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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.

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…

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,…

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.

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.…

Culture Monday, Wild and Musical Edition

11:00 - 14:00 8 July 2024
Manchester Museum opens its doors for a special day of culture and music for anyone aged 50 and over. Not open to the public on Mondays, this is a unique opportunity to enjoy the Museum…

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…

Drama Welcome Week Show: Pliable present...NEAR TO

19:00 - 20:00 20 September 2024
Pliable present NEAR TO, devised by the company My mum’s life is like a dress she wears proudly. It’s glamorous and expensive, yet at a close look one can see the moth bitten parts;…

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…

Welcome Concert: Manchester University Music Society and Chorus

13:10 - 14:00 30 September 2024
Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) host this special performance to welcome a new cohort of students to Manchester. In partnership with Chorus and Symphony, the concert signals…

WCLC: The Lucky Dog Picturehouse – silent movie screening with live musical accompaniment

13:10 - 13:55 3 October 2024
Experience silent comedies from over 100 years ago with era-authentic scores, performed live by the musicians of The Lucky Dog Picturehouse. Presented by Music, Drama & Film departments.…

Lunchtime concert: Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase

13:10 - 13:55 4 October 2024
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 Bach, Liszt, Faure, and more!

Manchester Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas

14:30 - 15:45 5 October 2024
‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed country with real reasons to be proud of itself.’ Fintan O’Toole Caroline Lucas, former…

MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest

19:00 - 20:15 5 October 2024
Festival favourite Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) returns to celebrate her new poetry collection May Day. From Reclaim the Streets to Pride to Greenham Common to Black Lives Matter, Jackie…

MLF 2024: An Evening with Meera Sodha

19:30 - 20:45 9 October 2024
‘The ability to put a good dinner on the table has become my superpower and I want it to become yours too.’ Bestselling, multi-award-winning cook Meera Sodha joins us to share her…

WCLC: A Curious Mind: Ensemble Augelletti (New Generation Baroque Ensemble)

13:10 - 13:55 10 October 2024
Ensemble Augelletti tell the unique story of 18th-century Yorkshireman Edward Finch and perform music by Purcell, Handel and Corelli which Finch played with his friends. The Thursday…

WCLC: Tom Ollendorff, Will Vinson, David Ingamells and Viktor Nyberg (Jazz Quartet)

13:10 - 13:55 17 October 2024
Guitarist Tom Ollendorff embarks on a European tour with this Quartet this October featuring the highly regarded saxophonist, Will Vinson. The tour is celebrating the release of Tom's…

MUMS Symphony Orchestra Concert

19:00 - 21:00 19 October 2024
MUMS Symphony Orchestra Concert with Nielsen's 4th Symphony, the premiere of Adnan Marafi's Al Hud-hud and Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.1

WCLC: Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 13:55 24 October 2024
Quatuor Danel perform the Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 13 Rosamunde (1824) Followed at 2.30pm by Inside Chamber Music with Anne Hyland: a public masterclass hosted by Senior…

MANTIS 20th Anniversary Festival

26 - 27 October 2024
MANTIS Festival – 20 year anniversary celebration, 26–27 October 2024. MANTIS welcomes back many of its 100+ postgraduate student alumni to perform their electroacoustic music and mark…

MANTIS Festival: Autumn 2024

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