Martin Harris Centre

LITERATURE LIVE: Jeanette Winterson “In Conversation” with Helen MacDonald

18:30 - 20:00 29 February 2016
The Centre for New Writing and MLF are delighted to present Jeanette Winterson in conversation with writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist Helen MacDonald about writing, hawks, Englishness,…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners: Free Taster Session

13:30 - 14:00 2 March 2016
Try our ‘Ballroom and Latin for Beginners’ free taster session to get a flavour for some of your favourite Ballroom dances in a relaxed and friendly environment. The taster session…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners: Free Taster Session - FULL

13:00 - 13:30 2 March 2016
Please note that this taster session is now FULLY BOOKED. There is an additional taster session which takes place 13:30-14:00: http://www.martinharriscentre.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/eventdetails/?eid…

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…

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…

Can I Start Again Please

19:30 - 21:00 16 March 2016
Can I Start Again Please desiccates and dissects childhood trauma via an exploration of Wittgenstein and semantics. What is being investigated is the power and failings of language…

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…

Northern Chamber Orchestra concert for Parkinson’s

15:00 - 17:00 3 April 2016
Conductor Stephen Barlow and the Northern Chamber Orchestra explore pieces related to neurodegenerative disease. John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons reflects his father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s…

Howard Jacobson: Shylock Is My Name - SOLD OUT

18:30 - 20:30 11 April 2016
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT ** Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson’s is one of the authors commissioned as part of The Hogarth Shakespeare programme to write prose…

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…

Derbyshire Youth Wind Band and RNCM Collaborative Concert

18:00 - 20:00 17 April 2016
The culmination of this term’s work following a Shakespeare theme for the Derbyshire City and County Youth Wind Band, having worked alongside staff and students from the RNCM in masterclasses,…

LITERATURE LIVE: Vona Groarke and Adam Thorpe

18:30 - 20:00 18 April 2016
Vona Groarke's first collection was Shale, published in 1994. The most recent was X, a PBS Recommendation for Spring 2014, reviewed by the New Statesman as 'an outstanding collection…

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**

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