The Commission for New and Old Art, and Riot Ensemble presents PIERROT. Repertoire will be Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, and Hanns Eisler’s Fourteen Ways to Describe the Rain. Players Soprano – Lucy Shelton Piano – Daniel Browell Cello – Jonathan Pether Clarinet – Carl Raven Violin – Marie Schreer Flute – Amy Yule Musicians are […]
Je mets mon scaphandre is an immersive work for bassoon, surround-sound electronics and sound-reactive lighting. The piece’s meditative sound-world reflects the feminist theory of the ‘leaky body’, inviting us to rethink the human body as fluid and amorphous, constantly reconfiguring in response to its environment. Here, the built-in spatiality and the leaky, unstable nature of […]
Sarah Watts and Kim Davenport perform music for bass clarinet from their album The Song Rises. This will include works by David N Baker, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price and Malcolm Solomon. During the afternoon of the concert Sarah will rehearse with a low clarinet choir who will also perform at the end of the concert […]
Music As Medicine is excited to welcome back ground-breaking polyrhythmic pianist and composer Edward Chilvers for his first visit to Manchester since 2020. He will share new compositions & improvisations in what will be the fourth in a series of unique concerts in collaboration with the MAM collective since 2018, all of which have been […]
2025 marks the 125th Anniversary of the composer and pianist Alan Bush. The Workers’ Music Association and Rolf Hind have teamed together for an evening which not only celebrates Alan Bush, but also champions political music! Centred around elements of Bush’s 24 piano preludes, this recital will be a powerful demonstration that political art is […]
Opera Vera’s debut production, To Life Beyond, features two powerful vocal cycles that confront the mystery of death — not with fear, but with transcendent beauty. Shostakovich’s Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok (Op. 127), a 20th-century masterpiece, is paired with Beggar’s Belief by contemporary British composer Adam Gorb. Though composed decades apart, both […]
distant parochial laughter… / …where be to? Me birds, LUSKHEROW TARAN, be not in Kernow any further is’em?! Tired of seeing ‘content’ instead of ‘music’? Long for ‘conversation’ over ‘engagement’? Idea of ‘building a following’ fill you with dread? I am. I do. It does… Hi! I’m Jacob ‘oncebard’ Griffiths, one of the founding members […]
When, years ago, a teenage Mitch discovered American comic songwriting legend Tom Lehrer, the course of his life was changed forever. Mitch looks at the legacy of the elusive Lehrer, the creative debt he, and all those who mix humour and melody, owe to him and performs some of the more Lehreresque of his own […]
When, years ago, a teenage Mitch discovered American comic songwriting legend Tom Lehrer, the course of his life was changed forever. Mitch looks at the legacy of the elusive Lehrer, the creative debt he, and all those who mix humour and melody, owe to him and performs some of the more Lehreresque of his own […]
The dream team are back together again! Join Alice and Louise for an easy going, joyful singing experience. Everything is taught by ear so threre is no need to read music, we believe everyone can sing so no experience necessary, just be prepared to have a go – we will never ask you to sing […]