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Welcome A warm welcome to the spring/summer 2012 season at the Martin Harris Centre. The Centre offers a vibrant and exciting programme of events across many art forms and this season certainly has something to satisfy all tastes. We have an array of inspirational concerts, wonderful dramas, captivating poetry and literature and even some comedy!
The New Year gets off to an exciting start with the return of the University’s internationally renowned resident string quartet, the Quatuor Danel. As usual, they will enchant and challenge us with juxtapositions of the new and the old, including the première of Ghosts of Great Violence by the University’s Professor of Composition, Philip Grange.
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Contents
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Welcome
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Introducing The Martin Harris Centre
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Eating and Dining
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Literature
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Manchester University Music Society (MUMS)
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Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series
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Quatuor Danel
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New Music
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Drama
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We Welcome
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How to find us
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Access
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Box Office Information
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For events listings in full please refer to the handy pull out guide on page 37. Café Arts, based within the foyer of the Martin Harris Centre serves coffee, tea, cold drinks and light refreshments. You can now pre-order your interval drinks at Café Arts before the performance starts and they will be ready and waiting for you at the interval.
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We are delighted to announce the return of performance poet and five times fringeaward winner, Mark Gwynne Jones in January 2012. There are some exciting drama productions to entertain you this season; in February 2012 we host Black Box Theatre Company’s production Of Mice and Men, a stunning new piece of theatre inspired by John Steinbeck’s classic novella. Also in February 2012, the MIFTAs (Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Awards) are coming to town! As the biggest event in the University Drama Society’s calendar, seven shows will take place over four weeks. The Centre will host the opening production: What’s Wrong With Angry? by Patrick Wilde. Don’t miss the New Music North West Festival in March 2012, which we bring to you in association with our friends at the Royal Northern College of Music. With over 20 concerts featuring well over 60 composers, the festival showcases the musical brilliance and diversity which we all have on our doorstep here in the North West. Comedy is the order of the day in March 2012 when we are joined by comedian Jonny Sweet who won ‘The Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer’ in 2009. The talented comedian has recently worked with ‘Inbetweeners’ stars Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, and is sure to entertain you! Bringing the season to a close in July 2012, we are privileged to welcome the Hallé Youth Orchestra and Hallé Youth Choir. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to appreciate some of the most incredibly talented local young musicians. These are just a few highlights from this season’s exceptional programme. We hope you will be able to join us for these and other exciting events at the Martin Harris Centre. For details of the entire programme, please refer to the handy tear-out events guide at the back of this brochure.
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Introducing The Martin Harris Centre
The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama is a performance space situated at the heart of The University of Manchester.
Eating and Dining Café Arts based in the foyer of the Martin Harris Centre, serves coffee, tea, cold drinks and light refreshments. The café is open from 9.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday and is also open for weekend and evening events at the Centre. You can now also order interval drinks prior to the start of each event. For further information please contact Box Office on 0161 275 8951.
The foyer makes an immediately striking impact: its use of light, open space and bold areas of colour blend with Alice Kettle’s dynamic textile artwork, Red and Blue Movement in Three, which was commissioned in 2004.
We have teamed up with our partners Chancellors at Christie’s Bistro to expand your catering options at The Martin Harris Centre. Why not take advantage of the special Pre-concert dining offers or enjoy a delicious lunch prepared by a team of talented chefs? You can also treat yourself to afternoon tea following one of the lunchtime concerts.
In March 2011, The Martin Harris Centre was delighted to receive a newly commissioned textile wall hanging also by Alice Kettle – The Birth of Motives in the Clouds. These pieces of artwork were commissioned by The Oglesby Charitable Trust. Alice Kettle
350-seat Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
150-seat John Thaw Studio Theatre
The Centre hosts many musicians, performers and prize-winning authors. It provides an excellent space for contemporary and classic theatre, music and comedy events, and hosts a reading series that has in the past featured such literary luminaries as Martin Amis, Will Self, John Banville and Clive James. We also present new and exciting artists who go on to become household names as well as established artists performing to sell-out audiences all over the world. So please come along, and discover why The Martin Harris Centre is attracting attention as an important arts venue throughout the North West.
background: Alice Kettle Red and Blue Movement in Three
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INTRODUCTION
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Centre for New Writing
Literature These unique events, organised by The University’s Centre for New Writing, bring the best known contemporary writers to Manchester to discuss and read from their work. Everyone is welcome, and tickets include discounts at the Blackwell bookstall and a complimentary drink at our Literature Live wine receptions.
LITERATURE LIVE: Gregory O’Brien, Rebecca Perry and Rachel Connor
Colm Tóibín in Conversation
Gregory O’Brien is a New Zealand poet, art-writer, essayist and painter, whose books have been published widely in Australia and the United Kingdom, as well as in his homeland.
Acclaimed novelist and journalist Colm Tóibín, newly appointed as Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, hosts a series of high-profile public events. The conversations cover topics of current literary and cultural interest.
Colm Tóibín
“Colm Tóibín in Conversation” with Roy Foster
Venue John Thaw Studio Theatre
Colm Tóibín will be in conversation with acclaimed Irish historian and biographer Roy Foster.
Time & Date 6.30pm, Monday 12 March 2012
They will discuss the politics of Irish history and the debates surrounding Roy Foster’s own “revisionist” work. Roy Foster is the author of many books on the political, social, cultural and literary history of Ireland, and of the two-volume authorized biography of W.B.Yeats. His most recent work concerns social and political change in Ireland in the late twentieth century.
Roy Foster
“Colm Tóibín in Conversation” with Paul Durcan Colm Tóibín will be in conversation with Paul Durcan, one of Ireland’s foremost poets. Paul Durcan is renowned as both an outspoken critic of his native country, and as a chronicler of its emergence from the repressions of the 1950s to the contradictions of the present day. His first book, Endsville (1967), has been followed by more than twenty others. In 2001 Paul Durcan received a Cholmondeley Award. He was the Ireland Professor of Poetry 2004-2007. In 2009 he was conferred with an honorary degree by Trinity College, Dublin. He is a member of Aosdána, an affiliation of creative artists in Ireland, which is by peer nomination and election. This event will also see the launch of exciting new work by Paul Durcan.
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LITERATURE
Venue John Thaw Studio Theatre
Price £10 / £5
Venue to be confirmed Time & Date 6.30pm, Tuesday 8 May 2012 Price to be confirmed
Paul Durcan
Further details for this event will be announced shortly. Please keep checking the website for more information, or contact Box Office on 0161 275 8951.
