Performances

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…

CIDRAL and HOME: Post-Show Q&A, The Funfair

19:30 4 June 2015
The Funfair Simon Stephens' new version of Kasimir and Karoline by Ödön von Horváth Directed by Walter Meierjohann Disaffected youth. Unemployment. Growing pessimism towards politics.…

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…

CIDRAL and HOME: The Funfair Pre-show Introduction with Steve Parker (UoM): Ödön von Horváth’s Kasimir und Karoline: a play for our times

18:00 11 June 2015
This insightful talk will be a great chance to explore the background to The Funfair before you take your seats. Looking beyond the rollercoasters and candy floss it will examine Kasimir…

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.…

CIDRAL and HOME: post-show Q&A, Kafkas's Monkey

19:30 18 June 2015
Kafka’s Monkey Based on A Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka Adapted by Colin Teevan Directed by Walter Meierjohann Post-show discussion with Kathryn Hunter, Walter Meierjohann and…

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…

FUTURE FLARES - UK students: The Circulation Game and Whoaaa Steady!

17:00 - 19:00 14 July 2015
Part of FLARE15, the International Festival of New Theatre: Ashley Williams (UK) presents ‘The Circulation Game’ and Leentje Van de Cruys and University of Salford (BE/UK) present ‘Whoaaa…

The Flare International Festival of New Theatre

09:00 14 - 22:00 17 July 2015
The Flare International Festival of New Theatre will bring some extraordinary new theatre from across Europe and beyond to several of the leading theatres in Manchester, including the…

FUTURE FLARES - work in progress Cuncrete and When you talk about ‘The Swimmer’ will you talk about yourself?

17:00 - 19:00 15 July 2015
Part of FLARE15, the International Festival of New Theatre: Rachael Clerke (UK) presents Cuncrete and Antoine Fraval (FR) presents When you talk about ‘The Swimmer’ will you talk about…

FUTURE FLARES - International students J.U.D.I.T.H

17:00 - 19:00 16 July 2015
Part of FLARE15, the International Festival of New Theatre: Christians Schwenk (DE) presents J.U.D.I.T.H in cooperation with Argentinian Choreographer Ayelén Cantini and cobratheater.cobra.…

24:7 Big Festival Weekend

24 - 26 July 2015
The 24:7 Theatre festival is a unique event, helping to promote new plays while developing the emerging talent of writers, directors, actors, producers and technicians. It has been…

24:7 Big Festival Weekend 2015 - Madness Sweet Madness

19:30 - 21:30 24 July 2015
It's 2am, and Vesuvius would do anything for a few hours' sleep. But the arrival of two unorthodox authority figures threatens to disrupt his night further - and make a right mess of…

24:7 Big Festival Weekend 2015 - The Plant

18:00 - 19:30 24 July 2015
On finding themselves mysteriously imprisoned, the protagonists of our tale Leon and Keith do the only thing they can do, they start telling stories. ‘The Plant’ is a darkly comic…

24:7 Big Festival Weekend 2015 - We Are The Multitude

18:00 - 19:30 24 July 2015
Victims of their own intensely irritating personalities, Lisa and Simon are trapped in their office building after angry demonstrators occupy it. With life and death in the balance,…

24:7 Big Festival Weekend 2015 – GARY: A LOVE STORY

19:30 - 21:30 24 July 2015
Two very strange brothers face police truncheons, gruesome playground injuries and the perils of mutual masturbation in “Gary: a Love Story,” a caustic and moving new play about brotherly…

24:7 Big Festival Weekend 2015 – GARY: A LOVE STORY

12:30 - 14:30 25 July 2015
Two very strange brothers face police truncheons, gruesome playground injuries and the perils of mutual masturbation in “Gary: a Love Story,” a caustic and moving new play about brotherly…

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