(ALC) Music

Quatuor Danel at the Manchester Jewish Museum

19:30 - 21:30 8 December 2022
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No.6 in F Minor, Op.80 Mieczys?aw Weinberg, String Quartet No.16 in A-flat Minor, Op.130 The University of Manchester’s internationally-acclaimed…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

UPDATED LOCATION: WCLC - Danels

13:10 - 14:00 16 March 2023
As a result of ongoing structural problems adjacent to the Martin Harris Centre, tomorrow's Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert with the Quatuor Danel and Richard Whalley will now take…

VENUE UPDATE: Danels Evening concert with David Fanning and Michelle Assay

19:30 - 21:30 17 March 2023
Due to ongoing structural issues adjacent to the Martin Harris Centre the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall is closed. This concert will now go ahead with a change of venue. The concert…

University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 20:30 18 March 2023
An opportunity to hear Bernstein’s iconic Chichester Psalms in the exciting original scoring for full orchestra, together with a selection of choral and orchestral works, including…

WCLC: Stephen Altoft

13:10 - 14:00 23 March 2023
'The Microtonal Trumpet'- 19 tones per octave instead of 12 A fascinating programme of works for 19- division trumpet and electronics by Richard Whalley, Donald Bousted, Stephen Altoft,…

Mykaell Riley and Linda Brogan In Conversation with David Olusoga

18:00 - 19:00 4 May 2023
Join us at The Whitworth for this public talk, chaired by David Olusoga, Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. The talk provides a space to reflect on the historical…

Music and Sonic Art: Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight (MuSA 2023)

28 October 2023
We are delighted to announce the twelfth international conference on Music and Sonic Art: Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight (MuSA 2023), an interdisciplinary event supported by the Royal…

Faithful to the Salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India Company

16:30 - 18:00 29 February 2024
In 1818, the East India Company signed a treaty with the princely states of Jaipur and Jodhpur, offering British political and military protection in exchange for heavy cash tribute.…

WCLC: The Quatuor Danel with Richard Whalley (piano) - Bruckner 200 years Special

13:10 - 13:55 26 September 2024
Part of the Bruckner 200 years celebration, Richard Whalley joins the strings for a piano quartet by disciple of Bruckner, Gustav Mahler. Succeeded by Beethoven’s quartet in C minor,…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert: Bruckner 200 years Special

19:30 - 21:30 27 September 2024
Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) Six Scherzi for String Quartet, WAB 209 (1862) Theme and variations in E-flat major, WAB 210 (1862) String Quartet in C minor, WAB 111 (1862) Rondo in…

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