CLASSICAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
CLASSICAL CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Classical Concerts in Manchester
Sat 17 May 2025 - Fri 23 Jan 2026
RNCM Brand New Orchestra
Wednesday 30 April 2025
The Royal Northern College of Music's innovative Brand New Orchestra lights up the stage. Brand New Orchestra is where new music takes shape, providing an exciting platform for RNCM composition students to write for a full orchestra, worksh...
The Hallé & Alena Baeva - From The New World
Thursday 1 May 2025
Polish conductor Marta Gardolinska, Music Director of the Opera national de Lorraine, conducts this programme of conflict and resolution. With its beautifully broad ranges of tonal colour, tinged with the trials of the American Civil War, i...
RNCM Chamber Choir - Roxanna Panufnik In Focus
Thursday 1 May 2025
Polish-British composer Roxanna Panufnik's choral and instrumental music is deeply spiritual, richly textured, and full of emotional resonance. In this programme, the RNCM Chamber Choir performs a selection of her works, including the intri...
Thursday Lunchtimes - Roxanna Panufnik In Focus
Thursday 1 May 2025
Roxanna Panufnik is one of Britain's most distinctive and versatile composers, known for her ability to blend musical cultures and build bridges between faiths. A long-standing advocate for interfaith musical dialogue, she weaves together s...
Roxanna Panufnik In Conversation
Thursday 1 May 2025
Part of the RNCM's In Focus series, inviting trailblazing composers to Manchester. Behind the scenes, they work closely with the college's students, culminating in a compelling day of performances. Meet Polish-British composter Roxanna Panu...
String Sounds
Thursday 1 May 2025
A handpicked collection of classical music from under-represented composers for small string ensembles. Delve into the ever-changing world of classical music with our curated programme of chamber works. Whether you're a seasoned concert goe...
Alexandra Whittingham & Elodie Chousmer-Howelles
Thursday 1 May 2025
Recognised by The Guardian as "a young 21st-century virtuoso", guitarist Alexandra Whittingham's creative spirit is reshaping classical music and defying conventions. Alexandra began her studies at Chetham's School of Music at the age of el...
Go West & The Southbank Sinfonia
Friday 2 May 2025
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of their self-titled debut album with a special orchestral performance, Go West, alongside the Southbank Sinfonia, will be joined by fellow 80s luminaries Johnny Hates Jazz. Peter Cox met Richard Drummie...
Scottish Ensemble - Impulse: Music in Motion
Friday 2 May 2025
A memorised, kinetic production of Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, performed by Scottish Ensemble and developed in partnership with choreographer Orjan Andersson. Bringing performers and audience into...
Macclesfield Youth Brass Band
Saturday 3 May 2025
Macclesfield Youth Brass Band (MYBB) celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2025. With over 120 members - from complete beginners and advanced musicians alike - they are a dynamic organisation run entirely by volunteers who are determined to ...
Aakash Odedra Company - Songs of the Bulbul
Tuesday 6 May 2025
Leicester's award-winning international dance company Aakash Odedra unites with musical greats, Abi Sampa, Sarthak Kalyani, Rushil Ranjan and forty of Manchester Camerata's musicians for a unique live orchestral performance of Songs ...
Opera della Luna - The Mikado
Thursday 8 - Saturday 10 May 2025
Opera della Luna's 30th Anniversary celebrations continue with a revival of the company's legendary production of The Mikado, its most colourful and popular production ever. This astonishing and inventive company have achieved nation-wide r...
Federico Albanese
Thursday 8 May 2025
Between before and now; between reality and imagination; between memory and remembering. Berlin-based Italian composer and pianist Federico Albanese captures and inhabits these moments and passages of time. Each exquisitely rendered fusion...
Q The Music - James Bond Concert Spectacular
Sunday 11 May 2025
Celebrating 20+ years as the original pioneering Bond concert, known for stirring emotional and adrenaline-fueled performances, mixed with superb musicianship and flair. Indeed, every fan club around the world recognises them as the finest ...
Manchester Camerata - Mozart Made in Manchester
Sunday 11 May 2025
Manchester Camerata and Chetham's School of Music have embarked on a multi-year collaborative project to perform and record all of Mozart's piano concertos, bringing together eminent pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Camerata Music Director,...
