Join rarescale – Amy Jolly (cello) and Carla Rees (baroque and Kingma system flutes) – as they embark in a new collaborative adventure, exploring and developing new repertoire for their instruments in relation to the present and the past. An Invite to Delight brings together duos and solos, including two new commissions – Hues, Blues […]
You are invited to join us to celebrate the launch of Piano Works: Volume 2, a new collection of piano music by Anthony Burgess. Best known for his dystopian science fiction and comic novels, Burgess also composed more than 250 musical works, including a symphony, a piano concerto, two Broadway musicals, chamber music, and settings […]
True Love Stories is an immersive and heartfelt evening of original piano music and storytelling from composer–pianist Tim Dimov. Across intimate vignettes and sweeping themes, Tim shares the real moments that inspired each composition — from the tentative first sparks of connection to the rush of falling in love, from heartbreak to self-discovery — creating […]
An evening of experimental night-music for piano. Henry McPherson performs new compositions by Joshua Brown, Maria Sappho, Stanford Cheung, Duncan Krummel and more TBC, alongside nocturnal improvisations for piano and electronics. Programme Old Dream (from Afremov Oil Piantings, 2016), Duncan Krummel, 3′ Empty Dreaming (2025), Joshua Brown/Henry McPherson, 15′ New Work (2025), Maria Sappho, 5′ […]
The acclaimed quartet Marici Saxes open Manchester Saxophone Academy’s brand-new concert series, The Hive Live, with an evening of scintillating sound and lighter classical fare that has delighted audiences worldwide. Marici Saxes are a dynamic saxophone quartet from London, UK: four unique musicians brought together through a craving for collective creativity and establishing a firm […]
Join Mezzo Soprano Sophie Clarke with special guests Ravi Nathwani (classical guitar) and Lewis Kingsley-Peart (piano) for a magical evening of your favourite Christmas songs, carols and stories by candlelight at the intimate Anthony Burgess Foundation. Featuring White Christmas, O Holy Night, Driving Home For Christmas, Silent Night and many more of your favourites! This […]
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 […]