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 the Maiden. The Kokoschka String Quartet perform Schubert’s Quartet in D minor. Tickets £14…
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 and Frank Felix on bass.conducts. Tickets £27. 7.30pm. Thursday 6…
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 benshi) who were, in effect, the stars of the movie, appearing live to accompany…
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 concerts featuring works from the 19th and 20th centuries. The first concert…
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. Thursday 2 October: Royal Northern College of Music – RNCM String Orchestra. A free lunchtime concert as…
Sunday 21 September: Royal Northern College of Music – Claire Martin with the Montpellier Cello Quartet. Jazz vocalist and Claire Martin OBE teams up with the Montpellier Cello Quartet to perform popular jazz classics and American greats with brand new arrangements by the likes of Sir Richard Rodney Bennet and Django Bates. Expect songs such…
The Royal Northern College of Music holds its annual Gold Medal Competition on Saturday 14th June at the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall in the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama at the University of Manchester. The Competition is the most prestigious in the RNCM’s calendar and will see ten of the RNCM’s most outstanding…
Wednesday 11 June 2014 Royal Northern College of Music : RoMania! This free concert sees RNCM students performing a repertoire of violin and piano pieces inspired by Romanian folk music. 6.30pm. Free, no ticket required. Thursday 12 June 2014 MediaCity Salford : BBC Philharmonic : The BBC Philharmonic performs two pieces by Schubert –…
It’s festival season – as rock, pop, dance takes over fields and parks the length and breadth of the UK, Europe and the US. But the classics don’t miss out in Manchester. … It’s time for Estival – Manchester University Music Society’s four day long equivalent to the Proms! The event kicks off on 3rd June…
Sunday 1 June 2014 Royal Northern College of Music : Donizetti’s tragic, and at the time contraversial, opera Maria Stuarda takes stage and depicts the Tudor-time struggle between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Tickets £18. Bridgewater Hall : John Lill CBE continues his relentless performance of all 32 of Beethoven’s Piano…
