CoMA Manchester was revived in March 2020 during the National CoMA Festival.
We are an inclusive mixed ensemble who welcome instruments as well as noise-making objects in our group.
We have a lot of fun in our rehearsals, and we enjoy chatting as well as making music together!
We hold rehearsals every fortnight, usually during term times, at either the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) or other venues in Hulme and Whalley Range (South Manchester).
Membership options:
Pay As You Go – £7 per rehearsal
If you’d like to join us, get in touch!
CreativeTourist.comCoMA Manchester take on ambitious projects and produce imaginative, high-quality performances whilst remaining open for anyone to join them.
Anyone is welcome, and if you’d like to join, get in touch!
Spring Dates 2026
Sunday 26 April 2026 | 14:45 -16:45 | RNCM, M13 9RD
Sunday 17 May 2026 | 14:00-18:00 | CoMA Manchester + UnHeard Manchester @Chorlton Arts Festival | St Clements Parish Church, Edge Ln, M21 9AE
Sunday 21 June 2026 | 10:00-16:40 | immediate pieces for Make Music Day 2026, led by Adam Swayne | RNCM
CoMA Manchester: ‘Streaming Blue’ Continued
Read this recent Blog from our Artistic Director Ellen Sargen & Ensemble Chair Bofan Ma, in which they jointly reflect on our ‘Composing for CoMA Manchester’ project with student composers from the Royal Northern College of Music in 2023.
“It was an incredible opportunity to work primarily with and for people, which taught me the importance of versatility and collaborative dialogues throughout the compositional processes.”
— Helena Zyskowska
“I am particularly happy with how collaborative this project was, a very different approach to a lot of the instrumental music I write, but which led to a piece I still feel connected to.”
— Tanguy Pocquet
In April, we were back at Ascension Church Hulme for a playful community event exploring making music out of spoken text and the environment.
The workshop was open to all CoMA and Ascension Church community members, with or without instruments and across all abilities – much fun was had!
In March we presented Of a World that Travels at CoMA Festival 2024, premiering new music by our own members Jane Fletcher, Sam Longbottom, Natalie Summers, as well as March by Uri Agnon (CoMA Commission).
In May we were back at the Chorlton Arts Festival with an All-comers Come & Play event.
In May we premiered three new works by Tanguy Pocquet du Haut-Jusse, Alex Chapman and Helena Zyskowska (in partnership with PRiSM, RNCM) at Chorlton Arts Festival.
In the Autumn we jointly developed a new work by our Artistic Director Ellen Sargen, alongside guest soloists Ella Taylor, Amy Jolly, Ben Evans, Darren Gallacher.
In March we premiered three new pieces by local composers at CoMA Festival 2022.
In September we premiered our first commission by Kelly Jayne Jones, as part of our Streaming Blue Festival. Generously supported by Arts Council National Lottery Projects Funding.
In October we travelled over to Sheffield to play at Music in the Round’s Sounds of Now event with CoMA Sheffield.
In March we created an audiovisual programme for RNCM’s PLAY Festival.
In August performed a two day festival “Streaming Blue” that connected audiences to their local blue and green spaces through exciting programmes of new music. Generously supported by Arts Council National Lottery Projects Funding.
Contact Bofan at manchester@coma.org
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