Performances

MANTIS Festival

14:00 - 15:30 30 October 2016
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring special guest artist Junya Oikawa (Japan). Local and guest composers will present their…

Literature Live: Michael Longley

19:30 - 20:45 7 November 2016
Michael Longley (b. 1939, Belfast) is one of the greatest living English-language poets. His work has received the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Wilfred Owen…

Romanticism and Beyond

13:10 - 14:00 11 November 2016
An exciting new concert from Manchester’s Music society, focussing on the Romantic and 20th Century ‘Modern’ period. Come see performers tackle the most passionate and exhilarating…

MUMS Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:15 12 November 2016
MUMS Chamber Orchestra returns for an evening of inspiring music, with soloists Libby Sherwood and Sarah Keirle performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante K364, along with Mozart’s Symphony…

University of Manchester Drama Society: Autumn Showcase

19:00 - 20:30 16 November 2016
The first showcase of the academic year offering an opportunity for students to display their work. The festival consists of four contrasting shows performed consecutively in venues…

Shakespeare Miscellany: ‘Music oft hath such a charm…’

13:10 - 14:00 17 November 2016
In the year that marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, pianist and scholar Michelle Assay presents a programme of music for voice, chorus and instruments, from diverse…

University of Manchester Drama Society: Autumn Showcase

19:00 - 20:30 17 November 2016
The first showcase of the academic year offering an opportunity for students to display their work. The festival consists of four contrasting shows performed consecutively in venues…

An Autumn Celebration! Music from Alla Petrichei and The Melia Duo

18:00 - 21:30 18 November 2016
We are very excited to welcome some of most well-received 'Rush House Series' performers back to St Peter's for a very special evening concert this autumn. There will be a vegetarian…

University of Manchester Drama Society: Autumn Showcase

19:00 - 20:30 18 November 2016
The first showcase of the academic year offering an opportunity for students to display their work. The festival consists of four contrasting shows performed consecutively in venues…

Sines and Squares Festival 2016

18:00 - 19:00 19 November 2016
A unique festival of concerts, presentations and other events celebrating and discussing the recent huge resurgence of interest in analogue and modular synthesizers. On 18-20 November,…

Sines and Squares Festival 2016

19:30 - 20:30 19 November 2016
A unique festival of concerts, presentations and other events celebrating and discussing the recent huge resurgence of interest in analogue and modular synthesizers. On 18-20 November,…

14th Annual Rylands Poetry Reading: Bill Manhire

18:00 - 19:00 24 November 2016
Join us for an evening of poetry at The John Rylands Library. This year's Rylands Poetry Reading will be given by Bill Manhire. Bill Manhire (b. Invercargill, NZ, 1946) was his country's…

Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 24 November 2016
Two highly compressed quartets in a key ideally suited to dark, oppressive moods: Shostakovich’s cryptic seven-movement Eleventh precedes the most concentrated of Beethoven’s middle-period…

Quatuor Danel with Richard Whalley (piano)

19:30 - 21:30 25 November 2016
Philip Grange’s searing elegy for the victims of the Battle of the Somme (which ended on 18 November 1916) is framed by the sunniest of all string quartets and a lively yet autumnal…

The University of Manchester Baroque Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 25 November 2016
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Oboe and Violin in B flat major, RV 548 Alessandro Scarlatti Concerto for Recorder in D Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso in F major, Op. 6, No. 9 A rare…

Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO)

19:30 - 21:15 26 November 2016
Gold award winning MUWO (National Concert Band Festival 2015) return to the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall to perform a range of works from Malcolm Arnold’s English Dances to Arutiunian’s…

Stockport Youth Orchestra

15:00 - 17:00 27 November 2016
Join Stockport Youth Orchestra for the first concert in their new season, conducted by Tim Crooks and Christopher Orton. To book please visit http://ow.ly/AvXQ302QAxT or telephone…

Manchester University Big Band (MUBB)

19:30 - 21:15 1 December 2016
Manchester University Big Band returns with an exciting and energetic set, drawing on the rich history of big band repertoire from 1920s swing to experimental European jazz. Whether…

New Sounds from Manchester

13:10 - 14:00 2 December 2016
New Sounds from Manchester launches this year with new music by emerging composers and artist’s drawn from The University of Manchester’s Music department. Featuring Philip Grange’s…

The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 3 December 2016
The University of Manchester Chorus presents Verdi’s magnificent Messa De Requiem, which was first performed in 1874. The piece was composed in response to the death of Italian writer…

Christmas Carols by Salford Royal Choir

14:00 - 15:00 4 December 2016
In the beautiful and atmospheric surroundings of the Library’s grand Historic Reading Room, enjoy a medley of Christmas Carols by Salford Royal Choir. Take a break from Christmas…

Too Much of Water / Salt's Waters (free

16:30 - 18:30 7 December 2016
Free performance event in the John Thaw Studio Theatre, Martin Harris Centre Wednesday 7th December, 4.30pm to 6.00pm Too Much of Water / Salt’s Waters by Steve Bottoms, with…

Quatuor Danel with Michelle Assay (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 8 December 2016
Members of the Quatuor Danel, joined by pianist Michelle Assay, in a programme of Mozart and his distant admirers: two of his most genial chamber works, followed by homages from a prolific…

Quatuor Danel

19:30 - 21:30 9 December 2016
Two imposing quartets in E flat: Weinberg’s breakthrough to full maturity with a work of classical symphonic proportions, and Beethoven’s return to quartet writing after a 14-year break,…

Quatuor Danel Open House

12:00 9 - 16:00 11 December 2016
The University of Manchester and its internationally-renowned resident string quartet, Quatuor Danel, invite you to join in another fantastic music-making opportunity. Everyone is…

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