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Sir Simon Keenlyside To Make Leeds Lieder Debut
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...
Learning and Participation at Leeds Lieder 2023
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 every year...
Joseph Middleton discusses the 2023 Festival with Opera North
“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...
Interview: The Yorkshire Times – Joseph Middleton
"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 and amazing...
Interview: Opera Now – Véronique Gens
'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 recital at Leeds...
Interview: BBC Music Magazine – Joseph Middleton
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. Read...
Update: Closing Gala recital – Saturday 17 June
With regret Dame Sarah Connolly has had to withdraw from the previously announced Closing Gala recital. A new date in the autumn with the same programme will be announced in due course. Leeds Lieder are thrilled that Sir Simon Keenlyside has agreed to step in to close...
Touches of Sweet Harmony: Leeds Lieder Festival 2023
TOUCHES of SWEET HARMONY Friday 9 to Saturday 17 June 2023 The 2023 Leeds Lieder Festival extends from four days to nine and presents its most wide-reaching programme to date, with an array of recitals, masterclasses and events in and around the city of Leeds....
Interview: The Yorkshire Times – Nicky Spence
“Noël Coward was the best lyrical tongue and satirist of the last century and it’s a real delight to be able to bring him back to life so close to the 50th anniversary of his death." – Nicky Spence BBC Music Magazine Personality of the Year 2022 Nicky Spence was...
A Most Marvellous Party! Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and Joseph Middleton host an evening of Noël Coward songs
A MOST MARVELLOUS PARTY! It’s partytime at Leeds Lieder as soprano Mary Bevan, tenor Nicky Spence and Festival Director Joseph Middleton join forces for an evening of songs by Noël Coward. Leeds Lieder are in party mode as they prepare for an evening of songs by Noël...
Interview: The Yorkshire Times – Jennifer Johnston
“There's nothing broad-brush about a recital, I have to be specific in my storytelling to keep the audience engaged.” – Jennifer Johnston Ahead of her recital inaugurating the Leeds Lieder Spring 2023 Concert Season accompanied by Joseph Middleton, mezzo-soprano...
Leeds Lieder 2023 Young Artists Programme: Applications Now Open
Announcing our Leeds Lieder 2023 Young Artists programme – applications now open. Dates: Sunday 11 June to Saturday 17 June 2023 Application deadline: Friday 24 February 2023 Click here to view the application form. Building on the success of our Young Artists...
Leeds Lieder begins Spring 2023 with Contemporary Music Festival recital at University of Leeds
ONE LIFE STAND Leeds Lieder starts 2023 with a recital celebrating English and American art song performed by mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and accompanied by Festival Director Joseph Middleton As part of the 2023 Contemporary Music Festival at the University of...
Feature: BBC Music Magazine – Joseph Middleton
As he prepares for a four-day celebration of song as artistic director of Leeds Lieder, the leading collaborative pianist discusses his art, and much besides, with Natasha Loges
Walking the SongPath in collaboration with Leeds Lieder
SongPath, the West Yorkshire organisation, aims to support those with mental health challenges with musical trails through England.
Leeds Lieder 2022 Festival
Announcing the Leeds Lieder 2022 Festival – Song Illuminated
Leeds Lieder contact details: important update
Leeds Town Hall will close for two years on 31 December for a major programme of redevelopment and refurbishment. We have therefore had to give up our office, which has been generously provided to us by Leeds City Council as support-in-kind since 2014. While we look...
Reviews: Leeds Lieder 2021 Festival
Reviews and from our 2021 Festival
Leeds Lieder announces 10th Anniversary Festival
Leeds Lieder has ‘fully realised its potential and become an event of international stature. It attracts a large, loyal and knowledgeable audience, and not just from the locality’ Opera Now Ten Festivals and a Pandemic! In 2004 a group of passionate,...
Reviews: Leeds Lieder 2021 April recitals
Connolly, Middleton, Leeds Lieder online review - epic voyage on a luxury vessel. Lavish late-Romantic seascapes with a first-rate crew. "Connolly has lately made 'Sea Pictures' her own after its years in the velvet grip of Yorkshire’s own Janet Baker" Read more... A...
Sir Simon Keenlyside To Make Leeds Lieder Debut
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...
