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 […]
A collection of thoughts, perspectives and opinions on female empowerment within and by means of the arts. This concert premieres several extremely different pieces by RNCM composers performed by RNCM musicians which will be combined with an exhibition of new artwork from several different artists on the same theme. In a time where the feeling […]
The newly formed Manchester Song Collective invites you to an evening showcase of eight new poems by young poets that have been put to music by young composers from the universities of Manchester. This showcase is the culmination of months of collaboration and we are very excited to present these new songs all based on […]
Please note this event has been postponed. A new date and opera line-up will follow. AS ONE | Laura Kaminsky (2014) As One is a coming-of-age, transgender opera in which two voices – Hannah Before (baritone) and Hannah After (mezzo-soprano) – share the part of a sole transgender protagonist. Musicians from the Royal Northern College […]