Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

MANTIS FESTIVAL

18:00 - 19:30 26 November 2022
Come along to the 2022 autumn edition of the MANTIS festival, which serves to promote new works by postgraduate electroacoustic composers from The University of Manchester. Immersive…

MANTIS FESTIVAL

20:00 - 21:00 26 November 2022
Come along to the 2022 autumn edition of the MANTIS festival, which serves to promote new works by postgraduate electroacoustic composers from The University of Manchester. Immersive…

MANTIS FESTIVAL

14:00 - 15:00 27 November 2022
Come along to the 2022 autumn edition of the MANTIS festival, which serves to promote new works by postgraduate electroacoustic composers from The University of Manchester. Immersive…

Jasdeep Singh Degun (sitar) and Harkiret Bahra (Tabla)

13:10 - 14:00 1 December 2022
'Breaking down cultural boundaries with his extraordinary artistry and new approach to composition, virtuoso sitarist, Jasdeep Singh Degun, brings a new energy and vision to both Indian…

Margarita Ariza: "Dossier: Summoned to Appear. On the “Salve, Salva, Salvia” Project"

17:00 1 December 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will take place in the John Casken Lecture Theatre, at the Martin Harris Centre. Margarita…

WCLC- Danels

13:10 - 14:00 8 December 2022
Franz Schubert,?String?Quartet Movement in C Minor,?D. 103?(completed by Brian Newbould) Josef Mayseder, String Quartet?No.5?in D major,?Op.9 Take a trip to early 19th-Century Vienna!…

Danels Evening concert

19:30 - 21:30 9 December 2022
Tributes to sisters. Schubert’s stormy quartet movement in C minor prefaces two quartets written in memory of lost sisters. Felix Mendelssohn’s Op.80 was his last major composition,…

The University of Manchester’s Baroque Orchestra: Henry Purcell - Showtunes

13:10 - 14:00 9 December 2022
In the last five years of his short life, Henry Purcell’s career took a (literally) dramatic new turn, as he became the London theatre’s most prolific and celebrated composer, writing…

Evening Festive Concert

19:00 - 21:00 15 December 2022
MUMS ensembles perform their festive repertoires to celebrate the end of 2022. This uplifting evening of music will include: festive Symphonies of Wind Instruments 9 by Stravinsky,…

Little Big Band Jazz Ensemble featuring Yazz Ahmed and Carlos Maldonado

13:10 - 14:00 15 December 2022
Established in October 2019, the ensemble is directed by Dr Alexander Gagatsis, lecturer in Jazz Studies, and takes the form of a little big band, a smaller version of the conventional…

Research café: Jazz diasporas in-the-making: an ethnographic listening of musical practice and discourse

16:30 - 18:00 15 December 2022
In this research café, Alexander Gagatsis, Lecturer in Jazz Studies at The University of Manchester and Simon Industrial and Professional Fellows Yazz Ahmed and Carlos Maldonado are…

Festive Sing-along Relaxed Performance

13:10 - 14:00 16 December 2022
Everyone is welcome to enjoy some uplifting Christmas music here at the Martin Harris Centre this December as the Festive Sing-along Relaxed Performance returns with jingle bells on.…

WCLC- Danels

13:10 - 14:00 9 February 2023
David Önaç, 'Out of the Blue' for Two Violins (World Premiere) Benjamin Britten, Elegy for Solo Viola Kevin Malone, Requiem77, for Solo Cello and Air Traffic Controllers University…

Danels evening concert

19:30 - 21:30 10 February 2023
Kevin Malone, The Housatonic Near Sandy Hook (Premiere of String Quartet Version) Kris Defoort, String Quartet No.1 (2004) Felix Mendelssohn, Octet in E-Flat Major, Op.20 A…

MUMS Opera: Mrs President by Victoria Bond

19:00 - 21:00 17 February 2023
Join MUMS Opera for their performance of Victoria Bond’s Mrs. President, an opera detailing the life of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States…

MUMS Opera: Mrs President by Victoria Bond

19:00 - 21:00 18 February 2023
Join MUMS Opera for their performance of Victoria Bond’s Mrs. President, an opera detailing the life of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States…

WCLC - with Richard Whalley (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 23 February 2023
Rebecca Clarke, Lullaby and Grotesque, for Viola and Cello Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus, for Viola and Piano Fanny Mendelssohn, String Quartet in E-Flat Major Two duos by British-American…

MUMS Chamber Orchestra

15:30 - 16:30 25 February 2023
Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) invites you to their first concert of 2023, featuring two distinctive concerti, both old and new. The concert opens with an exhilarating world…

WCLC – Chineke Chamber Ensemble

13:10 - 14:00 2 March 2023
The Chineke! Foundation was created by Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE in 2015 to provide outstanding career opportunities to established and up-and-coming Black and ethnically diverse classical…

Music Lunchtime Concert: MUMS Brass Band

13:10 - 14:00 3 March 2023
A lunchtime concert showcasing the Brass Band’s work following a successful competition. The concert will include Duel of the Fates from John Williams’ Phantom Menace Suite and Song…

MANTIS Spring Festival

18:00 - 19:30 4 March 2023
Please note the change of programme: The March MANTIS Festival features guest artist Mark Pilkington. Dr Mark Iain Pilkington is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. His…

MANTIS Spring Festival

20:00 - 21:30 4 March 2023
Please note the change of programme: The March MANTIS Festival features guest artist Mark Pilkington. Dr Mark Iain Pilkington is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. His…

MANTIS Spring Festival

14:00 - 15:30 5 March 2023
Please note the change of programme: The March MANTIS Festival features guest artist Mark Pilkington. Dr Mark Iain Pilkington is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. His…

Who Ya Gonna Call? (in event of emergency)

17:30 - 19:30 8 March 2023
A new one-man show that squares up to climate change is bringing its interactive performance to the Martin Harris Centre. Steve Scott-Bottoms' one-man show about climate resilience,…

WCLC - Seyed Ali Jaberi and the Hamdel Ensemble: ‘The Old Harpist’

13:10 - 14:00 9 March 2023
An unmissable opportunity to hear world-renowned tanbur player Seyed Ali Jaberi with the contemporary Persian Sufi Hamdel Ensemble in a programme of music with poetry by the 13 century…

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