Tony Ann
Sunday 11 May 2025
Tony Ann is a virtuoso solo pianist from Canada who seamlessly blends contemporary and classical styles. As a harmony connoisseur, Tony pushes the limits of neoclassical and popular music, crafting emotionally rich compositions using the fu...
The Music of The Lord of The Rings. Tribute to Howard Shore
Sunday 11 May 2025
?? Join us on May 23 at 19:00 at Stoller Hall for ?Our precious concert? ? one of our most beloved and best-selling programmes. Experience the majestic and timeless music of the legendary Lord of the Rings films at The Stoller Hall in the h...
The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour
Tuesday 13 May - Sunday 6 July 2025
Take a look behind the scenes at The Bridgewater Hall, and learn more about Manchester's iconic international concert venue. The entertaining and knowledgeable tour guides will lead you through the building's history, its acoustics and arch...
Candlelight - A Tribute to Adele
Thursday 15 May 2025
Whether you're looking for a beautifully unique concert or a romantic candlelit evening, this music experience is for you. The performance will feature incredible tributes to Adele's greatest songs, played by an all-female, electric-acousti...
Candlelight - A Tribute to Oasis
Thursday 15 May 2025
Discover the music of Manchester legends Oasis performed by violin under the gentle glow of candlelight in this awe-inspiring location. ...
Jess Gillam Trio
Thursday 15 May 2025
Cumbrian Royal Northern College of Music-alumni Jess Gillam is celebrated as a leading figure of the saxophone. With her electrifying performances, vibrant stage presence and magnetic personality, the 'uniquely mercurial' (The Times) Jess ...
Candlelight - A Tribute to ABBA
Friday 16 May 2025
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Manchester. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of ABBA at Manchester Cathedral under t...
Beyond the Barricade
Saturday 17 May 2025
Beyond the Barricade, the UK's longest running Musical Theatre Concert Tour, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2024. Join the cast for two hours of the best of Broadway and the West End, featuring the songs that have made audiences ret...
McLachlan Piano Duo
Saturday 17 May 2025
Spring Bank Arts are delighted to welcome siblings Rose and Matthew McLachlan to perform as part of the annual piano weekend. Both alumni of Chetham?s School of Music and now in their final years of study in London, Rose and Matthew are alr...
May Sunday Coffee Concert
Sunday 18 May 2025
Welcome to the 12th season of Coffee Concerts, with members of the Hall?, at Spring Bank Arts. We?re delighted to welcome back many familiar faces, and some new players with a series of three concerts of music ranging from Haydn, Beethoven ...
Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra
Monday 19 May 2025
One of the most exciting orchestras in Southeast Asia, the Philippine Philharmonic from Manila, who in recent years have been impressing audiences and critics across the world, come to Europe. This programme is a celebration of unforgetta...
Jonathan Scott
Tuesday 20 May - Monday 7 July 2025
Epic orchestral masterpieces as you've never heard them before! Jonathan Scott uses all the resources of the Bridgewater Hall concert organ to create the full sounds and expression of a symphony orchestra using 5,500 pipes, two hands and tw...
The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour with BSL
Wednesday 21 May - Tuesday 1 July 2025
Take a look behind the scenes at The Bridgewater Hall, and learn more about Manchester's iconic international concert venue. The entertaining and knowledgeable tour guides will lead you through the building's history, its acoustics and arch...
London Concertante - Vivaldi's Four Seasons & The Lark Ascending
Friday 23 May - Sunday 12 October 2025
A stunning concert celebrating the virtuosity of the violin in all its forms, London Concertante brings Vivaldi's masterpiece to life in a wonderful concert featuring gems of baroque music. This concert features Vivaldi's Four Seasons; a...
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta - Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Candlelight
Friday 23 May - Saturday 21 June 2025
Few things are more magical than hearing the world's most breath-taking classical music being performed live by a brilliant orchestra in beautiful surroundings, by the flicker of candlelight. This experience comes to life when the city's...
Manchester Camerata - Mozart Made in Manchester
Friday 23 May 2025
Manchester Camerata and Chetham's School of Music have embarked on a multi-year collaborative project to perform and record all of Mozart's piano concertos, bringing together eminent pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Camerata Music Director,...