Carcanet (UK) published his 1994 poetry collection, Days Beside Water, and his book-length essay News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore (2007). His most recent collection of poems, Beauties of the Octagonal Pool, appears from Auckland University Press in February 2012. O’Brien is also a widely exhibited painter and, in May 2011, co-ordinated an artists’ trip to the remote Kermadec Islands, North of New Zealand, and co-edited the book, Kermadec which was one outcome of that project. Rebecca Perry graduated from the Centre for New Writing in 2008 with a master’s degree in Creative Writing, and now edits children’s books in London. Rebecca has had work published, most recently, in New Welsh Review, Smiths Knoll and The Rialto. She recently contributed to This Line is Not for Turning: An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry (Cinnamon Press). Her pamphlet Little Armoured is being published by Seren in February 2012. In November 2011, Perry won a Highly Commended prize in the international writing competition, The Bridport Prize, one of the most prestigious open literary awards in the UK.
Time & Date 6.30pm, Monday 27 February 2012 Gregory O’Brien
Price £6 / £4
Rebecca Perry
Rachel Connor
Rachel Connor writes fiction, non-fiction and radio drama. Her debut novel, Sisterwives, was published last year by Crocus Books and she is now at work on another. A former lecturer in English and American literature at the Universities of Glasgow and Salford, Rachel now combines writing with working for the Arvon Foundation at its Lumb Bank centre.
LITERATURE LIVE: Rupert Thomson and Patrick McGuinness Rupert Thomson is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels, Dreams of Leaving, The Five Gates of Hell, Air and Fire, The Insult, Soft, The Book of Revelation, Divided Kingdom and Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. In 2010 he ventured into non-fiction for the first time with the award-winning memoir, This Party’s Got To Stop. He lives in London. Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia in 1968 of Belgian and Newcastle Irish parents, and brought up in Iran, Venezuela, France, Belgium and Romania. He now teaches French in Oxford, where he is Professor of French and Comparative Literature. McGuinness’s books include two collections of poems, The Canals of Mars (2004), and Jilted City (2010), and several editions, notably of the modernist poet Lynette Roberts and T.E. Hulme, and a translation of Mallarmé’s For Anatole’s Tomb. Jilted City was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and has appeared in Italian as L’Età della Sedia Vuota.
Venue John Thaw Studio Theatre Time & Date 6.30pm, Monday 5 March 2012 Rupert Thomson
Price £6 / £4
Patrick McGuinness
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Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) www.mumusicsociety.co.uk Anybody can join the Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) and typically, around 500 people (mainly students) sign-up each year. The main priority of the society is to provide its members with a large variety of performing opportunities to suit their standard, commitment and tastes. This is possible through its established programme of concerts throughout the year, several ensembles and social events, which allow like-minded musicians to meet in a friendly community.
MUMS Chamber Music Festival
Lunchtime Concerts Come and enjoy a Friday lunchtime concert performed by The Manchester University Music Society. These concerts are free – no need to book, just turn up.
Contemporary Works Join us for the first of our free Lunchtime Concert series, with a selection of contemporary pieces and student commissions for small chamber ensembles.
Two days celebrating the magic of Chamber Music, with a fantastic chance to see some of the society’s best musicians working together.
Day One: Opera Handel
Semele (Opera)
Artistic Director: Timothy Langston Conductor: Jamie Phillips Chorus Master: David Wishart Producer: Matthew Cundy The opening concert of the Music Society’s two day festival sees Handel’s rare gem, the opera Semele, brought to life in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall. Be sure not to miss the society’s first ever performance of a whole opera, with an all student cast and orchestra! Guaranteed not to disappoint!
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 7.00pm, Friday 3 February 2012
Day Two: Lunchtime Concert Tomasi Bizet Gounod
Fanfares Liturgiques Carmen Suite Petite Symphony
Conductors: Leo Geyer | Jonathan Evans | Tom Jarvis Come join our Brass and Wind Ensembles for the second concert of our two day music festival, including Bizet’s Carmen Suite and Tomasi’s Fanfares Liturgiques!
Day Two: Chamber Orchestra Stravinsky Leo Geyer Gary Carpenter Jose Puello Louis Andriessen
Ragtime Orange Moon Sonatinas for Alto Saxophone Ritluases (world première) M is for Men, Music, Mozart
Soloist: Dan White – Saxophone Soloist: Eleanor Westbrook – Soprano Conductors: Leo Geyer | Will Hooker | Tom Jarvis | Mark Heron The closing concert of the Music Society’s two-day festival is set to surprise! We mix Stravinsky’s Ragtime with a Saxophone Concerto, a new student commission, and to close the concert, Andriessen’s cheeky M is for Men, Music, Mozart.
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Opera Scenes In the second of our free Lunchtime Concert series, Opera Scenes returns as famous scenes and arias are performed by talented students
Conductor: Jamie Phillips
Time & Date 1.10pm, Saturday 4 February 2012 Price £5 Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Saturday 4 February 2012 Price £10 / £6 / £4
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.10pm, Friday 9 March 2012 Price FREE
MUMS Chamber Ensemble Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Time & Date 1.10pm, Friday 17 February 2012 Price FREE
Price £10 / £6 / £4
** Please note a Pre-Concert Talk will take place at 6:00pm **
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Join us for a rare performance of the chamber version of Mahler’s 4th Symphony. The lightest of all his symphonic output, it concerns the view of heaven from a child’s eyes. An unmissable concert.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.10pm, Friday 23 March 2012 Price FREE
Classical Works Conductor: Jamie Phillips Join us for the fourth of our free Lunchtime Concert series, with a selection of classical works and student commissions for small chamber ensembles.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.10pm, Friday 20 April 2012 Price FREE
Manchester University Baroque Orchestra Join the University’s own period-performance ensemble for a concert celebrating some of the favourites of the drawing rooms and concert rooms of Baroque England, including one of Handel’s bestknown concerti grossi, a ground for recorders by Purcell, and trio sonatas by Charles Avison.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.10pm, Friday 27 April 2012 Price FREE
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Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) www.mumusicsociety.co.uk Evening Concerts University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra Stravinsky Butterworth Butterworth Ravel Jae Hong Lee Stravinsky
Scherzo a la Russe Two English Idylls – No.1 A Shropshire Lad Shéhérazade Concerto for Orchestra (world première) Student Commission Timothy Langston The Firebird Suite (1919 Version)
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Saturday 18 February 2012
Josef Suk Zdenek Fibich Kevin Malone Leoš Janácek Josef Haydn Zoltán Kodály
Meditation On An Old Czech Hymn – St Wenceslas Poème Angels & Fireflies (world première) Suite for Strings Symphony No.95 Dances of Galanta
Soloist: John Turner – Recorder Conductors: Leo Geyer | Jonathan Evans | Will Hooker | Jamie Phillips
Manchester University Wind Orchestra, the society’s largest wind ensemble, returns for their second concert of the season with a great selection from the wind band repertoire!
