Programme

Lucian Amette Crosby New work *
Oriol Cruixent Suite Iniciàtica

Performers

Kai Strobel director, percussion
Felicity Cliffe conductor *
RNCM Percussion Ensembles

Drop in during your lunch break and discover a wide range of performances for free with RNCM’s Monday and Thursday Lunchtimes.

Tickets:
Free admission, ticket required

Promoted by RNCM.

This event will end at approximately 1.55pm.

Experience an unforgettable musical collaboration between the Royal Marines Band Scotland and the Royal Northern College of Music in a concert that promises to captivate and inspire.

This unique performance brings together two musical institutions, with a diverse program of military music and dynamic orchestral arrangements, which is sure to leave a lasting impression.

Don't miss the opportunity to witness this rare fusion of talent, tradition, and innovation!

Tickets

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Text from: RNCM Opera Scenes - Royal Northern College of Music

Vocal and conducting students present some of opera’s greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity.

Tickets:
Free admission, no ticket required

Felicity Cliffe will conduct scenes from Mozart’s ‘Die Zauberflöte’.

This event will end at approximately 7.15pm.

Text from: RNCM Opera Scenes - Royal Northern College of Music

Vocal and conducting students present some of opera’s greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Così fan tutte
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Giaochino Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini

Giovanni Paisiello Nina, o sia La pazza per amore
Libretto by Giovanni Barrisa Lorenzi

Tickets:
Free admission, no ticket required

Felicity Cliffe will conduct scenes from Mozart’s ‘Così fan tutte’.

This event will end at approximately 7.15pm.

Felicity will once again be conducting Salford Symphony Orchestra’s Christmas Concert this year! Stay tuned for repertoire details…

To include:
Laurence Crane West Sussex Folk Material
+ New works by RNCM Students

Alec Frank-Gemill, Benjamin Voce, Felicity Cliffe, Harry Lai conductors
RNCM Brand New Orchestra

Each year, RNCM’s In Focus series invites trailblazing composers to the RNCM. Behind the scenes, they work closely with staff and students, culminating in a compelling day of performances. This Autumn, we’re delighted to welcome Laurence Crane.

The innovative Brand New Orchestra lights up the stage to conclude our In Focus events. Join us for an evening featuring new orchestral works by our students, along with a performance of Laurence Crane’s West Sussex Folk Material, which explores the interplay of expansive music through deliberately limited and static elements.

 Tickets:
Free admission, ticket required

Promoted by RNCM.

This event will end at approximately 9pm.

Edward Gregson Dances and Arias *
Liz Lane Serenata ^
Jacob Vilhelm Larsen Suite: Our Hidden Language ^

David Thornton*, Felicity Cliffe ^
RNCM Brass Band

Drop in during your lunch break and discover a wide range of performances for free with RNCM’s Monday and Thursday Lunchtimes.

Tickets:
Free admission, ticket required

Promoted by RNCM.

This event will end at approximately 1.55pm.

For one night only, musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music will transform Manchester Museum into an immersive experience where the allure of music meets the awe of nature.

Wander through the Museum’s collections as RNCM students perform live music, creating a soundtrack to our natural world that echoes from every corner.

Listen to the whispers of ancient stones in the Fossils and Dinosaur galleries. Experience the choruses of birds and bees in the gallery of the Living Worlds. Audio depictions of sun, rain, land, and sky come alive in the galleries of Egypt and Sudan, South Asia, and Chinese Culture before a not-to-be-missed performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending is unveiled in a rarely performed arrangement for violin and chamber choir.

You’ll also be able to put your own creativity into practice with an open-to-all crafting workshop.

And if this nocturnal voyage leaves you feeling parched, you’ll be able to grab a drink at the Museum Bar and hear sets from Trees.R.Good, K’in Ensemble, and the RNCM’s Community Chorus.

Explore Manchester Museum as never before and let Nature’s Music redefine your museum experience.

Felicity Cliffe will be performing in ‘Rock Piece’ by Pauline Oliveros and conducting ‘Second Song for Many’ by Tim Parkinson.

We are delighted to welcome Felicity Cliffe as our guest conductor for our next concert on 29 June 2024 at AKS Lytham.

We have a great evening of music for you related to flight.

- Farrenc Symphony No 3

- Vaughan Williams the Wasps Overture

- Saint-Saens "The Swan"

- Come Fly With Me, ET, Thunderbirds, Dambusters and more

£13 online (until 11.59 Friday 28 June). https://www.trybooking.com/uk/DIGU

£15 on the door. Under 19s free.