Learning and Participation at Leeds Lieder 2023
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 every year...
Joseph Middleton discusses the 2023 Festival with Opera North
“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...
Interview: The Yorkshire Times – Joseph Middleton
"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 and amazing...
Interview: Opera Now – Véronique Gens
'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 recital at Leeds...
Interview: BBC Music Magazine – Joseph Middleton
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. Read...
Update: Closing Gala recital – Saturday 17 June
With regret Dame Sarah Connolly has had to withdraw from the previously announced Closing Gala recital. A new date in the autumn with the same programme will be announced in due course. Leeds Lieder are thrilled that Sir Simon Keenlyside has agreed to step in to close...
Touches of Sweet Harmony: Leeds Lieder Festival 2023
TOUCHES of SWEET HARMONY Friday 9 to Saturday 17 June 2023 The 2023 Leeds Lieder Festival extends from four days to nine and presents its most wide-reaching programme to date, with an array of recitals, masterclasses and events in and around the city of Leeds....
Interview: The Yorkshire Times – Nicky Spence
“Noël Coward was the best lyrical tongue and satirist of the last century and it’s a real delight to be able to bring him back to life so close to the 50th anniversary of his death." – Nicky Spence BBC Music Magazine Personality of the Year 2022 Nicky Spence was...
A Most Marvellous Party! Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and Joseph Middleton host an evening of Noël Coward songs
A MOST MARVELLOUS PARTY! It’s partytime at Leeds Lieder as soprano Mary Bevan, tenor Nicky Spence and Festival Director Joseph Middleton join forces for an evening of songs by Noël Coward. Leeds Lieder are in party mode as they prepare for an evening of songs by Noël...
Interview: The Yorkshire Times – Jennifer Johnston
“There's nothing broad-brush about a recital, I have to be specific in my storytelling to keep the audience engaged.” – Jennifer Johnston Ahead of her recital inaugurating the Leeds Lieder Spring 2023 Concert Season accompanied by Joseph Middleton, mezzo-soprano...
Leeds Lieder 2023 Young Artists Programme: Applications Now Open
Announcing our Leeds Lieder 2023 Young Artists programme – applications now open. Dates: Sunday 11 June to Saturday 17 June 2023 Application deadline: Friday 24 February 2023 Click here to view the application form. Building on the success of our Young Artists...
Leeds Lieder begins Spring 2023 with Contemporary Music Festival recital at University of Leeds
ONE LIFE STAND Leeds Lieder starts 2023 with a recital celebrating English and American art song performed by mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and accompanied by Festival Director Joseph Middleton As part of the 2023 Contemporary Music Festival at the University of...
Feature: BBC Music Magazine – Joseph Middleton
As he prepares for a four-day celebration of song as artistic director of Leeds Lieder, the leading collaborative pianist discusses his art, and much besides, with Natasha Loges
Walking the SongPath in collaboration with Leeds Lieder
SongPath, the West Yorkshire organisation, aims to support those with mental health challenges with musical trails through England.
Leeds Lieder 2022 Festival
Announcing the Leeds Lieder 2022 Festival – Song Illuminated
Leeds Lieder contact details: important update
Leeds Town Hall will close for two years on 31 December for a major programme of redevelopment and refurbishment. We have therefore had to give up our office, which has been generously provided to us by Leeds City Council as support-in-kind since 2014. While we look...
Reviews: Leeds Lieder 2021 Festival
Reviews and from our 2021 Festival
Leeds Lieder announces 10th Anniversary Festival
Leeds Lieder has ‘fully realised its potential and become an event of international stature. It attracts a large, loyal and knowledgeable audience, and not just from the locality’ Opera Now Ten Festivals and a Pandemic! In 2004 a group of passionate,...
Reviews: Leeds Lieder 2021 April recitals
Connolly, Middleton, Leeds Lieder online review - epic voyage on a luxury vessel. Lavish late-Romantic seascapes with a first-rate crew. "Connolly has lately made 'Sea Pictures' her own after its years in the velvet grip of Yorkshire’s own Janet Baker" Read more... A...
Sir Simon Keenlyside To Make Leeds Lieder Debut
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...
Learning and Participation at Leeds Lieder 2023
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 every year...
