O Magnum Mysterium Whitacre Cloudburst Bonney Chaos Theory (Electric Guitar: Shaun Rimmer)…

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 24 March 2014
Béla Bartók Piano Sonata BB 88 Ryan Drucker piano Richard Rodney Bennett Excerpts from Soprano Saxophone Sonata Béla Bartók Selection of Romanian Folk Dances…

Featured Artist: Richard Casey (Piano) - ‘Beethoven and … Stockhausen’

13:10 - 14:00 27 March 2014
Beethoven Sonata op. 53 Beethoven Sonata op. 54 Stockhausen Klavierstück VIII Stockhausen Klavierstück IX Beethoven’s famous ‘Waldstein’ Sonata op. 53 is coupled with its…

Musicology Forum: Brahms and his Poets

16:15 - 18:00 27 March 2014
Natasha Loges (Royal College of Music)

Manchester University Baroque Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 28 March 2014
The University of Manchester’s very own Baroque Orchestra presents a varied programme of well-known concerti grossi by Corelli and Handel interspersed with some gems from the chamber…

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