What's on: Music
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MUMS Festive Ensembles Extravaganza
19:00 - 21:30 10 December 2025
This festive showcase will feature a wealth of MUMS Ensembles! From MUWO, MUSO and Brass Band to Choirs and Big Band. There will be a MUSO and Big Band crossover to look forward to! FESTIVE DEAL: 25% off your tickets when you buy a ticket for this concert AND MUMS Festive Symphony Orchestra Concert (Only available online. Not available in conjunction...
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MUMS Festive Symphony Orchestra Concert
18:30 - 20:30 11 December 2025
The MUMS Symphony Orchestra open this concert with Copland’s Rodeo before they are joined by pianist and concerto competition winner, MarekBakota, who will perform Rachmaninoff’s brilliant Piano Concerto No. 4. The orchestra then take us to the world of Khachaturian and his Spartacus SuiteNo. 2. Offers: MUMS Festive Bundle Deal 2025 - Claim...
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WCLC: Ensemble Augelletti – Jewels that Brightly Burn
13:10 - 13:50 11 December 2025
Describing Bach’s students as ‘jewels that brightly burn’, Telemann championed Bach’s skill in arranging music to inspire a new generation of musicians as they performed ‘under the orange tree’ in Leipzig. This programme tells the story of Bach’s students as they became ‘jewels’ and includes arrangements of his joyous instrumental...
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Baroque Orchestra: Concerto Transalpino
13:10 - 13:50 12 December 2025
A selection of concerti grossi produced on the other side of the Alps from the genre’s Italian birthplace, focusing on Northern Europe. This event is free.
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Cosmo Chamber Choir presents: A Very Cosmo Christmas
16:00 - 18:00 14 December 2025
Cosmo Chamber Choir presents: A Very Cosmo Christmas Join us for a festive afternoon of choral music, showcasing the talents of the singers and conductors of Cosmo, a University of Manchester auditioned chamber choir. Featuring music by Whitacre, Chilcott, Beamish and classic carols.
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Ad Solem performing Durufle’s Requiem.
19:00 - 18 December 2025
University of Manchester Chamber Choir, Ad Solem perform Durufle's Requiem in the atmospheric surroundings of Holy Name Church.
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WCLC: James Clapperton (Piano) - Where the Wild Things Are - Music that makes the Impossible Possible
13:10 - 13:50 18 December 2025
Grammy Award winner James Clapperton takes us through a journey of some of his wildest repertoire. The concert closes with Xenakis Evryali, a portrait of the mythical Gorgons of ancient Greece. Exquisite works by Philip Grange and Camden Reeves are complimented by the music of Salvatore Sciarrino and Aldo Clementi. Clapperton performs his work...
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MUMS: Public Lunchtime Concert – Festive Sing-along (RELAXED PERFORMANCE)
13:10 - 13:55 19 December 2025
This relaxed festive performance is open to all and will feature some much-loved Christmas classics performed by the choir, musicians and audience! What’s different? You can: · move about the concert hall, and go in and out. · make noise, dance and join in the songs. · meet the performers. · use our quiet room. · use our buggy parking...
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Quatuor Danel lunchtime concert with Cheng Yu (pipa).
13:10 - 13:50 19 February 2026
Presented by the UoM Music Department and The Confucius Institute Phil Grange – Soliloquy for Solo Viola Traditional – Solo Pipa with Cheng Yu Joshua Brown – Pipa Quintet (World Premiere for Pipa and String Quartet with Cheng Yu, Pipa) Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel public seminar - Composition Workshop The Thursday lunchtime concerts...
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WCLC: Ñandereko (Our Way of Life) by Ramon Gorigoitia (World Première)
13:10 - 14:00 12 March 2026
Ñandereko is a new dramatic cantata by Chilean composer Ramon Gorigoitia which weaves Indigenous songs from the Ava Guarani people of Northern Argentina into a contemporary sonic landscape, telling the story of the extraction of these songs under conditions of duress by a German anthropologist, Robert Lehmann Nitsche, in 1905. The singers were...
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