Time & Date 7.30pm, Saturday 17 March 2012 MUWO
Manchester University Big Band
The Symphony Orchestra returns with Ravel’s infamous Shéhérazade – but with a twist – a rare performance with tenor soloist Timothy Langston. The orchestra also performs works by little-known English composer Butterworth and the world première of Jae Hong Lee’s Concerto for Orchestra. We close with the whirling and nightmarish Infernal Dance from Stravinsky’s Firebird, a tour de force of orchestral brilliance!
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Director: Andy Gregory
Price £10 / £6 / £4
Soloist: Timothy Langston – Tenor Conductors: Tom Jarvis | Theo Vinden | Jamie Phillips | Mark Heron
University of Manchester String and Chamber Orchestra
Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO)
Director: Patrick Hurley Manchester University Big Band returns with another brilliant concert including a mix of well-known classics and contemporary gems from the big band repertoire.
Price £10 / £6 / £4 Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Tuesday 20 March 2012 Price £10 / £6 / £4
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Saturday 10 March 2012 Price £10 / £6 / £4
Tonight’s programme is full of Central European music. We start with the String Orchestra’s all Czech programme including little-known masterpieces by Suk and Fibich, but the highlight will surely be Janácek’s Suite for Strings. Also featured will be the world première of Kevin Malone’s Angels and Fireflies, as part of the North-West Composers’ Festival, starring John Turner on recorder. The Chamber Orchestra will close with Haydn’s Symphony No.95 and Hungarian composer Kodály’s exciting Dances of Galanta!
ESTIVAL 6-8 June 2012
The University of Manchester’s answer to the ‘PROMS’ Join the Music Society in the final week of term for our annual music festival! A carnival of sights and sounds, there is no better way to celebrate the end of exams. Estival is not to be missed! It’s an action-packed three days of music making which is guaranteed to thrill. This year’s Estival revolves around the theme of Places and Landscapes, so join us for an exhibition of some amazing musical paintings and images, including the ultimate highlight in the Friday evening concert where the University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra will perform Gustav Holst’s The Planets!!
***Part of the New Music North-West Festival***
Ad Solem – University of Manchester Chamber Choir
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Programme to include: Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor Busiakiewicz Folk Song Arrangements
Time & Date 7.30pm, Friday 16 March 2012
Director: David Young Join Ad Solem, the Music Society’s elite chamber choir, as they return with a selection of English choral works.
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Ad Solem
Price £10 / £6 / £4
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Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported by the Ida Carroll Trust. They provide a wide-ranging programme to suit all tastes and are an ideal opportunity to enjoy great music performed by outstanding musicians.
There’s no need to book – the concerts are free and you can just turn up on the day. Jeremy Huw Williams (23 February)
Quatuor Danel Robin Stevens Shostakovich Weinberg
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Three Portraits (world première) Sonata Movement for violin and piano (UK première) Sonata No. 5 for violin and piano, Op. 53
with David Fanning – piano
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 19 January 2012 Quatuor Danel
A chance to hear newly-discovered Shostakovich alongside a masterly Sonata dedicated to him and a new piece by one of the University’s most talented and versatile PhD students.
Price FREE
Followed at 2.30pm by Seminar: ‘In the Hot Seat’ Selected star students of the University join the Quatuor Danel in quartet and quintet movements.
Robin Ireland (Viola) and Tim Horton (Piano) J.S. Bach Schumann Prokoviev
Sonata for viola da gamba No. 2 in D major, transcr. for viola and piano Adagio and Allegro Op.70 Four pieces from Romeo and Juliet Suite, transcr. for viola and piano by Borisovski
Beethoven Richard Whalley Paul Mealor
An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98 Six Songs of Old Japanese Wisdom Twilight (English première)
Jeremy Huw Williams is a baritone from Wales with an international reputation and is renowned as a fine exponent of contemporary music. Beethoven’s, An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98, will be followed by Six Songs of Old Japanese Wisdom by Richard Whalley, and the English première of Twilight (commissioned by Jeremy Huw Williams in association with Creative Scotland) by Paul Mealor, Royal Wedding composer to TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Clare Hammond (piano) Philip Grange Ravel Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Robin Ireland and Tim Horton
Jeremy Huw Williams (Baritone) with Richard Whalley (Piano)
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 2 February 2012
Piano Polyptych Le Tombeau de Couperin
Philip Grange’s scintillating and expansive Piano Polyptych is combined with Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, a moving tribute to the classical French dance suite.
Price FREE
Quatuor Danel
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Richard Whalley Philip Grange Camden Reeves Cho Yen Lee
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 16 February 2012
As part of the New Music North West Festival, compositions by University and Royal Northern College composers show us the diversity and mastery of Manchester-based string quartet composition.
Price FREE
Followed at 2.30pm by Seminar: ‘Doctors of Composition’ The Quatuor Danel workshops quartets by the University’s PhD students.
One of the wackiest and wickedest compositions for string quartet, matched against the genial mastery of mid-period Haydn.
Quatuor Danel
Followed at 2.30pm by Seminar: ‘Masters of Composition’ A workshop of new string quartets by Masters students in composition at the University.
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WALTER CARROLL LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES
Price FREE
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 1 March 2012
Acclaimed by the Daily Telegraph as a pianist of “amazing power and panache”.
Price FREE
Three Pieces for String Quartet Quartet in E flat, Op. 50, No. 3
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 23 February 2012
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
From the exquisite viola da gamba sonata by Bach to the flamboyant transcription of the famous Romeo and Juliet ballet music by Prokoviev, this programme offers a chance to hear the viola in its many colours, from the former viola player with the Lindsay Quartet, for many decades in residence at The University of Manchester, with his duo partner, the superb pianist Tim Horton.
Stravinsky Haydn
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Clare Hammond
Quatuor Danel Interlocking Melodies Ghosts of Great Violence (world première) Dactylozooid Complex (String Quartet No. 2) New work (world première)
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.15pm, Thursday Quatuor Danel 8 March 2012 Price FREE
***Part of the New Music North-West Festival***
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Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series Gamelan Degung (26 April)
Student Showcase A recital featuring the talents of undergraduate and postgraduate star performers from The University of Manchester.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 15 March 2012 Price FREE
Dream Spaces: music for flute & live electronics
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Gavin Osborn – flutes with Manuella Blackburn & Haruka Hirayama (electronics) and Paul Michael Labelle (guitar) Kaija Saariaho Brian Ferneyhough Haruka Hirayama Manuella Blackburn Gavin Osborn
Laconisme de l’aile Cassandra’s Dream Song Tints of July In Response... Dream Marginalia (new work)
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 22 March 2012 Gavin Osborn
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The concert includes traditional and contemporary Sundanese repertoire, together with original compositions by members of the group.
