Martin Harris Centre For Music And Drama

Come along to the Martin Harris Centre on 11 December to experience the stunning sounds of the Children's Choir Concert. This concert is part of the Music Society Outreach scheme; volunteers from the department have been going into schools each week to run choirs.

Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year at this delightful family concert with the talented Chorus UK. The concert highlights the many cultures who celebrate at this time of the year with music for Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Yule, and Christmas. To book please visit https://andybooth.co.uk/index.php/concerts/ or…

Get yourself in the festive spirit with a free and extremely relaxed event full of carols and festive participation, with an informal atmosphere unlike a traditional concert. Manchester University Music Society host this special concert, open to everybody in a relaxed setting. The event is intended specifically to be…

Finding love isn’t easy when you're fat, gay and nerdy. Luckily for Guy, you can be anybody online… leo&hyde’s award-winning electronic musical is Queer As Folk meets Bridget Jones with a catfishing twist. You’ll laugh-cry, face-palm and heart-eyes at this rom-com about body image.

This event honours the memory of writer Caroline Chisholm (MA Creative Writing, 2013), who was a valued member of the Centre for New Writing community. Sara Collins is of Jamaican descent and worked as a lawyer for seventeen years in Cayman, before admitting that what she really wanted to do was write novels. She studied…

Come and join ChorusUK Manchester as they presents Andy Booths Celebration concert, a family concert celebrating all the wonderful things that happen at this time of year.More details to follow

Enjoy recreating the magic of the golden swing era with this, the ultimate collection of music from the Big Band Era. With songs right from the early years through to the end of the big band era, this concert has something for every lover of that marvellous sound. Songs included in spectacular concert are: Sing, Sing…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Sarah Leonard (soprano) Three innovatory quartet masterpieces: Debussy’s 1893 Quartet brushes the cobwebs off this apparently most traditional of media; Schoenberg’s Second, with added soprano voice in the last two movements, boldly goes into the zero-gravity world of atonality; and…

Milhaud Quartet No. 7, in B flat, Op. 87 Prokofiev Quartet No. 1, in B minor, Op. 50 The seventh of Milhaud’s eighteen quartets (he had vowed to surpass Beethoven’s seventeen) precedes the pungent, quirky neoclassicism of the first of Prokofiev’s two, composed five years later.

Shostakovich Quartet No. 4, in D, Op. 83 Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes Shostakovich’s D major Quartet of 1949 turns official requirements for folk-like music to his own ends, particular in its Jewish-inflected finale, preparing the ground for Prokofiev’s ‘Overture on Hebrew Themes’, in which the Quatuor Danel is…

Dusapin Iti for Solo Violin Lekeu Adagio Molto Weinberg Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano One of a series of works for solo instruments, all beginning with the letter ‘i’, by the best-known living French composer, Pascal Dusapin, precedes the soulful slow movement by Belgian Guillaume Lekeu, who died of typhoid at the…

The University of Manchester and its internationally-renowned resident string quartet, the Quatuor Danel, invite you to join in another fantastic music-making opportunity. Everyone is welcome to participate in the event, which will feature coaching by individual members of the Quatuor Danel and Professor David Fanning…

Shostakovich     Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 Gubaidulina       Reflection on the Theme B-A-C-H *Britten *                Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op. 94 *Shostakovich *    Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 (with David Fanning) Two iconic chamber works by Shostakovich frame Gubaidulina’s…

Get yourself in the festive spirit with a free and extremely relaxed event full of carols and festive participation, with an informal atmosphere unlike a traditional concert. Manchester University Music Society host this special concert, open to everybody in a relaxed setting. The event is intended specifically to be…

1623 Theatre Company map the journey of literature’s most famous lovers, in this fast-paced 60-minute adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A pair of rebellious teenagers play out their tragedy from romantic hand-holding to secret marriage to double suicide… Specifically designed to aid those studying the play…

Before the Brass Band travel to Bangor for the national ‘UniBrass’ Competition, catch a glimpse of what they will be performing later in the year. Manchester University String Orchestra in return perform a classic and stimulating string repertoire. To book please visit https://tinyurl.com/y6m98kcc or telephone the…