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IN PERFORMANCEEVENTS | AUGUST-DECEMBER 2012

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Getting the season underway in August, we’re proud to welcome back Manchester Pride with their Chamber Music Concert Series and a new theatre performance, LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellows.

Our resident string quartet, the Quatuor Danel will enthral with another programme of lunchtime and evening concerts.

We welcome Jeanette Winterson, newly appointed Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, who will be “in Conversation” for two un-missable events with A.M. Homes (22 October) and with Simon Armitage, Val McDermid and Jackie Kay for a Christmas special on 9 December. Our Literature Live series features more high profile authors including Paul Farley and Deryn Rees-Jones (15 October). This event also forms part of Manchester Literature Festival (8 - 23 October).

The Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series continues with a varied and diverse programme of Thursday lunchtime concerts. The concerts are free and there’s no need to book, so you can just turn up on the day.

The drama productions on offer this autumn are equally diverse, ranging from Some Voices, which explores mental health issues, to comedy-horror with The House that Stank of Death for Halloween as well as another Drama Society Autumn Showcase and a spot of Russian Roulette with Solve.

During your visit you can also get refreshments from Café Arts, in the foyer, and order your interval drinks prior to the start of each event.

These are just a few events 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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We look forward to welcoming you to the Martin Harris Centre during the autumn 2012 season.

Mark WoolstencroftMartin Harris Centre Manager

WELCOMEWelcome to the autumn 2012 season at the Martin Harris Centre. The Centre offers a vibrant and exciting programme of events across many art forms including music, drama, literature and dance.

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Contents page

Welcome 3

Introducing The Martin Harris Centre 4

Eating and Dining 5

Literature 6

Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) 8

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series 12

Quatuor Danel 16

New Music 18

Drama 22

We Welcome 24

How to find us 30

Access 31

Box Office Information 31

For events listings in full please refer to the handy pull out guide on page 33.

Café Arts, based within the foyer of the Martin Harris Centre serves coffee, organic teas, 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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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.

INTRODUCING THE MARTIN HARRIS CENTRE

150-seat John Thaw Studio Theatre350-seat Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall

The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama is a performance space situated at the heart of The University of Manchester.

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Eating and Dining Café Arts based in the foyer of the Martin Harris Centre, serves coffee, teas, 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. The café has undergone a refurbishment over the summer, so be sure to visit soon to see the modernised facilities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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LITERATURE LIVE: Carcanet Poets William Letford, Judith Jedamus and Evan JonesContributors to Carcanet’s bestselling anthology, New Poetries V, launch their debut collections at this showcase event celebrating some of the most gifted new voices in poetry. William Letford, a Stirling roofer by trade, combines popular speech with a lyric instinct in Bevel. Judith Jedamus, an avid rower originally from Colorado, explores her relationship with the Thames in The Swerve. Toronto-born teacher Evan Jones gives us a contemporary spin on classic mythology in Paralogues.

This event is FREE but booking is advised. Book on 0843 208 0500 or www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk

VenueWaterstones Deansgate

Time & Date1pm, Wednesday 10 October 2012

PriceFREE

LITERATURE LIVE: Richard FordPulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford discusses his eagerly awaited new novel Canada. A visionary novel of vast landscapes, complex identities and fragile humanity, Canada tells the story of Dell Parsons on the run after his parents rob a bank in Montana. It has been described by the Washington Post as ‘His most elegiac and profound book yet... Marilynne Robinson (without the theology) and Cormac McCarthy (without the gore)’.

This event is also part of the Manchester Weekender. For more information visit www.creativetourist.com

VenueWhitworth Art Gallery

Time & Date7.30pm, Friday 12 October 2012

Price£10 / £8

LITERATURE LIVE: Paul Farley and Deryn Rees-Jones Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester present two of the UK’s most acclaimed poets. Paul Farley has published four poetry collections with Picador, most recently The Dark Film which is shortlisted for this year’s TS Eliot Prize. A regular contributor to the BBC, his previous work has won many awards, including the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and is celebrated for marrying thought and form with humour and feeling. Deryn Rees-Jones has published four collections with Seren, The Memory Tray, Signs Round a Dead Body, Quiver and her new collection Burying the Wren, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was named one of the Poetry Book Society’s ‘Next Generation’ poets and one of the Mslexia’s ‘TopTen’ UK women poets in 2004

VenueThe John Thaw Studio Theatre

Time & Date6.30pm, Monday 15 October 2012

Price£6 / £4

LITERATURE LIVE: Geoffrey HillSir Geoffrey Hill is routinely described as one of the greatest poets working in English. His collections include King Log, Mercian Hymns, Canaan, The Orchards of Syon and, more recently, Clavics and Odi Barbare, shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize. Oxford University Press published his Collected Critical Writings in 2008 and will publish his Collected Poems in 2013. He is Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

“Hill has the pulse of English inside, knowing like a lawyer all its loopholes and vagrancies.” – William Logan, The New Criterion.

“Hill’s wracked visions call forth language of great beauty, clever coinages and wracked wit.” – Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World.

VenueJohn Rylands Library, Deansgate

Time & Date6.15pm, Thursday 6 December 2012

PriceFREE but booking essential. Call 0161 306 0555.

Jeanette Winterson “in Conversation” with A.M. Homes – Male Me: Imagination and GenderJeanette Winterson discusses gender and the imagination with acclaimed American author A.M. Homes. Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel is The Daylight Gate (Hammer). May We Be Forgiven is A.M. Homes’ sixth novel, and follows This Book Will Save Your Life and the highly acclaimed memoir, The Mistress’s Daughter. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, she wrote and produced for the television series The L Word and is currently developing a major US TV series for HBO called The Hamptons.the late twentieth century.