Caf€ Mozart presents: Haydn à l’anglaise
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 26 April 2012 Price FREE Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
When Haydn came to England in 1791 his songs were already available in English versions that differed somewhat from what had left Vienna. Furthermore his pupil Thomas Haigh ‘of Manchester’ went on to convert some of his English Canzonettas into keyboard Rondos.
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 3 May 2012 Price FREE
Quatuor Danel Emily Howard Mozart Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 19 April 2012
Simon Turner
Price FREE
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Clarinet Quintet (second performance) Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
with Nicholas Cox – clarinet
Sonata for Solo Cello Op. 8
WALTER CARROLL LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES
University Music students, with guests, offer a dynamic programme of music for Gamelan Degung, to culminate the course in association with the Hallé.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Founder Derek McCulloch
Simon Turner (cello) Simon Turner, cellist with the Hallé returns to the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series with a recital featuring Kodály’s gigantic, highly dramatic masterpiece for partially detuned solo cello. The concert will also include pieces from his younger compatriot György Kurtág.
The University of Manchester’s music students with guests.
Price FREE
A programme of strange & beautiful works including: Saariaho’s Laconisme de l’aile, Cassandra’s Dream Song (solo flute) by Brian Ferneyhough, In Response... for bass flute & electronics by Manuella Blackburn, Haruka Hirayama’s Tints of July for flute, guitar & electronics, and Dream Marginalia, a new work for flute & electronics by the performer himself.
Kodály
Gamelan Degung
Quatuor Danel
Mozart’s heavenly clarinet quintet still stands as the greatest masterpiece for the medium; hear it alongside a fresh contribution to the genre from up-andcoming composer Emily Howard. The Danels are joined by the RLPO’s dynamic principal clarinettist.
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 10 May 2012 Price FREE
Followed at 2.30pm by Seminar: ‘Inevitable Rifts’ Seminar: ‘Inevitable Rifts’ - Professor emeritus John Casken discusses his recent music and illustrates his new quintet.
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Quatuor Danel The University of Manchester’s internationally renowned resident string quartet. Our superstar quartet takes in the most popular, the most profound, the most provocative and the most personal, combining premières and established favourites to make another stunning season – the Quatuor Danel’s seventh at the University of Manchester. As usual, they will enchant and challenge us with juxtapositions of the new and the old, including Clarinet Quintets by Mozart and Emily Howard, string quintets by Schubert and John Casken, and the première of ‘Ghosts of Great Violence’ by the University’s Professor of Composition, Philip Grange. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported by the Ida Carroll Trust.
Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert Robin Stevens Shostakovich Weinberg
Three Portraits (world première) Sonata Movement for violin and piano (UK première) Sonata No. 5 for violin and piano, Op. 53
with David Fanning – piano A chance to hear newly-discovered Shostakovich alongside a masterly Sonata dedicated to him and a new piece by one of the University’s most talented and versatile PhD students.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 19 January 2012
One of the wackiest and wickedest compositions for string quartet, matched against the genial mastery of mid-period Haydn.
Price FREE
Followed at 2.30pm by Seminar: ‘In the Hot Seat’ Selected star students of the University join the Quatuor Danel in quartet and quintet movements.
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert Beethoven Hindemith Tchaikovsky
Quartet in G, Op. 18 No. 2 Quartet No. 4, Op. 22 Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 22
Beethoven with all the balletic poise of Tchaikovsky; Hindemith with all the profundity of Beethoven; Tchaikovsky with all the chromatic contrapuntal ingenuity of Hindemith. An ear- and mind-opening experience.
Quatuor Danel Open House A fantastic opportunity to receive coaching and attend workshops given by Marc Danel, Gilles Millet, Vlad Bogdanas and Guy Danel, the four members of the Quatuor Danel. The Quatuor Danel offers an intensive three days of coaching for amateurs (Friday and Saturday) and students (Saturday and Sunday), including master classes and demonstrations. For more information contact Box Office on 0161 275 8951 or email boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk
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Stravinsky Haydn
Three Pieces for String Quartet Quartet in E flat, Op. 50, No. 3
Followed at 2.30pm by Seminar: ‘Masters of Composition’ A workshop of new string quartets by Masters students in composition at the University.
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Friday 20 January 2012
Weinberg Shostakovich Tchaikovsky
Quartet No. 6, Op. 35 Elegy Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor, Op. 30
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 16 February 2012 Price FREE
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Friday
Weinberg’s colossal six-movement Sixth Quartet was the audience choice at the 17 February 2012 Quatuor Danel’s ground-breaking complete cycle two years ago. Tchaikovsky’s Price equally imposing Third is one of his most elegiac and deeply-felt utterances. £13.50 / £8 / £4 And Shostakovich’s first piece for string quartet – transcribed from his opera The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District – provides the pivot.
Price £13.50 / £8 / £4 Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date ALL DAY 20-22 January 2012 Price £60 / £20
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Quatuor Danel
Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert Richard Whalley Philip Grange Camden Reeves Cho Yen Lee
Interlocking Melodies Ghosts of Great Violence (world première) Dactylozooid Complex (String Quartet No. 2) New work (world première)
As part of the New Music North West Festival, compositions by University and Royal Northern College composers show us the diversity and mastery of Manchester-based string quartet composition.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.15pm, Thursday 8 March 2012 Price FREE
Followed at 2.30pm by Seminar: ‘Doctors of Composition’ The Quatuor Danel workshops quartets by the University’s PhD students. ***Part of the New Music North-West Festival***
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert Mendelssohn Philip Grange César Franck
Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 Ghosts of Great Violence (world première) Quartet in D
The last of Mendelssohn’s six quartets is his most dramatic and Beethovenian. Similar qualities, in a more voluptuous language, define César Franck’s sole quartet. Plus a second chance to hear the new quartet by the North-West’s leading composer.
