London?s number 1 original and longest running comedy clash show returns to Manchester by popular demand with a star-studded, action-packed line up. Will E (USA)White Yardie (Jamaica)Junior Booker (Guyana)Mr Cee (St Kitts)Wilson (England)SM...
North London R&B vocalist Lemar first came to the world's attention on the BBC competition/reality show Fame Academy in 2002. Singer Beverley Knight saw his potential and invited him to perform a duet with her during a concert that was atte...
Dust off your air guitars for an evening of the very best classic rock anthems from legends past and present! Let The Ultimate Classic Rock Show take you on a roller coaster journey of classic rock nostalgia. Performing hit after hit live w...
Oldham Choral Society presents Mozart?s Solemn Vespers and Morten Lauridsen?s Lux Aeterna, accompanied by the Mercury Strings.?Tickets:?5 (Students) + ?1 Booking Fee?16 + ?1 Booking Fee?This event will end at approximately 10pm. ...
Good? Bad? Indifferent? Right? Wrong? Inconsequential? What do these ideas have to do with creating, using and managing history and archives? Meet a real life archivist, our very own Archive and Museum Manager Heather, and find out all abou...
Ning Feng is widely recognised as an artist of great lyricism, innate musicality, and stunning virtuosity. He is an RNCM International Professor in Violin, and we?re delighted that he?ll be joined by renowned pianist Nelson Goerner for an i...
We?re delighted to welcome pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris to present a series of masterclasses exploring the lives of composers and their music. Journey through personal tales, letters, and live performances as David and our stud...
Based in the North East, the Royal Northern Sinfonia is the UK?s only full-time chamber orchestra, and we?re thrilled to welcome four of their principal players to Manchester to work side-by-side with our students. Mozart?s overture from hi...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes. Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No 1 in E flat major Op 12Juno Quartet:Yunyi Liu, Nina Doig violinsEstelle Gonzales viola...
Elias String Quartet return this Summer to round-off our exploration of Mendelssohn?s exuberant canon of chamber music works, and this time it?s a family affair. Fanny and her brother younger Felix shared an unbreakable bond and passion for...
Manchester Wind Orchestra are celebrating their 10th Anniversary! Ralph Corrigan will conduct an evening of wind orchestra classics, including Gregson's Piano Concerto featuring close friend of the band and RNCM Deputy Head of School of Ke...
Manchester Wind Orchestra are celebrating their 10th Anniversary! Ralph Corrigan will conduct an evening of wind orchestra classics, including Gregson?s Piano Concerto featuring close friend of the band and RNCM Deputy Head of School of Key...
World renowned chanteuse Ute Lemper makes a welcome return to the UK stage performing songs from throughout her illustrious and celebrated career, including selections from her new album Time Traveller. With a career spanning four decades, ...
This year we?re taking an in-depth look at the relationship we have with the planet we live on, asking ourselves what role could, and should, musicians and creative artists have in response to the climate emergency? See all events in our In...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes.A concert containing two projects ? one concerning compositional approaches to breathing behaviours in string playing, the ...
Part of The Future is Green, our In Focus: The Climate Agenda takes place across two days. Our students will delve into the connection between music and climate change through contemporary chamber works by a range of composers. We?re also i...
Part of The Future is Green, our In Focus: The Climate Agenda takes place across two days. Our students will delve into the connection between music and climate change through contemporary chamber works by a range of composers. We?re also i...
Part of The Future is Green, our In Focus: The Climate Agenda takes place across two days. Students will delve into the connection between music and climate change through contemporary chamber works by a range of composers. We?re also inclu...
Their second album My Universe also broke new ground by becoming the fastest-selling British country album of all time and reached the top three in the UK chart. After an incredible four years, Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes - hailing from He...
On sale Friday 10 December 2023 @10AMThe UK?s biggest country music export The Shires have announced an intimate acoustic tour for 2024. The two of us tour will see Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes tour the length and breadth of the UK performi...
Evidencing what has happened in the past has never been more important. Creating archives is one way to do this. Meet a real life archivist, our very own Archive and Museum Manager Heather, and find out all about it. Using the archives of t...
Award-winning pianist and composer, Nikki Iles, takes her 20-piece Jazz Orchestra on a national tour, marking a new chapter in a long and distinguished career in British jazz. She gathers commissions from over the years, new orchestrations ...
After emerging from the underground scene on the UK's pirate jazz-funk and soul stations, Imagination, with their charismatic lead singer, Leee John, burst onto the scene in 1981, when their debut single "Body Talk" peaked at no.4 in the...
