Martin Harris Centre

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…

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…

Jeanette Winterson “in Conversation” with Mark Billingham and Val McDermid

18:30 - 20:30 10 March 2014
Professor of Creative Writing Jeanette Winterson will be joined in conversation by crime novelists Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham.…

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…

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…

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 14 March 2014
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CONCERT TAKES PLACE AT MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL Schubert Quartettsatz; Yvonne Eccles new work; Rihm Quartet No. 9 (Quartettsatz); Beethoven…

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 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…

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…

The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 30 March 2014
Triumphal Scene – Choruses from Verdi’s operas Manchester University Chorus and the Cosmo Singers celebrate the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth with scenes and choruses from…

Literature Live: 2013 Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton

18:30 - 20:30 31 March 2014
In this event organised by The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, we are delighted to welcome the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize Eleanor Catton. Eleanor…

Gamelan Degung

13:10 - 14:00 3 April 2014
The University of Manchester’s music students with guests Programme to include: Traditional and contemporary Sundanese music University of Manchester music students, with guests,…

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