Venue Manchester Grammar School Time & Date 7.30pm, Friday 9 March 2012 Price £10 / £4
Please note: This event will take place at Manchester Grammar School
Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert Emily Howard Mozart
Clarinet Quintet (second performance) Clarinet Quintet in A, K581
with Nicholas Cox – clarinet Mozart’s heavenly clarinet quintet still stands as the greatest masterpiece for the medium; hear it alongside a fresh contribution to the genre from up-andcoming composer Emily Howard. The Danels are joined by the RLPO’s dynamic principal clarinettist.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Quatuor Danel Evening Concert John Casken Haydn Schubert
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Inevitable Rifts (UK première) Quartet in F sharp minor, Op. 50 No. 4 Quintet in C, D956
Time & Date 7.30pm, Friday 11 May 2012 Price £13.50 / £8 / £4
with Petr Prause – cello John Casken’s new string quintet pits the lower three instruments against the upper two, while Schubert achieves heavenly length and harmony. In between, hear Haydn in an outlandish key. The Danels are joined by RNCM’s Head of Chamber Music, Petr Prause, cellist in the renowned Talich Quartet.
Petr Prause
Quatuor Danel Ticket Information 2012
Please note that there is reserved seating at all Quatuor Danel Friday evening concerts. Seating for all lunchtime concerts is unreserved. Ticket
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Performances in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
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Open House
£60 / £20
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Manchester Grammar School
£10 / £4
£13.50 / £8 / £4
Time & Date 1.10pm, Thursday 10 May 2012 Price FREE
Followed at 2.30pm by Seminar: ‘Inevitable Rifts’ Seminar: ‘Inevitable Rifts’ - Professor emeritus John Casken discusses his recent music and illustrates his new quintet.
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New Music North West 3-10 March 2012
MANTIS Spring Festival 2012 MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound returns to the John Thaw Studio Theatre for 3 concerts of electroacoustic works by University of Manchester and guest composers, featuring saxophonist Xelo Giner, mezzosoprano Sara Almazán and the 56-loudspeaker MANTIS sound diffusion system for an immersive listening experience.
Time & Date 6.00pm, Saturday 3 March 2012 7.30pm, Saturday 3 March 2012
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Lunchtime Concert Joe Duddell Ian Stephens Timothy Jackson
Venue The John Thaw Studio Theatre
Nightswimming for piano trio Ode to Autumn for soprano and piano Anything But
Free admission, no ticket required
2.00pm, Sunday 4 March 2012 Price £7.50 / £5 / £4
Venue RNCM Concert Hall Time & Date 1.15pm, Monday 5 March 2012 Price FREE
Exploring the North West with David Horne Whether by birth or relocation, the North West of England is home to a remarkably diverse community of composers. Through spoken, audio and video presentations, this afternoon’s wide-reaching survey will give a taste of the creative range featured in the week’s Festival.
The spectrum and quality of music being created in the North West today warrants a major celebration. Some of the most impressive creative minds in the world of music live in the North West. With over 20 concerts featuring well over 60 composers, this festival showcases the musical brilliance and diversity which we all have on our doorstep. World premières from major composers such as Adam Gorb, Philip Grange, Kevin Malone, Simon Parkin, Camden Reeves and Richard Whalley are heard alongside established works by composers in their 80s as well as new sounds from composers who are still in their teens. Leading British composer Colin Matthews acts as a musical thread and catalyst with several of his chamber and ensemble works performed throughout the festival. From the fabulous electro-acoustic sonic theatre of MANTIS to some of the greatest performers on the world stage, including the Quatuor Danel, the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s Ensemble 10/10, you will hear the best musicians playing the finest music from the composers living in our midst. Be prepared for a musical feast! Clark Rundell artistic director RNCM in association with The University of Manchester Supported by www.prsformusicfoundation.com
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Venue RNCM Concert Hall Time & Date 2.30pm, Monday 5 March 2012
Free admission, no ticket required
Price FREE
Chamber Concert
Venue Carole Nash
A selection of new works by composers from the RNCM and the University Recital Room of Manchester, plus performances of two works for violin and piano by Colin Matthews – Cappricioletto and Chaconne with chorale and moto perpetuo and Time & Date 5.15pm, Monday Laurence Tompkins’ Unlacing for cello duo. 5 March 2012
Free admission, no ticket required
Price FREE
RNCM New Ensemble and Vaganza James Wishart John Casken Jae-Moon Lee Anthony Gilbert Geoff Poole David Önaç
Venue RNCM Concert Hall
Dot.song Nearly Distant New work (world première) Encantos Carved in Stone Piano Concerto
Time & Date 7.30pm, Monday 5 March 2012 Price £7.50 concessions available
Conductors: Mark Heron | Leo Geyer | Theo Vinden Soprano: Chloe Saywell Piano: David Önaç The transparency of Geoff Poole, contemplation of James Wishart, eclecticism of Anthony Gilbert, pianism of David Önaç, plus two new student works
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New Music North West 3-10 March 2012
Lunchtime Concert Edward Gregson David Ellis Colin Matthews
Five Songs of Innocence and Experience Two for Six Op 55 for saxophone quartet String Quartet No 2
Free admission, no ticket required
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 1.15pm, Tuesday 6 March 2012
Lunchtime Concert Simon Parkin Gavin Wayte Colin Matthews
New work for cello duo (world première) towards After Bach for solo piano Three Enigmas for cello and piano
Free admission, no ticket required
Price FREE
Vaganza Young Composers Workshop A celebration of the creativity of the youngest generation, this workshop is the outcome of Vaganza’s education projects in local Manchester schools. Free admission, no ticket required
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 2.30pm, Tuesday 6 March 2012
New works by composers from the RNCM and The University of Manchester, plus a performance of a selection of movements from Colin Matthews’ Eleven Studies in Velocity for solo piano. Free admission, no ticket required
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 5.15pm, Tuesday 6 March 2012 Price FREE
RNCM Brass Band and University of Salford Brass Band Elgar Howarth Lucy Pankhurst Martin Ellerby Gary Carpenter Philip Sparke Darryl Barry Peter Graham Goff Richards Arthur Butterworth
Fireworks In Pitch Black Chivalry Chi Salford Fanfare Salford Sinfonietta The Adventure of the Final Problem and The Great Race from ‘In League with Extraordinary Gentlemen’ A Sweet Shepherdess from ‘Cross Patonce’ The Royal Border Bridge, Berwick upon Tweed, from ‘Three Impressions for Brass’
Conductors: Russell Gray | Howard Evans Euphonium: David Thornton
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Venue RNCM Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Tuesday 6 March 2012 Price £7.50 concessions available
Time & Date 1.15pm, Wed 7 March 2012 Price FREE
Music by Manchester Composers Jamie Forbes Thompson performs works for piano by Manchester composers past and present, including Thomas Pitfield, John Foulds, Martin Butler and David Horne. Free admission, no ticket required
Price FREE
Vaganza and RNCM New Ensemble concert
Venue Carole Nash Recital Room
Venue Carole Nash Recital Room Time & Date 2.30pm, Wed 7 March 2012 Price FREE
Chamber Concert Emily Howard Ian Vine Mary Bellamy Martin Suckling
Masquerade 39 and 40 from forty works for Richard Celestine Three Venus Haiku
Works by Matthew Sergeant and Larry Goves
Venue Carole Nash Recital Room Time & Date 5.15pm, Wed 7 March 2012
Free admission, no ticket required
Price FREE
Vaganza and Psappha with RNCM New Ensemble
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Simon Joyner Alan Williams Colin Matthews Ian Gardiner Zakiya Leeming Stephen Pratt
New work for Vaganza and Psappha (world première) Bog Bodies Sun’s Dance L’escalier en Spirale New work (world première) The Miraculous Mandolin
Conductors: Marco Bellasi | Andrew Gregory | Thomas Jarvis | Jamie Phillips Flute: Conrad Marshall Clarinet: Dov Goldberg
Time & Date 7.30pm, Wed 7 March 2012 Price £7.50 concessions available
A whirlwind of a concert, also consisting of music by Ian Gardiner, Stephen Pratt, Alan Williams, Simon Joyner and the astonishing virtuosity of Colin Matthews’ Sun’s Dance.
