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Carlo Rizzi conducts guest musicians Heejae Kim and Gareth Small in an evening featuring Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Mahler.

Delyana Lazarova, winner of the inaugural Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition and Hallé Youth Orchestra Music Director, takes to the podium to introduce and direct the combined forces of the Hallé and Hallé Youth Orchestra in an all-Russian programme that combines youth and experience. A truly memorable evening for both performers and audience alike. Tchaikovsky […]

The Hallé present The Lark Ascending a concert at The Bridgewater Hall that offers a collection of much-loved pastoral-themed masterpieces.

Tianyi Lu conducts The Hallé at The Bridgewater Hall with guest pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason and works by Anna Clyne, Clara Schumann and Schoenberg.

The Hallé, Roderick Dunk and two of Britain’s most versatile vocalists lead this uplifting celebration of everyone’s favourite West End and Broadway songs and shows.

Influential Birkenhead band Half Man Half Biscuit bring their satirical and sometimes surreal music to The Ritz this January.

French musician and composer Yann Tiersen performs at The Bridgewater Hall in February in support of his latest album ‘Kerber’.

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without settling down in front of Raymond Brigg’s classic animated film, The Snowman.

After two years in the dark, the lights on the RNCM Opera stage have been switched back on. To mark the occasion, they are performing two fully staged operas in an exciting double bill programme.

Below The Bridge is an all-day live music event featuring the best new bands and singer-songwriters from across Manchester.

Award-winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician Anthony Joseph hosts a special lecture that blends music and poetry at Manchester Poetry Library.

Love Noughties UK presents the end of year party….. Love Noughties New Years Eve the 90s Throwback Edition.

Ultimate Power isn’t just for Christmas, no, the biggest songs, the biggest hair and the biggest guitar solos return to ring in the New Year at The Ritz

Hatch is transformed into a neon-drenched Winter Wonderland of shopping, music food and drink. The perfect alternative Christmas destination from 12th to 22nd of December.

Anika – the project of Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson who is also a founding member of Exploded View – is performing at YES in support of her first new album in over a decade.