READER OFFER with Manchester Camerata

Place North West subscribers can enjoy reduced price tickets for a performance by the city's world-class chamber orchestra and Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima next month in the Royal Northern College of Music Concert Hall.

Friday 8 November 2013, RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester, 7.30pm

PLACE NORTH WEST SUBSCRIBER OFFER: £8 off top price tickets (£26 reduced to £18). Booking fee applies. RNCM booking fees: A booking fee of £1 per ticket applies by phone or online. No booking fee applies to tickets reserved/purchased in person at the Box Office.

Manchester Camerata, the city's world-class chamber orchestra, is renowned for bringing audiences performances that are bursting with energy and vibrancy. Following a powerfully mesmerising performance with the orchestra in 2011, Italian cello sensation Giovanni Sollima – penned the 'Jimi Hendrix of the cello' by New York's Newsday – returns as composer and performer in one of the most exciting programmes of the season. Schumann's expressive Cello Concerto and Piazzolla's emotionally rhythmic Libertango are fitting companions for two of Sollima's own works. The first is a short lyrical piece called Hell I which was part of a project from 2004, Songs from the Divine Comedy, based on Dante Alighieri's epic poem. The second, Folktales, for cello and orchestra, blends contemporary, jazz and traditional, with an improvisatory structure allowing Sollima to demonstrate his incredible cello technique and rockstar energy.

PRE-CONCERT TALK 6.30pm

Composer-in-Residence, Laura Bowler, discusses the composer/performer role from her own perspective as composer, singer and director.

Watch Sollima in action with Manchester Camerata here

HOW TO REDEEM OFFER

Quote 'Camerata8' when you book

By phone: 0161 907 5555

Standard tickets: £26, £19, £10 (concs available) plus booking fee*

Book online

Enter Camerata8 where it says Promo Code and then select Internet Promo 3 ticket option

In person: RNCM, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RD

Strictly limited availability and the offer is limited to two tickets per booking. Not valid with any other promotional offer.