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New Music North West 3-10 March 2012
Quatuor Danel Camden Reeves Cho Yen Lee Richard Whalley Philip Grange
Dactylozooid Complex (String quartet No. 2) New work (world première) Interlocking Melodies Ghosts of Great Violence (world première)
Free admission, no ticket required
RNCM Saxophone Ensemble Music to include: Adam Gorb Gary Carpenter José Puello
Burlesque Missa Beata Virgine New work (world première)
Directors: Rob Buckland | Andy Scott Free admission, no ticket required
Quatuor Danel Seminar The Quatuor Danel workshops quartets by the University’s PhD students and composition students from the RNCM. Free admission, no ticket required
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Lunchtime Concert
Time & Date 1.15pm, Thursday 8 March 2012
Oboe: Paul Goodey*
Price FREE Venue RNCM Concert Hall Time & Date 1.15pm, Thursday 8 March 2012 Price FREE Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 2.30pm, Thursday 8 March 2012
Edwin Roxburgh Colin Matthews
Venue RNCM Concert Hall
At the Still Point of the Turning World* Oboe Quartet No 2
Time & Date 1.15pm, Friday 9 March 2012
Free admission, no ticket required
Price FREE
Sound Ideas RNCM Outreach A performance of new works by GCSE students, taking their inspiration from Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of poems The World’s Wife. Supported by The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation. Free admission, no ticket required
Prologue and Scene One from Emily (world première)
Soprano: Rebecca Lea Bass-baritone: Jonathan Ainscough
Free admission, no ticket required
Venue Martin Harris Centre Seminar room G16 Time & Date 4.15pm, Thursday 8 March 2012 Price FREE
BBC Philharmonic and RNCM New Ensemble Anthony Burgess Joe Duddell Gary Carpenter David Horne Claude Debussy Kenneth Hesketh Colin Matthews
Manchester Overture Azalea Fragments Fred and Ginger Submergence (arr Colin Matthews) Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Doctrine of Affection The Island
Conductors: Mark Heron | Clark Rundell | Duncan Ward Soprano: Sarah Ogden Free admission, by ticket only, to reserve your ticket call RNCM Box Office on 0161 907 5555 (limited availability) www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/philharmonic
Venue BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Time & Date 7.30pm, Thursday 8 March 2012 Price FREE
Venue RNCM Studio Theatre Time & Date 5.15pm, Friday 9 March 2012
Free admission, no ticket required
Price FREE
Price FREE
Colin Matthews in conversation
Time & Date 2.30pm, Friday 9 March 2012 Price FREE
Afternoon Concert Tim Benjamin
Venue Carole Nash Recital Room
Ensemble 10/10 featuring Adam Gorb’s Anya 17 Colin Matthews Richard Whalley Ailís ní Ríain Adam Gorb
Venue RNCM Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Friday 9 March 2012
L, bent A very serious game In Sleep… Anya 17
Price £10
Conductor: Clark Rundell Mezzo-soprano: Sarah Parkin
concessions available
Anya 17: Andrea Tweedale Anya Joanne Holton Mila Lucy Baines Natalia, Carole Amy Webber Elena Sean Boyes Uri, Gabriel Thomas Hopkinson Viktor Tonight’s performance by the RLPO’s contemporary music ensemble includes pieces by Colin Matthews, Richard Whalley and RNCM alumna Ailís ní Ríain, followed by a semi-staged version of Adam Gorb’s new opera Anya 17. Anya 17 is the first of its kind - an opera raising awareness of sex trafficking in the UK. Latest figures reveal that up to 800,000 young women and children are trafficked into EU countries every year. Following the success of their oratorio Eternal Voices, Head of Composition at the RNCM Adam Gorb once again collaborates with librettist Ben Kaye to present this challenging and highly relevant work. Please note that this event contains themes and material that people may find upsetting.
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Late Night Concert Tim Benjamin
Mrs Lazarus
Soprano: Rebecca Lea Free admission, no ticket required
Psappha (27 January, 24 February and 7 March)
Venue RNCM Studio Theatre Time & Date 9.45pm, Friday 9 March 2012 Price FREE
Junior RNCM New Music Day Young Composers’ Forum An opportunity for young composers aged 18 and under to meet together and receive feedback on their scores from fellow composers and Junior RNCM tutors Emily Howard and Matthew Sergeant. Free admission, by registration only. To book your place, please contact Junior RNCM on 0161 907 5264
Venue Carole Nash Recital Room Time & Date 2.00pm, Saturday 10 March 2012 Price FREE
Junior RNCM Composers’ Concert
Venue Carole Nash A performance of works by past and present Junior RNCM students, performed Recital Room
by the JRNCM New Music Ensemble conducted by Gavin Wayte. Free admission, no ticket required
Time & Date 4.00pm, Saturday 10 March 2012 Price FREE
University of Manchester String and Chamber Orchestra Music to include: Kevin Malone
Recorder Concerto: Angels & Fireflies (world première)
Conductors: Leo Geyer | Jonathan Evans | Will Hooker | Jamie Phillips Recorder: John Turner
New Music
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Saturday 10 March 2012 Price £10 / £6 / £4
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Contemporary Ensemble in Residence www.psappha.com Sean Friar Gordon McPherson Andrew Garbett Steve Reich
Scale 9 (English première) Stunt Doubles (English première) New work (world première) Double Sextet (English ensemble première)
Psappha Unconducted
Time & Date 7.30pm, Friday 27 January 2012 Price £10 / £5 / £4 Steve Reich
The much anticipated Steve Reich UK ensemble première would make this concert unmissable even without the rest: a younger composer from the U.S., Sean Friar, takes off from minimalism in his own way, Gordon McPherson offers spectacular impressions of three great film stunt artists, and new talent is on show from student composers. Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Contemporary Ensemble in Residence www.psappha.com Anthony Payne A Day in the Life of a Mayfly Yvonne Eccles New work (world première) Sally Beamish The Sins* Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King**
Time & Date 7.30pm, Friday 24 February 2012 Eight Songs for a Mad King
Psappha Unconducted Jonathan Best Actor* Kelvin Thomas Baritone** Elaine Tyler-Hall Director* Marc Rosette Lighting Designer* Anthony Payne’s brilliant picture of insect life is the overture to two works in which music becomes theatre. Sally Beamish hinges her lively and expressive music on a dramatic spoken text based on the seven deadly sins, after which Peter Maxwell Davies’s great classic takes us reeling into the madness of King George III.
