Music concert

Beethoven Piano Recital

13:10 - 14:00 24 April 2015
Rory Dowse and Greg Reid present an exploration of the intricacies and intensity of Beethoven’s most accomplished and challenging writing for solo piano, including a performance of…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with David Fanning (piano) and Richard Whalley (piano)

19:30 - 21:30 24 April 2015
Bruno Mantovani Piano Quintet Camden Reeves Gorgon's Head Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 David Fanning and Richard Whalley join the Quatuor Danel in…

RNCM at the Whitworth - Kalliope Quartet Recital

15:00 - 15:45 26 April 2015
RNCM at the Whitworth Kalliope Quartet - Recital Sunday 26 April 3pm-3.45pm Programme: FERENC FARKAS. Early Hungarian Dances Intrada: Allegro moderato Lassú: Moderato, maestoso…

The University of Manchester Chorus

19:30 - 22:00 26 April 2015
To close their 79th season, University of Manchester Chorus will be joined by their daughter choir, The Cosmo Singers, and MUMS Symphony Orchestra in a fantastic performance of Mendelssohn’s…

The University Renaissance Singers and the Manchester Baroque Orchestra

19:30 - 22:00 29 April 2015
The University Renaissance Singers and the Manchester Baroque Orchestra come together once again for a concert combining historical scholarship and exciting performances, presenting…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: The Michael Kahan Kapelye - The University of Manchester's Klezmer Ensemble

13:10 - 14:00 30 April 2015
Each year, as part of the Ensemble Performance module, a new group of Music students becomes the latest incarnation of the klezmer ensemble named after the late Michael Kahan (Manchester…

MUMS Vocal Showcase

13:10 - 14:00 1 May 2015
The Manchester University Barbershop Singers return to perform more exciting close harmony standards from the world of barbershop, followed by new choral music ensemble Latin Name TBC,…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 7 May 2015
Shostakovich Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122 Bruno Mantovani Quartet No. 2 (2014) Shostakovich at his most cryptic and suggestive in his seven-movement Eleventh Quartet,…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 8 May 2015
Tchaikovsky Movement in B flat (1865) Schubert Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Tchaikovsky Sextet in D, Op. 70 ‘Souvenir de Florence’ The Movement…

Thursday Lates: DJ Spooky: Rebirth of a Nation

19:00 - 21:00 28 May 2015
DJ Spooky: Rebirth of a Nation? Thursday Lates: 28 May, 7pm-9pm After more than fifty shows around the world, including New York, Paris and the Herod Atticus Amphitheater at the…

ESTIVAL 2015

2 - 5 June 2015
Join Manchester University Music Society in their unique equivalent to the 'Proms'! MUMS celebrate the end of the academic year by packing nine concerts into four days in an unmissable…

MUMS ESTIVAL - Chamber Orchestra and Ensembles

19:30 - 21:30 2 June 2015
Mendelssohn Ruy Blas Overture Elgar Cello Concerto Mendelssohn The Fair Melusina A lyrical programme of orchestral works, featuring soloist Isabel Williamson…

MUMS ESTIVAL - Contemporary Works

13:10 - 14:00 2 June 2015
MUMS perform a selection of new works by student composers. An exciting concert full of fresh ideas, not to be missed.

MUMS ESTIVAL - Ad Solem and The Cosmo Singers

13:10 - 14:00 3 June 2015
Macmillan O Radiant Dawn Walton A Litany Walton Set me as a seal Cooper Orpheus Lute Britten Five Flower Songs Sanders Reproaches Britten…

MUMS ESTIVAL- Manchester University Wind Orchestra and Brass Band

19:30 - 21:30 3 June 2015
Vaughan Williams Folk Song Suite Meechan MacBeth Hess East Coast Pictures Manchester University Wind and Orchestra return with an exciting…

MUMS ESTIVAL - Grade One Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 4 June 2015
MUMS members take on the challenge of a brand new instrument and form a grade one orchestra all in aid of Oxfam.

MUMS ESTIVAL - Manchester University Big Band

19:30 - 21:30 4 June 2015
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…

MUMS ESTIVAL - MUMS Wind Ensembles

13:10 - 14:00 5 June 2015
Gounod Petite Symphonie McCormick New Work Grob Suite foe Winds MUMS Wind Ensembles perform a diverse programme, including the première of a brand new work by student composer Frankie McCormick.

MUMS ESTIVAL - Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 5 June 2015
Berkeley Serenade for Strings Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Bruckner Mass in E Minor The grand finale! MUMS Symphony Orchestra, Ad Solem and the Cosmo Singers…

The Friends of the Whitworth - RNCM Sunday Concerts

15:00 - 16:00 14 June 2015
RNCM Sunday Concerts Sunday 14 June 2015 This concert series is funded by the generous bequest left to the Friends of the Whitworth Art Gallery by Miss Gina Miller. The programme:…

Telemann Baroque Ensemble

19:00 - 21:00 16 June 2015
The wonderful Telemann Baroque Ensemble return once more to The Tabley House Collection to entertain visitors and the Friends with a High Baroque programme sure to delight us all.…

Sara Lowes: Composer in Residence at the National Graphene Institute

13:10 - 14:00 25 June 2015
In September last year, musician Sara Lowes was appointed ‘composer in residence’ at the National Graphene Institute (The University of Manchester). Her brief – to create a new piece…

Hallé Youth Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 16 August 2015
Dvorák The Noonday Witch, Op.108 Shostakovich Symphony No.9 in E flat major Op.70 Dvorák Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 (‘From the New World’) Jamie Philips Conductor The Hallé…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 1 October 2015
Haydn Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5 Bartók Quartet No. 1, OP. 7 The University's magnificent string quartet-in-residence opens its 11th season at the Martin…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Alexander Melnikov (piano)

19:30 - 21:30 2 October 2015
Mozart Adagio and Fugue K546 Beethoven Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131 Weinberg Piano Qunitet, Op. 18 The Quatuor Danel's Friday series begins with…

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