Performances

Just One Cornetto: Late Baroque Music from Northern Europe

13:10 - 13:55 19 April 2024
Experience voices and instruments from 18th-century northern Europe, including Bach, Telemann and Johann Daniel Berlin with the university’s Baroque orchestra, including the rarely heard cornetto.

David Nicholls in Conversation

19:00 22 April 2024
A welcome return to Manchester Literature Festival for one of the UK’s best loved authors. David Nicholls joins us to discuss his witty and engrossing new novel, You Are Here. The story…

WCLC: Aria Vocal Trio Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 13:55 25 April 2024
Mariya Angelova Vocal Trio from Bulgaria presents songs from their debut album with traditional Bulgarian songs. Singers Mariya Angelova, Asya Pincheva and Vanya Dimitrova perform acapella…

In Our Own Words: A performance and discussion on supporting NHS staff to tell their own stories

13:00 - 16:30 26 April 2024
Join us for In Our Own Words, for an exploration of ways in which NHS staff have been and can be supported to tell their stories, make sense of their NHS experiences and feel heard.…

WCLC: Trio Atem presents Atem x Atem

13:10 - 13:55 2 May 2024
Trio Atem return to Manchester with Atem x Atem: a programme of new pieces composed by the Trio themselves. Includes the premiere of the final work in Nina Whiteman's Cybird Trilogy…

(Re)discovering the music of Mozart and Luiz Costa (Artur Pereira - piano)

13:10 - 13:55 9 May 2024
Due to unforeseen circumstances, there has been a change of programme for the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert on Thursday 9 May. We regret that Antonia Sotgiu will no longer be performing,…

SEAGLASS - Kathryn Tann in conversation with Horatio Clare

18:30 - 20:00 9 May 2024
We're delighted to be working with Blackwells Book Store Manchester to host the launch of Kathryn Tann's SEAGLASS - her new essay collection which reflects on shared experiences, anxieties,…

Gamelan Music from West Java

13:10 - 13:55 10 May 2024
Experience the vibrant gamelan music from West Java, Indonesia. Our concert features instruments performing a variety of classical and contemporary pieces.

Olivia Laing: The Garden Against Time

19:00 10 May 2024
‘A garden is a time capsule, as well as a portal out of time.’ In her compelling new work of non-fiction The Garden Against Time, Olivia Laing brings to life her own slice of paradise:…

Friends of the Whitworth Sunday Concerts

15:00 12 May 2024
Students from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester perform in our South Gallery, overlooking Whitworth Park. Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts…

Estival Ensembles Concert

14:00 - 16:00 12 June 2024
Starring String Orchestra, Wind Orchestra and Brass Band, MUMS Ensembles end a great year of music-making with a great concert!

Estival Orchestra Concert

18:00 - 19:10 12 June 2024
MUMS celebrate a great year of music-making and the end of exams with a diverse concert. Alongside Bizet’s Carmen Suites, the orchestra play a student composition and accompany songs…

Estival Grade One-athon

15:00 - 16:00 14 June 2024
UoM students learn a completely new instrument and fundraise for the Olympias Music Foundation. The performance is chaotic fun and also consists of a solo competition on the new instrument.…

An Evening with Sarah Perry

18:30 - 20:00 21 June 2024
Celebrate the Summer Solstice with an evening discussing Enlightenment, the spell-binding new novel from renowned author, Sarah Perry. The newest story from award-winning novelist…

Friends of the Whitworth Sunday Concerts

15:00 - 15:45 23 June 2024
Students from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester perform in our South Gallery, overlooking Whitworth Park. Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts…

The National Children's Brass Band of Great Britain: 20th Anniversary Concert, Guest Conductor Lynda Nicholson, Guest Soloist Daniel Marsh (Tenor Horn).

14:00 - 16:00 2 August 2024
This special concert celebrates 20 years of the National Children's Brass Band of Great Britain. Leading the band will be Guest Conductor Lynda Nicholson, herself an alumna of NYBBGB…

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John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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