Come along to Virtually Live: LIVE – our first concert with an in-person audience since February 2020. Tickets limited, get yours now! Chameleon are a multi-instrumental woodwind quartet who play a variety of repertoire, ranging from folk to classical favourites, to show tune classics! ‘Virtually Live’ is their very own lockdown concert series, which began […]
Live music line-up: Stereolab | Beak> | Girl Band | Dry Cleaning | Kokoroko | Kikagaku Moyo | Stealing Sheep | Whyte Horses | Porridge Radio | Billy Nomates | Jadu Heart | Bo Ningen | Crack Cloud | Pins | Los Bitchos | Tvam | The Mysterines | Scalping | Peaness | Slift | […]
While summer can be associated with many positive things, this year like never before it brings the feeling of hope and freedom. And to all of us at the SONO ensemble freedom is the main quality that links the pieces of our next concert. ‘Southern Rhythms’ will bring you trios by Astor Piazzolla, Chick Corean […]
In the eleven years since winning Best Newcomer at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Sam Carter has earned a reputation for vivid, narrative-driven songwriting and captivating live performances. Having made a spell-binding appearance on Later… with Jools Holland in 2012, Sam has gone on to tour the world, sharing stages with some of […]
Timothy Parker-Langston and Ewan Gilford present a special recital of music for tenor and piano at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. ‘I was slooshying more like malenky romantic songs, what they call Lieder, just a goloss and a piano, very quiet and like yearny, different from when it had been all bolshy orchestras and lying […]
The SONO ensemble is thrilled to present their second livestream concert brought to you from The International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, UK. You will hear the magnificent string sextet Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 by Arnold Schoenberg and the gorgeous, though rarely performed suite for two violins, cello & piano left hand, op. 23 by […]
The Burgess Foundation has a rolling programme of public exhibitions highlighting the life and work of Anthony Burgess. Because visiting exhibitions has been a little difficult of late, we have expanded our exhibition programme to become fully browsable online. Delve into a world of Anthony Burgess below. Please note: this event page has a date […]
We are delighted to present a special concert by Richard Casey of Anthony Burgess’s music for solo piano, played on Burgess’s own Bosendorfer, recorded at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. Richard Casey has recorded the collected solo piano works of Camden Reeves, Anthony Gilbert (with piano duo partner Ian Buckle) and Peter Maxwell […]
Join the SONO ensemble for a concert broadcast live from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation on 19 December 2020, from 7pm until 8pm GMT. The SONO ensemble was formed in Manchester, UK by a couple of Lithuanian musicians, cellist Gunda Baranauskaitė and pianist Ugnius Pauliukonis. Their main idea was to create a shape-shifting ensemble of like-minded […]
Edward Chilvers the ground-breaking polyrhythmic pianist and composer is back in Manchester with Music As Medicine, bringing new improvisations and compositions from his next album. After two sell out concerts; we invite you to experience PART 3 – ‘A Polyrhythmic Universe’. Eddie’s work with polyrhythms and modes breaks into new uncharted territories; beautiful pieces of […]