G4
Wednesday 28 May 2025
The ultimate celebration of Musical Theatre. Following on from their critically-acclaimed 20th Anniversary album and tour, The UK's No1 vocal harmony quartet and original X Factor stars, G4, now unleash their unique trademark sound on t...
Toot! A Magical Musical Adventure
Thursday 29 May 2025
Perfect for kids ages 4-9, this action-packed concert brings the stage to life with creativity, imagination, and plenty of surprises. In this thrilling 40-minute family concert, originally devised by the 2023 MishMash Ensemble, five playful...
Romantic Spanish Guitar Recital
Saturday 31 May 2025
An international guitar virtuoso Galina Vale presents a spectacular guitar concert for all ages. Enjoy a colourful concert of classical, flamenco and folk guitar music from Spain, Latin America, Eastern Europe and beyond. A classically-trai...
RNCM Opera Scenes
Thursday 5 - Thursday 19 June 2025
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...
Sing With The Hallé - Be in the Audience
Saturday 7 June 2025
Hear the Halle Choir and a huge chorus of singers for this very special performance of Mozart's Requiem. Following a full day of rehearsals with the Halle's exceptional Choral Director, Matthew Hamilton, the massed singers, alongside the Ha...
Sing With The Hallé - Be in the Choir
Saturday 7 June 2025
Experience the thrill of singing alongside one of the world's most renowned choirs and orchestras in a full day of inspiring choral music. Everyone is welcome and no previous experience is required! You will have the joy of singing one o...
Marvel Studios' Infinity Saga Concert Experience
Sunday 8 June 2025
Join the Novello Orchestra for a new Marvel Studios film concert that takes fans on an epic cinematic journey covering twenty-three films in one momentous concert experience. Embark on a thrilling and unprecedented live concert journey th...
RNCM Brass Band
Thursday 12 June 2025
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...
A Concord of Sweet Sounds
Friday 13 June 2025
An evening of magnificent music inspired by the words of Shakespeare. 'Atticus Arts' has put together a wonderful show of Classical Music and theatre from renowned composers including Beach, Dring, Gounod, Purcell and Quilter exploring stor...
RNCM Spotlight - Ethel Smyth's String Quintet
Friday 13 June 2025
Listed as Opus 1 in her catalogue of music, Ethel Smyth's String Quintet in E major isn't her first composition, but the first she deemed worthy of publication. It is performed here by students from the RNCM School of Strings. ...
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - The Voice of Nature
Saturday 14 June 2025
A hymn to the natural world, Gustav Mahler takes on the elements in a work like no other. Writing for huge forces, Mahler was so consumed by his Third Symphony that he was convinced that it had a life of its own. Indeed, it has all the ener...
Q The Music - James Bond Concert Spectacular
Saturday 14 June 2025
Celebrating 20+ years as the original pioneering Bond concert, known for stirring emotional and adrenaline-fueled performances, mixed with superb musicianship and flair. Indeed, every fan club around the world recognises them as the finest ...
Candlelight - Tribute to Sherlock Holmes
Saturday 14 June 2025
The game is afoot with Candlelight: Tribute to Sherlock Holmes which invites you into a world of intrigue, where flickering candlelight casts long shadows and a haunting violin fills the air. As the melodies unfold, let your mind race thr...
London Concertante - A Night at the Opera
Sunday 15 June - Sunday 16 November 2025
London Concertante present a sensational evening at the opera with an array of the finest opera arias and overtures, including works from Puccini, Verdi, Rossini, and Mozart - some of the best from Madame Butterfly, Turandot, Tosca, The Bar...
The Lost Music of Auschwitz
Sunday 15 June 2025
In the depths of Auschwitz, amid unimaginable cruelty, music echoed through the camp. Orchestras made up of prisoners were forced to entertain Nazi officers and accompany the grim march of captives to and from their labour. Yet, as Leo Gey...
RNCM Christopher Rowland Chamber Ensemble of the Year
Monday 16 June 2025
Celebrating chamber music at the RNCM, this annual prize was established in honour of Christopher Rowland, the renowned quartet leader and architect of the college's chamber music department. Experience performances from the leading student...
