What's on: Music
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WCLC: Bringing Silent Cinema to Life
13:10 - 13:50 22 October 2026
Using clips from three groundbreaking silent films, renowned composer, writer and broadcaster Neil Brand demonstrates the art of improvised piano accompaniment to picture for today’s audiences, discussing, in the course of the performance, how music influences our response to film. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll...
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MUMS Symphony Orchestra
14:00 - 16:00 24 October 2026
The MUMS Symphony Orchestra, one of our premier ensembles, will be performing the world premiere of PhD student, Perinpanathan’s, composition for orchestra, alongside Casken’s Madonna of Silence for Trombone and Orchestra. Finally, the Symphony Orchestra performs Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, ensuring it to be a concert not to miss!
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WCLC: BAILE/home
13:10 - 13:50 29 October 2026
Renowned harpsichordist Yonit Kosovske, viola da gamba virtuoso Lucia Capellaro and boundary-exploring pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett join forces in music for contemporary and historical instruments, drawing listeners into sounds both old and new, humorous and serious, reflective and progressive. “Bennett created some highly unusual sonorities…...
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MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 1)
18:00 - 19:00 31 October 2026
Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, featuring electroacoustic works and a programme by special guest composer and guitarist Marc Estibeiro, whose innovative work explores the intersection of acoustic instruments and electronics
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MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 2)
19:30 - 21:00 31 October 2026
Join us this fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester
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MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 3)
14:00 - 15:30 1 November 2026
Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester.
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Ghost of the AI Empire | The Sci-Fi Opera Where You Decide the Ending
19:00 - 21:30 6 November 2026
Nobody knows how this opera ends. Not even the cast. The audience steers the story live, right up to the final scene. “The beginning of a new operatic form.” British Theatre Guide “I never thought I could be part of an opera. Now I know I can.” Audience member, 2025 For fans of Bandersnatch and immersive theatre. THE WORLD Japan’s...
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WCLC: A recital for Philip Grange’s seventieth birthday
13:10 - 13:50 12 November 2026
A recital of songs for bass voice composed by students and colleagues of Philip Grange, including the premiere of songs by Philip himself. Songs are performed by his son, Simon Grange, and pianist Richard Whalley. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported by the Ida Carroll Trust....
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WCLC: Quatuor Danel with Sir John Tomlinson (bass voice), Pete Furniss (clarinet) and Richard Whalley (piano)
13:10 - 13:50 19 November 2026
Rebecca Clarke – Two Movements for String Quartet Joshua Brown – 'The Wanderer' for bass, clarinet, piano, and string quartet World renowned bass Sir John Tomlinson will sing Joshua Brown’s The Wanderer in a new version for the Quatuor Danel with Pete Furniss and Richard Whalley. 'The Wanderer' was first performed March 2026 by the Halle...
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Quatuor Danel Evening Concert – Philip Grange 70 years
19:30 - 20 November 2026
Quatuor Danel mark the 70th birthday of Philip Grange. Philip Grange Elegy for solo cello Philip Grange Soliloquy for solo viola Philip Grange The Centre Cannot Hold for two violins Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Opus 18 No. 1 Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C# minor, Opus 131
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