December 2011

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Thursday 1 December 2011, 1.10pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
MANTIS & Special Guest Julio d’Escriván

Friday 2 December 2011, 7.30pm, Bridgewater Hall
BBC Philharmonic
incl. works by John Adams, HK Gruber
http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/performance/16841.aspx

Saturday 3 December 2011, 6.30pm, RNCM Studio Theatre
Sparse Sounds
Michael Cutting and Daniel Kidane

Thursday 8 December 2011, 1.15pm, RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Wind Ensemble
incl. work by Anna Meredith and Tim Garland

Thursday 15 December 2011, 1.10pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Psappha
works by Erkki-Sven Tüür and Kenneth Hesketh and University composition students
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre/mhceventspage.php?eventid=1056

November 2011

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Tuesday 1 November 2011, 1pm, The Church of St. Philip with St. Stephen, Salford
Richard Casey - piano
works by Piers Hellawell, Richard Whalley, Michael Allen
http://www.arts.salford.ac.uk/cms/news/music

Thursday 3 November 2011, 6.30pm, International Anthony Burgess Foundation [IABF]
songs by Anthony Burgess
http://www.anthonyburgess.org/visiting-us/whats-on?Month=11&Year=2011

Saturday 5 November 2011, 7.30pm Bridgewater Hall
Hallé
incl. John Adams: Harmonium
http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/performance/16771.aspx

Tuesday 8 - Wednesday 9 November 2011, RNCM
ONLY THE SOUND REMAINS: The Music of Howard Skempton
http://www.rncm.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=fevents.listevents&festival_id=88&Itemid=95

Wednesday 16 November 2011
6.30pm, RNCM
Domo Duo 
contemporary music for cello duo by Manchester-based composers

7.30pm, IABF
Psappha
incl. works by Anthony Burgess
http://www.anthonyburgess.org/visiting-us/whats-on?Month=11&Year=2011

Thursday 17th November 2011
1.10pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Ebb Trio
incl. new work by Kevin Malone
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre/mhceventspage.php?eventid=1087

7.30 pm, Bridgewater Hall
Hallé
incl. Helen Grime: Virga
http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/performance/16755.aspx

Saturday 19 November 2011, 6.30pm, RNCM
New Music for Percussion, Amplified Tuba and Cello

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 7.30pm, IABF
Psappha
incl. works by Anthony Burgess
http://www.anthonyburgess.org/visiting-us/whats-on?Month=11&Year=2011

Friday 25th November 2011
1.10pm & 7.30, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Vaganza
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre/mhceventspage.php?eventid=1053
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre/mhceventspage.php?eventid=1054

7.30pm, IABF
Sounds Of The Engine House
Hera's List - first perfomance of music theatre work by Eve Harrison
http://www.anthonyburgess.org/visiting-us/whats-on?Month=11&Year=2011

Sunday 27 November 2011, 3pm,  University of Salford, Digital Media and Performance Lab, MediaCityUK
Scottish Clarinet Quartet with Matt Hulse
incl. works by Stephen Davismoon, David Fennessy, Sadie Harrison, Anna Meredith and Gameshow Outpatient
http://www.arts.salford.ac.uk/cms/news/music

October 2011

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Thursday, 6 October 2011, 1.15pm, RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Concert Orchestra
incl. Peter Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

Friday 7 October 2011, 7pm, International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Raise Your Voice collective / Trio Atem / 265 Quartet
works by Reich, Feldman, Stockhausen, Birtwistle, Takemitsu, Georges Aperghis
Ian Vine, Malcolm Hayes, Chris Swithinbank, Tom Coult, Martin Iddon, Michael Mayhew
http://www.raise-your-voice.org/2011/09/raise-your-voice-ensemble-trio-atem-265-quartet-at-international-anthony-burgess-foundation/

Thursday 13 October 2011, 7.30pm, RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Brand New Orchestra
works for orchestra by RNCM composition students

Friday 21 October 2011, 7.30pm, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Psappha
works by Ben Foskett, Anthony Gilbert, Ian Wilson, John Casken
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre/mhceventspage.php?eventid=1055

Thusday 27 October 2011, 7.30pm, Bridgewater Hall
Hallé
incl. Magnus Lindberg - Violin Concerto
http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/performance/16754.aspx

