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| Introduction | Vaganza is the University of Manchester’s new music ensemble: a platform for performers and composers to showcase new works by undergraduate and postgraduate composers within the university alongside a wide and eclectic range of ‘classics’ by the leading composers of our times. Every year we present an ambitious mix of concerts, consisting of performances, workshops and discussions dedicated to central themes relating to the music of our times. Highlights over recent years have included performances of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kreuzspiel, Harrison Birtwistle’s Silbury Air, Per Nørgård’s Night-Symphonies, Day Breaks, Helmut Lachenmann’s Notturno, plus the first performance for thirty years of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Ecce Manus Tradentis. Vaganza's name is a homage and pays tribute to composer and Emeritus Professor of Music John Casken, and you can click here to hear Vaganza performing Casken’s Vaganza in January 2008. |
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