Performances

Stockport Youth Orchestra

15:30 - 17:30 24 March 2019
“The arts aren’t just a nice-to-have add-on; they should be a core part of our lives. The Stockport Youth Orchestra has been a marvellous example of this.” (Nicholas Kenyon, Director,…

Sunday Concerts: Paula O’Malley and Andrew Broome

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 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…

Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus

12:00 - 14:00 26 March 2019
Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus Listening to music reduces stress and can have a relaxing effect on our mind and bodies, therefore take some time to prioritise your wellbeing…

COMMONISM

19:00 - 20:30 27 March 2019
Written by Smith & Sveen “It has an emotional charge under its cool surface, is propelled by a sense of investigation into friendship, performance, identity. I found it quietly thrilling.”…

Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus

12:00 - 14:00 27 March 2019
Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus Listening to music reduces stress and can have a relaxing effect on our mind and bodies, therefore take some time to prioritise your wellbeing…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert with David Fanning (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 28 March 2019
Reeves Still above Ground – Elegy for Cello and Piano Prokofiev Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50 A new work for cello and piano by Camden Reeves, written in memory of his jazz-loving…

MUMS Lunchtime Concerts: Folk Concert

13:10 - 14:00 29 March 2019
MUMS are excited to present their first ever folk-themed concert, with music ranging from ‘trad’ to originals. Featuring a range of instruments and ensembles rarely heard in this concert…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Petr Prause (cello)

19:30 29 March 2019
A new work by Richard Whalley based on analogies between music and Icelandic geology and landscapes is sandwiched by two more Schubert masterpieces: the driving single-movement Quartettsatz…

Hallé Choral Academy Concert

15:00 - 17:00 30 March 2019
Join the Hallé Choral Academy as they perform a selection of works including Rutter’s ‘Feel the Spirit’, led by conductors Joseph Judge and Michelle Robinson. The concert will also…

The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 30 March 2019
The University of Manchester Chorus returns this spring with Carl Orff’s renowned work, Carmina Burana, accompanied by the University of Manchester’s Symphony Orchestra. We also celebrate…

Brass Band

19:30 - 21:00 4 April 2019
Manchester University Brass Band presenting a largely ecclesiastical programme including an exciting arrangement Tallis’ ‘Spem in Alium’ for Brass Band. They will be utilizing the beautiful…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Klezmer: The Michael Kahan Kapelye

13:10 - 14:00 4 April 2019
Performing a compelling concert of klezmer music – the traditional dance music of Eastern European Jewry – the University of Manchester’s resident klezmer ensemble, The Michael Kahan…

A CELEBRATION FOR SIR JOHN MANDUELL

14:00 - 16:00 6 April 2019
A celebration and tribute to Sir John Manduell CBE, who spent his life furthering the cause of music worldwide from his many important spheres of work in the UK (particularly Manchester)…

A CELEBRATION FOR SIR JOHN MANDUELL

19:00 - 21:00 6 April 2019
A celebration and tribute to Sir John Manduell CBE, who spent his life furthering the cause of music worldwide from his many important spheres of work in the UK (particularly Manchester)…

Sunday Concerts: Brass Quartet Menine

15:00 - 16:00 14 April 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…

MACBETH - Toil and Trouble: SOLD OUT

13:00 - 14:00 24 April 2019
Performance 1pm - 2pm Workshops 2.15pm - 3pm After a sell-out run in 2018 at The Martin Harris Centre, award-winning 1623 Theatre Company returns with their 60-minute adaptation…

MACBETH- Toil and Trouble: SOLD OUT

10:00 - 11:00 25 April 2019
Please note, this event is fully booked. If you would like to be added to the waiting list for this event, please call Emma Rayner on 0161 275 8950 or E-mail schoolsevents@manchester.ac.uk.…

The Next Wave: Canadian Poetry in the 21st Century

19:00 - 21:00 29 April 2019
"What The Next Wave shows us is that little self-involved garrison outpost has been completely overrun, and everything is up for grabs. What is poetry? What is Canadian? What should…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Stephen Richardson (bass) with David Fanning (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 2 May 2019
Leading British bass Stephen Richardson performs Shostakovich's hard-hitting Romances on Words by British Poets, banned under Stalin in 1948, together with Irish composer Gerald Barry's…

John Rylands Poetry Reading with Leontia Flynn and Zaffar Kunial: SOLD OUT

17:00 - 19:30 9 May 2019
Please join us from 5 pm at the John Rylands Library for a reception and a collection encounter showcasing some of the most interesting letters held in the Special Collections at the…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Gamelan

13:10 - 14:00 9 May 2019
Second-year Music students on the Ensemble Performance module demonstrate their newly acquired expertise in Sundanese Gamelan Degung from West Java, Indonesia in an exciting concert…

Retro(per)spective by Split Britches

19:00 - 20:30 21 May 2019
Written and Performed by Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Including work created in collaboration with Deb Margolin, Holly Hughes, Stacy Makishi, Vivian Stoll, Stormy Brandenberger and Bette…

Retro(per)spective by Split Britches

19:00 - 20:30 22 May 2019
Written and Performed by Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Including work created in collaboration with Deb Margolin, Holly Hughes, Stacy Makishi, Vivian Stoll, Stormy Brandenberger and Bette…

Georgian Singing Workshop Led by Carl Linich

10:30 - 16:30 1 June 2019
Join us for a day of exquisite and uplifting Georgian singing! Under the expert guidance of visiting teacher Carl Linich, we will learn three-part songs in a variety of styles from…

ESTIVAL 2019

4 - 7 June 2019
Join Manchester University Music Society in their unique equivalent to the 'Proms'! MUMS celebrate the end of the academic year by packing eight concerts into four days in an unmissable…

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