NOVARS Research Centre presents: Interactive Audiogames Showcase This participative event showcases a number of interactive virtual environments and sound-centric games merging the best of academia and the entertainment industry. Be ready to wear your virtual avatar while using the kinect or a smartphone to navigate through sound. Further details will be available soon. Please keep checking the website or call box office on 0161 275 8951 for more information
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Price £10 / £5 / £4
Venue The John Thaw Studio Theatre Time & Date 12pm-5pm, Friday 29 June 2012 Price to be confirmed
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Drama The Martin Harris Centre continues to offer the best, young, creative talent a ‘powerful voice in Manchester’. The John Thaw Studio Theatre is a valuable performance space where students make their own independent experiments in theatre – as performers, writers, directors and technicians. Many alumni have acknowledged what an important part these performances played in their creative and intellectual development during their time at university.
University of Manchester Drama Society’s Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Awards (MIFTA’s) With seven shows over four weeks, the MIFTA’s is the biggest event of the Drama Society’s calendar and this year will be bigger and better than ever! Make sure you don’t miss out and get in early to our opening show! The opening production of the MIFTA’s Drama Festival which will be shown at The John Thaw Studio Theatre is: What’s Wrong With Angry? by Patrick Wilde Directed by Joshua Val Martin Produced by George Duff Check the website for details of all the productions and how to buy tickets www.umdramasoc.co.uk
What’s Wrong With Angry?
Venue The John Thaw Studio Theatre
Directed by Joshua Val Martin Produced by George Duff
Time & Date 7.00pm, Wed 22 February 2012
by Patrick Wilde
“I’m not bitter. I’m f**king angry” Basingstoke, 1992. The age-of-consent was five years higher for gay men. Section 28 prohibited local authorities from supporting homosexuality: especially in schools. Sixteen year old Steven Carter is cracking under the pressure to conform, not helped by his secret relationship with head boy John Westhead. Patrick Wilde’s play is a funny, heart-breaking love story, with a very angry message. Please note that this production contains: • Strong language • Smoking onstage • Flashing lights and theatrical effects
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7.00pm, Thursday 23 February 2012 7.00pm, Friday 24 February 2012 Price £5.50 £4.50 concessions £4 Drama Society Members
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We Welcome The Martin Harris Centre welcomes professional and amateur productions, both international and closer to home, to the heart of Manchester.
We host powerful and dynamic productions in our vibrant and exciting performance spaces and reach out to wider audiences with performances in some of the most important venues in the City. Gabriel Minnikin (11 February)
Venue The John Thaw Studio Theatre
Beat The Rush Hour Enjoy a funny and thought-provoking show in the Beat The Rush Hour series.
Time & Date 5.30pm, Friday 27 January 2012
Five times fringe-award winner, Mark Gwynne Jones is well known for mind altering poetry with an almost music-hall edge. He mixes humour and poignancy with great skill and through collaborations with film-makers and musicians he is pushing poetry in new and exciting directions. Mark’s work is contagious, gritty and sometimes startlingly sensitive. ‘Inspired… one of the most accomplished performance poets in the land’ Guardian ‘Astonishing…you’ll love this show!’ Daily Mail
Price £5
A new piece of theatre inspired by John Steinbeck’s classic novella Directed by Ian Moore Presented by Black Box Theatre Company Black Box Theatre Company present a brand new piece inspired by John Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice and Men. Ian Moore directs a remarkable cast in an epic tragedy of the pursuit of the American Dream. Regularly featured on the GCSE curriculum, this is not to be missed by anyone studying John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men. ‘A company well worth watching’ Liverpool Daily Post ‘Ian Moore [Director] brings together a remarkable ensemble cast Liverpool Echo ‘ …one of the most exciting productions I have seen in years’ WhatsOnStage
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Born and raised in Nova Scotia (Canada), Gabriel Minnikin is a singer, multiinstrumentalist, songwriter and producer. His voice is unbelievable, ranging from the gravely depths of a bass to the richer timbre of a baritone.
Time & Date 8.00pm, Saturday 11 February 2012
Although Gabriel’s musical roots are in the pedal steel and banjo sheen of classic Americana, his third record, Parakeets with Parasols – which will be launched at this concert and played in its entirety - brings a grandiosity and cinematic sweep to his country-folk stylings.
Price £8 / £5
Minnikin will be supported by the Dublin based singer songwriter Lisa O’Neill whose observations on modern Irish life gained her popularity and set her apart as a unique talent.
Mark Gwynne Jones
Of Mice And Men
Gabriel Minnikin
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Venue The John Thaw Studio Theatre Time & Date 7.30pm, Thursday 9 February 2012 7.30pm, Friday 10 February 2012 2.00pm, Saturday 11 February 2012 Price £8 £6 concessions £5 under 16s
Lisa O’Neill
Jonny Sweet
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Mark Gwynne Jones
“Named best newcomer in the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Awards” Jonny Sweet won The Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2009 for his first show ‘Mostly About Arthur’ and hasn’t looked back since. He starred in More 4’s comic imagining of Boris Johnson and David Cameron’s school days in ‘When Boris Met Dave’ and in the revival of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s ‘Lost Sketches’ on BBC2.
