Music concert

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…

Sunday Concerts: Levaré String Quartet with works including Stravinsky and Mendelssohn

15:00 - 16:00 7 October 2018
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 South Gallery, overlooking…

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,…

Sunday Concerts: Savva Zverev & Jack Bailey

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2018
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 South Gallery, overlooking…

Afro-Cuban percussion demonstration

15:30 - 17:00 24 October 2018
A live demonstration of Afro-Latin percussion with the participation of Christian Weaver, percussionist with La Timbala (see: https://www.globalgrooves.org/team/christian-weaver/).

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…

Sunday Concerts: Festivo Winds

15:00 - 16:00 4 November 2018
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 South Gallery, overlooking…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Citizen of Nowhere: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919 - 1996) A Sung Life

13:10 - 14:00 8 November 2018
This performance, from Jewish vocal music specialist Mark Glanville and the renowned Israeli pianist Marc Verter, journeys through the extraordinary vocal output of a major twentieth-century…

Manchester University Music Society Vocal Showcase

13:10 - 14:00 9 November 2018
MUMS presents a highly engaging concert celebrating the vocal talent within the society. With a wide range of voices and styles, this promises to be an exciting varied Lunchtime Concert,…

Manchester University Music Society Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 10 November 2018
The year 1788 saw Mozart push the boundaries of contemporary composition to unseen heights of contrapuntal mastery and genius, emulated in his Adagio and Fugue and final symphony.…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 15 November 2018
Vissarion Shebalin was four years Shostakovich’s senior and regarded initially as his Moscow counterpart while Shostakovich dominated the Leningrad scene. Shebalin’s Sonata is a wartime…

Manchester University Music Society - New Sounds from Manchester

13:10 - 14:00 16 November 2018
In this free Public Lunchtime Concert, you have the opportunity to hear some of Manchester University Music Society’s newest and best student compositions. Comprising of varying forces…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:00 16 November 2018
Two monuments of the quartet repertoire: Beethoven’s seven-movement C sharp minor, with its colossal range of character and correspondingly power of determined integration; and Schubert’s…

Sunday Concerts: Yanan Xu and Phoebe Kam

15:00 - 16:00 18 November 2018
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 South Gallery, overlooking…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Rosalind Dobson (Soprano) and Michelle Assay (Piano) perform the songs of Shostakovich and Weinberg

13:10 - 14:00 22 November 2018
Songs from the height of the USSR by Weinberg, and one of his main influences, Shostakovich. Shostakovich Satires, Op. 109 Weinberg Old Letters after J. Tuwim Op. 77 Price: FREE

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