Music concert

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…

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…

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…

CANCELLED: MUMS Musica/MUWO

19:00 - 20:00 15 March 2023
As a result of infrastructural issues, the Martin Harris Centre has had to cancel this event. The programme will include Francois Borne’s Carmen Fantasy on themes from Bizet’s opera,…

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…

Stockport Youth Orchestra

15:00 - 17:00 19 March 2023
Stockport Youth Orchestra returns to Martin Harris Centre for the first time since 2019, in a popular programme which will include Sibelius – Finlandia, Copland - Appalachian Spring…

UPDATED: Public afternoon concert: Klezmer – The Michael Kahan Kapelye

14:30 - 15:20 23 March 2023
This concert will now take place on Thursday 23rd March at 14:30 with a change of venue. The concert will now take place International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge…

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,…

University of Manchester New Music Ensemble: Sadie Harrison in Focus

13:10 - 14:00 24 March 2023
Following her two-day residency at Manchester, this concert features music a rare opportunity to hear several works from the acclaimed composer, Sadie Harrison, together with student…

Manchester University Music Society Extravaganza

14:30 - 16:30 25 March 2023
MUSO, Big Band and Klezmer Some of the rep includes: The Spacemen - T.J. Powell, Hymn Tune: Manchester - Richard Wainwright, Notturno in B major for string orchestra as well as many…

WCLC - Lana Bode performs HerStories Unsung by Kevin Malone

13:10 - 14:00 20 April 2023
Contemporary pianist Lana Bode performs the world premiere of Kevin Malone’s HerStories Unsung Vol.2, a suite of piano pieces which tell the stories of marginalised women including…

WCLC - Bass clarinet and electronics with Marij van Gorkom

13:10 - 14:00 27 April 2023
Following collaborations with various NOVARS composers, Dutch bass clarinettist Marij van Gorkom returns to Manchester to perform a lunchtime concert. Specialised in performance with…

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