FRENCH CONNECTIONS

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13-14 RNCM STRINGS FESTIVAL 19 Feb PIXELS ENSEMBLE As we move into 2018, we continue to Jan Featuring a mixture of French Chamber celebrate the music of France and its and British music by composers Concerts Society including Debussy, Poulenc and Featuring music by Debussy, connections with the rest of the world. Saint-Saëns and a performance Mozart and Françaix. Our Spring season includes the centrepiece by the Hallé Orchestra and our students conducted by Sir Mark 01-14 -MANCHESTER 1918 of our French Connections year, when Elder. Mar Students from the RNCM and Paris-Manchester 1918 brings together Paris Conservatoire join 29 Jan QUATUOR ÉBÈNE forces for two weeks of young musicians from the RNCM and Paris Manchester Chamber Concerts performances in Manchester, Conservatoire for a series of wartime-inspired Society and Paris. The first Featuring music by Beethoven event in the RNCM Concert Hall performances in Manchester, London and Paris. and Bartók. features music by Debussy, Elgar and Wagner. Our Strings and Chamber Music Festivals 01-02 IN FOCUS: THEA MUSGRAVE also have a French f lavour, while Debussy Feb Composer Thea Musgrave, who 09-11 RNCM CHAMBER MUSIC 918-2018 takes an in-depth studied in Paris with Nadia Mar FESTIVAL: UN VOYAGE DES Perspectives, 1 Boulanger, joins us for this IMPRESSIONS look at the great French composer and exploration of her work in her Featuring Quatuor Voce, Trio features arrangements of his work by composers 90th year. Apaches, Faustus and the Aronowitz Ensemble alongside such as John Adams and Colin Matthews. 13 Feb BARRY DOUGLAS () RNCM students. Featuring Mussorgsky’s For full details, go to Pictures at an Exhibition and 20-21 DEBUSSY PERSPECTIVES, www.rncm.ac.uk/frenchconnections Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons. Mar 1918-2018 where we’ll be adding more events Featuring Philippe Cassard,

over the coming weeks and months. 14 Feb LUIS BUÑUEL’S UN CHIEN the RNCM Symphony Orchestra ANDALOU and Sinfonietta and Bruno 1920s surrealist shorts with Heinen. Box Office0161 907 5555 live score, including films #frenchconnections by Buñuel/Dalí, Man Ray, René /rncmvoice /rncmlive /rncmlive Clair and Hans Richter.

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