W. Mozart (1756 -1791): Overture to ‘Cosi fan tutte’

R. Strauss (1864 -1949): Oboe Concerto – soloist David Hedley

R. Strauss                             Wind Serenade Op. 7

C. Saint-Saens (1835 -1921): Symphony No. 2

Concert Tickets £12.50. Under 18 years old – Free

Enjoy an exhilarating night of music with our Wind Orchestra.

From a ballet written for elephants in Stravinsky’s Circus House to David Milhaud’s folk-inspired Suite française, this programme promises to showcase the remarkable versatility and rich expressive range of wind instruments. 

Igor Stravinsky Circus Polka #
Arnold Schoenberg Theme and Variations Op 43 ~
Igor Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments + *
Jenni Watson States of Matter *
Olivier Messiaen Oiseaux exotiques ^
Darius Milhaud Suite française

Mark Heron *, Clark Rundell ~, Trevor Naughton #, Hannah Trudgeon, Felicity Cliffe conductors
Benjamin Powell +, Joel Banerjee ^ piano
Guest Principals:
Kevin Gowland flute
Stéphane Rancourt oboe
Linda Merrick clarinet
Rob Buckland alto saxophone
Andrea Zucca bassoon
Lindsey Stoker horn
Murray Greig trumpet
Steven Mead euphonium
RNCM Wind Orchestra

Tickets:
£5 (Under 26s and Students) + £1 Booking Fee
£10 (Full) + £1 Booking Fee

Text from: RNCM Opera Scenes - Royal Northern College of Music

Vocal and conducting students present some of opera’s greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity.

With excerpts from:

Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ascanio in Alba K 111
Samuel Barber A Hand of Bridge Op 35

Tickets:
Free admission, no ticket required

Felicity Cliffe will conduct the scenes from Mozart’s ‘Ascanio in Alba’ and Barber’s ‘A Hand of Bridge’.

This event will end at approximately 7.15pm.

For more information see:

Gloria: Centuries of Melodies | NEW Sinfonia

Travel through the timeline of trailblazing composers performed by our all-inclusive vocal ensemble NEW Voices, our virtuosic orchestra NEW Sinfonia conducted by some the RNCM’s most promising conductors.

Our journey begins in the present day with Jonathan Guy’s simmering fast moving Scherzo which blends Welsh folk with contemporary textures to create a fresh invigorating soundscape. NEW Voices joins our players as we take you deep into the romantic world of the Belle Epoch with Gabriel Faure’s Cantique de Jean Racine and Jules Massenet’s Meditation (from Thais). Our musical travels end with the triumphant and uplifting baroque masterpiece Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi featuring our fantastic chorus and soloists Kathy Macaulay and Chris Simons.

Tickets from £1 to £16

Felicity Cliffe will conduct Sibelius’ ‘Andante Festivo’.

For more information see:

La Mer: Symphonic Sketches | NEW Sinfonia

Experience the immensity of La Mer/The Sea by Debussy, and see the symphonic sketches unfolding live in concert. Journey deeper into the captivating world of impressionism with Ravel’s suite Ma Mere l’Oye and the more modern lilting poetry of Susan Spain-Dunk’s Lament for string. Alongside the music of these early-20th-century pioneers is the romantic composer Max Bruch’s ever-popular Violin Concert No.1. played by prodigy violinist Tako Tkabladze.

Tickets from £1 to £18

Felicity Cliffe will conduct the second movement of Debussy’s ‘La Mer’.

This year we’re taking an in-depth look at the relationship we have with the planet we live on, asking ourselves what role could, and should, musicians and creative artists have in response to the climate emergency? See all events in our In Focus: The Climate Agenda.

Our innovative Brand New Orchestra takes to the stage to perform new orchestral works by our composition students alongside a performance of Gabriella Smith’s Tumblebird Contrails.

Reflecting on her inspiration for the piece, Gabriella points to a single moment when she was sat on the sand at the edge of the ocean, taking in the soundscape that surrounded her.

 Programme to include:
Gabriella Smith Tumblebird Contrails *
+ New works by RNCM Students

Connor Lyster *, Benjamin Voce, Felicity Cliffe, Alexander Rebetge conductors
RNCM Brand New Orchestra

Tickets:
£2.50 (Under 26s and Students) + £1 Booking Fee
£5 (Full) + £1 Booking Fee

This event will end at approximately 9pm.

As we reflect on climate change and the natural world through this year’s theme, The Future is Green, we’re exploring unique opportunities to place the planet at the centre of our music-making.

Enjoy live screenings of early cinema’s most enduring nature films as our students compose and perform brand new works to accompany them. From mesmerizing time-lapse photography to ‘talkies’ that narrate stories about nature’s life cycles, this fascinating evening fuses students’ musical responses to the stories of nature that unfold before them.