VenueCosmo Rodewald Concert Hall

Time & Date6.30pm, Monday 22 October 2012

Price£12 / £7

Jeanette Winterson “in Conversation” with Simon Armitage, Val McDermid and Jackie Kay.For this festive ‘Christmas Special’, In Conversation event, Professor of Creative Writing, Jeanette Winterson, will be joined by three of the North’s leading writers, Simon Armitage, Val McDermid and Jackie Kay. Mulled wine and mini mince pies will be served to get you into the spirit (Christmas jumpers are optional).


Time & Date6.30pm, Sunday 9 December 2012

Price£12 / £7

IntroducingJeanette WintersonThe Centre for New Writing is delighted that Jeanette Winterson has been appointed as Professor of Creative Writing. Jeanette succeeds Martin Amis and Colm Tóibín in this post and, like them, will teach MA seminars and workshops as well as hosting high profile public events.

Jeanette Winterson “in Conversation”Winterson, originally from Manchester, is author of novels including the international bestseller Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honours list.

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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.

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MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY MUSIC SOCIETY (MUMS)

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Evening Concerts

MUMS Welcoming Concert and Seminar Brahms Hungarian DancesNielsen Flute ConcertoStravinsky Symphony of Psalms

Conductors: Jonathan Evans, Thomas Goff, Philippa Goodall, Will Hooker, Oliver Till, Jack Sheen, Hamish Brown, Leo Geyer, Mark Heron, Gregory Batsleer.

MUMS welcomes a new year of music students to sing in the chorus for Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. Brahms’ Hungarian Dances introduces the 5 new student conductors to the podium and Katy Ovens will perform Nielsen’s lively Flute Concerto.


Time & Date7.30pm, Saturday 29 September 2012

Price£10 / £6 / £3

MUMS Symphony OrchestraLigeti LontanoMahler Symphony No. 3

Conductors: Will Hooker, Mark Heron.

MUMS Symphony Orchestra returns for its second concert of the year. The mysterious Lontano by Ligeti shall precede Mahler’s ever-powerful Third Symphony – the late-Romantic composer’s hymn to nature and his longest work.

VenueWhitworth Hall

Time & Date7.30pm, Saturday 20 October 2012

Price£10 / £6 / £3

MUMS String Orchestra and Brass EnsemblesBrass Ensembles:Pärt SummaVivaldi Concerto No. 2, “Summer”Webern Langsamer SatzLennox Berkeley Serenade for StringsCorigliano Fanfares to MusicIngram Marshall Fog TropesEric Ewazen Symphony in Brass

Conductors: Hamish Brown, Philippa Goodall, Thomas Goff, Jack Sheen.

MUMS presents a packed and varied programme. Works performed will include Erwazen’s Symphony in Brass, Webern’s Lansamer Satz, Berkeley’s Serenade and ‘Summer’ from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with Ellie Gaynard as the soloist.


Time & Date7.30pm, Saturday 3 November 2012

£10 / £6 / £3

MUMS Chamber Orchestra and Wind EnsemblesStrauss Serenade, Op. 7Strauss Oboe ConcertoHaydn Symphony No. 104, “London”Leo Gayer Materia Medica

Conductors: Oliver Till, Jonathan Evans, Mark Heron, Leo Geyer.

The Music Society’s Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra present a stunning program of chamber music. Highlights include Strauss’ Oboe Concerto performed by Henry Clay, Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 and Materia Medica by joint-course student Leo Geyer.



£10 / £6 / £3

MUWO (Manchester University Wind Orchestra)Bernstein Overture to CandideGregson Tuba ConcertoHesketh DanceriesMeechan The Kárman LineJackson PassacagliaIto Gloriosa

Conductors: Jonathan Evans, Oliver Till, Thomas Goff.

Manchester University Wind Orchestra returns for its first concert of the season. MUWO are joined by Fred Lange Hewlett who will perform Gregson’s tuba concerto, and with Bernstein’s Overture to Candide also on the programme it will be an exciting evening.



£10 / £6 / £3

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.

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Lunchtime Concerts

Ad Solem University of Manchester Chamber ChoirDirector: David Young

Join Ad Solem, the Music Society’s elite chamber choir, as they return with a selection of sacred and contemporary choral works.


Time & Date7.30pm, Tuesday 4 December 2012

£10 / £6 / £3

MUMS: MUBB (Manchester University Big Band)Director: Dominik Billam

Under the direction of Dominik Billam the Big Band’s first performance this year will be un-missable.



£10 / £6 / £3

MUMS Festive ConcertThe Cosmo Singers perform festive works

Ellerby Euphonium ConcertoYvonne Eccles Splintering Factions (world première)Waldteufel Skaters WaltzTomlinson Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne

Conductors: Gregory Batsleer, Will Hooker, Leo Geyer, Oliver Till, Jonathan Evans.

The Music Society presents its annual festive concert featuring The Cosmo Singers and MUMS Symphony Orchestra. Jonti Smith will perform Martin Ellerby’s euphonium concerto and the Symphony Orchestra will play Ernest Tomlinson’s crazy Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne.



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Evening ConcertsMUMS Lunchtime Concert Series New and existing students from the Music Society perform solo and ensemble works – a chance to see and hear a high standard of musical performance.



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MUMS Lunchtime Concert Series – The Cosmo SingersThe Cosmo Singers and their new conductors start a busy concert season with a programme of inspiring choral works. James Macmillan, Ernst Toch and Arvo Pärt among others will resound this lunchtime.


Time & Date1.10pm, Friday 2 November 2012

PriceFREE

MUMS Lunchtime Concert Series – Saxophone EnsemblesThis is a chance to experience the saxophonists of the Manchester University Music Society, with a wide range of ensembles and works.



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MUMS Lunchtime Concert Series – Vocal Showcase This is a chance to experience the voices of the Manchester University Music Society. Featuring a wide range of ensembles and works, including the Manchester University Barbershop Chorus.



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MUMS Lunchtime Concert Series – Brass BandManchester University Music Society’s Brass Band presents a lunchtime of English and Armenian music. The inspiring programme includes a new work by Timothy Langston who recently graduated and Arutunian’s Trumpet Concerto with guest soloist Christopher Avison.