Friday 28 - Sunday 30 October 2011, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
MANTIS Festival
http://mantisfestival.com/

September 2011

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Friday 2 September 2011, 12.30pm, Bridgewater Hall
4-Mality
percussion quartet
[Free]


Tuesday 20 September 2011, 7.30pm, Trinity Church, Salford
Chiasmus Ensemble / Carrie Mason / Aidan Jolly
Contemporary music ensemble Chiasmus team up with North-west folk musicians Carrie Mason and Aidan Jolly for a benefit concert to raise money for Musicians without Borders UK.
works by Leon Kirchner, James Stephenson, and Paul J. Abbott, as well as traditional music, new folk-inspired songs, and a collaborative work devised especially for the occasion.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=271578136205204


Sunday 25 September 2011, 4pm, International Anthony Burgess Foundation
tracery web of movements tracery
dance/installation art/music
with dancer Jennifer-Lynn Crawford, installation artist Lisa Gorton, and Gavin Osborne, composer/performer


Wednesday 28 September 2011, 7pm, Peel Hall
Voxare
works by Steve Kilpatrick, Alan Williams, Joe Duddell, Stephen Davismoon, Richard Rock
[free]
http://www.arts.salford.ac.uk/cms/news/music



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on release:
Harrison Birtwistle Night's Black Bird / The Shadow of Night / The Cry of Anubis
Hallé Orchestra

Gary Carpenter - Works for Ensemble

NMC Songbook

Ian Vine - forty works for Richard

June 2011

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Wednesday 1 June, 8.30pm, North Tea Power, 36 Tib Street
Distractfold Ensemble
Dominic Thibault, Mauricio Pauly and Sam Salem, Dominik Karski, Martin Bédard, Nina Whiteman, Giacinto Scelsi, Stefano Gervasoni
[info]

Friday 10th June 2011, 4pm, 6pm, 7.30pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
MANTIS: 15th EDITION OF THE MANTIS FESTIVAL
http://mantisfestival.com/

Saturday 11 June, 7.30pm, St Margaret's Church, Rufford Rd
Matthew Bourne presents:
Montauk Variations, (solo piano) & Billy Moon, a new band including Seaming To, Semay Wu and Olivia Moore

[info]


Tuesday 14 June 2011 - Wednesday 15 June 2011, RNCM various venues
American Raptures: The Music of Christopher Rouse

Wednesday 22 Jun 2011, 7.30pm, Carole Nash Recital Room, RNCM
RNCM Composers' Concert

Thursday, 30 June 2011, 7pm, Victoria Baths
Noise Of Many Waters - Music For The Victoria Baths

May 2011

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Thursday 5 May 2011:
7.30pm, Carole Nash Recital Room, RNCM
Panayiotis Demopoulos, piano
works by: Kurtág; Rihm; Goehr; David Ellis; Demopoulos; and Anthony Gilbert (world première)
[info]

7.30pm, RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Brand New Orchestra
new works by composition students for orchestra

Friday 6 May 2011, 7.30pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Quatuor Danel with Richard Whalley, piano
incl. Lachenmann, String Quartet no.3 (Grido)
[info]

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 6.30pm, Kraak Gallery 
Raise Your Voice - Cities of Sound
Concert to launch exhibition as part of FutureEverything Festival, 11-14 May
[info]

Thursday 12 May 2011:
7.30PM, RNCM Theatre
FutureEverything: An Evening with Steve Reich
all-Reich programme and Reich in conversation with Dr. David Horne
[info]

9.30PM, RNCM Studio Theatre
Vanitas - Still Life In One Act
Salvatore Sciarrino
[free] [info]

Saturday 14 May 2011, 7.30pm, International Anthony Burgess Foundation 
Sounds of the Engine House present: Treatise
a performance of Cardew's iconic graphic score Treatise, and music by Anthony Gilbert, Gary Carpenter, Ben Gaunt and Steven Jackson
[free]

Thursday 26 May 2011

7.30pm, St Werburgh’s Church, Chorlton
Chorlton Arts Festival
CHIASMUS ENSEMBLE
works by Takemitsu, Knussen, John Kannenberg, Paul J. Abbott, James Stephenson, Steve Pycroft
[free][info]

