Martin Harris Centre

CANCELLED: Dan Sealey's "Beware of Darkness" Tour 2025

19:00 5 April 2025
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has had to be cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

CANCELLED: WCLC Alexandra Whittingham (guitar) & Elodie Chousmer-Howelles (violin)

13:10 - 13:55 1 May 2025
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has had to be cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Postgraduate Pianos

13:10 - 13:50 1 May 2025
Pianists from the MusM Music (Performance Studies) degree at the University of Manchester perform a collection of solos and duos (4-hands). The programme includes Franz Schubert's Fantasia…

Gamelan Music from West Java - UoM Gamelan Ensemble

13:10 - 14:00 9 May 2025
Students on the Gamelan Performance module play a lively selection of music from West Java, Indonesia.

UoM Jazz Ensemble

13:10 - 14:00 12 May 2025
Led by Alexander Gagatsis, undergraduate music students of the jazz ensemble module perform their own arrangements of popular music classics from the Northwest. Be prepared to listen…

Playing with Cruelty: Pop Culture, Performativity, and the Stanford Prison Experiment

16:00 - 18:00 4 June 2025
Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St. Andrews) in conversation with Professor Stephen Scott-Bottoms (University of Manchester) This special event marks the UK launch of a new…

Estival Concert with MUMS Symphony Orchestra & Choir

19:00 - 21:00 6 June 2025
Join us for the much anticipated 'ESTIVAL 2025’ concert, showcasing the many talents of the Manchester University Music Society. This performance features our Symphony orchestra and choir.

Manchester University Music Society: Sing the Musicals Sing-a-long Relaxed Performance

13:10 - 14:00 6 June 2025
Calling all West End and Broadway wannabes to our FREE sing-a-long event. Sing your favourite songs from stage and screen, in a relaxed setting. UPDATE: Download our Event Programme…

Little Belters and Absolute Belters’ Summer Concert 2025

14:00 - 16:00 6 July 2025
The Little Belters and Absolute Belters are excited to return to the stage for their highly anticipated end-of-year concert! Little Belters, our cool children’s choir for ages 4-11,…

Sounding The Story: Contemporary Music Inspired by Text and Tale

19:30 - 21:30 22 September 2025
A contemporary music concert featuring new works by postgraduate composers, recent graduates, and staff from the University of Manchester’s Department of Music. Showcasing compositions…

Welcome week show - ADMA Productions Ltd and Ransack Theatre present… Jurassic

19:00 - 20:00 26 September 2025
A new comedy about disinformation and dinosaurs, written by Bruntwood Prize-winning Tim Foley. A late-night screening of a Steven Spielberg classic causes carnage on a university campus.…

WCLC: Silent Movie and Live Music Accompaniment with Frame ensemble. Presented by the departments of Music, Drama and Film.

13:10 2 October 2025
Enjoy a silent movie with live accompaniment from Frame Ensemble – a group who creates music on the spur of the moment, as they watch the film with the audience. Their soundtrack is…

Guest lecture: Place-making and the role of culture in Manchester

17:30 - 20:00 8 October 2025
Creative Manchester and the Manchester Urban Institute are delighted to welcome Luthfur Rahman OBE, former Executive Leader for Culture and Leisure and Manchester City Council Deputy…

Lunchtime concert - In Memoriam, Gubaidulina (1931-2025)

13:10 - 14:00 9 October 2025
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 Gubaidulina Reflections on the theme B-A-C-H Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 The Danels pay tribute to Soviet avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina.…

Evening Concert with Richard Whalley (piano)

19:30 - 21:30 10 October 2025
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5, Marc Danel, violin and Richard Whalley, piano Jim Aitchison Piano Quintet No. 1 with Richard Whalley, piano Shostakovich String Quartet Quartet No.…

WCLC: In Focus - Jack Sheen. Manchester Camerata featuring Eleonore Cockerham

13:10 16 October 2025
A whisper of Japan, a luminous glimpse into India, and a delicate sound spun from the words of a symbolist poet — this ethereal concert grows from a trio of miniature masterpieces from…

Manchester University Music Society: Symphony Orchestra Concert

18:30 - 20:30 18 October 2025
This concert features the premiere of PHD student, Tanguy Pocquet Du Haut-Jusse’s new composition for orchestra followed by Jacob Ter Veldhuis’ Tallahatchie Concerto for Saxophone performed…

The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)

19:30 - 20:45 20 October 2025
Don’t miss this special evening celebrating the life and work of Seamus Heaney, as five acclaimed poets gather to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. The definitive…

WCLC: Spartimu - Music from Corsica (concert plus workshop)

13:10 - 16:00 23 October 2025
Concert 1.10pm–1.50pm, followed by workshop 2.30pm–4pm Spartimu are a renowned Corsican group, dedicated to teaching and performing ‘cantu in paghjella’ – the UNESCO listed distinctive,…

WCLC: Giannis Koutis & Reza Mirjalali: Ottoman classical music. Presented by the departments of Music & Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

13:10 - 14:00 30 October 2025
We welcome two virtuoso performers from Cyprus and Iran to the Martin Harris Centre. An oud player and teacher, giving workshops and concerts around the world, while also researching…

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