Performances

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…

Quatuor Danel with David Fanning (piano)

19:30 - 21:30 31 March 2017
The first of Beethoven’s three mid-period quartets for the Russian ambassador in Vienna, with a Russian folk-theme ingeniously worked into the finale; and the mightiest of Russian piano…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Prima Wind Quintet

15:00 - 15:45 2 April 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…

SOLD OUT Romeo and Juliet: Star-Crossed Lovers

13:00 - 14:00 20 April 2017
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ROMEO AND JULIET TOUR IS NOW SOLD OUT. Thursday 20 April 2017 Performance 1-2pm Workshop 2.15pm-3pm See Shakespeare differently with 1623 Theatre Company…

Romeo and Juliet Star-Crossed Lovers

10:00 - 11:00 21 April 2017
Performance 10am-11am Workshop 11.15am-12pm See Shakespeare differently with 1623 Theatre Company as they map the journey of literature’s most famous lovers, in this hour-long adaptation…

The Nest

19:30 24 - 12:00 25 April 2017
The Nest is a bespoke drama production created by SBC theatre originally written and performed in the 2015 Manchester Science Festival. On 24th and 25th April 2017 The Nest returns…

"Wandering.." Ian Buckle, piano

13:10 - 14:00 27 April 2017
Ian Buckle's programme explores the notion of Wandering: Debussy's Estampes and Scelsi's Un Adieu are presented alongside English Impressionism from Roger Quilter's In a Gondola and…

Vonnegut Collective

13:10 - 14:00 28 April 2017
This year MUMS is privileged to have the Vonnegut Collective perform works from various postgraduate composition students from The University of Manchester. The Vonnegut Collective…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Alla Petrichei

15:00 - 15:45 30 April 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…

Mervyn Morris and Jackie Kay

18:00 - 20:00 3 May 2017
On a rare visit to the UK, one of the most distinguished literary voices of the Caribbean, Mervyn Morris, celebrates the launch of his new collection Peelin Orange (Carcanet Press),…

Robin Ireland (viola) and Krysia Osostowicz (violin)

13:10 - 14:00 4 May 2017
Robin Ireland and Krysia Osostowicz perform two of the best loved Duos for violin and viola, and a selection of Bartok's wonderful Duos for two violins. Robin Ireland is the former…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Manchester University String Society

15:00 - 15:45 7 May 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 around Manchester perform in the New Arrivals…

Gamelan Degung with special guest Soufian Saihi

13:10 - 14:00 11 May 2017
Second-year music students from The University of Manchester's 'Ensemble Performance' module take to the stage to demonstrate their newly acquired expertise in Sundanese Gamelan Degung…

'Poems of Repossession' and 'The Coast Road'

18:00 - 19:30 13 May 2017
The Irish World Heritage Centre and The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester are delighted to bring to Manchester a unique and exciting poetry event, showcasing the…

From Shore to Shore

19 - 20 May 2017
Three stories, three lives, three journeys to find a place to call home. Cheung Wing is escaping from war, Mei Lan’s had enough of the potato peeler and Yi Di wants the impossible;…

Sexuality Summer School Public Performance Lecture: Holly Hughes: Dyke Interrupted

20:00 - 21:30 23 May 2017
Sexuality Summer School (22nd – 26th May 2017): Why Be Normal? Holly Hughes is an internationally acclaimed lesbian performer whose work has been challenging normative ideas about…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Aurea String Quartet

15:00 - 15:45 28 May 2017
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. Performances are held at 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons in the New Arrivals exhibition gallery,…

Just An Ordinary Lawyer

06:00 30 - 12:00 31 May 2017
We’re delighted to bring you the new one-man musical stage show from Tayo Aluko (writer and performer of the multi-award-winning Call Mr. Robeson); Just An Ordinary Lawyer, telling…

Friends of the Whitworth: Sunday Concerts - Zerbina Duo

15:00 - 15:45 4 June 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…

ESTIVAL 2017

6 - 9 June 2017
Join Manchester University Music Society in their unique equivalent to the 'Proms'! MUMS celebrate the end of the academic year by packing nine concerts into four days in an unmissable…

Manchester University Music Society Music & Drama Mashup Showcase – Estival 2017

19:30 - 21:00 6 June 2017
This year the Mashup is back, bigger and better than ever before! With music and drama students coming together to create musical scenes and pantomime dreams, June 6th's evening concert…

Manchester University Music Society Concerto Concert – Estival 2017

19:30 - 21:00 7 June 2017
Programme to include: Higdon Percussion Concerto Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor This evening showcases the striking contrast between the much-loved, romantic Violin Concerto…

Summer Proms Extravaganza Relaxed Performance

11:00 - 12:00 7 June 2017
Join us for a spectacular summer proms concert for everyone to enjoy. From classical favourites to a selection of well-known contemporary songs, come along, sing-along and enjoy! …

Ad Solem and Cosmo Singers Lunchtime Concert – Estival 2017

13:10 - 14:00 8 June 2017
Summer is Icumen in! Ad Solem and The Cosmo Singers come together in concert to bring you choral works by Finzi, Ireland, Delius, Ligeti, Barber, MacMillan and more!

Manchester University Wind Orchestra and Manchester University Brass Band – Estival 2017

19:30 - 21:00 8 June 2017
Programme to Include: Bernstein, arr. Duthoit West Side Story Selection John & Zimmer, arr. Custer The Lion King Tchaikovsky, arr. Godfrey 1812 Overture Simon Dobson Torsion…

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