Tuesday 16 February – RNCM Goes to Broadway – Night and Day RNCM singers from the BMus Classical and Popular Music courses join force with the Royal Northern Musical Theatre Society to perform a range of musical theatre songs with all proceeds going to Cancer Research. Tickets £4 Tuesday 16 February – Kula Shaker – The Ritz…
Chilling new opera inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of greed and compulsion A chilling tale of greed and compulsion by Robert Louis Stevenson gets the operatic treatment from composer Stuart MacRae and novelist Louise Welsh. The Devil Inside, their new work, jointly commissioned by Scottish Opera and Music Theatre Wales, is a contemporary reading…
Young Cheshire musicians to perform world premiere at RNCM Day of Percussion on Sunday 7 February 2016. The Love Music Trust’s Percussion Ensemble which features some of the region’s most talented young musicians aged from 14 upwards, led by musical director Mark Concar, who has worked regulatly with leading orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic,…
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) has been awarded over £400,000 to support exceptional young musicians from the Leverhulme Trust’s Arts Scholarship programme. The grant, totalling £411,000, follows 30 years of support from the Leverhulme Trust – one of the UK’s largest providers of grants and scholarships for research and education – and will…
Honey-toned troubadour Frankie Lee returns to the UK this January to support legendary Americana songstress Patty Griffin on her 2016 live dates. After a whistle-stop tour at the end of 2015 to air his critically acclaimed debut album ‘American Dreamer’ live this side of the Atlantic, the Minnesotan singer-songwriter has confirmed he will appear at…
Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 January – The Maccabees – Albert Hall Out on tour in support of their first ever UK number one album Marks To Prove It, The Maccabees perform at Manchester’s Albert Hall. The tour follows on from a successful 2015 which also saw them perform an excellent set at Glastonbury. Tickets £25. Tuesday…
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 free and ticketed events (including afternoon and late night performances)…
Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music has won the Excellence and Innovation in the Arts Award at the Times Higher Education Awards for it’s off-site project After The Silence: Music in the Shadow of War. Now in their 11th year, the THE Awards are widely recognised as the Oscars of the higher education sector, shining…
On what marks Tom Robinson’s first full band tour of the century (!) you could forgive him for being a little rusty, but there was no need. Proving that age old adage that class is permanent he quickly and easily his rhythm to put on a silky smooth performance. The evening starts with a simple…
Saxophonist Mike Hall is set to direct the Royal Northern College of Music Big Band in two concerts dedicated to Billy Strayhorn and Frank Sinatra. On Saturday 31 October, to mark the centenary of Strayhorn’s birth, the Band presents Take the ‘A’ Train, an evening of classic songs shaped by this incredible arranger, composer, pianist…
