Chetham's School of Music is to hold its final Showcase of the School year, with the student performers giving one of their last concerts as Chetham's students before moving on to study at Universities or Conservatoires. The latest Chetham's Showcase features four...
Wednesday 13 May: Royal Northern College of Music - RNCM Jazz Collective: Jazz at the Movies. The RNCM Jazz Collective presents an evening of popular and instantly recognisable film tunes from the 1930s onwards, featuring the likes of James Bond, The Pink Panther,...
Tuesday 5 May: Royal Northern College of Music - Rarescale. Contemporary chamber music ensemble Rarescale brings its international reputation, particularly for alto and bass flute work, to the RNCM with a concert featuring world premieres of Paul Goodey's At the...
Monday 20 April: The Bridgewater Hall - London Philharmonic Orchestra and Alison Balsom: Songs of the Paradise Saloon. Marios Papadopoulos conducts as Classic FM Award Winner Alison Balsom is featured on the trumpet during an evening of American-influenced...
Monday 13 April: Royal Northern College of Music - David Sanborn Band. David Sanborn performs one of his first shows outside London in many years, with electric fusion jazz and his soulful saxophone skills in support of his latest album Time And The River....
We pick out some of the classical highlights in Manchester this week including events at the Bridgewater Hall, RNCM and Chetham’s.
See the award-winning jazz and classical musicians of the future Outstanding student soloists from across Chetham’s School of Music are set to perform a series of 20–minute recitals within this full-length concert, featuring jazz numbers including Cry Me A River, Bye...
Sunday 1st March: Royal Exchange Theatre - Manchester Camerata: Challenging the Senses. An immersive concert featuring Crumb's Black Angels, Dowland's Go Crystal Tears, Shostakovich's String Quartet No 8 in C minor and Haydn's Quartet No 63 'Sunrise'....
Sunday 15th February: The Whitworth - Manchester Camerata. The Whitworth's reopening celebrations close with the premiere of Whitworth Letters, composed by Laura Bowler, Manchester Camerata's Composer-in-Residence 2013-2014. The programme also includes Peter...
Sunday 8th February: Royal Northern College of Music - Day of Percussion. The RNCM's Day of Percussion 2015 takes place featuring workshops, concerts and specialist consultations. World renowned artists including leading vibraphonist Anthony Kerr, world music...
Wednesday 28th January: Royal Northern College of Music - RNCM Opera Scenes. RNCM singers perform a range of scenes from operas by composers including Mozart, Britten, Smetana and Offenbach. Free. 6.00pm. Thursday 29th January: Bridgewater Hall - The...
Sunday 11th January: Royal Northern College of Music - Chamber Music Festival. The RNCM's Chamber Music Festival concludes, featuring 10 events including performances of Dvorak's Piano Trio No 4 'Dumky', Martinu's La Revue de Cuisine, a screening of The Lady...
Sunday 4th January and Monday 5th January: Bridgewater Hall - The Nutcracker. Rounding off the Christmas period perfectly, the Russian State Ballet & Orchestra of Siberia perform the incredible ballet The Nutcracker in three shows at The Bridgewater Hall....
Tuesday 25 November: Gorilla - Up Close: From Tango to Gaga. The Manchester Camerata presents a programme featuring pieces as diverse as Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in A minor and Vivaldi's Winter from the Four Seasons through to Lady Gaga's Telephone. Lithuanian...
Manchester's Chetham's School of Music, the largest specialist music school in the UK with around 300 students aged 8-18, is set to hold a Showcase Concert on Thursday 27th November featuring four of the school's outstanding soloists. The event, which was launched...