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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…

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…

Public Lunchtime Concert: University of Manchester Gamelan Ensemble

13:10 - 13:55 5 May 2023
The Music Department presents Gamelan Music from West Java, Indonesia. Students on the Ensemble Performance in Gamelan course perform an exciting programme of music, including classical…

Grade Oneathon Concert

15:00 - 16:00 6 June 2023
A performance from society members of the Manchester University Music Society at a ‘grade one’ level to raise money for The Olympias foundation. For the past month, students have paired…

New Future Music and Big Band

19:00 - 20:00 8 June 2023
Come down for an eclectic evening of music! Student compositions performed by the New Future Music Society Club Band and rounding off the evening with Big band classics! Student compositions…

Nigerian Gospel Performance

18:00 - 18:40 8 June 2023
The Music Department’s Nigerian Gospel Singing Ensemble is back for another end-of-year public performance. The ensemble was first formed in September 2021 to enable an encounter with…

An Evening with Fourfold: SOFAR & birthday girl

19:00 - 21:00 22 September 2023
Join Fourfold Productions for an evening showcasing two shows by Rosa Gatley — birthday girl (dir. Rosa Gatley) and SOFAR (dir. Maisie Holland). Both shows are fresh from the Edinburgh…

MUMS Piano Showcase

13:10 - 13:50 25 September 2023
Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase is the first weekly lunchtime concert of the academic year! Come along to see your friends and peers play piano music by Chopin,…

Evening Conversations: Written and performed by Sudha Bhuchar

19:30 - 21:00 27 September 2023
“Full of truth and beauty, really brave. My mum kept on poking me--you've given her a lot of ammo!” Riz Ahmed “Insightful, charming and funny.” Lenny Henry Evening Conversations is…

WCLC: Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 13:55 28 September 2023
Joshua Brown Three Reflections for Violin Duo (first performance) Schubert Quartet No. 10 in E flat, D87 The Quatuor Danel’s 19th season…

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