Past events
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'After Pierrot' - Workshop with Lucy Shelton
16:00 - 18:00 28 October 2025
In conversation with Amber Evans, Lucy Shelton will share insights into the ways that post-tonal, modernist music moves from score to performance, focusing on Shelton's own pedagogical practice and 'hacks'. Drawing on her long career and personal experience of working directly with some of the most...
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WCLC: Spartimu - Music from Corsica (concert plus workshop)
12:10 - 15:00 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, highly ornamented and improvisational traditional polyphony of Corsica. Spartimu has performed internationally,...
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Manchester University Music Society: Symphony Orchestra Concert
17:30 - 19:30 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 by concerto competition winner, Jamie Marriot. In the second half, the orchestra will play Dvorak’s Symphony...
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WCLC: In Focus - Jack Sheen. Manchester Camerata featuring Eleonore Cockerham
16 - 29 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 the dawn of modernism, all premiered together in Paris in 1914. Featured alongside these will be UK premieres by Sheen...
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Evening Concert with Richard Whalley (piano)
18:30 - 20:30 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. 9 Pianist Richard Whalley joins the Danels for Brahms' Hungarian Dance No.5, which is quoted extensively by Aitchison in...
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Lunchtime concert - In Memoriam, Gubaidulina (1931-2025)
12:10 - 13:00 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. Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel public seminar - Hotseat Workshop The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the...
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WCLC: Silent Film and Live Music Accompaniment with Frame Ensemble. Presented by the departments of Music, Drama and Film.
12:10 - 12:50 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 extremely responsive to the film, closely following the flow of images. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of...
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Sounding The Story: Contemporary Music Inspired by Text and Tale
18:30 - 20:30 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 by Alex Apostolopoulos, Joshua Brown, Philip Grange, Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos, Israel Lai, Adnan Marafi, Camden Reeves,...
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Little Belters and Absolute Belters’ Summer Concert 2025
13:00 - 15:00 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, has been working hard all year long, and they can’t wait to showcase their vocal talents. With choirs based in Altrincham,...
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Manchester University Music Society: Sing the Musicals Sing-a-long Relaxed Performance
12:10 - 13:00 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 (including lyrics) with the link on this page! Open to everybody, Manchester University Music Society hosts this inclusive,...
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