(ALC) Music

ESTIVAL 2018

4 - 8 June 2018
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 five days in an unmissable…

Estival Mashup

19:30 - 21:00 5 June 2018
This concert will feature Carnival of the Animals and a dance showcase, before a group of outgoing music students, the ‘8 guys’, give their original take on life in the Martin Harris…

Jazz Showcase

13:10 - 14:00 5 June 2018
Manchester University Music Society Jazz showcase returns, following its success back in October. Come and enjoy a concert which is sure to take you right across the endless soundscape…

Ad Solem and The Cosmo Singers

13:10 - 14:00 6 June 2018
Join the two chamber choirs of the university for a final concert before their joint choral and orchestral tour to Ireland this summer! Featuring Triptych by Tara O’Regan and much more.…

Manchester University String Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 6 June 2018
Programme to include: Mozart Divertimento Dmajor k.136 Tchaikovsky Elegy for Strings Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 MUSO finish a highly successful year with works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky,…

Manchester University Music Society Grade 1 Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 7 June 2018
Have you ever wanted to watch a saxophonist try and play a violin whilst a trombonist struggles to hold the bow of a cello? This concert showcases the work of the grade 1-athon player,…

Manchester University Wind Orchestra and Brass Band

19:30 - 21:00 7 June 2018
Michael Giacchino arr. Jay Bocook The incredibles theme Berstein West Side Story - Selections for Band John Williams arr. Jerry Brubaker Star Wars: The Marches The Incredibles, West…

Manchester University Music Society - Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 8 June 2018
Elgar Dream Children Elizabeth Maconchy Nocturne Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 Manchester University Music Society finishes Estival in style with an inspiring final concert from…

The European Art-Science-Technology Network Week

25 - 30 June 2018
The European Art-Science-Technology Network (EASTN-DC) is a forerunner of the next digital revolution, bringing together 17 partners, from the European Union, Brazil, USA and Canada.…

The European Art-Science-Technology Network Week

18:00 - 19:30 27 June 2018
The European Art-Science-Technology Network (EASTN-DC) is a forerunner of the next digital revolution, bringing together 17 partners, from the European Union, Brazil, USA and Canada.…

The European Art-Science-Technology Network Week

20:00 - 21:30 27 June 2018
The European Art-Science-Technology Network (EASTN-DC) is a forerunner of the next digital revolution, bringing together 17 partners, from the European Union, Brazil, USA and Canada.…

The European Art-Science-Technology Network Week

14:00 - 15:30 28 June 2018
The European Art-Science-Technology Network (EASTN-DC) is a forerunner of the next digital revolution, bringing together 17 partners, from the European Union, Brazil, USA and Canada.…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Oriental Breeze

13:10 - 14:00 27 September 2018
Manchester-based Chinese music ensemble, Oriental Breeze, consists of members from the local Chinese community and is one of the largest of its kind in the UK. Enjoy the charm of traditional…

Manchester University Music Society: Welcome Concert

17:00 - 19:00 30 September 2018
Join us for the first Music Society concert of the academic year, featuring three contrasting French works. We introduce our newest music students in Poulenc’s eclectic Gloria, followed…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Quatuor Danel with Michelle Assay (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 4 October 2018
In the last years of Stalin’s regime, composers in Russia and the eastern bloc were exhorted to compose music ‘for the people’. In Poland Lutoslawski responded with a folklike series…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Richard Whalley (piano)

19:30 - 21:00 5 October 2018
The Danels begin their late-Schubert survey with the bitter-sweet ‘Rosamunde’ named after its slow movement’s variations on incidental music to a play of that name. The Second Piano…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Jonathan Aasgaard plays Weinberg

13:10 - 14:00 11 October 2018
Weinberg loved the cello - it was clearly a vehicle with which he could express his innermost feelings and thoughts. Jonathan Aasgaard, a longstanding fan of his music, is delighted…

Baroque Orchestra The Majesty of Versailles: Court and Theatre Music from Baroque France

15:30 - 17:00 14 October 2018
As the culmination of a two-day intensive workshop on historically informed performance, guided by Peter Holman MBE, co-founder of The Parley of Instruments, together with Baroque strings…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: The Art of Touching the Keyboard

13:10 - 14:00 18 October 2018
Touch and movement (encapsulated by Judith Weir’s apt title) characterise this programme of short late twentieth century classics, plus the UK première of Richard Whalley’s recent Kinderszenen.…

Manchester University Music Society: Ensemble Sounds in the Twentieth Century

13:10 - 14:00 19 October 2018
Three works composed between 1922-34 reveal the varied nature of early twentieth-century chamber music, using imaginative forces to evoke new timbres and characters. Contrastingly,…

Manchester University Music Society: Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 20 October 2018
Böcklin’s 1884 painting ‘The Isle of the Dead’ inspired Rachmaninoff’s extraordinary work, featuring one of the most sinister openings in any orchestral repertoire. Postgraduate composer,…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Ensemble DENOTE

13:10 - 14:00 25 October 2018
Beethoven only rarely rearranged his works for different instrumental combinations. Acclaimed period-instrument chamber group, Ensemble DENOTE, explores his reimagining of the Septet,…

MANTIS Festival

18:00 - 19:00 27 October 2018
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring Danny Saul and Brona Martin (commissioned by Trafford's Seed Studios and the Vonnegut…

MANTIS Festival

20:00 - 21:00 27 October 2018
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring Danny Saul and Brona Martin (commissioned by Trafford's Seed Studios and the Vonnegut…

MANTIS Festival

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2018
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring Danny Saul and Brona Martin (commissioned by Trafford's Seed Studios and the Vonnegut…

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