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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.

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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.

Quatuor Danel Haydn Quartet in C, Op. 1, No. 1 in B flatKaren Tanaka Metal Strings

The University’s international star quartet-in-residence opens the new season with the modest birth of string quartet, contrasted with its spectacular 1996 reinvention by one of the most prominent living Japanese composers under the influence of ‘speed metal rock’.

Followed at 2.30pm byQuatuor Danel SeminarHeavy metal and the avant-garde: an introduction to the quartets of Karen Tanaka and Iannis Xenakis.


Time & Date1.10pm, Thursday 27 September 2012

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PaiseanModern Jazz quartet Paisean (gaelic for Passion) features Ed Jones (sax), Gavin Barras (double bass), Dave Walsh (drums) and is led by award-winning pianist and composer Steve Plews.


Time & Date1.10pm, Thursday 4 October 2012

PriceFREE

MANTIS Lunchtime ConcertMANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a lunchtime concert ahead of its forthcoming weekend festival (Sat 27 and Sun 28 October) of electroacoustic concerts.



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Jeremy Young (piano)Yang Tsung Hsien Albumblätter from Sansui ShackFrédéric Chopin Sonata in B minor Op. 58

Written at the height of his creative powers in 1844, Chopin’s third and final sonata is simultaneously a pianistic tour-de-force and one of the few examples of large-scale design in his entire output. This is prefaced by a work by Tawian’s leading contemporary composer, Yang Tsung Hsien.



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Lynsey Marsh (clarinet) and Janet Simpson (piano)Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73Hugh Wood Paraphrase on ‘Bird of Paradise’ Op. 26Jean Françaix Theme and Variations

The Martin Harris Centre is pleased to welcome Lynsey Marsh and Janet Simpson of Manchester’s Hallé Orchestra, in a concert that celebrates British composer Hugh Wood’s 80th Birthday.



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Quatuor Danel Fauré Quartet in E minor Op. 121Delius Quartet (1916)Grieg Quartet in G minor, Op. 27

Like Debussy and Ravel, Fauré and Delius composed just one string quartet apiece: the Frenchman’s is an elusive successor to those works; the Englishman’s characteristically ecstatic and best known for its slow movement ‘Late Swallow’

Followed at 2.30pm byQuatuor Danel SeminarAn inside look at the issue of intonation in string chamber music.


Time & Date1.10pm, Thursday 8 November 2012

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Lionel Handy (solo cello)Arnold Bax Rhapsodic BalladPhilip Grange ElegyBenjamin Britten Suite No. 2

Lionel Handy is professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire. His most recent solo recordings include works by Kodaly (2009) and a Carter/Messiaen CD, celebrating their centenaries in 2008.



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Quatuor Danel Robin Stevens Three Portraits (First complete performance)Shostakovich Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

The energy and passion of university doctoral student Robin Stevens, heard complete for the first time after the success of last season’s partial première, alongside the ambivalent self-memorialising masterpiece of Shostakovich, probably the most famous of all 20th-century string quartets.

Followed at 2.30pm byQuatuor Danel SeminarThe Quatuor Danel workshops new quartet movements by the University’s undergraduates.



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Richard Casey and Ian Buckle (two pianos)Maurice Ravel Ma Mère L’Oye suiteMicheal Finnissy Wild FlowersGeorge Gershwin An American in Paris

Celebrated piano duo Ian Buckle and Richard Casey present the original two piano versions of Ravel and Gershwin, both of which were later orchestrated and became known as ballets. Finnissy’s intoxicating 70’s work, composed for the Labeque sisters, is at once sensuous and terrifying and is a rare must to hear.



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Maurice Ravel Sonata for Violin and CelloPeter Maxwell Davies Sonatina for Violin and Cimbalom

The performance will also include new works by students from The University of Manchester.

Benedict Holland violinJennifer Langridge celloTim Williams cimbalom

Lean and lustrous, Ravel’s Sonata is a duet for two survivors in the new world in 1918. Peter Maxwell Davies wrote his Sonatina as a wedding present for friends.



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Gweneth Ann Jeffers and Simon Lepper Olivier Messiaen Harawi

A vocal and pianistic marathon of virtuosity and endurance, Messiaen’s show-stopping song-cycle Harawi of 1945 is seldom heard live. It is the first work in the composer’s so-called ‘Tristan Trilogy’, which share themes of Love and Death. This is Messiaen at his most uncompromising – from the exotic and sensuous to the thumping and raw!



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Please note: this concert will finish at 2.15pm.

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QUATUOR DANELThe 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 eighth at the University of Manchester. Hear all the late Schubert quartets, all three of Tchaikovsky, highlights of Haydn, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Weinberg, Stravinsky and Hindemith having a laugh, and brilliant new works by North-west-associated composers, all in performances of multi-coloured virtuosity.

The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported by the Ida Carroll Trust.

Lunchtime ConcertHaydn Quartet in C, Op. 1, No. 1 in B flatKaren Tanaka Metal Strings

The University’s international star quartet-in-residence opens the new season with the modest birth of string quartet, contrasted with its spectacular 1996 reinvention by one of the most prominent living Japanese composers under the influence of ‘speed metal rock’.

Followed at 2.30pm byQuatuor Danel SeminarHeavy metal and the avant-garde: an introduction to the quartets of Karen Tanaka and Iannis Xenakis.


Time & Date1.10pm, Thursday 27 September 2012

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Evening ConcertWeinberg Quartet No. 3, Op. 14Xenakis TetrasBeethoven Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2

The Danels’ first evening concert showcases their greatest strengths: the quartet in which the Polish-born adopted Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg found his mature voice, followed by a coruscating avant-garde classic, and the peerless profundity of Beethoven’s second ‘Razumovsky’.


