Events
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MUMS Opera: Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
19:00 - 21:30 13 February 2026
MUMS Opera presents: Hansel and Gretel - a fairytale opera in three acts by Adelheid Wette, with music composed by Engelbert Humperdinck. English translation by Constance Bache.
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Quatuor Danel lunchtime concert with Cheng Yu (pipa).
13:10 - 13:50 19 February 2026
Presented by the UoM Music Department and The Confucius Institute A special concert in celebration of Chinese New Year. Philip Grange – Soliloquy for Solo Viola Traditional – Solo Pipa with Cheng Yu Joshua Brown – Pipa Quintet (World Premiere for Pipa and String Quartet with Cheng Yu, Pipa) Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel public seminar...
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MUMS Chamber Orchestra Concert
14:00 - 15:00 21 February 2026
Join the University of Manchester Chamber Orchestra for a beautiful afternoon of music. The Orchestra will also be joined by the Universities Cosmo Chamber Choir, along with concerto competition winner, Maia Rey Macia, for Nielsen’s flute concerto!
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WCLC: Percussion NOW
13:10 - 13:50 26 February 2026
Art flourishes when tradition meets innovation. This concert, rooted in Miquel Bernat’s forward-looking artistry, unveils world premieres by Azguime and several first performances in England, an encounter where history, imagination, and the avant-garde merge to keep artistic creation vibrantly alive. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part...
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MANTIS Festival Spring Edition (Concert 1)
12:30 - 14:00 27 February 2026
Join us this Spring for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester. In partnership with the MHC Lunchtime Concert on the 26 of February, featuring renowned percussionist Miquel Bernat.
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MANTIS Festival Spring Edition (Concert 2)
14:30 - 16:00 27 February 2026
Join us this Spring for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester. In partnership with the MHC Lunchtime Concert on the 26 of February, featuring renowned percussionist Miquel Bernat.
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WCLC: Beautiful British Isles with the Erda Ensemble
13:10 - 13:50 5 March 2026
The Erda Ensemble celebrate composers of the British Isles with works by Grace Williams, Ina Boyle and Cheryl Frances Hoad. Olivia Jageurs (harp), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo) and Chloë Vincent Vincent (flute) mark International Women’s Day with this female focused programme. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll...
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WCLC: Ñandereko (Our Way of Life) by Ramon Gorigoitia (World Première)
13:10 - 14:00 12 March 2026
This project of the ensemble 'El Parnaso Hyspano' is generously supported by the 'Esperanza Trust for Anthropological Research'. A new dramatic cantata for voice, piano and keyboards, strings, flute, aerophones, and percussion, with prerecorded sonic materials and visual projections. Ñandereko mixes extracts from these songs with accounts from...
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Student Composer Showcase Concert
13:10 - 14:00 13 March 2026
A collaboration between the Department of Music, the University of Manchester Music Society and the Contemporary and Experimental Arts Society brings you a concert of outstanding recent student compositions.
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University of Manchester Chamber Choirs | Springtime Concert
19:30 - 21:00 15 March 2026
University of Manchester Chamber Choirs present a Springtime Concert featuring music by Howells, Esenvalds, Holst and more…
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