What's On

Benjamin Grosvenor has been in the limelight since winning the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at just twelve years old. Still in his early thirties, his career now takes him all over the world and he regularly appears at the BBC Proms. He brings a lovely programme of romantic piano music, pairing Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann alongside one of the blockbusters of the virtuoso piano repertoire, Modest Mussorgsky’s ever-popular Pictures at an Exhibition.

This is the most epic journey of them all – Athens to Bucharest. It represents the amazing diversity of rhythm, colourful dances, and powerful story-telling music that the Balkans have to offer. CAERUS explores a mesmerising but little-known masterpiece by George Enescu, coupled with the ground-breaking, iconic fifth string quartet by Béla Bartók. The third movement, Alla bulgarese, is based on a well-known dance from Bulgaria. Bartók is not only famous for his compositional qualities and artistry but was also a respected musicologist and produced some of the most important folk-music studies in the first half of the 20th century.

Named as Gramophone Magazine’s One to Watch, violinist Hana Chang partners with strings-specialist collaborative pianist Alison Rhind to perform wildly contrasting sonatas. Beethoven wrote his fiery forty-minute Kreutzer Sonata in 1803. Over a century later Debussy would write his violin sonata, a much shorter and lighter musical journey.

The saxophone and harp duo community is an exciting up-and-coming genre, currently spearheaded by Manchester musicians. Since being established in 2019, Aaben Duo has given several performances of new and traditional works.

A whimsical comedy that takes the audience on a magical journey though love, mischief and transformation. Set in a forest the play weaves together the lives of star-crossed lovers, feuding fairies and bumbling actors all under the spell of the mischievious Puck. A timeless classic filled with mistaken identities, magical potions and plenty of humour.

Join 'Britain's most adventurous orchestra' (The Times), Manchester Camerata, for an evening of orchestral classics and musical premieres.