Time & Date7.30pm, Friday 28 September 2012

Price£13.50 / £8 / £3

Lunchtime ConcertFauré Quartet in E minor Op. 121Delius Quartet (1916)Like Debussy and Ravel, Fauré and Delius composed just one string quartet apiece: the Frenchman’s is an elusive successor to those works; the Englishman’s characteristically ecstatic and best known for its slow movement ‘Late Swallow’

Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel SeminarAn inside look at the issue of intonation in string chamber music.



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Evening ConcertHindemith MinimaxWolfgang Rihm Quartet No. 9Grieg Quartet in G minor, Op. 27

The Danels continue their exploration of the hilarious side of Hindemith, contrasted with the frenetic intensity of Wolfgang Rihm – arguably the finest living German composer – and the stirring Nordic robustness of Grieg.

This concert is part of A Celebration of Ian Kemp. See page 19 for further details.



Price£13.50 / £8 / £3

Lunchtime ConcertRobin Stevens Three Portraits (First complete performance)Shostakovich Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

The energy and passion of university doctoral student Robin Stevens, heard complete for the first time after the success of last season’s partial première, alongside the ambivalent self-memorialising masterpiece of Shostakovich, probably the most famous of all 20th-century string quartets.

Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel SeminarThe Quatuor Danel workshops new quartet movements by the University’s undergraduates.



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Evening Concert – with Horn soloist, Tim Jackson (Principal with the RLPO)John McCabe Horn Quintet (2010-11)Mozart Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11

Tim Jackson, principal horn with the RLPO, joins the Quatuor Danel in the recent quintet by John McCabe; followed by Mozart’s celebrated ‘Dissonance’ and the most famous of Tchaikovsky’s three quartets, with the slow movement that moved Tolstoy to tears.


Time & Date7.30pm, Friday 7 December 2012

Price£13.50 / £8 / £3

Open HouseFor your diary: a fantastic opportunity to receive coaching and attend workshops given by Marc Danel, Gilles Millet, Vlad Bogdanas and Guy Danel, the four members of 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.

Further details available soon on: www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentre/danels


Time & DateALL DAY 25-27 January 2013

Price£60 / £30 (single day) / £20 students

Ticket Description Price / concession

Single Ticket Pricing Performances in the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall £13.50 / £8 / £3

Flexi 5 Choose 5 evening Danel Concerts £40 / £32

Season Season ticket for the 2012/2013 season £50 / £40

Quatuor Danel Ticket Information 2012Please note that there is reserved seating for all Quatuor Danel Friday evening concerts. Seating for all lunchtime concerts is unreserved. For information on the full 2012 - 2013 season, please visit the website.

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MANTIS Autumn Festival 2012 MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents a weekend of electro-acoustic concerts featuring composers based at the NOVARS Research Centre, guest artists John Young and Barry Truax, the centenary of computing pioneer Alan Turing, and the MANTIS 48-loudspeaker sound diffusion system for an exciting and immersive listening experience.


Times & Dates6pm, Saturday 27 October 2012

8pm, Saturday 27 October 2012

Price£7.50 / £5 / £3 (per single concert)

ENIGMA: The life and death of Alan Turing MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents an electroacoustic concert marking the centenary of mathematician Alan Turing, including the première of Barry Truax’s dramatic works Enigma and From The Unseen World as well as other Turing-inspired works by Manchester-based composers.

The 7.30pm ENIGMA Turing concert is a part of the Manchester Science Festival 2012.


Times & Dates6pm, Sunday 28 October 2012

7.30pm, Sunday 28 October 2012

Price£7.50 / £5 / £3 (per single concert)

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Alasdair Nicolson Punch!Arnold Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No.1 Op.9 (arr. Anton Webern)Peter Maxwell Davies Missa super l’homme armé*Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire**

Conducted by Mark Heron*Kelvin Thomas Speaker**Jane Manning Speaker

On a knife edge between comic sketch and horror show, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire has been startling audiences and stimulating composers for a century. Peter Maxwell Davies takes the Pierrot road to holy rage; Alasdair Nicolson packs a brilliant Punch!



Price£10 / £5 / £3

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Special rates for Autumn Festival

Concerts Full Conc. Students

1 £7.50 £5 £3

2 £12 £8 £4.80

3 £18 £12 £7.20

4 £24 £16 £9.60

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A Celebration of Ian KempA programme to celebrate the life and work of Ian Kemp (1931-2011), formerly Professor of Music in the University. Music by Tippett (Piano Sonata No. 2), Berlioz (choral music, including Le Ballet des Ombres, and Rêverie et Caprice for violin and piano), Hindemith (Viola Sonata Op. 11 No. 4), Ian Kemp himself (Fantasia and Carolling) and short tributes from composer colleagues from the various stages of his life and career (Raymond Warren, Anthony Gilbert, Raymond Dodd, Philip Wilby, Geoffrey Poole and Hugh Wood).

Admission by ticket only, available FREE from the box office.

There will be a retiring collection to establish a scholarship at the University in memory of Ian Kemp.

Supported by the Ida Carroll Trust.


Time & Date2pm, Saturday 10 November 2012

PriceFREE

This event is free but booking is essential

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The Manchester Youth Choir Festival28-30 June 2013

Singing in the City

• Perform in a major Choral Festival

• Perform in a concert at The University of Manchester’s Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall

• Hear other choirs perform at the Festival

• Perform in a mass chorus at the Monastery with a professional orchestra – The Manchester Camerata

• Perform with a professional conductor – David Lawrence

• Master Classes in the RNCM studios with leading youth choral director – David Lawrence

• Other opportunities to perform thoughout the weekend

• Singing In The City is not a competition

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VAGANZA – Lunchtime Concert The University of Manchester’s New Music Ensemble

Intricate Worlds: The Music of Michael Finnissy

Music to include:Finnissy East London HeysFinnissy Sonata for Toy PianoIves Hallowe’enStudent Composers New Works

Michael Finnissy, one of Britain’s most important and fearless living composers, will be joining us as Vaganza celebrates his daring, uncatergorisable music, alongside works by those composers who have influenced him and new compositions by our student composers.



