Events

Concerts and music events

• Quatuor Danel Evening Concert – Shostakovich 120 years with Adam MacKenzie (bassoon)

  19:30 - 2 October 2026

  **Please note, due to unforeseen circumstances, there has been a change to the advertised programme for this event** Quatuor Danel mark the 120th anniversary of Shostakovich’s birth. Programme to include Beethoven and Roxanna Panufnik’s Cantator & Amanda. Beethoven Opus 18 No. 4 in C minor Roxanna Panufnik Cantator...

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• WCLC: Duo Folclore (violins)

  13:10 - 13:50 8 October 2026

  Presented by the Department of Music and the Cervantes Institute   Duo Folclore Folk–classical violin duo Alice Barron and Fuensanta Zambrana Ruiz explore a rich palette of traditional music, folk-inspired classical duets and improvisation. In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes Manchester, they present a programme of Spanish and Latin American...

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• WCLC: Tom Hicks

  13:10 - 13:50 15 October 2026

  Guernsey-born pianist Tom Hicks, hailed for his magnificent pianism and engaging personality, is a Yamaha Artist with an international profile. He has performed as a recitalist across Europe and the United States. As a concerto soloist, he has appeared on more than 60 occasions, including complete cycles of the Rachmaninoff and Brahms Piano Concertos....

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• WCLC: Bringing Silent Cinema to Life

  13:10 - 13:50 22 October 2026

  Using clips from three groundbreaking silent films, renowned composer, writer and broadcaster Neil Brand demonstrates the art of improvised piano accompaniment to picture for today’s audiences, discussing, in the course of the performance, how music influences our response to film. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll...

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• MUMS Symphony Orchestra

  14:00 - 16:00 24 October 2026

  The MUMS Symphony Orchestra, one of our premier ensembles, will be performing the world premiere of PhD student, Perinpanathan’s, composition for orchestra, alongside Casken’s Madonna of Silence for Trombone and Orchestra. Finally, the Symphony Orchestra performs Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, ensuring it to be a concert not to miss!

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• WCLC: BAILE/home

  13:10 - 13:50 29 October 2026

  Renowned harpsichordist Yonit Kosovske, viola da gamba virtuoso Lucia Capellaro and boundary-exploring pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett join forces in music for contemporary and historical instruments, drawing listeners into sounds both old and new, humorous and serious, reflective and progressive. “Bennett created some highly unusual sonorities…...

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• MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 1)

  18:00 - 19:00 31 October 2026

  Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, featuring electroacoustic works and a programme by special guest composer and guitarist Marc Estibeiro, whose innovative work explores the intersection of acoustic instruments and electronics

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• MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 2)

  19:30 - 21:00 31 October 2026

  Join us this fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester

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• MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 3)

  14:00 - 15:30 1 November 2026

  Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester.

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• Ghost of the AI Empire | The Sci-Fi Opera Where You Decide the Ending

  19:00 - 21:30 6 November 2026

  Nobody knows how this opera ends. Not even the cast. The audience steers the story live, right up to the final scene. “The beginning of a new operatic form.” British Theatre Guide “I never thought I could be part of an opera. Now I know I can.” Audience member, 2025 For fans of Bandersnatch and immersive theatre. THE WORLD Japan’s...

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