Events
Research events
Browse our upcoming research seminars and fora, discussions, workshops and masterclasses.
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Online performances
Tune in to our collection of online performances on the Music Department's official YouTube channel.
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Concerts and music events
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Welcome Week Show: Chameleon by Jess Telling
19:00 - 20:00 25 September 2026
Welcome Week Show: Chameleon by Jess Telling Following consecutive 4* runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and London, Chameleon celebrates its finale in Manchester. With dry wit and existential dread, our autistic heroine plunges headfirst into an identity crisis questioning whether her all-consuming relationship is worth losing herself. A 20-30 minute...
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A Jubilee Overture - 75 years of Philip Sparke
15:00 - 17:00 27 September 2026
The Martin Harris Centre welcomes The KNDS Fairey Band. Featuring the music of acclaimed composer Philip Sparke and the composers who inspired him, to celebrate his 75th year. Including ‘A Road Less Travelled By’ — the set work for the 2026 National Brass Band Championships
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Quatuor Danel lunchtime concert with Adam McKenzie (bassoon)
13:10 - 13:50 1 October 2026
Beethoven – String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Opus 18 No. 2 Roxanna Panufnik – Cantator & Amanda for Bassoon and String Quartet (2011) Adam McKenzie joins the Quatuor Danel for their long awaited first concert of the 2026-27 season. Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel public seminar - Barry Cooper’s reconstruction of the original slow...
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Quatuor Danel Evening concert – Shostakovich 120 years
19:30 - 2 October 2026
Quatuor Danel mark the 120th anniversary of Shostakovich’s birth. Beethoven String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Opus 18 No. 4 Beethoven String Quartet No. 6 in Bb major, Opus 18 No. 6 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Opus 73
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Duo Folclore (violins)
13:10 - 8 October 2026
Presented by the Department of Music and the Cervantes Institute This talented violin duo will play a lively programme of traditional folk music as well as arrangements from their own British and Spanish origins.
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Quatuor Danel Evening Concert – Philip Grange 70 years
19:30 - 20 November 2026
Quatuor Danel mark the 70th birthday of Philip Grange. Philip Grange Elegy for solo cello Philip Grange Soliloquy for solo viola Philip Grange The Centre Cannot Hold for two violins Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Opus 18 No. 1 Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C# minor, Opus 131
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University of Manchester Chorus and MUMS Symphony Orchestra Concert
19:30 - 21:30 27 November 2026
Join the University of Manchester Chorus and MUMS Symphony Orchestra for a vibrant concert of contemporary and twentieth-century masterpieces, including Britten's Four Sea Interludes, Will Todd's Mass in Blue, Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus, Coleridge Taylor’s Sussex Landscape, and Christopher Tin’s Waloyo Yamoni.
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University of Manchester Chorus and MUMS Symphony Orchestra Concert
15:00 - 17:00 28 November 2026
Join the University of Manchester Chorus and MUMS Symphony Orchestra for a vibrant concert of contemporary and twentieth-century masterpieces, including Britten's Four Sea Interludes, Will Todd's Mass in Blue, Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus, Coleridge Taylor’s Sussex Landscape, and Christopher Tin’s Waloyo Yamoni.
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Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Simon Grange (bass voice) – Philip Grange 70 years
19:30 - 11 December 2026
Simon Grange and Quatuor Danel reunite to perform Philip Grange’s De Profundis. Inspired by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this work casts the bass as a journalist reporting from the musical depths on the evil mankind can enact. Philip Grange De Profundis for Bass Voice & String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Opus 59 No....
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Quatuor Danel Evening Concert at Stoller Hall – America 250 Years
19:30 - 3 February 2027
Quatuor Danel celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary of Independence. The programme includes a piece by Amy Beach, which incorporates three traditional Alaskan Inuit melodies. Beach – Quartet for Strings (In One Movement), Opus 89 Cage – String Quartet in four parts Dvo?ák – String Quartet No. 12 in F Major ‘American’, Opus 96
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