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VAGANZA – Beat the Rush Hour Concert The University of Manchester’s New Music Ensemble


Gifted both as composer and performer, Michael Finnissy’s contribution to contemporary piano repertory has been vast and extraordinary. Having written, commissioned and performed innumerable exciting new works for piano, this special afternoon recital promises to be an unmissable event.


Time & Date5pm, Friday 23 November 2012

Price£6 / £4 / £3

VAGANZA – Evening Concert The University of Manchester’s New Music Ensemble


Music to include:Finnissy Independence QuadrillesFinnissy OuraaLutyens Triolet II, Op. 139Student Composers New Works

Vaganza’s celebration of Michael Finnissy’s uniquely imaginative music culminates in a selection of some of his inspired and exciting works, plus works by those composers who have influenced him and new compositions by our student composers.



Price£7.50 / £5 / £3

(or £12 / £8 / £5.40 for both this and 5pm concert)

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Welcome Week ProductionSolveWritten and directed by Piers Black-Hawkins

When the world’s overpopulation becomes a serious public concern, the government introduces ‘Solving’ - organised Russian roulette. Tensions and emotions run high in the Solve waiting room as each participant is given one gun, one bullet and a numbered ticket.

Please note: There will be no admittance for latecomers. There will be smoking on stage and some strong language used in the show. The performance will also contain very loud noises. Not suitable for young children.


Time & Dates7pm, Thursday 20 September 2012

7pm, Friday 21 September 2012

Price£5 / £3

Future Delivery Presented by Fluxx

‘Sarah is expecting – but will the outcome be what she expected?’

In matters of having children, how much control is it reasonable to expect?An interactive event combining improvisation, debate and film.

Devised and directed by Chris Johnston

This production is FREE, but please reserve tickets via 0161 275 8951 or email boxoffice@manchester. ac.uk


Time & Date7pm, Tuesday 2 October 2012

PriceFREE

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.

Stories from West Africa – a performance by Usifu JallohUsifu Jalloh will take you on a journey to his homeland with voice and drum during this free lunchtime event.

With his background in theatre, Usifu is a professional actor, storyteller, dancer and percussionist, whose unique skills introduce audiences and participants to West African traditions and cultures.

Celebrating the culture of his homeland, Sierra Leone, Usifu has made an award-winning film, Journey Man, and also made Lion Mountain in collaboration with BBC2, about two Sierra Leone refugees in England.


Time & Date1.10-2pm, Monday 15 October 2012

PriceFREE

University of Manchester Drama Society Autumn Show Following the successes of the MIFTAS, The University of Manchester Drama Society are back with a performance from their annual Autumn Showcase. Entirely student produced, the Autumn Showcase is a fantastic way to kick-start the society’s theatrical programme.

For further information about the plays featured in the Autumn Showcase, please visit www.umdramasoc.co.uk


Time & Dates7pm, Wednesday 21 November 2012

7pm, Thursday 22 November 2012

7pm, Friday 23 November 2012

Price£5 / £4.50 £4 (Drama Society Members)

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Manchester Pride Chamber MusicThis year’s concerts include performances from baritone Roderick Williams, the Heath Quartet, the Aquinas Piano Trio, pianist Daniel Browell and mezzo CN Lester with guitarist Toby Carr. The recitals will feature music by Tchaikovsky, Britten, Schubert, Saint-Saens, Tippett, Ireland and Somervell, as well as the world premiere of a new piece by Manchester Pride’s very own Composer-in-Association, Marc Yeats.

The concerts on Tuesday 21 and Thursday 23 August will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for future broadcast.

Tickets are free for the Lunchtime concerts and available on the door but if you’d like to book in advance please call 0843 208 0500 (Mon-Sun, 10am-8pm) or order online at quaytickets.com


Time & DatesMonday 20 August to Friday 24 August 2012

PriceLunchtimeFREE

Evening£5

Pride Chamber Music Lunchtime ConcertAquinas Piano Trio

Ireland Phantasie Trio in A minorYeats Piano Trio ‘worship the oak’Saint-Saens Piano Trio No. 1 in F

VenueJohn Thaw Studio Theatre

Time & Date1pm, Monday 20 August 2012

PriceFREE

Pride presents LGBT: Unlikely Bedfellowsby: Neil Bartlett, Stella Duffy, Rob Ellis and Jackie Kay

Directed by Jonathan Best

A quartet of new monologues by four of the UK’s leading writers – Neil Bartlett, Stella Duffy, Rob Ellis and Jackie Kay.

Cast: Claire Brown, Kate Layden, Jonathan Mayor, Erin Shanagher

A Manchester Pride Fringe commission, Funded by Arts Council England.Contains strong language and sexual references.Only recommended for ages 16+.

VenueJohn Thaw Studio Theatre

Time & Dates7.30pm, Monday 20 August to Thursday 23 August 2012

Price£10

Pride Chamber Music Evening Concert (BBC Radio 3 Recording)Roderick Williams (baritone) with Susie Allan (piano)

Ireland 3 Hardy SettingsIreland The Land of Lost ContentIreland Spring will not waitIan Venables The Pine Boughs Past MusicMichael Berkeley 2 Housman SettingsSomervell A Shropshire Lad


Time & Date7.30pm, Tuesday 21 August 2012

Price£5

Pride Chamber Music Lunchtime ConcertDaniel Browell (piano)

Philip Venables PreludesSchubert Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat, D.960


Time & Date1pm, Wednesday 22 August 2012

PriceFREE

Pride Chamber Music Evening Concert (BBC Radio 3 Recording)The Heath Quartet

Britten 3 Divertimenti Copland 2 Pieces for String QuartetTippett String Quartet No.4Tchaikovsky String Quartet No.3


Time & Date7.30pm, Thurday 23 August 2012

Price£5

Pride Chamber Music Lunchtime ConcertCN Lester (mezzo) with Toby Carr (guitar)

Britten Songs from the ChinesePhilip Lawton Five LullabiesMaxwell Davies Farewell to StromnessBritten Nocturnal after John DowlandBritten Folksong Arrangements


Time & Date1pm, Friday 24 August 2012

PriceFREE

Manchester Pride 2012

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The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama is delighted to host some of Manchester Pride’s annual series of performances from 20-24 August. The Chamber Music recitals are now in their 5th year, and celebrate LGBT composers and poets, featuring internationally renowned performers as well as young, local talent.

