Emilie & Ogden, aka Emilie Kahn and her harp, Ogden, is set to perform at Manchester’s The Castle on 2 March as part of a brief run of dates for the Montreal artist, who released her debut album 10 000 on 20 November 2015 through Secret City Records. Emilie discovered the harp when The Barr…
RIBA Competitions and the Hallé Concerts Society are pleased to announce that the competition to extend its Hallé St Peter’s facility in Ancoats (Manchester) has been won by a design team led by Stephenson Studio. This proposed new-build extension will form the second phase of the project to transform the Grade II listed former church…
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 Halle is set to hold a number of concerts in February, including a Valentine’s Day Special and a programme of Rachmaninov, Mahler and Shostakovich. We take a look at what’s coming up over the next few weeks. Thursday 11 February, 7.30pm Thursday Series – Rachmaninov, Mahler and Shostakovich Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead; Mahler Kindertotenlieder;…
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…
