RNCM Autumn Season

Francesco Tristano: Goldberg City Variations at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, 2 October 2018, from £18 - Book now

Combining music, art, architecture and technology in his most future-leaning project yet, Francesco Tristano takes us on a journey of discovery, using the wonderful music of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in order to build a digital cityscape.

Terry Riley & Gyan Riley at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, 12 October 2018, from £25 - Book now

Terry Riley and his son Gyan present a full-length programme of Terry’s music: intricate and often improvisational structures containing elements of minimalism, jazz, ragtime, and North Indian raga, the combination of which have defined Terry’s diverse and prolific career.

The Music of the Primes at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, 23 October 2018, from £6 - Book now

PRiSM presents ‘The Music of the Primes’, a truly illuminating event from which you will gain an insight into the fascinating and often surprising links between music and maths. Don’t fear if it’s been a while since you’ve practiced your equations – you don’t need to be Pythagoras to take something interesting away from the evening!

Safety Last! Silent Film with Live Piano Accompaniment at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, 26 October 2018, from £15 - Book now

Starring the inimitable Harold Lloyd, ‘Safety Last!’ features one of the most enduring images in all of cinema. With a live improvised piano score and an additional screening of Buster Keaton’s short ‘One Week’, this is going to be a real treat!

RNCM Symphony Orchestra at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, 2 November 2018, from £5 - Book now

A wonderful concert featuring some of Richard Wagner and Sergei Prokofiev’s most original works. All before the concept of ‘originality’ is turned its head, with Ravel’s incredible arrangement of Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, as well as a brand new response from RNCM composer Aaron Breeze.

Will Gregory Moog Ensemble at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, 6 November 2018, from £20 - Book now

Performing works by Bach, John Carpenter, and extracts from A Clockwork Orange, The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble will dazzle an RNCM audience with the possibilities of the analogue synthesiser.

Manchester Collective: Pierrot Lunaire at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, 16 November 2018, from £18 - Book now

Intimate, immersive and utterly thrilling, Manchester Collective’s concerts consistently bowl audiences over. At RNCM they will deconstruct Pierrot Lunaire and delve deeper into the inner world of the female protagonist. BBC 6’s Elizabeth Alker will be a calm voice of guidance before the madness ensues.

Sō Percussion at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, 20 November 2018, from £18 - Book now

Sō Percussion are all about innovation and re-invention. Armed with plant pots and brand new instruments, they will perform a hypnotic array of works ranging from Steve Reich to Caroline Shaw to The National’s Bryce Dessner.

Frank Zappa: Take Your Clothes off When you Dance (*Optional) at MMU Student Union, Manchester, 30 November 2018, from £12 - Book now

RNCM students leave the confines of their concert hall and head across the road to MMU’s new venue, the Union, to unleash brand new arrangements of Zappa’s genre-defying instrumental works.

RNCM Opera: Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, 7–15 December 2018, from £21 - Book now

Featuring some of Puccini’s most famous arias, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi are beautifully linked by a common thread – a tragic opera about death, followed by a witty farce that explores the same theme.