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.

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‘Cooperation and Human Cognition’ Public Lecture by Professor Michael Tomasello.

Michael Tomasello, psychologist and co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, is one of the world’s leading researchers on social learning, communication and language in human children and great apes.

He recently appeared as a contributor to Fry’s Planet Word, Stephen Fry’s 2011 BBC 2 series on language. This free lecture will include video clips of Tomasello’s experimental research and will be followed by a Q&A.

This event also serves as the keynote of the academic conference Collective Intentionality VIII. See http://sites.google.com/site/collintviii for more information on the conference.

This event is free event but booking essential.Please book at www.tomasello.eventbrite.co.uk


Time & Date2pm, Tuesday 28 August 2012

PriceFREE

Blackhand Theatre presents – Some VoicesFollowing their successful production of John Osborne’s kitchen sink classic, Look Back in Anger, last September, Blackhand bring Some Voices, a tough social drama written by British playwright Joe Penhall in 1994 as a response to newly enacted laws in Britain that released large numbers of the institutionalized mentally ill back into the general population.

“Some Voices is about the difficulties of assimilating in the metropolis.” – Joe Penhall

Some Voices tells the story of Ray, an enigmatic, wild-eyed schizophrenic patient who is released from psychiatric care to live with Pete, his overworked and overprotective brother. We follow Ray as he struggles to understand love, family, and ultimately, his place in the world. His grip on reality is tested when he meets and falls in love with Laura, a young pregnant woman who is trying to escape an abusive relationship with her boyfriend, Dave.Please note this performance contains smoking and the use of strong language. Only recommended for ages 16+


Time & Dates7pm, Wednesday 12 September 2012

1pm, Thursday 13 September 2012 (Matinee followed by post-show talk)

7pm, Thursday 13 September 2012

Price£8 / £6

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BBC Radio 3 Live in Concert: Sunwook KimBeethoven Sonata in A flat major, Op.26Beethoven Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27’2 “Moonlight”Schubert Sonata in A major, D.959

Acclaimed Korean pianist Sunwook Kim comes to the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall to kick start BBC Radio 3’s exciting six-week Piano season this autumn. Sunwook Kim burst onto the international scene at the age of just 18 when he won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition. Since then he has secured his place as a consummate performer with orchestras all over the world. In this recital, Sunwook Kim will perform three gems from the German Romantic tradition: piano sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert. This recital is one of six Monday night Live In Concert broadcasts to be featured as part of Radio 3’s Piano Celebration.


Time & Date7.30pm, Monday 17 September 2012

Price£12 / £8 / £3

Learn to Dance “Strictly Style” – Return to the Ballroom!Due to popular demand we’re bringing Ballroom back to the Martin Harris Centre. Whether you’ve danced with us before or are a complete novice, you’ll love these new routines! Mark Rowbottom from “Steppin’ Out” Dance Centre, with more than twenty years dance experience, will guide you through Classic Waltz, Quirky Quickstep, Cuban Cha Cha and Sizzling Samba. The 9-week course is suitable for those with no or little dance experience. Join us on your lunch hour for some relaxation and fun.

Places are limited, don’t miss out, dig out your dancing shoes and get yourself signed up for the course!

These classes form part of the University’s wellbeing initiative.


Time & Dates1.05pm, Wed. 26 September – Wed. 21 November 2012

Price9 lessons at £4 per lesson (total payable £36)

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The House That Stank of DeathA Halloween multimedia comedy/horror extravaganza by David Isaac (Lunch Monkeys – BBC3) and Peter Slater (Ideal – BBC3). Five short plays and four short films which will make you scream with terror and laughter. Come along… if you dare!

www.thehousethatstankofdeath.com

**** “Scares for the funny bone… Original and funny” – remotegoat.co.ukPlease note that this performance contains swearing and scenes of horror. Only recommended for ages 15+


Time & Dates7pm, Wed. 31 October - Friday 2 November 2012

Price£8 / £5

PANDA Conference: ‘Courage & Collaboration’Call to action for those working in the performing arts. Be ready to be inspired by talks, debates and workshops. Bring an open and participatory spirit, and you’ll take away knowledge, actions and support.

£50 / £20 concessions and PANDA subscribers / £10 PANDA members. Please book through PANDA www.panda-arts.org.uk


Time & Date10am - 4pm, Friday 2 November 2012

Price£50 / £20 / £10

Stockport Youth OrchestraConductors: Tim Crooks and Sinead Hayes

Join the young musicians of Stockport in the first concert of the orchestra’s 2012-13 season.

www.syo.org.uk


Time & Date7pm, Sunday 11 November 2012

Price£8 / £6 (Under 16s free)

The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony OrchestraJ.S. Bach Christen Atzet diesel TagJohannes Brahmes Ein Deutches Requiem

Conductor: Gregory Batsleer

Join the University of Manchester’s Chorus for an exciting programme of German music conducted by Gregory Batsleer. Also featuring The Cosmo Singers, a newly-formed choir with members drawn from Chorus, performing Bach’s Wachet Auf.

VenueWhitworth Hall

Time & Date7.30pm, Sunday 2 December 2012

Price£12 / £9 / £3

WE WELCOMEThe Orchestra that Fell to Earth The Penguin Cafe Orchestra first appeared in 1976 and went on to tour and record extensively throughout the eighties and nineties; pieces such as ‘Music for a Found Harmonium’ and ‘Telephone and Rubber Band’ became well-known through their frequent use in film soundtracks and advertisements.

