Music concert

Manchester University Big Band (MUBB)

19:30 - 21:00 6 December 2018
The Manchester University Big Band take the stage for their first concert this year, pushing the ensembles capabilities and featuring soloists from all areas of the band. Expect new…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Quatuor Danel with Richard Whalley (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 6 December 2018
This Lunchtime Concert includes the performance of a piece by the university’s Professor emeritus, John Casken, derived from his opera-in-progress Sylvie and the Songman, precedes the…

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

13:10 - 14:00 7 December 2018
The University’s period-instrument Baroque ensemble undertakes an exploration of the rich and varied repertory of late seventeenth-century France including special music for Christmas…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:00 7 December 2018
Schubert’s profound masterpiece, with its variations on his song ‘Death and the Maiden’ at its core, is preceded by the Variations on a Russian Folk Song, co-authored by ten composers…

Manchester University String Orchestra & University of Manchester Brass Band (MUSO)

19:30 - 21:00 8 December 2018
MUSO will contrast pieces of core string repertoire by British Composer’s Gerald Finzi and Benjamin Britten, then Brass Band will present an exciting range of music that will showcase…

Festive songs at The John Rylands Library

12:00 - 12:45 9 December 2018
Please note this event is now sold out, there is a waiting list in place. Bringing joy and Christmas cheer to Library this year. We welcome Quarternotes, a local community choir who…

Sunday Concerts: Bossa Nova Quartet

15:00 - 16:00 9 December 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…

Manchester University Music Society: Festive Concert

19:30 - 21:00 13 December 2018
Ad Solem take on a broad range of festive repertoire, extending from Bach to Anderson, to end the musical year on a jubilant festive note. The first part of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Flickering Presences - New Works for Flute and Video

13:10 - 14:00 13 December 2018
Gavin Osborn (flute) Flickering presences: a concert of specially commissioned extraordinary pieces for flute and video, with the projected image also forming the score for the flautist…

Festive Sing Along Relaxed Performance

13:10 - 14:00 14 December 2018
Get yourself in the festive spirit with a free and extremely relaxed event full of carols and festive participation, with an informal atmosphere unlike a traditional concert. Manchester…

Join the Christmas festivities at this year's carol concert

13:00 - 14:00 20 December 2018
A festive way to wrap up the year, join the St Peter’s House team as we lead the annual carol concert in the beautiful surroundings of Whitworth Hall. This year’s collection will…

An Evening of Sufi Music & Culture with Ali Sethi

19:00 - 23:00 15 January 2019
Tickets on sale now via bit.ly/alisethimcr Join us for a spectacular evening of Sufi music and culture with Pakistani superstar Ali Sethi, featuring his mentor Harvard Professor Ali…

Sunday Concerts: RNCM A Cappella

15:00 - 16:00 20 January 2019
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…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert - Weinberg Cycle

19:30 - 21:00 24 January 2019
Settled in Moscow from September 1943, Weinberg embarked on an extraordinary series of chamber-music masterpieces, gradually finding his voice in his increasingly ambitious third, fourth…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:10 - 14:00 24 January 2019
Weinberg was a young virtuoso pianist, self-taught as a composer, when he composed his first expressive and energetic first string quartet in 1937. Its serenade-like successor followed…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert - Weinberg Cycle

19:30 - 21:00 25 January 2019
Following a gap between 1946 and 1957, Weinberg resumed his quartet cycle with a more restrained lyrical voice, heard at its most touchingly individual in the Eighth Quartet. The surrounding…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:00 - 14:00 25 January 2019
The six-movement Sixth Quartet marks the summit of Weinberg’s first flowering as a chamber-music composer. Appearing in 1946, it was blacklisted two years later in the Anti-formalist…

Quatuor Danel Teatime Concert (part of the Weinberg cycle)

16:30 - 17:30 25 January 2019
Weinberg Old Letters, Eight Romances to words by Julian Tuwim, Op. 77 Shostakovich ‘Music’ from Seven Romances to Words by Alexander Blok, Op. 127 Weinberg ‘Dedication’, from…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert - Weinberg Cycle

19:30 - 21:00 26 January 2019
Three quartets composed in quick succession between 1977 and 1979 inaugurate the third phase of Weinberg’s quartet output, in which continued experimentation takes him through the quizzical…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:00 - 14:00 26 January 2019
Between 1965 and 1970 Weinberg approached a second apex of his string quartet output, working through the increasingly adventurous tenth and eleventh and culminating in the notably…

Quatuor Danel Teatime Concert (part of the Weinberg cycle)

16:30 - 17:30 26 January 2019
Weinberg Sonata for Double Bass Solo, Op. 108 Weinberg Sonata No. 6 for Piano, Op. 73 Two of Weinberg’s most striking solo sonatas, featuring the Hallé Orchestra’s star principal…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:00 - 14:00 27 January 2019
A quartet dedicated to the memory of Weinberg’s sister, who perished at the hands of the Nazis, followed by a farewell to the genre that leads towards the light. And to finish, the…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: David Francis (harpsichord)

13:10 - 14:00 31 January 2019
L. Couperin Prelude à l’imitation de Mr. Froberger Rameau Suite in D minor F Couperin 18th Ordre Balbastre La Suzanne The improvisatory prelude exemplified by Louis Couperin…

Sunday Concerts: Lucida Saxophone Quartet

15:00 - 16:00 3 February 2019
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…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Rob Hall and Chick Lyall (followed by a workshop)

13:10 - 14:00 14 February 2019
Rob Hall (saxes, clarinets, wind synth) Chick Lyall (piano, electronics) In a partnership spanning over a decade and five CDs, the improvisational synergy between composers Rob Hall…

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