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RNCM Gospel Choir
Now in its sixth year, the RNCM Gospel Choir, under the inspiring leadership of Audrey Mattis, continues to go from strength to strength. In today’s concert the choir performs a mixture of Gospel standards and modern classics and, along with regular pianist Mark McKenzie, are joined by three of the talented musicians from the College’s Foundation Degree in Popular Music Practice.
Date & Time - Thu 17 May 2012, 1:15PM
Venue - RNCM Concert Hall
Ticket Price - Free admission, no ticket required
Concessions - Concessions unavailable
Matthew Herbert: One Pig
Doors 7.30pm
On stage 8pm
Date & Time - Fri 18 May 2012, 7:30PM
Venue - RNCM Theatre
Ticket Price - £16
Concessions - Concessions available
RNCM Symphony Orchestra with Gergely Madaras
Prokofiev’s second Piano Concerto opens tonight’s proceedings, a composition notable for its terrifyingly difficult solo part and, especially, for the maniacal demands of the opening movement’s cadenza.
Date & Time - Fri 18 May 2012, 7:30PM
Venue - RNCM Concert Hall
Ticket Price - £17, £14
Concessions - Concessions available
Seed Studios and RNCM Music for Health - Collaborative Project
Members of Seed Studios in Old Trafford have been working with RNCM Music for Health students to develop original pieces of music. This performance celebrates the outcome of this fruitful collaboration. For further information contact RNCM Music for Health on 0161 907 5414
Sponsored by Trafford Council, blue SCI and PRS for Music Foundation Promoted by RNCM Music for Health and Seed Studios.
Date & Time - Fri 18 May 2012, 7:30PM
Venue - RNCM Studio Theatre
Ticket Price - £3 available only on the door
Concessions - Concessions unavailable
Spotlight: The Lucani Quartet
Grieg's captivating String Quartet in G Minor Op 27 combines dark and exuberant romanticism with the spirited and heartfelt melodies of Norwegian folk music.
Date & Time - Sat 19 May 2012, 6:30PM
Venue - RNCM Studio Theatre
Ticket Price - Free admission, no ticket required
Concessions - Concessions unavailable
Joris van den Berg and Maya Irgalina - RNCM INTERNATIONAL ARTIST DIPLOMA CONCERTO WEEKEND with Manchester Camerata
Joris van den Berg performs Schumann’s Cello Concerto, a score that the composer finished in two hurried weeks and which reveals the composer’s love of the instrument. Maya Irgalina performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 23, a score packed with well-known themes that are gracefully lyrical and light and make it one of the most popular of all the composer’s piano concerti. Each of tonight’s concerti is complemented by a Mozart symphony, including the famous Haffner, one of his finest orchestral creations.
Date & Time - Sat 19 May 2012, 7:30PM
Venue - RNCM Concert Hall
Ticket Price - £16, £13
Concessions - Concessions available
Rocio Bolanos and Sophie Rosa - RNCM INTERNATIONAL ARTIST DIPLOMA CONCERTO WEEKEND with Manchester Camerata
Rocio Bolanos performs Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, a work of consistently melancholic beauty, not least in its elegiac slow movement. There is no denying the work is among the very finest of concerti ever written for the instrument. As a young boy, Mendelssohn wrote two concertos for violin, both of them immensely accomplished. Yet, neither anticipated the breathtaking originality of his Violin Concerto in E minor, written very much later in 1844, a work that firmly rebuts the idea that the precocious composer lost most of his inspiration after the age of 20. Again, each of tonight’s concerti is complemented by a Mozart symphony, including the Paris symphony, so named as the composer was staying in the French capital at the time he wrote it.
Date & Time - Sun 20 May 2012, 7:30PM
Venue - RNCM Concert Hall
Ticket Price - £16, £13
Concessions - Concessions available
Dustin O'Halloran + Hauschka + Jóhann Jóhannsson - 130701 Transcendentalists Tour 2012
Formed on 13 July 2001 (hence the superficially cryptic name), FatCat’s 130701 imprint was initially intended as a home for Montreal’s Set Fire To Flames and their non-traditionalist, drone / field recording-laced take on classical instrumentation and ‘post-classical’ compositions.
Date & Time - Mon 21 May 2012, 7:30PM
Venue - RNCM Theatre
Ticket Price - £14 adv
Concessions - Concessions available
Trio Mediaeval and Arve Henriksen
The haunting sound of Trio Mediaeval’s female voices come togther with Arve Henriksen’s hushed trumpet and live electronics to perform music both ancient and modern in a spine-tingling performance in the atmospheric acoustic of Manchester’s Victoria Baths.
Date & Time - Tue 22 May 2012, 7:30PM
Venue - Victoria Baths
Ticket Price - £15
Concessions - Concessions available
Masterclass with Noriko Ogawa: Reflections on Debussy
This is the second of two masterclasses featuring the acclaimed Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa. Working with pianists and composers from the RNCM and Chetham’s School of Music, this class will focus on Debussy’s first book of Préludes, as well as new Préludes inspired by contemporary life in Manchester. A final performance of both sets of Préludes takes place at The Bridgewater Hall on 9 June.
Date & Time - Thu 24 May 2012, 1:30PM
Venue - Bridgewater Hall
Ticket Price - £5 available through Bridgewater Hall
Concessions - Concessions unavailable
