by leedslieder-admin | 31 May, 2023 | News, Press Release
BRITISH BARITONE SIR SIMON KEENLYSIDE TO MAKE HIS LONG-AWAITED DEBUT AT LEEDS LIEDER Saturday 17 June 2023 at 8pm Replacing an indisposed Dame Sarah Connolly, Sir Simon Keenlyside will perform Schubert’s enduring song cycle Winterreise, accompanied by Festival...
by leedslieder-admin | 30 May, 2023 | News
Our award-winning schools’ projects are underway across the city, bringing high-quality music education to hundreds of young people. The Discovering Lieder and Living Lieder projects have been running in Leeds schools regularly since 2009. Initially running...
by leedslieder-admin | 30 May, 2023 | News
“Leeds Lieder has always been about more than just world-class artists giving recitals” – Joseph Middleton Pianist and Leeds Lieder Director Joseph Middleton has shared a Feature on the 2023 Leeds Lieder Festival, Touches of Sweet Harmony, with Opera North. He walks...
by leedslieder-admin | 29 May, 2023 | News
“There’s something so special about being in a concert hall. Two artists who, for one evening, give everything of themselves, expressing the most profound elements of the human condition. I hope somebody sitting there feels something by hearing these texts...
by leedslieder-admin | 27 May, 2023 | News
‘The gift of song’ French soprano Véronique Gens was recently interviewed in the June 2023 issue of Opera Now magazine, where she discussed the recording success of her album of Poulenc’s La Voix humaine, the beauty of French song and her upcoming...
by leedslieder-admin | 26 May, 2023 | News
Leeds Lieder Director Joseph Middleton devised the June 2023 edition of BBC Music Magazine’s cover CD, Songs of the Night. He discusses selections on the CD – including works by Mahler, Schumann, Finzi, Maconchy, Brahms, Fauré and more – in the magazine feature....