(ALC) Music

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Electroacoustic Works

13:10 - 14:00 4 April 2014
Manchester University Music Society showcases the University’s electroacoustic composers in this unique performance – experience the highly inventive explorations of sound from undergraduate…

Manchester University Big Band (MUBB)

19:30 - 21:30 4 April 2014
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…

A concert to celebrate the life and work of Stephen Dodgson

14:00 - 16:00 5 April 2014
Join us in a Celebration of the Life and Work of STEPHEN DODGSON (1924-2013) Programme to include: Regumar for recorder guitar and marimba (premiere) Riley and Co. for baritone,…

Poems and Songs by Bertolt Brecht

18:00 - 19:30 9 April 2014
The great German playwright Bertolt Brecht was also a consummate poet and song writer. Tom Kuhn and Dominic Muldowney, alongside actors and singers, present new translations of some of his greatest poems and songs

Trio Atem

13:10 - 14:00 1 May 2014
Helmut Lachenmann temA Fabrice Fitch Per Serafino Calbarsi III: Antistrophes (world première) Camden Reeves The Sleeper (world première) Gavin Osborn (flutes), Nina Whiteman (mezzo…

Manchester University Commissioning Ensemble (MUCE)

13:10 - 14:00 2 May 2014
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…

QUATUOR DANEL Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 8 May 2014
Dvo?ák Terzetto for two violins and viola, Op. 74; Kodály Trio in E flat for two violins and viola (1899); Two melodious trios from Central and Eastern Europe for the rarely…

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 9 May 2014
Haydn Quartet in in C, Op. 76 No. 3 (‘Emperor’); Haydn Quartet in D minor, Op. 103; Dvo?ák Piano Quintet in A (with David Fanning); Haydn’s famous ‘Emperor’ Quartet,…

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