Venue The John Thaw Studio Theatre Time & Date 8.00pm, Saturday 1 March 2012
Jonny Sweet
Price £8 / £5
He’s a writing partner with Simon Bird and Joe Thomas from hit show ‘The Inbetweeners’ and is now working on TV and film ideas after the success of their show ‘The Meeting’. This young up-and-coming star has plenty more to unveil in 2012.
10% discount for schools/groups and one adult supervisor goes free for every ten students
‘Moore’s stylistic staging is innovative and experimental’ Manchester Evening News Please note: • 10% discount for school/group bookings of 10+ • To receive a copy of the FREE Teachers Resource Pack please contact Jill Stevenson on 0161 275 8950 or jill.stevenson@manchester.ac.uk
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Hallé Youth Orchestra (16 July)
British Red Cross Conference Women and Asylum: Recognising, representing and working together to resolve issues facing women in the asylum system The British Red Cross invites professionals working with women in the asylum system and others with an interest in learning more about the issues to a free conference to mark International Women’s Day.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 10am-4pm, Wednesday 28 March 2012 Price FREE
FREE – booking essential. To reserve your place contact the Red Cross on 0161 888 8932 or email gmrs@redcross.org.uk
Tippett’s Child of Our Time Manchester University Chorus performs Tippett’s inspirational and spiritual Child of Our Time, with Manchester University Symphony Orchestra. Stemming from the political turmoil of the 1930s, the work captures many moods and styles.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
www.halle.co.uk Borodin Bruch Tchaikovsky
Prince Igor Overture Violin Concerto No. 1 Symphony No. 6 (pathétique)
Conductor – Andrew Gourlay Violin – Ciaran McCabe
Time & Date 7.30pm, Monday 16 July 2012 Andrew Gourlay
The Hallé Youth Orchestra and its talented Music Director, Andrew Gourlay, present this Russian themed programme before it embarks on a concert tour of the Czech Republic. The acclaimed Irish Violinist, Ciaran McCabe, will be performing the Bruch Violin Concerto.
Price £9 / £6
Ciaran McCabe
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The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
Hallé Youth Orchestra
Venue The Whitworth Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Saturday 28 April 2012 Price £12 / £9 / £3
Hallé Youth Choir www.halle.co.uk The Hallé Youth Choir, with new Youth Choir Director, Richard Wilberforce, present a concert for a summer evening, prior to the forthcoming concert tour of Belgium in August.
Venue Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall Time & Date 7.30pm, Tuesday 17 July 2012 Price £9 / £6
The orchestra are playing Sibelius’ 7th and final symphony.
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Box Office Information
Booking tickets Tickets for our events can be purchased directly from the Martin Harris Centre box office, or from Quaytickets. Please note that tickets bought from the Centre’s sales agent Quaytickets will be subject to a booking fee and also a nonrefundable postage fee.
There are a range of facilities within the Martin Harris Centre for disabled patrons. The Martin Harris Centre is fully accessible. It has a ramp at the Coupland Street entrance and there are level floor entrances to both performance spaces. Both entrances to the building have auto-opening doors. There are wheelchair spaces in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall and in the John Thaw Studio Theatre.
Wheelchair access is available to our performance spaces at The Martin Harris Centre. Low-level counters are available at the box office. Disabled toilet facilities are available on the ground floor. A manually operated wheelchair is available by prior arrangement. Patrons requiring wheelchair access are asked to inform the box office at the time of booking.
How to find us
The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama The University of Manchester Bridgeford Street, off Oxford Road Manchester, M13 9PL Box office:
Tel: 0161 275 8951 Email for enquiries: boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk Box office opening times: 2.00pm-4.00pm Monday to Friday
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The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama is situated behind the Manchester Museum, which is located on Oxford Road. It is approximately 1 mile south of the city centre. There are 2 entrances to the building, one on Bridgeford Street, the other on Coupland Street. Please note that there is pedestrian access only to both of these streets.
The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall and the John Thaw Studio Theatre can both be found within the Martin Harris Centre. Find us on Google: http://maps.google.com/maps and search for Martin Harris Centre. By Bus: Direct routes to Oxford Road run regularly from Piccadilly Gardens in Central Manchester. Routes and timetable enquiries 0161 242 6040.
There are parking spaces available for blue badge holders in the multi-story car park. If parking is required closer to the building, this can be arranged in advance. Please contact the box office.
• Tickets can be ordered in advance from the box office in person, by telephone or by post, and can be paid for by cheque or debit/credit card. Please make cheques payable to ‘The University of Manchester’. • The box office will only hold unpaid for tickets for up to 4 working days from the time of booking. Unpaid tickets cannot be reserved on the 4 days preceding a performance or event. By post Include your name, address, phone number, performance details and tickets required, plus a cheque made payable to ‘The University of Manchester’ and post to: The Martin Harris Centre Box Office The University of Manchester Bridgeford Street, off Oxford Road Manchester, M13 9PL
The John Thaw Studio Theatre is fitted with an induction loop. (Hearing aids should be switched to the ‘T’ position).
The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall has recently been fitted with an infrared induction loop. Receivers for this new facility are available from The Martin Harris Centre Box Office. Please advise Box Office of your requirements at the time of booking. General Access Information: Please call the box office on 0161 275 8951 for further information on access. • There is a drop off point outside the venue. • There is seating in the main foyer. • The Martin Harris Centre has baby changing facilities.
In person The box office opening times are listed below and our team will be happy to help.
Box Office opening times 2.00pm-4.00pm Monday to Friday opens 1 hour before an event is due to start and closes 15 minutes after the start of the event.
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Metro: Metrolink services run between Altrincham and Bury through Manchester city centre. The South Manchester line which recently opened, runs from Trafford Bar to Chorlton. Timetable enquiries 0161 205 2000.
Ticket Prices All ticket prices are stated under each event as Full Price and the available Concessions. Concessions are only available for certain performances, please enquire at the time of booking. We regret that we cannot exchange or refund tickets.
By Train: Oxford Road station is a ten minute walk away. Train enquiries 08457 48 49 50.
Concessions The Martin Harris Centre offers concessions, subject to availability to: • under 18s • students in full-time education • senior citizens • claimants • A free ticket is available to any essential companion accompanying a disabled patron. Please contact Box Office. • Schools/groups rates are available, please contact Box Office.
Car Parking: Car parking is available in the multistorey car park off Booth Street West, opposite the Royal Northern College of Music. Parking costs £2.00 from 4pm to midnight weekdays, £2.00 all day on Saturday and Sunday and is payable upon exiting the car park. Please note that there is no vehicle access to the Martin Harris Centre from either Bridgeford Street or Coupland Street.
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