Performances

John McAuliffe “In Conversation” with Mohsin Hamid

19:00 - 20:30 27 February 2017
Manchester Literature Festival presents an In Conversation with award-winning author Mohsin Hamid. Born and raised in Lahore, Hamid currently divides his time between Pakistan, London…

Glenn Sharp and Chico Pere

13:10 - 14:00 2 March 2017
Glenn Sharp and Chico Pere are the two founding members of ‘Calaita Flamenco Son’, based in the UK and Spain. They perform a combination of traditional flamenco palos (styles) and contemporary…

English Lute Songs from the Golden Age featuring internationally acclaimed soprano Dame Emma Kirkby

19:30 - 21:00 4 March 2017
A programme drawn from the songbooks of John Dowland, John Danyel and their contemporaries, performed by three world-leading exponents of the repertory, Dame Emma Kirkby, John Bryan,…

MANTIS Festival

18:00 - 19:30 4 March 2017
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music. Local and guest composers will present their work using the large-scale MANTIS sound diffusion…

MANTIS Festival

20:00 - 21:00 4 March 2017
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music. Local and guest composers will present their work using the large-scale MANTIS sound diffusion system…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Harp Duo

15:00 - 15:45 5 March 2017
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. At 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons, students from the Royal Northern College of Music perform…

MANTIS Festival

14:00 - 15:30 5 March 2017
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music. Local and guest composers will present their work using the large-scale MANTIS sound diffusion system…

Literature Live: Beth Underdown and Kate Hamer

19:30 - 21:00 6 March 2017
Beth Underdown was born in Rochdale in 1987. Her debut novel, The Witchfinder's Sister, is based on the witch-hunts orchestrated by Matthew Hopkins in seventeenth century Essex, and…

Musica International Women’s Day concert

13:10 - 14:00 8 March 2017
On International Women’s Day Musica presents a concert of works by female composers, including the premières of newly composed student works, performed by Manchester music students.…

Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 9 March 2017
Though numbered third, Beethoven’s D major quartet was in fact the first he had composed. Its arch-shaped opening bars in turn form the basis for the tribute by Japanese composer Karen…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Sarah Leonard (soprano)

19:30 - 21:30 10 March 2017
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Sarah Leonard (soprano) Three innovatory quartet masterpieces: Debussy’s 1893 Quartet brushes the cobwebs off this apparently most traditional of…

MUMS Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 11 March 2017
Programme to include: Britten Russian Funeral Holst Hammersmith Prokofiev The Love for Three Oranges Tippett Little Music for Strings Britten Cello Symphony MUMS Symphony Orchestra…

Jeanette Winterson "In Conversation" with Neil Jordan

19:00 - 20:30 13 March 2017
Neil Jordan was born in 1950 in Sligo. His first book of stories, Night in Tunisia, won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979, and his subsequent critically acclaimed novels include The…

Trio Atem: Labyrinths and Mazes

13:10 - 14:00 16 March 2017
For their 10th anniversary concert, Trio Atem return with a programme of new works by: Nina Whiteman- House of Mazes, Gavin Osborn - as curve beyond points to see, Rob Corrin - Hardy's…

Ad Solem

19:30 - 21:00 17 March 2017
MUMS’ elite chamber choir returns to the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall to present 'Sacred and Profane'. This concert features a mixture of sacred and secular pieces and will include…

Ensemble Extravaganza

13:10 - 14:00 17 March 2017
From duos to quartets this concert focuses on the diverse and exciting range of student ensembles within the music department. Come and see our performers tackle some of the most gripping…

Kaye Mitchell "In Conversation" with George Saunders

18:30 - 20:00 17 March 2017
Waterstones Deansgate, in conjunction with The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing, is delighted to host an evening with the acclaimed American short story writer, George…

Manchester University Wind Orchestra and String Orchestra (MUWO and MUSO)

19:30 - 21:00 18 March 2017
MUWO and MUSO return to the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall to perform a range of works from Arensky’s Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky to Ellerby’s Clarinet Concerto, featuring soloist…

The Michael Kahan Kapelye

13:10 - 14:00 23 March 2017
The latest generation of musicians in the Music department's student klezmer ensemble - The Michael Kahan Kapelye - perform their own arrangements of a diverse programme of pieces originating…

Storm in a Teacup: Tempestuous Music by Baroque Composers

13:10 - 14:00 24 March 2017
A tempestuous programme of music depicting stormy weather, by Matthew Locke and Jean-Philippe Rameau, contrasted with Georg Philipp Telemann’s rather calmer ‘Water’ Overture – also…

The University of Manchester Chorus, Symphony Orchestra and The Cosmo Singers

19:30 - 21:00 25 March 2017
The University of Manchester Chorus presents Dvorák’s magnificent Mass in D major under the hand of their wonderful, new conductor Robert Guy. The Cosmo Singers present Duruflé’s beautiful…

Literature Live: Rory Gleeson, Alys Conran and Joey Connolly

19:00 - 20:30 28 March 2017
Reading by three début writers, novelists Rory Gleeson and Alys Conran, and poet Joey Connolly. Roddy Doyle wrote of Gleeson’s debut, ‘Rockadoon Shore is terrific’, while Conran’s novel…

Manchester University Big Band (MUBB)

19:30 - 21:00 30 March 2017
The Manchester University Big Band is an ensemble that plays an eclectic mix of modern jazz to a consistently high standard. They perform three times a year, including a vocal showcase…

Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 30 March 2017
The most adventurous of Beethoven’s early quartets is famous for its finale introduction, entitled ‘La Malinconia’; what better pairing, then, than Guillaume Lekeu’s 1887 quartet movement…

New Sounds from Manchester

13:10 - 14:00 31 March 2017
New Sounds from Manchester was set up this year, performing new music by emerging composers and artists drawn from The University of Manchester’s Music Department. Featuring Professor…

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