Events

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CMRC Seminar - Side Quests: art walks, sonic maps and poetic paths

For this week's contemporary music research collection seminar we welcome Gaia Blandina & Bryony Aitchison

SMPTE UK Young Innovators 2025 - Northern Edition

Join students, early-career techies, and media and motion picture engineering pros... all in one space.

Change and Continuity in the Cultural Industries: The Global Spread of Platformised Music

For this week's Research Seminar, please join Prof. David Hesmondhalgh from the University of Leeds as he discusses his research on digital platforms and the music industries.

Platform Scratch Night 2025

Platform Scratch Night is back!

CMRC Seminar

More information will be released in due course.

Lessons On Revolution

Samuel Rees and Gabriele Uboldi’s play brings the most significant protest of a generation to life through the voices of those who lived it. Lessons On Revolution is a “compelling and galvanising” (James Graham) journey to 1968.

Casting Event

More information coming soon

Teach Rex Live

After receiving over 3000 5 star reviews for their events and selling out hundreds of shows around the UK. The award winning, Teach Rex team are delighted to be bringing this unique, interactive show back to the families of York.

CMRC Seminar - Morag Galloway: Modelling my Practice Research Praxis: how embodied improvisatory researching supports performative creative practice.

For this week's contemporary music research collective seminar we welcome Dr Morag Galloway.

Bullying leaders in the CCIs

For this week's Research Seminar, please join Prof. Ben Walmsley from the University of Leeds discussing his research on bullying leaders in the CCIs.

CMRC Seminar: Barbara Lüneburg (performer–researcher)

More information will be released in due course.

Political Theatre Productions

Join us for the 2nd year Theatre, Writing, Directing, Performance Political Theatre productions!

Political Theatre Productions

Join us for the 2nd year Theatre, Writing, Directing, Performance Political Theatre productions!

Third Year Theatre Festival

Join us for the 3rd year Theatre, Writing, Directing, Performance Theatre Festival!

Past events

YorkConcerts

Leon McCawley

Renowned British pianist Leon McCawley – whose last recital here in York was described by Charles Hutchinson, formerly Arts Editor of York Press, as ‘a performance never to be forgotten’ – presents works by Beethoven, Chopin and Scarlatti.

JS Bach – Mass in B Minor

In a thrilling new collaboration between The 24, Manchester Baroque and soloists from I Fagiolini, come and experience Bach's enigmatic mass – not seemingly written for a specific occasion, but one of the truly great works of Baroque music.

Student Showcase

Students from the University’s master’s course in Music, Management and Marketing take over the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall to produce our annual showcase, highlighting the breadth of musical talent here at York.

Emily Worthington & Daniel Grimwood

Award-winning pianist Daniel Grimwood and internationally renowned historical clarinettist Emily Worthington team up to bring you a taste of musical society in nineteenth-century Bavaria, in words and music.

University Jazz Band

University Jazz Band returns to celebrate the music and artistry of legendary jazz bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus, bringing you the raw, unfiltered spirit of one of jazz’s most revolutionary composers.

Gamelan Sekar Petak

Gamelan Sekar Petak joins forces with musicians from Eoferwic Strings and the University’s student-led vocal group Animas to explore how Javanese instruments interact with Western instruments in the music of Lou Harrison and IM Harjito.

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