(ALC) Music

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…

Contemporary Student Works Concert

13:10 - 14:00 18 March 2016
New music by emerging composers and artists drawn from the Music Department Come and enjoy a lunchtime concert performed by The Manchester University Music Society. These concerts…

Ebonit Saxophone Quartet

13:10 - 14:00 14 April 2016
A thrilling young quartet from Amsterdam performs new works by the University’s Kevin Malone (The Housatonic near Sandy Hook) and Richard Whalley (Iapetus Suture, based on an ancient…

Student Chamber Ensembles

13:10 - 14:00 15 April 2016
Some of our most enthusiastic MUMS members have put together their own ensembles for their peers and present a concert demonstrating the wide breadth of talent and creativity they have.…

MUMS Brass Band

19:30 - 21:30 16 April 2016
Returning from Uni Brass victorious, MUMS Brass Band present you with a full concert of interesting and exciting brass music spanning the decades. To book please visit http://tinyurl.com/otykmod…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 21 April 2016
Two classical masterpieces in G major dedicated to the Bohemian patron Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz: the first of Haydn's two quartets Op. 77 and the second from Beethoven's…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: ' Doctors and Philosophers of Composition'

14:30 - 15:30 21 April 2016
Workshop performances and discussion of new works by the University's PhD students. **PLEASE NOTE: THIS DATE HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM 5TH MAY 2016**

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 22 April 2016
Two quartets in the sunny key of A major: the fifth from Beethoven's first quartet opus, and the Mozart work on which it was modelled. Then to conclude the Quatuor Danel's eleventh…

Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO) and String Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 23 April 2016
Drawing together our fantastic Wind and String Orchestras for a joint concert of exciting music, MUMS present a concert of Western string music and an Americana-themed wind half. Conductors…

Gamelan Degung The University of Manchester’s music students with guests

13:10 - 14:00 28 April 2016
The University of Manchester’s music students with guests offer a dynamic programme of music for Gamelan Degung, as the culmination to their course in association with the Hallé. The…

Wind and Brass Showcase

13:10 - 14:00 29 April 2016
MUMS’ finest wind and brass soloists come together and take to the stage to present a concert featuring a range of works which really show off what their instruments can do Come and…

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