Joseph Middleton discusses the 2023 Festival with Opera North
“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...
Interview: The Yorkshire Times – Joseph Middleton
"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 and amazing...
Interview: Opera Now – Véronique Gens
'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 recital at Leeds...
Interview: BBC Music Magazine – Joseph Middleton
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. Read...
Update: Closing Gala recital – Saturday 17 June
With regret Dame Sarah Connolly has had to withdraw from the previously announced Closing Gala recital. A new date in the autumn with the same programme will be announced in due course. Leeds Lieder are thrilled that Sir Simon Keenlyside has agreed to step in to close...
Touches of Sweet Harmony: Leeds Lieder Festival 2023
TOUCHES of SWEET HARMONY Friday 9 to Saturday 17 June 2023 The 2023 Leeds Lieder Festival extends from four days to nine and presents its most wide-reaching programme to date, with an array of recitals, masterclasses and events in and around the city of Leeds....
Interview: The Yorkshire Times – Nicky Spence
“Noël Coward was the best lyrical tongue and satirist of the last century and it’s a real delight to be able to bring him back to life so close to the 50th anniversary of his death." – Nicky Spence BBC Music Magazine Personality of the Year 2022 Nicky Spence was...
A Most Marvellous Party! Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and Joseph Middleton host an evening of Noël Coward songs
A MOST MARVELLOUS PARTY! It’s partytime at Leeds Lieder as soprano Mary Bevan, tenor Nicky Spence and Festival Director Joseph Middleton join forces for an evening of songs by Noël Coward. Leeds Lieder are in party mode as they prepare for an evening of songs by Noël...
Interview: The Yorkshire Times – Jennifer Johnston
“There's nothing broad-brush about a recital, I have to be specific in my storytelling to keep the audience engaged.” – Jennifer Johnston Ahead of her recital inaugurating the Leeds Lieder Spring 2023 Concert Season accompanied by Joseph Middleton, mezzo-soprano...
Leeds Lieder 2023 Young Artists Programme: Applications Now Open
Announcing our Leeds Lieder 2023 Young Artists programme – applications now open. Dates: Sunday 11 June to Saturday 17 June 2023 Application deadline: Friday 24 February 2023 Click here to view the application form. Building on the success of our Young Artists...
Leeds Lieder begins Spring 2023 with Contemporary Music Festival recital at University of Leeds
ONE LIFE STAND Leeds Lieder starts 2023 with a recital celebrating English and American art song performed by mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and accompanied by Festival Director Joseph Middleton As part of the 2023 Contemporary Music Festival at the University of...
Feature: BBC Music Magazine – Joseph Middleton
As he prepares for a four-day celebration of song as artistic director of Leeds Lieder, the leading collaborative pianist discusses his art, and much besides, with Natasha Loges
Walking the SongPath in collaboration with Leeds Lieder
SongPath, the West Yorkshire organisation, aims to support those with mental health challenges with musical trails through England.
Leeds Lieder 2022 Festival
Announcing the Leeds Lieder 2022 Festival – Song Illuminated
Leeds Lieder contact details: important update
Leeds Town Hall will close for two years on 31 December for a major programme of redevelopment and refurbishment. We have therefore had to give up our office, which has been generously provided to us by Leeds City Council as support-in-kind since 2014. While we look...
Reviews: Leeds Lieder 2021 Festival
Reviews and from our 2021 Festival
Leeds Lieder announces 10th Anniversary Festival
Leeds Lieder has ‘fully realised its potential and become an event of international stature. It attracts a large, loyal and knowledgeable audience, and not just from the locality’ Opera Now Ten Festivals and a Pandemic! In 2004 a group of passionate,...
Reviews: Leeds Lieder 2021 April recitals
Connolly, Middleton, Leeds Lieder online review - epic voyage on a luxury vessel. Lavish late-Romantic seascapes with a first-rate crew. "Connolly has lately made 'Sea Pictures' her own after its years in the velvet grip of Yorkshire’s own Janet Baker" Read more... A...
Louise Alder (winner of the Joan Southerland Audience prize, Cardif Singer of the World 2017) and Joseph Middleton’s recital from last year’s Leeds Lieder Festival featured as part of the Cardiff Singer of the World focus on BBC Radio 3.
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