Five hundred runners descended on Media City UK for a fundraising 5k race this afternoon for Sport Relief.

Known for many classical musicians, members of the public attended a unique performance of music from countries including Germany and the Czechoslovakia.

The Halle Choir will perform at this year’s BBC Proms, alongside the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Manchester Chamber Choir in Beethoven’s masterpiece the Missa Solemnis.

Opera North’s ’whistle-stop’ series has been praised for breaking down the ‘uncool’ tag that classical music retains with young people by a local teacher.

A new opera company comprising of Manchester’s brightest young opera singers is taking their unique brand of affordable opera on the road this February

Manchester’s internationally renowned Hallé Choir have welcomed a new choral director to lead the historic ensemble.

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are starting a brand new series of concerts at Salford University, which hope to widen the audience for classical music – both new and old.

Rochdale have put putting their ambitions together with the 60-year-old North West Amateur Brass Band Association.

World-famous, Salford-based BBC Philharmonic Orchestra brought 73 years of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, to the Bridgewater Hall with plenty of gusto.

A classical makeover for some of Manchester’s finest music as the Hallé Orchestra conduct a celebratory concert for the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel’s 10th anniversary

Working towards Arts Award Explore, the children will be encouraged by a partnership involving Tameside Cultural Services, the BBC, a forum of the borough’s music teachers and Stone Soup, a Tameside Creative Industries organisation