* Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society

‘Established in 1915 by the Northern Section of the Committee for Music in Wartime as a temporary means of funding morale boosting concerts in the region’s military hospitals, Manchester’s Tuesday Mid-day Concerts, as the series was known at that time, has flourished in an unbroken span ...  The Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society is the largest and one of the most successful lunchtime series in the country ... Emerging instrumentalists and singers are welcome to audition for inclusion in our prestigious and long-established chamber music series.’