What's on: Free events
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WCLC: Percussion NOW
13:10 - 13:50 26 February 2026
Art flourishes when tradition meets innovation. This concert, rooted in Miquel Bernat’s forward-looking artistry, unveils world premieres by Azguime and several first performances in England, an encounter where history, imagination, and the avant-garde merge to keep artistic creation vibrantly alive. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part...
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MANTIS Festival Spring Edition (Concert 1)
12:30 - 14:00 27 February 2026
Join us this Spring for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester. In partnership with the MHC Lunchtime Concert on the 26 of February, featuring renowned percussionist Miquel Bernat.
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MANTIS Festival Spring Edition (Concert 2)
14:30 - 16:00 27 February 2026
Join us this Spring for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester. In partnership with the MHC Lunchtime Concert on the 26 of February, featuring renowned percussionist Miquel Bernat.
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UMDS: Juturna
19:00 - 20:40 4 March 2026
Cosmic scouting team Aeolus are the first to discover the mystical last planet in the universe. As the planet calls out to them, the crewmates begin to turn on one another. And then they hear a call; somebody else is already here.
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UMDS: Juturna
19:00 - 20:40 5 March 2026
Cosmic scouting team Aeolus are the first to discover the mystical last planet in the universe. As the planet calls out to them, the crewmates begin to turn on one another. And then they hear a call; somebody else is already here.
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WCLC: Beautiful British Isles with the Erda Ensemble
13:10 - 13:50 5 March 2026
The Erda Ensemble celebrate composers of the British Isles with works by Grace Williams, Ina Boyle and Cheryl Frances Hoad. Olivia Jageurs (harp), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo) and Chloë Vincent Vincent (flute) mark International Women’s Day with this female focused programme. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll...
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Musica Lunchtime Concert
13:10 - 13:50 6 March 2026
Join us for the Musica Festival lunchtime concert! This concert features talented soloists and smaller chamber groups from the Music Society, performing works by gender diverse composers.
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UMDS: Juturna
19:00 - 20:40 6 March 2026
Cosmic scouting team Aeolus are the first to discover the mystical last planet in the universe. As the planet calls out to them, the crewmates begin to turn on one another. And then they hear a call; somebody else is already here.
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WCLC: Ñandereko (Our Way of Life) by Ramon Gorigoitia (World Première)
13:10 - 14:00 12 March 2026
This project of the ensemble 'El Parnaso Hyspano' is generously supported by the 'Esperanza Trust for Anthropological Research'. A new dramatic cantata for voice, piano and keyboards, strings, flute, aerophones, and percussion, with prerecorded sonic materials and visual projections. Ñandereko mixes extracts from these songs with accounts from...
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Student Composer Showcase Concert
13:10 - 14:00 13 March 2026
A collaboration between the Department of Music, the University of Manchester Music Society and the Contemporary and Experimental Arts Society brings you a concert of outstanding recent student compositions.
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