What's On

Our students, staff, and visiting artists perform alongside one another in our weekly Thursday lunchtime concert series. Drop in during your lunch break and enjoy the best of ensemble music in the heart of Manchester.  

We’re delighted to showcase our School of Wind, Brass, and Percussion in this lunchtime concert. A highlight of the afternoon features our staff and students performing Ruth Gipps’ Seascape. Scored for ten wind players, Gipps was inspired by the sounds of the sea in Kent and wrote it in 1958 for the Portia Ensemble, founded by Gipps herself and made up entirely of women. 

Richard Rodney Bennett Saxophone Quartet (first movement) 

Olias Saxophone Quartet:
Samuel Nutall soprano saxophone
Nicholas Rushworth alto saxophone
Frederic Donlon-Mansbridge tenor saxophone
Matthew Haworth baritone saxophone 

Jonathan Bates In Memoriam: This is the Place 

Rosamund Brass:
Seb Williman, Adam Hofland-Ward cornet
Georgia Woodhead tenor horn
Alex Barron euphonium 

Camille Saint-Saëns Adagio from Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78 ‘Organ’ 

Liz Gilliver director
RNCM Marimba Ensemble 

Ruth Gipps Seascapes 

Kevin Gowland director/flute
RNCM Wind Ensemble 

Hector Berlioz Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust Op 24 

Murray Greig director
RNCM Symphonic Brass 

Tickets:
£2.50 (Under 26s and Students)
£5 (Full) 

This event will end at approximately 1.55pm.