Simon Jeffes, the PCO’s founder, sadly died in 1997. Since then the original line-up has appeared in public on only three occasions in 2007. This concert by ‘The Orchestra that Fell to Earth’ represents a rare opportunity to hear the music of the PCO performed by original members of the ensemble. The line-up includes long standing ‘Penguins’ Geoffrey Richardson, Jennifer Maidman, Steve Fletcher and Annie Whitehead. On percussion will be Liam Genockey of Steeleye Span who also played live with the original PCO in the eighties.


Time & Date7.30pm doors open, 8pm start, Saturday 13 October 2012

Price£8 / £6 / £4

Swiss Ambassador’s Award ConcertClaude Debussy (1862 – 1918): Piano Trio in G Major (1879)

David Philip Hefti, contemporary Swiss composer (*1975): Trio No. 2 for violin, violoncello and piano, world première

Antonin Dvorák (1841 – 1904): Piano Trio No. 4 ‘Dumky’ (1891)

Yuka Oechslin, pianoErika Achermann, violinMirjana Reinhard, violoncello

The Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain presents the Swiss Ambassador’s Award winners 2012, Medea Trio from Switzerland. The Medea Trio was founded in 2005 in Basel, where the young musicians studied together. Winner of the 2011 Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition, the Medea Trio is currently studying for a Masters in Chamber Music at the Basel Music Academy with Anton Kernjak.

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This concert is organised in collaboration with the Consulate of Switzerland in Manchester.


Time & Date7.30pm, Wed. 17 October 2012

Price£12 (includes concert programme and a glass of sparkling Swiss wine)

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How to find usThe Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama The University of ManchesterBridgeford Street, off Oxford RoadManchester, M13 9PLBox office:Tel: 0161 275 8951 Email for enquiries: [email protected] office opening times: 2.00pm-4.00pm Monday to Friday

WebsiteFor the latest information on concerts, events and productions at the Martin Harris Centre please visit: www.manchester.ac.uk/martinharriscentreYou can also download our latest brochure. Please note this is an Adobe acrobat file, and to view the file you will need a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat (downloadable from Acrobat).

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Getting hereThe 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.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. By Train: Oxford Road station is a ten minute walk away. Train enquiries 08457 48 49 50. Car Parking: Car parking is available in the multi-storey 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.

AccessThere 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.

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.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 infra-red 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.

Box Office InformationBooking ticketsTickets 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 non-refundable postage fee. • 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 OfficeThe University of ManchesterBridgeford Street, off Oxford RoadManchester, M13 9PLIn personThe box office opening times are listed below and our team will be happy to help.Box Office opening times2.00pm-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. By phoneThe Martin Harris Centre Box Office 0161 275 8951 (during box office opening times)Quaytickets 0843 208 0500 (7 days a week, 10am-8pm)Please have your debit / credit card ready. Visa, Mastercard and Maestro cards accepted.Onlinewww.quaytickets.comEmailFor enquiries email [email protected](tickets may not be ordered by email)Ticket PricesAll 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.ConcessionsThe Martin Harris Centre offers concessions, subject to availability to:• Under 18s• Students in full-time education• Senior citizens (Over 60s)• Unwaged• 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.

Concession prices are shown where they apply. The prices do not refer to differently priced seat sections.

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Date Time Event Venue Page

Literature10 October 1.00pm Lit Live: Carcanet Poets: William Letford, Judith Jedamus & Evan Jones WSD 712 October 7.30pm Lit Live: Richard Ford (Manchester Literature Festival) TWAG 715 October 6.30pm Lit Live: Paul Farley & Deryn Rees-Jones (Manchester Literature Festival) JTST 722 October 6.30pm Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with AM Homes: Male Me Cosmo 66 December 6.15pm Lit Live: Geoffrey Hill (Poetry in the John Rylands Library) JRUL 79 December 6.30pm Jeanette Winterson with Simon Armitage, Val McDermid and Jackie Kay Cosmo 6

Music27 September 1.10pm WCLC: Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert Cosmo 1227 September 2.30pm Quatuor Danel Seminar Cosmo 1228 September 7.30pm Quatuor Danel Evening Concert Cosmo 1629 September 7.30pm MUMS: Evening Concert – Welcoming Concert Cosmo 8

4 October 1.10pm WCLC: Paisean Cosmo 125 October 1.10pm MUMS: Lunchtime Concert Series Cosmo 11

11 October 1.10pm WCLC: MANTIS Lunchtime Concert Cosmo 1218 October 1.10pm WCLC: Jeremy Young (piano) Cosmo 1319 October 7.30pm Psappha Cosmo 1820 October 7.30pm MUMS: Evening Concert – Symphony Orchestra TWH 825 October 1.10pm WCLC: Lynsey Marsh (clarinet) and Janet Simpson (piano) Cosmo 1327 October 6.00pm MANTIS Festival JTST 1927 October 8.00pm MANTIS Festival JTST 1928 October 6.00pm MANTIS Festival Cosmo 1928 October 7.30pm MANTIS Festival Cosmo 192 November 1.10pm MUMS: Lunchtime Concert – The Cosmo Singers Cosmo 113 November 7.30pm MUMS: Evening Concert – String Orchestra and Brass Ensembles Cosmo 98 November 1.10pm WCLC: Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert Cosmo 138 November 2.30pm WCLC: Quatuor Danel Seminar Cosmo 139 November 1.10pm MUMS: Lunchtime Concert – Saxophone Ensemble Cosmo 119 November 7.30pm Quatuor Danel Evening Concert Cosmo 16