British composer, saxophonist and clarinettist John Surman will be 80 in 2024, and in the lead up to this milestone, he will continue his musical adventures with a new band and CD called Words Unspoken. Words Unspoken is a development of hi...
Celebrating 60 Years on Tape - from 'She's Not There' to 'Different Game', The Zombies mark the anniversary of their remarkable and influential recording career. The 2024 Tour band members are the current line-up of: Rod Argent (Keys an...
After an extremely successful run of the first show Mrs Kapoor's Daughter's Wedding, with over 57,000 people having seen it, AK Productions now proudly bring to you the sequel, as the Kapoors are back for their second daughter's wedding!. T...
FREE EVENT. RNCM vocal and conducting students present excerpts from some of opera's greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity! Click on tickets link for the perfromers and excerpts presente...
For over two decades, the Fanna-Fi-Allah Sufi Qawwali ensemble has been the preeminent torchbearer of traditional Sufi Qawwali music on a global scale. Upholding the art form in its most authentic and time-honored tradition, Fanna-Fi-Allah ...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes. Graduating composer and percussionist, Emilio Yanez Ruiz, presents works inspired by mysticism and meditation, including h...
We?re delighted to welcome audiences to the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of Strauss. Join finalists from the School of Vocal Studies and Opera as they perform individually selected programmes form Strauss?s extraordinary ...
Established during the 1990s by brass innovator Howard Snell, the RNCM Brass Band has always been a flagship ensemble of the institution. Geographically the RNCM is ideally placed in Manchester for brass band students and it boasts a teachi...
Join us as we showcase our guitar students in an evening of performances curated by international acclaimed classical guitarist and RNCM Professor, Craig Ogden. Tickets:?5 (Under 26s and Students) + ?1 Booking Fee?10 (Full) + ?1 Booking Fee...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes. Told through the music of the oboe, this concert tells the story of the wonders around us: past, present, and future. Benj...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes. Our students take you on a journey of whimsy and wonder through the flavours of modern jazz after our Big Band show. There...
Enjoy an exhilarating night of music with our Wind Orchestra. From a ballet written for elephants in Stravinsky?s Circus House to David Milhaud?s folk-inspired Suite fran?aise, this programme promises to showcase the remarkable versatility ...
Journey through six decades of music with RNCM's legendary Session Orchestra. A specially selected Earth setlist features familiar tunes about our planet in brand new arrangements. Featuring music by Radiohead, Jamiroquai, Imagine Dragons...
Our Young Explorer series of family-friendly events continues this season with magic of DreamWorks Animation. Join the Untold Orchestra for a whimsical adventure as they bring to life music from the film series Trolls. Expect to hear your f...
Expressions of art nouveau and impressions of nature and night, press play on Debussy?s Preludes, and you?ll be sure to conjure up rich and vivid images. Join our students from the School of Keyboard Studies as they bring these evocative pi...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes. Students from the RNCM present an overlooked three-movement piano trio by the Dutch pianist and composer Henriette Bosmans...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes. Two immersive pieces for trumpet and electronics that require the trumpeter to act as a character, to tell a story through...
We?re delighted to welcome our International Chair in Choral Conducting, David Hill, to conduct an evening of exceptional music. There?s something so compelling about the harmonious interplay and layering of voices in choral music, and Bach...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes. Submerge shows the opposition and coexistence of two elements: nature and industry. Using traditional instruments, live-pr...
The RNCM Gold Medal celebrates solo performance and new music at its best from the next generation of musicians across three exciting concerts. Join us for day of outstanding live music, rounding off with the Winner?s Announcement where two...
Join our Archive and Museum Manager Heather as she leads you through these games to become an archivist. Have fun with ?Ready, Steady, Archive!?, ?Kiss, Marry, Kill: Archive Appraisal? and ?Dungeons and Dragons: Archive Preservation?. Aimed...
Celebrating chamber music at the RNCM, this annual prize was established in honour of Christopher Rowland, the renowned quartet leader and architect of our chamber music department. Experience performances from our leading student ensembles...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes. Ventis Vocal Ensemble brings audiences on an eye-opening journey through soundscapes of the world in an evening of folk mu...
We?re thrilled to welcome Sara Dowling back to the RNCM for a sizzling evening of jazz. Voted Best Vocalist in the British Jazz Awards 2019, Sara Dowling is gaining fame as one of the most talented jazz singers in the UK. With Palestinian a...
Join us for our Spotlights ? a free concert series where students create and perform their own innovative programmes.A through performance concert to celebrate the life and works of Stephen Sondheim by Candlelight. Featuring works from Into...