Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

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…

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,…

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

18:00 - 20:00 19 April 2016
Sponsored by the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series Margit Thofner, University of East Anglia 'Picturing Music in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Marten de Vos's motet prints'

Picturing Music in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp: Marten de Vos’s Motet Prints

06:00 - 07:00 19 April 2016
In 1584 the painter Marten de Vos, the engraver Johan Sadeler and the composer Cornelis Verdonck worked together to produce a motet print. This was the first ever engraved representation…

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…

Michelle Assay and David Fanning (pianos)

13:10 - 14:00 5 May 2016
A programme of two-piano favourites from husband-and-wife duo David Fanning and Michelle Assay, featuring the Mozart Fugue played by the Quatuor Danel at the beginning of this season,…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Freddie Rokem: Reading Kafka/Staging Kafka

17:00 - 19:00 25 May 2016
****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**** The lecture is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It is co-organised by CIDRAL, LIS, German Studies, Drama…

CIDRAL Symposium: Freddie Rokem: The Ludic Logic of Tragedy

10:00 - 12:00 26 May 2016
****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**** This symposium is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It is co-organised by CIDRAL, LIS, German Studies,…

Estival 2016: Society Mashup Showcase

19:30 - 21:00 7 June 2016
In an Estival first, Manchester University’s Music and Drama Societies come together to première a series of specially-commissioned musical and dramatic works to celebrate the cross-disciplinary…

Estival 2016: Family Outreach Concert

10:30 - 11:30 8 June 2016
MUMS extends its already successful Outreach programme in an interactive and educational concert suitable for families featuring Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and a medley from The…

Estival 2016: Family Outreach Concert

13:00 - 14:00 8 June 2016
MUMS extends its already successful Outreach programme in an interactive and educational concert suitable for families featuring Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and a medley from The…

Estival 2016: Manchester University Wind Orchestra and String Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 8 June 2016
A combination of two huge ensembles sets the scene for an evening of traditional and new works for wind and string orchestras, including Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with soloist Illiam…

Estival 2016: Grade1athon Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 9 June 2016
Fresh from their Grade 1 exams, MUMS Grade1athon orchestra return to grace your ears with some classic tunes in an attempt to prove their mastery of a new instrument. Join Manchester…

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