New Music North West (NMNW), the UK’s largest festival of new British music, returns to Manchester for eight days of music by 100 living composers. Presented by the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) between Friday 22 and Friday 29 January, NMNW offers over 30...
FLARE15's six day programme of new, radical theatre from across the UK, Europe and Australasia is set to occupy theatres and art spaces across Manchester from 13 July to 18 July. Featuring a total of 22 performances from 10 different countries, narrowed down from...
Flare15 takes place from 13-18 July at a number of the city's arts and theatre - Z-arts, Contact, Royal Exchange Theatre, Martin Harris Centre. We take a look at what's on: Sleepwalk Collective (UK / ES) As The Flame Rose We Danced To The Sirens, The Sirens Venue:...
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 27 April: Royal Northern College of Music - 270415. The RNCM's ddmmyy series concludes with 270415, which explores acts of collaboration between composers and soloists, featuring Michael Finnissy's Gerschwin Arrangements, Luciano Berio's Sequenza VI for...
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....
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'....
Tuesday 3rd February: 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 5th February: Royal Northern College of...
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...
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...
Sunday 9 November: Royal Northern College of Music - Saxophone Day. The RNCM celebration of all things saxophone is in it's 14th year and features workshops, masterclasses and concerts. Full details here. Waterside Arts Centre - Kokoschka String Quartet: Death and...
Sunday 2 November: Dancehouse Theatre - Dave Koz. Smooth Jazz star Dave Koz, recipient of nine Grammy nominations, comes to Manchester's Dancehouse on his 2014 UK tour. The saxophonist is joined by Oli Silk on keyboards, Mark Jaimes on guitar, Marc Parnell on drums...
Manchester's Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama is set to run an evening of traditional Japanese silent films accompanied by 'benshi' (narrators). The concept is a throwback to classic 1920s silent movies in Japan which were accompanied by narrators (Katsudo...
Sunday 12 October: Royal Northern College of Music - The Chamber Music of Russia: Concert 1. The RNCM's Russuan Chamber Music Series launches in celebration of the UK-Russia Year of Culture in 2014. Some of the finest chamber musicians from Russia perform three...
Sunday 28 September: Martin Harris Centre - Manchester University Music Society Welcome Concert. The Society commenes its new season with new student conductors as the music of Shostakovich, Elgar and MacMillan takes centre stage. Tickets £3/£7/£10. 5pm. ...