Playing at venues ranging from a run-down nightclub to the Royal Albert Hall, the Manchester Collective are - according to the judges of one recent major award - "transforming all our perceptions" of ...

The young classically trained South African cellist and vocalist taking the world by storm, Abel Selaocoe joins us with the daring UK-based contemporary string quartet Manchester Collective, bringing ...

Alice Zawadzki’s moving monodrama based on a poem by her grandmother is given depth and substance by the Manchester Collective in a perfect marriage of music and theatre Alice Zawadzki has already ...

The premiere is What Psyche Felt, by Nabihah Iqbal (pictured) – her first commission from a “classical” source. The phrase comes from Keats’ “I stood tip-toe upon a little hill” – an epitome of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the 1960s, composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich rejected the postwar consensus of ...

World Music Institute will present Manchester Collective and Abel Selaocoe with Sirocco on October 7th. Sirocco is a joyful celebration of musical styles from around the globe, presented by UK-based ...

ENO give a thoughtful account of Korngold’s uneven study of loss; Manchester Collective revel in an eerie George Crumb masterpiece; and Streetwise Opera tell a five-star tale of three cities The ...