10 November 2.00pm A Celebration of Ian Kemp Cosmo 1915 November 1.10pm WCLC: Lionel Handy (solo cello) Cosmo 1316 November 1.10pm MUMS: Lunchtime Concert – Vocal Showcase Cosmo 1117 November 7.30pm MUMS: Evening Concert – Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensemble Cosmo 922 November 1.10pm WCLC: Psappha Cosmo 1423 November 1.10pm VAGANZA Cosmo 2023 November 5.00pm VAGANZA Cosmo 2023 November 7.30pm VAGANZA Cosmo 2024 November 7.30pm MUMS: Evening Concert – MUWO (Manchester University Wind Orchestra) Cosmo 929 November 1.10pm WCLC: Gweneth Ann Jeffers and Simon Lepper Cosmo 1430 November 1.10pm MUMS: Lunchtime Concert – Brass Band Cosmo 114 December 7.30pm MUMS: Evening Concert – Ad Solem Cosmo 106 December 1.10pm WCLC: Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert Cosmo 156 December 2.30pm WCLC: Quatuor Danel Seminar Cosmo 156 December 7.30pm MUMS: Evening Concert – MUBB (Manchester University Big Band) Cosmo 107 December 7.30pm Quatuor Danel Evening Concert Cosmo 17

13 December 1.10pm WCLC: Richard Casey and Ian Buckle Cosmo 1513 December 7.30pm MUMS: Evening Concert – Festive Concert Cosmo 10

Drama20 & 21 September 7.00pm Welcome Week Production – Solve JTST 22

2 October 7.00pm Fluxx Presents Future Delivery JTST 2215 October 1.10pm Stories from West Africa JTST 23

21 - 23 November 7.00pm UMDS: Autumn Showcase JTST 23

We Welcome20, 22 and 24 August 1.00pm Manchester Pride Chamber Music Cosmo 2421 and 23 August 7.30pm Manchester Pride Chamber Music Cosmo 24

20 - 23 August 7.30pm Manchester Pride Theatre: LGBT Unlikely Bedfellows JTST 2428 August 2.00pm ‘Cooperation and Human Cognition’ - Public lecture Cosmo 26

12 & 13 September 7.00pm Theatre - Some Voices JTST 2613 September 1.00pm Theatre - Some Voices + post show talk JTST 2617 September 7.30pm BBC Radio 3 Live in Concert: Sunwook Kim Cosmo 27

26 Sept - 21 Nov 1.05pm Learn to Ballroom Dance "Strictly Style" (9 week course) JTST 2713 October 8.00pm The Orchestra That Fell To Earth Cosmo 2817 October 7.30pm Swiss Ambassador’s Award Concert 2012 Cosmo 28

31 Oct - 2 Nov 7.00pm The House That Stank of Death JTST 292 November 10.00am PANDA event JTST 29

11 November 7.00pm Stockport Youth Orchestra Cosmo 292 December 7.30pm The University of Manchester Chorus & Symphony Orchestra TWH 29

TWH = The Whitworth HallWCLC = Walter Carroll Lunchtime ConcertsWSD = Waterstones DeansgateJRUL = John Rylands University Library, Deansgate

Cosmo = Cosmo Rodewald Concert HallJTST = The John Thaw Studio TheatreMUMS = Manchester University Music SocietyTWAG = The Whitworth Art Gallery

IN PERFORMANCE EVENTS | AUGUST-DECEMBER 2012

Eating and drinkingCafé Arts based in the foyer of the Martin Harris Centre, serves coffee, teas, 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.For further information please contact Box Office on 0161 275 8951.

Chancellors at Christie’s Bistro is situated on the 1st floor of the

Christies Building in what was the original Library. Patrons can enjoy a 2 or 3 course lunch or something less formal in the lounge area, where sandwiches and bowl food is available. Hot and chilled beverages including wine are also available. Afternoon tea in the form of delicious cakes and pastries is served up to 5pm each day.To book call 0161 275 7702

CommentsWe would welcome your feedback on issues or topics which you may want to contact us about. If there is something you would like to comment on regarding the Martin Harris Centre, our events programme or service, please contact Mark Woolstencroft, Centre Manager, The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, The University of Manchester, Bridgeford Street, off Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL.

Corporate hireThe state-of-the-art facilities at The Martin Harris Centre are available for private hire. We would be delighted to discuss your requirements in more detail and to show you around the venue.Should you wish to make an enquiry please contact Alex Shaw tel: 0161 306 1669

Adopt-a-SeatIf you enjoy our concerts why not Adopt-a-Seat? You can adopt your favourite seat in your name, or seats named for family and friends, to celebrate a birthday or anniversary, to commemorate a graduation or other milestone, or as a way of remembering a departed loved one. Some seats have already been adopted in this way, others to acknowledge favourite composers. The choice is yours. Adopting a seat is a very personal way to share in the development of this wonderful cultural arts venue. The money raised goes towards providing the best facilities possible for our musicians and provides a visible and lasting legacy for future generations of students. If you would like more information about seat sponsorship please email us at: [email protected] or write to us: Adopt-a-seat, The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, The University of Manchester, Bridgeford Street, off Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL

Terms & ConditionsTickets are sold subject to the right of the Management to change performers and/or programme content due to unforeseen circumstances. All content of this document is correct at the time of going to press, however, we reserve the right to make such changes without notice if necessary.Credit card payments may be taken over the telephone. University policy dictates that we cannot accept credit card details by email or post. We regret that we can not exchange or refund tickets. All ticket exchanges are at the discretion of the Front of House Manager. Please examine your tickets at the time of purchase to ensure that all details are correct.Concessionary prices are available on production of the appropriate identification, for under 18’s, students in full time education, senior citizens and unwaged.Please note that latecomers cannot be admitted until a suitable break in the programme and Management reserves the right to request that latecomers await entry until instructed otherwise by the Front of House Manager. Under exceptional circumstances, the Management reserves the right to refuse admission. Latecomers who are not admitted are in no way entitled to a refund.The unauthorised use of cameras, video or any other form of recording equipment is strictly prohibited.Please ensure that mobile phones are switched off or operate on silent.

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