Chorlton Arts Festival
8.30pm, Wilbraham St Ninian’s Church, Chorlton
_SCAPE
(arc) is a multi-artist collaboration created especially for caf 2011. Led by _ scape, it brings together leading manchester artists in live electronics, instrumental performance and improvised sound. as the audience, you have the opportunity to get involved by uploading your own sounds, which will then become part of the work.
[free][info]

April 2011

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Friday 1st April 2011 
6.30pm, Carole Nash Recital Room, RNCM
Tea, Memoirs and Roses
An eclectic mix of contemporary theatre pieces for voices, harp and bassoon
works by Eve Harrison, Michael Stimpson, Catherine Kontz
[free]

7.30pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Psappha
works by: Steve Reich, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Kenneth Hesketh, Bruno Mantovani, Kevin Malone, Steve Calver
[info]

Saturday 2nd April 2011, 7.30pm, The Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester
The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
incl. John Adams - Harmonium
[info]

Wednesday 6 April, 7pm, International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Wrong Potion
New composer-led collective present an evening of live music and DJ sets
works by David Futers, Michael Perrett, Laurence Tompkins, and guest Ian Vine
[free]

Friday 8 April 2011, 7.30pm, RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Chamber Orchestra
incl. Charles Ives - Symphony No 3; Christian Lindberg - The World of
Montuagretta

Thursday 14 April 2011, 7pm, St. Philips with St. Stephens Church, Encombe Place, Salford
Adelphi Contemporary Music Group
works by Steve Reich, Gavin Bryars, and students from University of Salford
[info]

Saturday 30 Apr 2011, 7.30 pm, RNCM Concert Hall
Manchester Camerata
incl. John Adams - Shaker Loops; Nico Muhly - Concerto for Electric Violin

March 2011

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Thursday 3 March 2011 

1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Concert Orchestra
Aaron Parker - Fra la cattedrale e la piazza; Charles Ives - Three Places in New England

7.30 pm, Bridgewater Hall
CBSO - The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
incl. John Adams - The Chairman Dances
[info]

Friday 4th March 2011, 7.30pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
RNCM Wind Collective
Philip Grange - Cloud Atlas
[info]

Saturday 5th March 2011, 4pm, 6pm & 7.30pm, The John Thaw Studio Theatre
MANTIS COMES OF AGE: 15th EDITION OF THE MANTIS FESTIVAL
[info]

Monday 7 – Tuesday 8 March 2011, RNCM, various venues
TIGERS UNDER THE TABLE: THE MUSIC OF JUDITH WEIR
[info]

Tuesday 8th March 2011

1pm, Peel Hall, University of Salford
Richard Casey, piano
incl. works by Richard Whalley and George Crumb
[info]
7.30pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Vaganza & RNCM New Ensemble
part of the Judith Weir Festival
works by Aaron Parker, Hannah Taylor, and Judith Weir
[info]

Thursday 10th March 2011


1.10pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Quatuor Danel with Oliver Triendl (piano)
incl. Richard Whalley - Ad infinitum
[info]

6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room, RNCM
Spotlight: Song Cycle Premières
works by Steven Jackson and Emma-Ruth Richards

7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Brand New Orchestra
new works for symphony orchestra by RNCM composition students

Saturday 12th March 2011, 7.30pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
University of Manchester String Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra
incl. Takashi Yoshimatsu - Threnody to Toki (for Piano and String Orchestra)
[info]

Thursday 17th March 2011, 1.10pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Trio Atem
Gavin Osborn, flute; Nina Whiteman, voice; Alice Purton, cello
works by Kaija Saariaho, Helmut Lachenmann and Edward Caine; and three world premieres by Manuella Blackburn, Martin Iddon, and Richard Whalley
[info]

Friday 18th March 2011, 1.10pm & 7.30pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
VAGANZA invites CHIMERA
New Music Ensembles from The University of Manchester and The University of York

Saturday 19 - Sunday 20 March 2011, RNCM, various times & venues
RNCM KEYBOARD WEEKEND: American Originals
incl. works by John Cage, Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Henry Cowell, Conlon Nancarrow, John Adams, Steve Reich, Charles Ives, and Frederic Rzewski, who also appears in performance and conversation
[info]

Thursday 24th March 2011, 1.10pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Richard Whalley, piano
incl. Helmut Lachenmann - Ein Kinderspiel
[info]

Saturday 26 March 2011 

7.30 pm, Bridgewater Hall
BBC Philharmonic
incl. Kalevi Aho - Symphony No. 15 (World Premiére - BBC Commission)
[info]