Films:
F Percy Smith The Birth of a Flower (1910)
F Percy Smith The Strength and Agility of Insects (1911)
F Percy Smith Floral Co-operative Societies (1927)
Jean Painlevé The Seahorse (1934)
Jean Painlevé Hyas and Stenorhynchus (1929)

Felicity Cliffe will conduct one of these soundtracks, as will Alec Frank-Gemmill and Harry Lai

Tickets:
£5 (Under 26s and Students) + £1 Booking Fee
£10 + £1 Booking Fee

Text from: RNCM Opera Scenes - Royal Northern College of Music

Vocal and conducting students present some of opera’s greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity.

With excerpts from:

Francesco Cavalli - ‘La Calisto’
Libretto by Giovanni Faustini based on Greek myth Callisto
Sung in Italian

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - ‘Don Giovanni’ K.527
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Sung in Italian

George Frideric Handel - ‘Orlando’ HWV.31
Libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece
Sung in Italian

Tickets:
Free admission, no ticket required

This event will end at approximately 7.15pm.

Drop in during your lunch break and discover our wide range of ensemble performances.

Our Wind Orchestra presents a programme of works by British composer Martin Ellerby as they work on a recording project of his music this January

Martin Ellerby Manx Dances *; Epitaph XIV: Harvest of Sorrows; Queen of Scots; Menorcan Dances

Mark Heron, Felicity Cliffe * conductors
RNCM Wind Orchestra

Tickets:
£2.50 (Under 26s and Students) + £1 Booking Fee
£5 + £1 Booking Fee

The final of NYBBGB’s second young conductors’ competition, supported by a donation from the Garrick Charitable Trust given in memory of Prince Philip, will be held live in Tidworth, Wiltshire, hosted by our partner organisation British Army Music.

The four finalists will be assessed by Lt Col David Barringer, Dr Robert Childs and Capt Andy Porter.

From the fifteen who entered, the final four have been selected and are: Andreas Ashikkis (25), Felicity Cliffe (29), Joshua Parkhill (24) and Craig Sanders (28).

Each of the finalists will be given 35 mins to rehearse one of the following well known brass band works; Resurgam – Eric Ball, Music for a Festival – Philip Sparke, Shine as the Light – Peter Graham, Dimensions – Peter Graham.

Following lunch, musicians from NYBBGB and British Army Band Tidworth will perform in open rehearsal under the direction of Capt. Andy Porter and Lt Col Dave Barringer.

Information taken from:

NYBBGB Garrick Young Conductors Competition Final - The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain

A magical concert conducted by Felicity Cliffe and Harry Lai.

Strauss Blue Danube

J.S Bach BWV 645 'Sleepers, Wake' arr. Granville Bantoch 

Mozart Divertimento in D major K 136

(All conducted by Harry Lai)

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves

V. Hely-Hutchinson Carol symphony

(All conducted by Felicity Cliffe)

Felicity will be conducting Salford Symphony Orchestra’s Christmas Concert this year! Come along for a festive spectacular including music from the films ‘Frozen’ and ‘The Polar Express’.

Text from: RNCM Young Explorers: Halloween Spooktacular - Royal Northern College of Music

Calling all witches, goblins, and ghouls!

Our Halloween Spooktacular makes a ghostly return this Autumn. Join Phileas Fox in your favourite costume for a magical afternoon of entertainment.

You’ll be enchanted by our live orchestra as we bring to life music from The Addams Family, Harry Potter, Caspar the Friendly Ghost, and more!

Our popular Young Explorers concerts are the perfect way to introduce children to live orchestral music. Relaxed and engaging, these performances are specially designed to keep everyone entertained.

Tickets (book through the link at the top!):
£8 (Under 16s) + £1 Booking Fee
£12 (Full) + £1 Booking Fee  

This event will include a 20 minute interval and will end at approximately 4pm.

Rachmaninoff Nunc Dimittis - Arranged by John Sturt

Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela - Soloist: Catherine Underhill

Tchaikovsky String Serenade

The talented musicians of Orchestra Nouveau play a concert of classics.

Rachmaninoff Nunc Dimittis - Arranged by John Sturt

Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela - Soloist: Catherine Underhill

Tchaikovsky String Serenade

The talented musicians of Orchestra Nouveau play a concert of classics.

Walton Façade - Narrators: Sarah Gabriel & Andrew Watts

Conducting students from the world famous Dartington Summer School perform at the Dartington Summer Festival 2023

Poulenc Sinfonietta

Frances-Hoad Between The Skies, The River and The Hills - Soloist: Ivana Gavrić

Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Conducting students from the world famous Dartington Summer School perform at the Dartington Summer Festival 2023

L. Farrenc Nonet

Coleridge - Taylor Ballade for Orchestra 

Haydn Symphony No. 104 ‘London’ 

Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5