What's on 2021/22
2021/22 performance archive
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Ben Horden
A selection of pieces by leading forces within organ music of the German Baroque and York-based composer Frederick Viner's suite Ebor Excursions trace the evolution of dance forms in Classical music and celebrate their virtuosity and rhythmic energy!
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York New Music Weekend
This year's York New Music Weekend centres on the work of celebrated York composer Trevor Wishart, including the UK premiere of The Garden of Earthly Delights, an hour-long 'comic opera' in 8-channel surround sound.
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Anna Tsybuleva
Winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, Anna Tsybuleva performs some of Chopin’s most famous works, including the virtuosic and sublime Fantaisie-Impromptu and the exquisite Nocturne in B minor, alongside Debussy’s evocative Preludes.
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Brigitte Beraha
Embracing a variety of musical genres, from jazz to classical, Brigitte Beraha's sound is free and fluid with an emphasis on exploration. Here she presents her acclaimed 2019 album Lucid Dreamers, inspired by the industrial world that we live in.
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Manchester Collective & Abel Selaocoe
South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe joins Manchester Collective to present a musical journey that spans continents and generations, past and present. This is music at its most joyful and life-affirming.
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University Symphony Orchestra
University Symphony Orchestra’s sold-out autumn concert was greeted with rapturous applause, and a programme of Sibelius and Arvo Pärt is likely to prove just as popular!
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Olivia Chaney
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney is joined by her close collaborator composer and multi-instrumentalist Jordan Hunt in a special show that includes new material from her upcoming album and songs from her previous records.
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The Chimera Ensemble
This concert draws inspiration from the famous British idiom the elephant in the room, featuring Julius Eastman’s Stay On It alongside an exciting collaboration with the Eboracum String Quartet in Yaz Lancaster’s Neu.
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The 24
The 24 presents an all-twentieth-century programme, including Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs and Roderick Williams’ enchanting arrangement of the slow movement from Ravel’s Piano Concerto.
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University Chamber Orchestra
University Chamber Orchestra presents Kaija Saariaho’s eerie work Terra Memoria alongside Colin Matthew’s orchestration of Britten’s song cycle A Charm of Lullabies and Mendelssohn’s lyrical Piano Concerto no. 2.
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Song Day: Event 3
This programme journeys through Strauss's life, from his first song to the famous Four Last Songs
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Song Day: Event 2
Acclaimed British mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and Grammy Award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn give a masterclass for selected student singers and pianists.
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Song Day: Event 1
This concert explores the response of composers to the world of Shakespeare in settings of texts from his plays and sonnets.
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Quatuor Diotima
Winners of the European Cultural Heritage Award in 2018, Quatuor Diotima offers fresh insights into string quartets by Janáček and Bartok.
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Clare Hammond
Hammond pairs Beethoven’s highly virtuosic Sonata no. 3 and Brahms’s much loved Six Piano Pieces with three fascinating pieces by twentieth-century composers Carwithen, Grant Still and Medtner.
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University Baroque Ensemble
University Baroque Ensemble presents a delightful and intriguing selection of works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with pieces by Vivaldi, Purcell and Handel.
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Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity
A visual-musical performance by artist Danica Maier and composer Martin Scheuregger, this collaborative piece brings together composers, artists and musicians to experiment with disrupted repetition, glitch and line.
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University Choir
For their first concert under new Musical Director, Robert Hollingworth, University Choir presents Fauré's sublime Requiem.
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University Choir
For their first concert under new Musical Director, Robert Hollingworth, University Choir presents Fauré's sublime Requiem.
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University Symphony Orchestra
This hour-long performance includes works by Elgar, Walker, Gregson and Ades.
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The 24
The 24 will be combining well-known classics and truly niche gems from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.
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The Chimera Ensemble
The Chimera Ensemble present a programme of music by some of today’s most exciting composers alongside new works by student composers.
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Lucy Russell and Pawel Siwczak
Russell and Seskir take you on a sonic journey to Vienna and Berlin, exploring the distinctive musical styles of these cities in the mid-eighteenth century.
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Nancarrow Karaoke
Loré Lixenberg presents Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano in her own unique arrangement for voice.
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Antigone
A large-scale musical production involving this year's first-year Music students.
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Antigone
A large-scale musical production involving this year's first-year Music students.
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Antigone
A large-scale musical production involving this year's first-year Music students.
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Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet
The Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet perform new works and arrangements of classical pieces by Bach, Piazzolla and Debussy.
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Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening
The Darkening brings some of the oldest Northumbrian tunes and songs to life, intermingling them with new material and perspectives.
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Consone Quartet
The Consone Quartet perform Schubert, Haydn and Mendelssohn.
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Stephen Hough
Stephen Hough performs pieces by Rawsthorne, Schumann, Chopin and his own piece Partita.