7.30pm, RNCM Concert Hall
Manchester Camerata
Webern - 5 Movements Op.5; Berg (arr. Tarkmann) - Violin Concerto; Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht

Wednesday 30 March 2011, 1pm, Peel Hall, University of Salford
Elena Nalimova presents The Lady with the Hammer; a recital and talk celebrating the music of Galina Ustvolskaya
[info]

Thursday 31st March 2011 

1.10pm, The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Marcus Farnsworth, Baritone; Elizabeth Burgess, Piano
incl. Philip Grange - To the Borders of Sleep
[info]

1.15pm, RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Harp Ensemble
incl. John Cage - Postcard from Heaven

February 2011

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Thursday 3 Feb 2011 
1.10pm, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
The Wells Mitchell Duo: Alison Wells, mezzo-soprano, Ian Mitchell, bass clarinet
works by Andrew Keeling, Elliott Carter, Judith Bingham, Christopher Hobbs, James Stephenson
[info]

7.30 pm, Bridgewater Hall
Hallé
incl. works by Oliver Knussen

Friday 4 February 2011, 7.30pm, RNCM
RNCM Symphony Orchestra
incl. John Adams Two Fanfares: Tromba Lontana and Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Saturday 5th February 2011, 7.30pm, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
University of Manchester Chamber Ensembles
chamber works by Stravinsky, Varèse ao
[info]

Thursday 17 February 2011
1.10pm 
Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert
Helmut Lachenmann - String Quartet 2 & a new work by Nina Whiteman - Waggle Dances
[info]

1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Chamber Ensemble
Conlon Nancarrow (arr Gardiner) - Prelude; Edgard Varèse - Octandre; Steve Reich - Eight Lines

7pm, Bridgewater Hall
Hallé
incl. Thomas Adès - Overture, Waltz and Finale from Powder Her Face

Friday 18 February 2011, 7.30pm, Manchester Grammar School
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert
incl. new work by Camden Reeves
[info]

Friday 25 February 2011, 7.30pm, RNCM
Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra
incl. Ney Rosauro - Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra; Edward Gregson - Trombone Concerto

Saturday 26 February 2011, 7.30pm, RNCM
Manchester Camerata
incl. Brett Dean - Short Stories

Monday 28 February 2011
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH DAY
1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall
Ferneyhough - Cassandra’s Dream Song; Coloratura; Unity Capsule; Michael Perrett - New work for solo cello (world première); Laurence Tompkins - New work for solo piano (world première)
2.30pm RNCM Lecture Theatre
Open Forum with Brian Ferneyhough, Richard Craig and Fabrice Fitch
5.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room
Closing Concert
Fabrice Fitch - Le Songe de Panurge for solo cello;  Steven Jackson - New work for solo violin; Ferneyhough - In Nomine; Adagissimo; Mnemosyne, for bass flute and tape

January 2011

Happy New Year
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Thursday 13 January 2011, 5.30pm, RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Chamber Music Festival 
Philip Glass - String Quartet 4

Friday 14th January 2011, 1.10pm, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Trio Atem
[info]

Sunday 16 January 2011
1.30pm RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Chamber Music Festival
new music by Daniel Kidane, Emma-Ruth Richards
and John Cage - String Quartet

5.30pm RNCM Concert Hall
RNCM Chamber Music Festival
Elliott Carter - Oboe Quartet, David Curington - New work for oboe quartet

6.30pm, Bridgewater Hall
Tom McKinney - guitar

Tuesday 18 January 2011, 1pm, Peel Hall, University of Salford
Richard Casey -piano
works by Camden Reeves and John Adams
[info]

Thursday 20th January 2011, 1.10pm, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert
Pierre Bartholomée - Envol et Mort d’un Papillon (UK première)
[info]

Friday 21st January 2011, 7.30pm, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert
Helmut Lachenmann - String Quartet No. 1 (Gran Torso)
[info]

Monday 24 January, 1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall
works by Takemitsu, Lutosławski, Thea Musgrave and John Casken

[info]

Friday 28th January 2011, 5pm, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
PSAPPHA
Boulez - Le marteau sans maître
[info]

Friday 28 – Sunday 30 January 2011
RNCM FESTIVAL OF BRASS

[info]