(ALC) Music

New Music North West Festival

22 - 29 January 2016
The RNCM and University of Manchester join forces for the biennial New Music North West festival this January, featuring 8 days of music by 100 living composers from across the North…

MANTIS – Part of the New Music North West Festival 2016

17:00 - 18:00 25 January 2016
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a concert of new electroacoustic works by composers based at the Novars Research Centre. Experience new sound worlds, music and technologies…

VAGANZA – Part of the New Music North West Festival 2016

13:15 - 14:15 26 January 2016
Works by student composers from The University of Manchester performed by Vaganza, the University’s new music group. Price: FREE, no booking required

Students’ Q&A with: Sir Harrison Birtwistle

14:30 - 16:30 28 January 2016
A student panel made up of undergraduates and postgraduates, has the opportunity to ask Sir Harrison Birtwistle questions. This event will be chaired by the University’s Head of Music,…

VAGANZA – Part of the New Music North West Festival 2016

13:10 - 14:00 29 January 2016
Programme: Richard Whalley Butterflies (UK première) Richard Whalley Three Worlds Harrison Birtwistle Silbury Air Harrison Birtwistle Some Petals from My Twickenham Herbarium…

Piano Recital by Diana Lopszyc

13:10 - 14:00 4 February 2016
Diana Lopszyc, international Argentine-Polish pianist, performs works by contemporary composers from Ukraine, Argentina, and USA / UK, with UK and world premières including feminist…

MUMS Opera: Castor et Pollux

19:00 - 21:30 11 February 2016
The highlight of the MUMS 2015/16 season showcases the finest singers, musicians and creative team of the society’s members for two evenings of French opera. Two evenings which are…

MUMS Opera: Castor et Pollux

19:00 - 21:30 13 February 2016
The highlight of the MUMS 2015/16 season showcases the finest singers, musicians and creative team of the society’s members for two evenings of French opera. Two evenings which are…

Roberto Carrillo-Garcia (Double-Bass)

13:10 - 14:00 18 February 2016
A programme of music for solo double bass by the Hallé’s virtuoso section leader, including the symphonic-scale Sonata by Miecyslaw Weinberg and Tom Johnson’s staggeringly demanding…

MUMS Wind Ensemble and Student Compositions

19:30 - 21:30 20 February 2016
A showcase of MUMS’ finest wind players including works by Scott and Gorb, alongside some brand new compositions from the department’s composition students, written especially for this…

Gavin Osborn

13:10 - 14:00 25 February 2016
Time – fragrance – light. Virtuoso contemporary flautist Gavin Osborn returns with premières of three commissions from composers with links to Manchester: Nina Whiteman, Richard Whalley…

Vocal Showcase

13:10 - 14:00 26 February 2016
Come and enjoy a lunchtime concert performed by The Manchester University Music Society. These concerts are free, no need to book just turn up A selection of MUMS’ premium vocalists…

MUMS Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 27 February 2016
After a sell-out performance in autumn, MUMS Symphony Orchestra returns for another exciting concert featuring Ryan Hum playing Scriabin’s Piano Concerto and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses…

Vonnegut Collective

13:10 - 14:00 3 March 2016
Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s exhortation to make art so as ‘to experience becoming, to make your soul grow’, four top Manchester musicians collaborate with the University’s masters students…

MANTIS Festival

18:00 - 19:30 5 March 2016
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring guest performer Terri Hron (Canada, recorder and electronics). Local and guest composers…

MANTIS Festival

20:00 - 21:30 5 March 2016
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring guest performer Terri Hron (Canada, recorder and electronics). Local and guest composers…

MANTIS Festival

14:00 - 15:00 6 March 2016
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring guest performer Terri Hron (Canada, recorder and electronics). Local and guest composers…

Music Research Seminar

16:15 - 18:00 10 March 2016
In this Thursday Research Seminar, Caroline Bithell, Rebecca Herissone and Susan Rutherford will lead a discussion on the challenges posed by musicological and ethnomusicological research…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 10 March 2016
A ten-minute Elegy for Solo Cello (2009) by the University's Professor of Composition, followed by a staple of the Viennese classical quartet repertoire - the only one of Mozart's six…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: 'Masters of Composition 2'

14:30 - 16:00 10 March 2016
Workshop performances and discussion of new works by the University's Masters students.

Manchester University Baroque Orchestra

15:00 - 16:00 11 March 2016
Hot on the heels of their highly successful King Arthur programme, Baroque Orchestra present an eclectic programme of baroque concerti grossi, showing just how versatile the instruments…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with David Fanning (piano)

19:30 - 21:30 11 March 2016
The last substantial work Beethoven composed, featuring in the finale 'The difficult decision ('Must it be?' 'It must be!')', is followed by the première of the Nietzsche-inspired Third…

MUMS Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 12 March 2016
In another opportunity to hear MUMS Chamber Orchestra we offer you a packed concert with a twist. Not only will you hear Lanabel Teo playing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5, but this…

Manchester University Big Band (MUBB)

19:30 - 21:30 17 March 2016
Manchester University Big Band return with an exciting and energetic set, drawing on the rich history of big band repertoire from 1920s swing to experimental European jazz. Whether…

The Michael Kahan Kapelye

13:10 - 14:00 17 March 2016
The latest generation of musicians in the Music department’s klezmer ensemble - The Michael Kahan Kapelye - perform their own arrangements of a diverse programme of pieces originating…

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