by leedslieder-admin | 30 Apr, 2018 | News
This year’s Festival was a huge success, breaking all previous box office results and involving more artists than ever before – see our gallery of photos of the many events that took place at Leeds College of Music 19-22 April...
by leedslieder-admin | 29 Mar, 2018 | News
On Friday 23 March some 360 young singers assembled in Leeds Town Hall for an inspiring concert of Art Song and stories as part of Leeds Lieder’s dynamic education programme. In the morning, the Cool Lieder Project saw 180 children aged 12-14 from 6 Leeds...
by leedslieder-admin | 27 Mar, 2018 | News
BBC Music Magazine Cover Disc April 2018: Leeds Lieder’s first CD features Kate Royal, Ruby Hughes, Nicky Spence, Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton on the front of this iconic magazine. BBC Music Magazine celebrates Claude Debussy in this issue, to mark the...
by leedslieder-admin | 3 Mar, 2018 | Press Release
LEEDS LIEDER PRESENTS POETRY INTO SONG: A FOUR-DAY CELEBRATION OF ART-SONG Leeds Lieder Festival 2018: Thursday 19 – Sunday 22 April 2018 Leeds Lieder presents – ‘Poetry into Song’ – a four-day Festival (19 – 22 April 2018) celebrating art-song, poetry and...
by leedslieder-admin | 19 Dec, 2017 | News
Help us to raise £20,000 for 2018/19 A new opportunity to secure the future for song We are asking song lovers everywhere to be part of our future success. We have already made a start in reaching this ambitious goal and are delighted to say we have already received...
by leedslieder-admin | 1 Dec, 2017 | News
The week of 20 November was an exciting one for Leeds Lieder, with two special events to launch the 2018 Festival. On Monday, Bob and Elisabeth Boas kindly welcomed us to their beautiful Robert Adam house in London, where soprano Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton...
by leedslieder-admin | 2 Nov, 2017 | News
The second of the Schubert Song series was held in The Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall at the University of Leeds on Wednesday evening. Preceded by a fascinating pre-concert talk by Dr George Kennaway, a stunning performance by Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton ...
by leedslieder-admin | 30 Oct, 2017 | News
The highly acclaimed Leeds Lieder ‘Mahler Song Series’ (given in collaboration with the University of Leeds International Concert Series and recorded by the BBC last season) is to be broadcast again this week. The three recitals will be spread over four...
by leedslieder-admin | 27 Sep, 2017 | News
Details of the first programme in the Leeds and Sheffield University Leeds Lieder Schubert series were announced today. 14 October 2017 (Leeds)and 15th October (Sheffield) Nika Gorič (soprano), James Newby (baritone) Joseph Middleton (piano) A Soprano and Baritone...
by leedslieder-admin | 22 Aug, 2017 | News
Details and tickets for the Leeds University Schubert series and Celebrity Recital are now available. Continuing our partnership with Leeds University International Concert Series, we turn to the great Franz Schubert for inspiration. Our three-part Schubert survey...
by leedslieder-admin | 28 Apr, 2017 | News, Reviews
Thank you to Richard Wilcox at Write out Loud for this review of our Composers and Poets Showcase, Saturday 22 April ‘A capacity audience in the Recital Room of Leeds College of Music on Saturday clapped enthusiastically at every opportunity as 10 world...
by leedslieder-admin | 28 Apr, 2017 | News, Reviews
Second review in from Seen and Heard International for Songs by Ravel, with Clara Mouriz, Benedict Nelson, Joseph Middleton, David Mosley and Philip Higham ‘Nelson is a great talent and character-singer with a real feel for these Ravel works, and I’d gladly sit...
by leedslieder-admin | 27 Apr, 2017 | News, Reviews
First review in! From Seen and Heard International for our Festival Opening Concert with Henk Neven and Joseph Middleton, 21 April… ‘Tonight this partnership reached its apogee in the lullaby that crowns the 20-song cycle, a devastatingly beautiful notion,...
by leedslieder-admin | 24 Apr, 2017 | News
If you attended Leeds Lieder Festival over the weekend, thank you! We would love to hear your feedback. As part of ongoing work Arts Council England have encouraged us to undertake, we have been conducting surveys over the festival weekend. But perhaps you were too...
by leedslieder-admin | 20 Apr, 2017 | News
We are live streaming performances from Festival 2017 We hope you will join us! Click on the dates to be part of the audience wherever you are. Friday 21 April, 7.30pm, Henk Neven & Joseph Middleton Saturday 22 April, 12.30pm, Songs by Ravel with Clara Mouriz...
by leedslieder-admin | 14 Apr, 2017 | News
BBC Radio 3’s lunchtime concert puts a spotlight on the 2016/17 Leeds Lieder Festival this week, broadcasting several performances from the season with the festival’s Director, pianist Joseph Middleton. The theme of the festival was the music of Gustav Mahler, which...
by leedslieder-admin | 12 Apr, 2017 | News
Especially for Festival goers, Leeds College of Music will be offering a dinner menu on Saturday 22nd April (6.00pm-7.00pm) and Sunday 23 April (12.30pm-2.00pm) which can be pre-booked. The cost is £13.95 for a two course meal with a 175ml glass of wine. Pre-ordering...
by leedslieder-admin | 4 Apr, 2017 | News
Leeds Lieder is thrilled to have been shortlisted for the RPS Music Award for Chamber Music and Song, celebrating outstanding achievement in 2016. The annual RPS Music Awards, presented in association with BBC Radio 3, are the highest recognition for live classical...
by leedslieder-admin | 31 Mar, 2017 | News
This year we invite littl’uns under the age of 5 to join us at Leeds Lieder Festival. In an immersive relaxed performance which has been especially designed to introduce young children to the joys of the sung voice and piano, we welcome children in their early...
by leedslieder-admin | 9 Mar, 2017 | News, Reviews
‘Although Mahler’s Knaben Wunderhorn songs with orchestra are well known, one rarely encounters them with piano; and this version, presented by Leeds Lieder at the University of Leeds, was a revelation…’ Read more here Thank you to Anthony Ogus for...
